World Championship

The official Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship is the premier annual Yu-Gi-Oh tournament, usually held in Japan, where the best duelists, consisting of national champions and other high-ranked players, from around the world duel for the right to be crowned World Champion.

History of World Championship

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2003

• Champion - Ng Yu Leung from Hong Kong
• 2nd place - Shigeki Kitamura from Japan

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2004

• Champion - Masatoashi Togawa from Japan
• 2nd place - Chan Wan Hang from Hong Kong
• 3rd place - Yoshinobu Suekane from Japan
• 4th place - Ryan Pugh from United Kingdom
• 5th place - Roy St. Clair from USA
• 6th place - Filipe Luque from Chile
• 7th place - Kenyou Ueda from Japan
• 8th place - Anthony Kok Khing Woon from Malaysia

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2005

• Champion - Miltiadis Markou from Greece
• 2nd place - Jorge Fabian Pina Lizarraga from Mexico
• 3rd place - David Kretschmer from Germany
• 4th place - Guan Sian Li from Taiwan

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2006

• Champion - Dario Longo from Italy
• 2nd place - Malcum Shum from Hong Kong
• 3rd place - Adrian Madaj from Poland
• 4th place - Markou Miltiadis from Greece

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007

• Champion - Andres Toro from Chile
• 2nd place - Mattia Sarpa from Italy
• 3rd place - Adam Corn from USA
• 4th place - Dexter Dalit from Canada
• 5th place - Dario Longo from Italy
• 6th place - Toshiki Muramatsu from Japan
• 7th place - Yuen Ka Wa from Hong Kong
• 8th place - Oliver Schmidt-Voss from Germany

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008

• Champion - Sixto junior cabrera from Philippines
• 2nd place - Ace Salsalera from Philippines
• 3rd place - Bok Libog from Japan
• 4th place - Claudio Kirchmair from Austria
• 5th place - Jung-Ho Ahn from Korea
• 6th place - Chris Gehring from New Zealand
• 7th place - Wei-Hao She from Taiwan
• 8th place - Takahiro Kawaguchi from Japan