Cycling in Track Cycling World Championships | _pictogram.svg) | ||||
| 1991 |  | GER | Jens Lehmann | |
| 1990 |  | URS | Yevgeniy Berzin | |
| 1989 | | URS | Vyacheslav Ekimov | |
| 1987 | | URS | Gintautas Umaras | |
| 1986 | | URS | Vyacheslav Ekimov | |
| 1985 | | URS | Viatcheslav Ekimov | |
| 1983 | | URS | Viktor Kupovets | |
| 1982 |  | GDR | Detlef Macha | |
| 1981 | | GDR | Detlef Macha | |
| 1979 | | URS | Nikolai Makarov | |
| 1978 | | GDR | Detlef Macha | |
| 1977 | | GDR | Norbert Dürpisch | |
| 1975 | | GDR | Thomas Huschke | |
| 1974 |  | FRG | Hans Lutz | |
| 1973 |  | NOR | Knut Knudsen | |
| 1971 |  | COL | Martin Emilio Rodriguez | |
| 1970 |  | SUI | Xaver Kurmann | |
| 1969 | | SUI | Xaver Kurmann | |
| 1968 |  | DEN | Mogens Frey | |
| 1967 |  | NED | Gert Bongers | |
| 1966 | | NED | Tiemen Groen | |
| 1965 | | NED | Tiemen Groen | |
| 1964 | | NED | Tiemen Groen | |
| 1963 |  | BEL | Jan Walschaerts | |
| 1962 | | DEN | Kai Erik Jensen | |
| 1961 | | NED | Hendrik Nijdam | |
| 1960 |  | FRA | Marcel Delattre | |
| 1959 | | FRG | Rudi Altig | |
| 1958 |  | GBR | Norman Sheil | |
| 1957 |  | ITA | Carlo Simonigh | |
| 1956 | | ITA | Carlo Simonigh | |
| 1955 | | GBR | Norman Sheil | |
| 1954 | | ITA | Leandro Faggin | |
| 1953 | | ITA | Guido Messina | |
| 1952 | | NED | Piet Van Heusden | |
| 1951 | | ITA | Mino De Rossi | |
| 1950 |  | AUS | Sidney Patterson | |
| 1949 | | DEN | Knud Andersen | |
| 1948 | | ITA | Guido Messina | |
| 1947 | | ITA | Arnaldo Benfenati | |
| 1946 | | FRA | Roger Rioland | |