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2020

NO RANKINGS DUE TO GLOBAL COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2019

1. Artur Krymov RUSSIA

2. Andrei Zinchenko GEORGIA

3. Artur Arushanyan ARMENIA

4. Kiril Psarev RUSSIA

5. Atsuki Ono JAPAN

1. Artem Nazaretyan RUSSIA

2. Alexander Drozd RUSSIA

3. Ashot Zarinyan RUSSIA

4. Shota Maeda JAPAN

5. Takehiro Kaga JAPAN

1. Yuji Shimamoto JAPAN

2. Andrey Luzin RUSSIA

3. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA

4. Vladimir Artyushin KAZAKHSTAN

5. Nazar Nasirov RUSSIA

1. Mikio Ueda JAPAN

2. Alexander Yeremenko RUSSIA

3. Macej Mazur POLAND

4. Igor Zagainov RUSSIA

5. Konstantin Kovalenko RUSSIA

2018

1. Harutaka Okazaki JAPAN

2. Ivan Tumashev RUSSIA

3. Daniel Redondo SPAIN

4. Kiril Psarev RUSSIA

5. Yevgeniy Glukhov RUSSIA

1. Artem Nazaretyan RUSSIA

2. Ashot Zarinyan RUSSIA

3. Yuto Fukuchi JAPAN

4. Alexander Drozd RUSSIA

5. Salahat Hasanov AZERBAIJAN

1. Andrey Luzin RUSSIA

2. Artem Lyalikov RUSSIA

3. Yuji Shimamoto JAPAN

4. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA

5. Jo Miyahara JAPAN

1. Anton Gulyaev RUSSIA

2. Vitaly Ishakhneli RUSSIA

3. Alexander Yeremenko RUSSIA

4. Mikio Ueda JAPAN

5. Ilya Yakovlev KAZAKHSTAN

2017

1. Sergey Chmunevich RUSSIA

2. Marcel Mansurov RUSSIA

3. Yuki Yoza JAPAN

4. Alim Yunusov RUSSIA

5. Artur Arushanyan ARMENIA

1. Ashot Zarinyan RUSSIA

2. Shota Maeda JAPAN

3. Artem Nazaretyan RUSSIA

4. Kashin Osawa JAPAN

5. Stanislav Mezhevtsov RUSSIA

1. Yuji Shimamoto JAPAN

2. Andrey Luzin RUSSIA

3. Yuta Takahashi JAPAN

4. Igor Ryadnov RUSSIA

5. Alexander Drozd RUSSIA

1. Alexander Yeremenko RUSSIA

2. Shohei Kamada JAPAN

3. Goderzi Kapanadze RUSSIA

4. Vitaly Ishakhneli RUSSIA

5. Vasily Samadurov RUSSIA

2016

1. Khassay Magomedov RUSSIA

2. Farid Kasumov RUSSIA

3. Yuki Maeda JAPAN

4. Kiril Psarev RUSSIA

5. Ilyas Astamirov RUSSIA

1. Shota Maeda JAPAN

2. Ashot Zarinyan RUSSIA

3. Stanislav Mezhevtsov RUSSIA

4. Alexander Drozd RUSSIA

5. Artem Nazaretyan RUSSIA

1. Nazar Nasirov RUSSIA

2. Eldar Ismailov UKRAINE

3. Andrey Luzin RUSSIA

4. Goderzi Kapanadze RUSSIA

5. Ali Orace IRAN

1. Shohei Kamada JAPAN

2. Kembu Iriki JAPAN

3. Yuta Takahashi JAPAN

4. Vitaly Ishakhneli RUSSIA

5. Alexander Yeremenko RUSSIA

2015

1. Toshihide Iwasawa JAPAN

2. Khassay Magomedov RUSSIA

3. Andrei Zinchenko GEORGIA

4. Marcel Mansurov RUSSIA

5. Daniel Redondo SPAIN

1. Ashot Zarinyan RUSSIA

2. Shota Maeda JAPAN

3. Igor Ryadnov RUSSIA

4. Eldar Ismailov UKRAINE

5. Yuta Sawamura JAPAN

1. Yuji Shimamoto JAPAN

2. Ivan Mezentsev RUSSIA

3. Alexender Yeremenko UKRAINE

4. Darmen Sadvokasov RUSSIA

5. Kiril Kochnev RUSSIA

1. Zahari Damyanov BULGARIA

2. Djema Belkhodja FRANCE

3. Ruslan Akhmedov RUSSIA

4. Dawid Sarkhosyan RUSSIA

5. Kembu Iriki JAPAN

2014

1. Ashot Zarinyan RUSSIA

2. Gabor Rozsa HUNGARY

3. Alexander Mikhailov RUSSIA

4. Farid Kasumov RUSSIA

5. Andrei Zinchenko GEORGIA

1. Artem Nazaretyan RUSSIA

2. Igor Ryadnov RUSSIA

3. Vytautas Cepla LITHUANIA

4. Gerard Will POLAND

5. Sergey Chmunevich RUSSIA

1. Darmen Sadvokasov RUSSIA

2. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA

3. Ivan Mezentsev RUSSIA

4. Alexander Yeremenko UKRAINE

5. Yuji Shimamoto JAPAN

1. Dawid Sarkhosyan RUSSIA

2. Artur Tilov RUSSIA

3. Vitaly Ishakhneli RUSSIA

4. Zahari Damyanov BULGARIA

5. Kembu Iriki JAPAN

2013

1. Yevgeniy Mamro RUSSIA

2. Takaichi Onuma  JAPAN

3. Dmitry Moiseev KAZAKHSTAN

4. Artur Krymov RUSSIA

5. Farid Kasumov  RUSSIA

1. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUSSIA

2. Artem Nazaretyan RUSSIA

3. Daiko Kato JAPAN

4. Sergey Chmunevich RUSSIA

5. Zenjyuro Mori JAPAN

1. Alejandro Navarro SPAIN

2. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA

3. Arsen Hachatryan RUSSIA

4. Darmen Sadvokasov RUSSIA

5. Kyohei Ajima JAPAN

1. Zahari Damyanov BULGARIA

2. Alexei Mezhevtsov RUSSIA

3. Goderzi Kapanadze RUSSIA

4. Artur Tilov RUSSIA

5. Alexei Gorokhov RUSSIA

2012

1. Ruslan Ilyasov RUSSIA

2. Artem Solovyev RUSSIA

3. Gabor Rosza HUNGARY

4. Dmitry Starodubstev RUSSIA

5. Roman Semchenko RUSSIA

1. Alexei Mezhevtsov RUSSIA

2. Kazufumi Shimamoto JAPAN

3. Jimmie Collin SWEDEN

4. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUSSIA

5. Farzad Heidarinaghdali IRAN

1. Arsen Hachtryan RUSSIA

2. Jonathan Tineo  SPAIN

3. Yuji Shimamoto JAPAN

4. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA

5. Darmen Sadvokasov RUSSIA

1. Artur Tilov RUSSIA

2. Alejandro Navarro SPAIN

3. Goderzi Kapanadze  RUSSIA

4. Andrey Vidyulin  RUSSIA

5. Zahari Damyanov  BULGARIA

2011

1. Yuta Sawamura JAPAN

2. Yuki Maeda JAPAN

3. Roman Semchenko RUSSIA

4. Piotr Moczydlowski  POLAND

5. Farid Kasumov RUSSIA

1. Roman Nesterenko RUSSIA

2. Igor Titkov RUSSIA

3. Marius Ilas  ROMANIA

4. Alexei Mezhevtsov RUSSIA

5. Kazufumi Shimamoto JAPAN

1. Tariel Nikoleishvili RUSSIA

2. Ilya Karpenko RUSSIA

3. Alexander Yeremenko UKRAINE

4. Yuji Shimamoto JAPAN

5. Arsen Hachatryan RUSSIA

1. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN

2. Goderzi Kapanadze RUSSIA

3. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL

4. Zahari Damyanov BULGARIA

5. Tsutomo Muruyama JAPAN

2010

1. Stanislav Romanchev RUSSIA

2. Asghar Jabbari IRAN

3. Darren Stringer GT BRITAIN

4. Yuki Maeda JAPAN

5. Yevgeniy Mamro RUSSIA

1. Igor Titkov RUSSIA

2. Arsen Hachatryan RUSSIA

3. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUSSIA

4. Sergey Doronin UKRAINE

5. Roman Nesterenko RUSSIA

1. Tariel Nikoleishvili RUSSIA

2. Dmitriy Savelyev RUSSIA

3. Magomed Mitsaev RUSSIA

4. Zenjyuro Mori JAPAN

5. Kenta Mori JAPAN

1. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN

2. Saeed Safari IRAN

3. Syoki Arata JAPAN

4. Artur Tilov RUSSIA

5. Konstantin Fedorov RUSSIA

2009

1. Gabor Rózsa HUNGARY
2. Dmitriy Moiseev KAZAKHSTAN
3. Yuzo Suzuki JAPAN
4. Lasha Khachaphridze GEORGIA
5. Tomohiko Matsuoka JAPAN

1. Alexander Erokhin RUSSIA
2. Roman Nesterenko RUSSIA
3. Zenjyuro Mori JAPAN
4. Marius Ilas  ROMANIA
5. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUS.

1. Alejandro Navarro SPAIN
2. Kentaro Tanaka JAPAN
3. Magomed Mitsaev RUSSIA
4. Goderzi Kapanadze RUSSIA
5. Alexei Gorokhov RUSSIA

1. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
2. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN
3. Timur Gatashev RUSSIA
4. Mikhail Kozlov RUSSIA
5. Zahari Damyanov BULGARIA

2008

1. Syouhei Yamano JAPAN
2. Gabor Rózsa HUNGARY
3. Viktor Karasyuk RUSSIA
4. Emil Bitkash RUSSIA
5. Roman Uzunyan RUSSIA

1. Kazuhito Yamada JAPAN
2. Roman Nesterenko RUSSIA
3. Arsen Hachatryan RUSSIA
4. Alexander Erokhin RUSSIA
5. Rasim Samedov RUSSIA

1. Alejandro Navarro SPAIN
2. Dmitriy Savelyev RUSSIA
3. Issa Parvari IRAN
4. Sergey Doronin UKRAINE
5. Magomed Mitsaev RUSSIA

1. Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA
2. Zahari Damyanov BULGARIA
3. Sajad Heidari IRAN
4. Mikhail Kozlov RUSSIA
5. Makoto Taniguchi JAPAN

2007

1. Vasiliy Khudiakov RUSSIA
2. Roman Uzunyan RUSSIA
3. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
4. Yuzo Suzuki JAPAN
5. Gabor Rózsa HUNGARY

1. Arsen Hachatryan RUSSIA
2. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUS.
3. Kazuhito Yamada JAPAN
4. Andrews Nakahara BRAZIL
5. Sulimen Kosumov RUSSIA

1. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
2. Roman Nesterenko RUSSIA
3. Alejandro Navarro SPAIN
4. Darmen Sadvokasov RUSSIA
5. Darius Gudauskas LITHUANIA

1. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
2. Takayuki Tsukakoshi JAPAN
3. Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA
4. Jan Sokup CZECH REPUBLIC
5. Donatas Imbras LITHUANIA

2006

1. Darren Stringer GT BRITAIN
2. Emil Bitkash RUSSIA
3. Dimitar Popov BULGARIA
4. Dmitry Startsev RUSSIA
5. Vasiliy Khudiakov RUSSIA

1. Andrews Nakahara BRAZIL
2. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUS.
3. Chris Odunakan GT BRITAIN
4. Christian Christiansen DENMARK
5. Alexei Gorokhov RUSSIA

1. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
2. Darmen Sadvokasov RUSSIA
3. Roman Nesterenko RUSSIA
4. Alejandro Navarro SPAIN
5. Krzysztof Habraszka POLAND

1. Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA
2. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN
3. Artur Oganasian ARMENIA
4. Mikhail Kozlov RUSSIA
5. Yoshiaki Uchida JAPAN

2005

1. Roman Uzunyan RUSSIA
2. Lucien Gogonel  ROMANIA
3. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
4. Osamu Shiojima JAPAN
5. Igor Dzaganiya RUSSIA

1. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUS.
2. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
3. Andrews Nakahara BRAZIL
4. Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
5. Alexei Gorokhov RUSSIA

1. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
2. Kentaro Tanaka JAPAN
3. Maxim Dedik RUSSIA
4. Fabiano Da Silva BRAZIL
5. Krzysztof Habraszka POLAND

1. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
2. Lechi Kurbanov RUSSIA
3. Timur Gatashev RUSSIA
4. Takayuki Tsukakoshi JAPAN
5. Donatas Imbras LITHUANIA

2004

1. Roman Uzunyan RUSSIA
2. Marcel Murakaev RUSSIA
3. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
4. Dimitar Popov BULGARIA
5. Vasily Khudiakov RUSSIA

1. Alexei Gorokhov RUSSIA
2. Kazuhito Yamada JAPAN
3. Andrey Noskov RUSSIA
4. Jakoeb Groenhof HOLLAND
5. Nurmamed Mamedov RUSSIA

1. Kentaro Tanaka JAPAN
2. Maxim Dedik RUSSIA
3. Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA
4. Krzysztof Habraszka POLAND
5. Naohiro Nomoto JAPAN

1. Mikhail Kozlov RUSSIA
2. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
3. Igor Peplov RUSSIA
4. Takayuki Tsukakoshi JAPAN
5. Hadi Azikhani IRAN

2003

1. Masafumi Tagahara JAPAN
2. Osamu Shiojima JAPAN
3. Dimitar Popov BULGARIA
4. Yuuki Fukuii JAPAN
5. Daisuke Komiyama JAPAN

1. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
2. Muzaffer Bacak  GERMANY 
3. Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
4. Alexei Gorokhov RUSSIA
5. Tsuyoshi Takezawa JAPAN

1. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
2. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
3. Emil Kostov BULGARIA
4. Francisco Jose Carpena SPAIN
5. Kentaro Tanaka JAPAN

1. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN
2. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
3. Sergey Plekhanov RUSSIA
4. Yuichiro Osaka JAPAN
5. Glaube Feitosa BRAZIL

2002

1. Konstantin Donstov RUSSIA
2. Jonathan Tineo SPAIN
3. Vyacheslav Lukjanov RUSSIA
4. Vasily Khudiakov RUSSIA
5. Daisuke Komiyama JAPAN

1. Maxim Dedik RUSSIA
2. Emil Kostov BULGARIA
3. Yoshitaka Sato JAPAN
4. Akbolat Appaev RUSSIA
5. Tsuyoshi Takezawa JAPAN

1. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
2. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
3. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
4. Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA
5. Artem Pukas RUSSIA

1. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
2. Lechi Kurbanov RUSSIA
3. Igor Peplov RUSSIA
4. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
5. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN

2001

1. Viktor Karasyuk RUSSIA
2. Masafumi Tagahara JAPAN
3. Takahiro Miyano JAPAN
4. Yuuki Fukuii JAPAN
5. Shiro Yaginuma JAPAN

1. Emil Kostov BULGARIA
2. Paulius Klapatauskas LITH.
3. Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy RUSSIA
4. Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
5. Maxim Dedik RUSSIA

1. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
2. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
3. Gediminas Tankevicius LITH.
4. Kentaro Tanaka JAPAN
5. Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA

1. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
2. Denis Grigoriev RUSSIA
3. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN
4. Atsushi Kadoi JAPAN
5. Sergey Plekhanov RUSSIA

2000

1. Maxim Bakushin RUSSIA
2. Piotr Sawicki POLAND
3. Marcel Murakaev RUSSIA
4. Diego Beltran CANADA
5. Vasily Khudiakov RUSSIA

1. Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
2. Sylwester Sypien POLAND  
3. Tatsuyoshi Miyuki JAPAN
4. Yoshitaka Sato JAPAN
5. Emil Kostov BULGARIA

1. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
2. Kentaro Tanaka JAPAN
3. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
4. Thorsten Domke SWITZERLAND

5. Bela Haszman HUNGARY

1. Jakov Zobnin RUSSIA
2. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN
3. Sergio Da Costa BRAZIL
4. Yasuhiro Kimura JAPAN
5. Sergey Plekhanov RUSSIA

1999

1. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
2. Viktor Karasyuk RUSSIA
3. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
4. Masafumi Tagahara JAPAN
5. Mark Goodwin GT BRITAIN

1. Muzaffer Bacak  GERMANY
2. Simphwe Dlulane S. AFRICA
3. Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
4. Emil Kostov BULGARIA
5. Shinegori Sakamoto JAPAN

1. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
2. Sotoshi Niiho JAPAN
3. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
4. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
5. Osamu Sumitani JAPAN

1. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
2. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN 
3. Alexander Pichkunov RUSSIA
4. Glaube Feitosa BRAZIL
5. Nicholas Pettas DENMARK

1998

1. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
2. Piotr Sawicki POLAND
3. Oleg Florin RUSSIA
4. Marcel Murakaev RUSSIA
5. Viktor Karasyuk RUSSIA

1. Paulius Klapatauskas LITH.
2. Tatsuya Fukuda JAPAN
3. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
4. Garry O'Neill  AUSTRALIA
5. Fabiano Da Silva BRAZIL

1. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
2. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
3. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
4. Atsushi Kadoi JAPAN
5. Mateusz Wojick POLAND

1. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
2. Glaube Feitosa BRAZIL
3. Yoshihiro Tamura JAPAN
4. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN
5. Yasuhiro Kimura JAPAN

1997

1. Piotr Sawicki POLAND  
2. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
3. Oleg Florin RUSSIA
4. Leszek Zgrzebiniak POLAND
5. Antal Bencze HUNGARY

1. Garry O'Neill  AUSTRALIA
2. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
3. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
4. Muzaffer Bacak  GERMANY 
5. Shinji Adachi JAPAN

1. Masayoshi Takaku JAPAN
2. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
3. Norihisa Horiike JAPAN
4. Alim Daduev RUSSIA
5. Igor Shumin RUSSIA

1. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
2. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN
3. Jakov Zobnin RUSSIA
4. Glaube Feitosa BRAZIL
5. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN

 

1996

              1. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
              2. Oleg Florin RUSSIA
              3. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
              4. Piotr Sawicki POLAND  
              5. Masafumi Tagahara JAPAN

              1. Garry O'Neill  AUSTRALIA
              2. Hiroyuki Miake JAPAN
              3. Paulius Klapatauskas LITH.
              4. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
              5. Muzaffer Bacak  GERMANY 

              1. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN
              2. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN
              3. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
              4. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              5. Tsuyoshi Murase JAPAN

1995

              1. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
              2. Antal Bencze HUNGARY
              3. Kensaku Yamamoto JAPAN
              4. Piotr Szeligowski POLAND  
              5. Marcel Murakaev RUSSIA

              1. Garry O'Neill  AUSTRALIA
              2. Eugenisz Dadziburg POLAND  
              3. Masoto Ikeda JAPAN
              4. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
              5. Paulius Klapatauskas LITH. 

              1. Kenji Yamaki JAPAN
              2. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              3. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
              4. Nicholas Pettas DENMARK
              5. Hiroki Kurosawa JAPAN

1994

              1. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
              2. Oleg Florin RUSSIA
              3. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
              4. Akbolat Appaev RUSSIA
              5. Yevgeniy Krivinozhkin RUSSIA

              1. Ken Fitzpatrick IRELAND
              2. Hiroyuki Miake JAPAN 
              3. Andrei Anufriev RUSSIA
              4. Yoshinori Ikeda JAPAN
              5. Marcos Costa BRAZIL

              1. Kenji Yamaki JAPAN
              2. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              3. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
              4. Naoki Ichimura JAPAN
              5. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN

1993

COMING SOON

              1. David Pickthall GT BRITAIN
              2. Hidenori Aoki JAPAN 
              3. Sean Dillon GT BRITAIN
              4. Hans Mars HOLLAND
              5. Igor Timofiev RUSSIA

              1. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN 
              2. Kenji Yamaki JAPAN
              3. Yoshihiro Tamura JAPAN
              4. Walter Schnaubelt PNG
              5. Toru Okamoto JAPAN

1992

COMING SOON

              1. Robert Van Boxtel HOLLAND
              2. Eiji Kawamoto JAPAN
              3. Thomasz Najduch POLAND  
              4. Hidenori Aoki JAPAN 
              5. Ken Fitzpatrick IRELAND

              1. Yoshihiro Tamura JAPAN
              2. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              3. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
              4. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
              5. Yashuri Shichinhoe JAPAN 

 1991

COMING SOON

COMING SOON

               1. Akira Masuda JAPAN 
               2. Hiroki Kurosawa JAPAN
               3. Yashuri Shichinhoe JAPAN 
               4. Jean Riviere CANADA
               5. Yutaka Ishi JAPAN