| 1979 | WAGC 01 | Sang Dae Hahn | Tokyo |
| 1980 | WAGC 02 | John Power | Tokyo |
| 1981 | WAGC 03 | John Chen | Tokyo |
| 1982 | WAGC 04 | Neville Smythe | Tokyo |
| 1983 | WAGC 05 | Sang Dae Hahn | Osaka |
| 1984 | WAGC 06 | Kwang Ho An | Tokyo |
| 1985 | WAGC 07 | John Chen | Tokyo |
| 1986 | WAGC 08 | Sang Dae Hahn | Tokyo |
| 1987 | WAGC 09 | Francis Tung | Beijing |
| 1988 | WAGC 10 | Kwang Ho An | Tokyo |
| 1989 | WAGC 11 | Sang Dae Hahn | Nagoya |
| 1990 | WAGC 12 | Neville Smythe | Hiroshima |
| 1991 | WAGC 13 | Michael Park | Kanazawa |
| 1992 | WAGC 14 | Stephen Reye | Chiba |
| 1993 | WAGC 15 | Sang Dae Hahn | Fukuoka |
| 1994 | WAGC 16 | Jim Bates | Kyoto |
| 1995 | WAGC 17 | Andrew Chi | Tokyo |
| 1996 | WAGC 18 | Neville Smythe | Osaka |
| 1997 | WAGC 19 | Andrew Chi | Sapporo |
| 1998 | WAGC 20 | Charles Zhou | Tokyo |
| 1998 | WWAGC 1 | Wei Chen | Womens World Amateur Go Championship, Yokohama |
| 1999 | WAGC 21 | Wu Ge Briscoe | Oita |
| 2000 | WAGC 22 | Andrew Chi | Sendai |
| 2001 | WAGC 23 | Dong Ming Liu | Hyuga Miyazaki (3rd Place!!) |
| 2002 | WAGC 24 | Yiming Guo | Hida Takayama |
| 2003 | WAGC | - | not held due to SARS |
| 2004 | WAGC 25 | Tony Purcell | Kurashiki |
| 2005 | WAGC 26 | Yiming Guo | Aichi |
| 2006 | WAGC 27 | Wei Qian | Sasebo |
| 2007 | WAGC 28 | Hae-Taek Choi | Tokyo |
| 2008 | WAGC 29 | Raphael Shin | Tokyo |
| 2009 | WAGC 30 | David He | Shizuoka |
| 2010 | WAGC 31 | David Ormerod | Hangzhou |
| 2011 | WAGC 32 | Neville Smythe | Matsue |
| 2012 | WAGC 33 | David Bofinger | Guangzhou |
| 2013 | WAGC 34 | Billy Sun | Sendai |
| 2014 | WAGC 35 | Sang Dae Hahn | Gyeongju |
| 2015 | WAGC 36 | Raphael Shin | Bangkok |
| 2016 | WAGC 37 | Amy Song | Wuxi |
| 2017 | WAGC 38 | Daniel Li | Guiyang |
| 2018 | WAGC 39 | Xin Lei | Tokyo |
| 2019 | WAGC 40 | Cary Jin | Shimane |
| 2020 | WAGC | - | not held due to Covid-19 |
| 2020 | WWAGC | Amy Song | Womens World Amateur Go Championship (online) |
| 2021 | WAGC 41 | David Mitchell | Vladivostock and online |
| 2022 | WAGC 42 | Horatio Davis | online |
| 2023 | WAGC 43 | Tom Chen | Shenzhen, China |