This event was sponsored by the Guardian Newspaper in its early years. It also served as a heat of the Philip Morris European Circuit.
| Year | Winners | |
| 1966 | G C H Fox | Betty Harris |
| 1967 | John Collings | Jonathan Cansino |
| 1968 | Rixi Markus | Leon Tintner |
| 1969 | Martin Hoffman | Joe Moskal |
| 1970 | Fritz Chodziesner | J Prinz Waldeck |
| 1971 | Ian Panto | Bill Pencharz |
| 1972 | Leon Tintner | Leon Yallouze |
| 1973 | Tony Clark | Bob Sharples |
| 1974 | Richard O'Reilly | Christopher Duckworth |
| 1975 | S O Berglund | P-O Sundelin |
| 1976 | Martin Hoffman | Paul Hackett |
| 1977 | Paul Laan | Martin Heerschop |
| 1978 | Peter Manhardt | P-O Sundelin |
| 1979 | Peter Manhardt | P-O Sundelin |
| 1980 | J Poletylo | J Romanski |
| 1981 | Krzysztof Lasocki | Jerzy Russyan |
| 1982 | Martin Hoffman | Paul Hackett |
| 1983 | Rixi Markus | Zia Mahmood |
| 1984 | Alan Mayo | Geoff Hiller |
| 1985 | Alan Mayo | Geoff Hiller |
| 1986 | Moshe Katz | Moti Gelbart |
| 1987 | J Haffer | R Haybach |
| 1988 | Bob Brinig | Colin Simpson |
| 1989 | Michele Handley | Roman Smolski |
| 1990 | Brian Senior | Su Tick |
| 1991 | Josef Engel | Mordechai Gelbart |
| 1992 | Ian Handley | Les Steel |
| 1993 | W El Ahmady | A El Kordy |
| 1994 | Andrew Thompson | Tony Clark |
| 1995 | Ian Panto | Malcolm Harris |
| 1996 | Nick Sandqvist | John Short |
| 1997 | Celia Oram | Derek Oram |
| 1998 | Steve Eginton | Mike Perkins |
| 1999 | Peter Crouch | Gerald Tredinnick |
| 2000 | Espen Erichsen | David Bakhshi |
| 2001 | Jon Cooke | Paul Gibbons |
| 2002 | Chris Jagger | Ian Pagan |
| 2003 | Tommy Garvey | John Carroll |
| 2004 | Gordon Rainsford | Paul Martin |
| 2005 | Celia Oram | Derek Oram |
| 2006 | Brian Senior | Kumiko Ishii |
| 2007 | Paul Hackett | Ross Harper (picture) |
| 2008 | Celia Oram | Derek Oram (picture) |
| 2009 | Ewa Kater | Alex Hydes (picture) |
| 2010 | Borislav Borison | Diyan Danrilov (picture) |
| 2011 | Ed Jones | Alex Hydes (picture) |
| 2012 | Jason Hackett | Alex Hydes |
| 2013 | Alan Kay | Jerry Cope (picture) |
| 2014 | David Gold | Susanna Gross (picture) |
| 2015 | Dame Janet De Botton | Artur Malinowski (picture) |
| 2016 | Mark Teltscher | Tom Townsend (picture) |