 Details | | 2021 | Dawid TOMALA | | 3:50:08 | Jonathan HILBERT | | 3:50:44 | Evan DUNFEE | | 3:50:59 | 6 Aug | |
| Details | | 2016 | Matej TÓTH | | 3:40:58 | Jared TALLENT | | 3:41:16 | Hirooki ARAI | | 3:41:24 | 19 Aug | |
| Details |  Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS, 1st) disqualified for doping.·FR:Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS, 1er) disqualifié pour dopage. | 2012 | Jared TALLENT | | 3:36:53 | SI Tianfeng | | 3:37:16 | Robert HEFFERNAN | | 3:37:54 | 11 Aug | |
| Details | | 2008 | Alex SCHWAZER | | 3:37.09 | Jared TALLENT | | 3:39.27 | Denis NIZHEGORODOV | | 3:40.14 | | |
| Details | | 2004 | Robert KORZENIOWSKI | | 3:38.46 | Denis NIZHEGORODOV | | 3:42.50 | Aleksey VOYEVODIN | | 3:43.34 | | |
| Details | | 2000 | Robert KORZENIOWSKI | | 3:42.22 | Aigars FADEJEVS | | 3:43:40 | Joel SANCHEZ | | 3:44:36 | 29 Sep | |
| Details | | 1996 | Robert KORZENIOWSKI | | 3:43.30 | Mikhail SHCHENNIKOV | | 3:43:46 | Valentí MASSANA | | 3:44:19 | | |
| Details | | 1992 | Andreï PERLOV | | 3:50.13 | Carlos MERCENARIO | | 3:52:09 | Ronald WEIGEL | | 3:53:45 | 7 Aug | |
| Details | | 1988 | Vyacheslav IVANENKO | | 3:38.29 | Ronald WEIGEL | | 3:38:56 | Hartwig GAUDER | | 3:39:45 | 30 Sep | |
| Details | | 1984 | Raul GONZALEZ | | 3:47.26 | Bo GUSTAFSSON | | 3:53:19 | Sandro BELLUCCI | | 3:53:45 | 11 Aug | |
| Details | | 1980 | Hartwig GAUDER | | 3:49.24 | Jordi LLOPART | | 3:51:25 | Yevgeniy IVCHENKO | | 3:56:32 | 30 Jul | |
| Details | | 1972 | Bernd KANNENEBERG | | 3:56.11 | Veniamin SOLDATENKO | | 3:58:24.0 | Larry YOUNG | | 4:00:46.0 | 3 Sep | |
| Details | | 1968 | Christoph HÖHNE | | 4:20.13 | Antal KISS | | 4:30:17.0 | Larry YOUNG | | 4:31:55.4 | 17 Oct | |
| Details | | 1964 | Abdon PAMICH | | 4:11.12 | Paul NIHILL | | 4:11:31.2 | | 4:14:17.4 | 18 Oct | |
| Details | | 1960 | Donald THOMPSON | | 4:25.30 | John LJUNGGREN | | 4:25:47.0 | Abdon PAMICH | | 4:27:55.4 | 7 Sep | |
| Details | | 1956 | Norman READ | | 4:30.42 | Yevgeniy MASKINSKOV | | 4:32:57.0 | John LJUNGGREN | | 4:35:02.0 | 24 Nov | |
| Details | | 1952 | Giuseppe DORDONI | | 4:28.07 | Josef DOLEŽAL | | 4:30:17.8 | Antal RÓKA | | 4:31:27.2 | 21 Jul | |
| Details | | 1948 | John LJUNGGREN | | 4:41.52 | Gaston GODEL | | 4:48:17 | Tebbs Lloyd JOHNSON | | 4:48:31 | 31 Jul | |
| Details | | 1936 | Harold WHITLOCK | | 4:30.41 | Arthur Tell SCHWAB | | 4:32:09.2 | Adalberts BUBENKO | | 4:32:42.2 | 5 Aug | |
| Details | | 1932 | Thomas GREEN | | 4:50.10 | Jānis DALIŅŠ | | 4:57:20 | Ugo FRIGERIO | | 4:59:06 | 3 Aug | |
