Road Cycling World Championships | _pictogram.svg) | ||||
| 2023 |  | NED | Mathieu Van Der Poel | |
| 2022 |  | BEL | Remco Evenepoel | |
| 2021 |  | FRA | Julian Alaphilippe | |
| 2020 | | FRA | Julian Alaphilippe | |
| 2019 |  | DEN | Mads Pedersen | |
| 2018 |  | ESP | Alejandro Valverde | |
| 2017 |  | SVK | Peter Sagan | |
| 2016 | | SVK | Peter Sagan | |
| 2015 | | SVK | Peter Sagan | |
| 2014 |  | POL | Michal Kwiatkowski | |
| 2013 |  | POR | Rui Faria Costa | |
| 2012 | | BEL | Philippe Gilbert | |
| 2011 |  | GBR | Mark Cavendish | |
| 2010 |  | NOR | Thor Hushovd | |
| 2009 |  | AUS | Cadel Evans | |
| 2008 |  | ITA | Alessandro Ballan | |
| 2007 | | ITA | Paolo Bettini | |
| 2006 | | ITA | Paolo Bettini | |
| 2005 | | BEL | Tom Boonen | |
| 2004 | | ESP | Oscar Freire | |
| 2003 | | ESP | Igor Astarloa | |
| 2002 | | ITA | Mario Cipollini | |
| 2001 | | ESP | Oscar Freire | |
| 2000 |  | LAT | Romans Vainsteins | |
| 1999 | | ESP | Oscar Freire | |
| 1998 |  | SUI | Oscar Camenzind | |
| 1997 | | FRA | Laurent Brochard | |
| 1996 | | BEL | Johan Museeuw | |
| 1995 | | ESP | Abraham Olano | |
| 1994 | | FRA | Luc Leblanc | |
| 1993 |  | USA | Lance Armstrong | |
| 1992 | | ITA | Gianni Bugno | |
| 1991 | | ITA | Gianni Bugno | |
| 1990 | | BEL | Rudy Dhaenens | |
| 1989 | | USA | Greg LeMond | |
| 1988 | | ITA | Maurizio Fondriest | |
| 1987 |  | IRL | Stephen Roche | |
| 1986 | | ITA | Moreno Argentin | |
| 1985 | | NED | Joop Zoetemelk | |
| 1984 | | BEL | Claude Criquielion | |
| 1983 | | USA | Greg LeMond | |
| 1982 | | ITA | Giuseppe Saronni | |
| 1981 | | BEL | Freddy Maertens | |
| 1980 | | FRA | Bernard Hinault | |
| 1979 | | NED | Jan Raas | |
| 1978 | | NED | Gerrie Knetemann | |
| 1977 | | ITA | Francesco Moser | |
| 1976 | | BEL | Freddy Maertens | |
| 1975 | | NED | Hennie Kuiper | |
| 1974 | | BEL | Eddie Merckx | |
| 1973 | | ITA | Felice Gimondi | |
| 1972 | | ITA | Marino Basso | |
| 1971 | | BEL | Eddie Merckx | |
| 1970 | | BEL | Jean-Pierre Monsere | |
| 1969 | | NED | Harm Ottenbros | |
| 1968 | | ITA | Vittorio Adorni | |
| 1967 | | BEL | Eddie Merckx | |
| 1966 |  | FRG | Rudi Altig | |
| 1965 | | GBR | Tom Simpson | |
| 1964 | | NED | Jan Janssen | |
| 1963 | | BEL | Benoni Beheyt | |
| 1962 | | FRA | Jean Stablinski | |
| 1961 | | BEL | Rik van Looy | |
| 1960 | | BEL | Rik van Looy | |
| 1959 | | FRA | Andre Darrigade | |
| 1958 | | ITA | Ercole Baldini | |
| 1957 | | BEL | Rik Van Steenbergen | |
| 1956 | | BEL | Rik Van Steenbergen | |
| 1955 | | BEL | Stan Ockers | |
| 1954 | | FRA | Louison Bobet | |
| 1953 | | ITA | Fausto Coppi | |
| 1952 |  | GER | Heinz Müller | |
| 1951 | | SUI | Ferdinand Kübler | |
| 1950 | | BEL | Briek Schotte | |
| 1949 | | BEL | Rik Van Steenbergen | |
| 1948 | | BEL | Briek Schotte | |
| 1947 | | NED | Theo Middelkamp | |
| 1946 | | SUI | Hans Knecht | |
| 1938 | | BEL | Marcel Kint | |
| 1937 | | BEL | Eloi Meulenberg | |
| 1936 | | FRA | Antonin Magne | |
| 1935 | | BEL | Jean Aerts | |
| 1934 | | BEL | Karel Kaers | |
| 1933 | | FRA | Georges Speicher | |
| 1932 | | ITA | Alfredo Binda | |
| 1931 | | ITA | Learco Guerra | |
| 1930 | | ITA | Alfredo Binda | |
| 1929 | | BEL | Georges Ronsse | |
| 1928 | | BEL | Georges Ronsse | |
| 1927 | | ITA | Alfredo Binda | |