 Details | 2020 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Details | 2018 | Maryan ZAKALNYTSKY | | 3:46:32 | Matej TÓTH | | 3:47:27 | Dzmitry DZIUBIN | | 3:47:59 | 7 Aug | |
| Details | 2014 | Yohann DINIZ | | 3:32:33 | Matej TÓTH | | 3:36:21 | Ivan NOSKOV | | 3:37:41 | 15 Aug | |
| Details | 2010 | Yohann DINIZ | | 3:40.37 | Grzegorz SUDOŁ | | 3:42.24 | Sergey BAKULIN | | 3:43.26 | 30 Jul | |
| Details | 2006 | Yohann DINIZ | | 3:41.39 | Jesús Ángel GARCÍA | | 3:42.48 | Yuri ANDRONOV | | 3:43.26 | | |
| Details | 2002 | Robert KORZENIOWSKI | | 3:36.39 | Aleksey VOYEVODIN | | 3:40:16 | Jesús Ángel GARCÍA | | 3:44:33 | 8 Aug | |
| Details | 1998 | Robert KORZENIOWSKI | | 3:43.51 | Valentin KONONEN | | 3:44:29 | Andrey PLOTNIKOV | | 3:45:53 | 21 Aug | |
| Details | 1994 | Valeriy SPITSYN | | 3:41.07 | Thierry TOUTAIN | | 3:43:52 | Giovanni PERRICELLI | | 3:43:55 | 13 Aug | |
| Details | 1990 | Andreï PERLOV | | 3:54.36 | Bernd GUMMELT | | 3:56:33 | Hartwig GAUDER | | 4:00:48 | 31 Aug | |
| Details | 1986 | Hartwig GAUDER | | 3:40.55 | Vyacheslav IVANENKO | | 3:41.54 | Valeriy SUNTSOV | | 3:42.38 | 31 Aug | |
| Details | 1982 | Reima SALONEN | | 3:55.29 | José MARÍN | | 3:59:18 | Bo GUSTAFSSON | | 4:01:21 | 10 Sep | |
| Details | 1978 | Jorge LLOPART | | 3:53.29 | Venyamin SOLDATENKO | | 3:55:12.1 | Jan ORNOCH | | 3:55:15.9 | 2 Sep | |
| Details | 1974 | Christoph HÖHNE | | 3:59.06 | Otto BARCH | | 4:02:38.8 | Peter SELZER | | 4:04:28.4 | 7 Sep | |
| Details | 1971 | Venjamin SOLDATENKO | | 4:02.32 | Christoph HÖHNE | | 4:04:45.2 | Peter SELZER | | 4:06:11.0 | 14 Aug | |
| Details | 1969 | Christoph HÖHNE | | 4:13.32 | Peter SELZER | | 4:16:09.6 | Venyamin SOLDATENKO | | 4:23:04.8 | 18 Sep | |
| Details | 1966 | Abdon PAMICH | | 4:18.42 | Gennadiy AGAPOV | | 4:20:01.2 | Aleksandr SHCHERBINA | | 4:20:47.2 | 3 Sep | |
| Details | 1962 | Abdon PAMICH | | 4:18.46 | Grigoriy PANICHKIN | | 4:24:35.6 | Donald THOMPSON | | 4:29:00.2 | 14 Sep | |
| Details | 1958 | Yevgeni MASKINKOV | | 4:17.15 | Abdon PAMICH | | 4:18:00.0 | Max WEBER | | 4:19:58.6 | 22 Aug | |
| Details | 1954 | Vladimir UKHOV | | 4:22.11 | Josef DOLEŽAL | | 4:25:07.4 | Antal RÓKA | | 4:31:32.2 | 27 Aug | |
| Details | 1950 | Giuseppe DORDONI | | 4:40.42 | John LJUNGGREN | | 4:43:25 | Verner LJUNGGREN | | 4:49:28 | 25 Aug | |
| Details | 1946 | John LJUNGGREN | | 4:38.20 | Henri FORBES | | 4:42:58 | Charles MEGNIN | | 4:57:04 | 23 Aug | |
| Details | 1938 | Harold WHITLOCK | | 4:41.51 | Herbert DILL | | 4:43:54 | Edgar BRUUN | | 4:44:35 | 4 Sep | |
| Details | 1934 | Janis DALINSCH | | 4:49.52 | Arthur Tell SCHWAB | | 4:53:08.6 | Ettore RIVOLTA | | 4:54:05.4 | 8 Sep | |
