Cycling in Track Cycling World Championships | _pictogram.svg) | ||||
| 1991 |  | ESP | Jose Manuel Moreno | |
| 1990 |  | URS | Aleksandr Kyrychenko | |
| 1989 |  | GDR | Jens Glücklich | |
| 1987 |  | AUS | Martin Vinnicombe | |
| 1986 | | GDR | Maic Malchow | |
| 1985 | | GDR | Jens Glücklich | |
| 1983 | | URS | Sergei Kopylov | |
| 1982 |  | FRG | Fredy Schmidtke | |
| 1981 | | GDR | Lothar Thoms | |
| 1979 | | GDR | Lothar Thoms | |
| 1978 | | GDR | Lothar Thoms | |
| 1977 | | GDR | Lothar Thoms | |
| 1975 | | GDR | Klaus-Jürgen Grünke | |
| 1974 | | URS | Edouard Rapp | |
| 1973 |  | POL | Janusz Kierzkowski | |
| 1971 | | URS | Edouard Rapp | |
| 1970 |  | DEN | Niels Fredborg | |
| 1969 |  | ITA | Gianni Sartori | |
| 1968 | | DEN | Niels Fredborg | |
| 1967 | | DEN | Niels Fredborg | |
| 1966 |  | FRA | Pierre Trentin | |