List of Yo-yo world champions
Year Winner 2nd 3rd
2003 Eiji Okuyama ( Japan ) Atsuhi Yamada ( Japan ) Shingo Terada ( Japan )
2004 Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan ) Kunihisa Kawabe ( Japan ) Koichiro Mori ( Japan )
2005 John Narum ( United States ) Eiji Okuyama ( Japan ) Jimmy Peng ( United States )
2006 Taiki Nishimura ( Japan ) Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan ) Eiji Okuyama ( Japan )
2007 Eiji Okuyama ( Japan ) Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan )
2008 Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) John Narum ( United States ) Yohei Kagawa ( Japan )
2009 Naoto Okada ( Japan ) Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan )
2010 Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan ) Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Naoto Okada ( Japan )
2011 Naoto Okada ( Japan ) Bryan Figueroa ( United States ) Tsubasa Onishi ( Japan )
2012 Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Bryan Figueroa ( United States ) Naoto Okada ( Japan )
2013 Michael Nakamura ( United States ) Naoto Okada ( Japan ) Chun Hin Chan ( Hong Kong )
2014 Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Michael Nakamura ( United States ) Naoto Okada ( Japan )
2015 Naoto Ōnishi ( Japan ) Takumi Yasumoto ( Japan ) Rei Iwakura ( Japan )
2016 Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Tsubasa Ōnishi ( Japan ) Michael Nakamura ( United States )
2017 Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Michael Nakamura ( United States ) Chen Zhao ( China )
2018 Hajime Miura ( Japan ) Tsubasa Ōnishi ( Japan ) Rei Iwakura ( Japan )
2019 Rei Iwakura ( Japan ) Tsubasa Ōnishi ( Japan ) Yuki Uchida ( Japan )
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List of World Yo-Yo Champions is the list of the competitors who won the World Yo-Yo Contest. This list includes non-championship divisions.