Four World Junior Champions went on to win the World Championship. Below is the complete list of champions.
| No. | Year | Venue | Winner | Nation |
| 1 | 1951 | Coventry/Birmingham | Ivkov, Borislav | Yugoslavia |
| 2 | 1953 | Copenhagen | Panno, Oscar | Argentina |
| 3 | 1955 | Antwerp | Spassky, Boris | Soviet Union |
| 4 | 1957 | Toronto | Lombardy, William | United States |
| 5 | 1959 | Münchenstein | Bielicki, Carlos | Argentina |
| 6 | 1961 | The Hague | Parma, Bruno | Yugoslavia |
| 7 | 1963 | Vrnjacka Banja | Gheorghiu, Florin | Romania |
| 8 | 1965 | Barcelona | Kurajica, Bojan | Yugoslavia |
| 9 | 1967 | Jerusalem | Kaplan, Julio | Puerto Rico |
| 10 | 1969 | Stockholm | Karpov, Anatoly | Soviet Union |
| 11 | 1971 | Athens | Hug, Werner | Switzerland |
| 12 | 1973 | Teesside | Beliavsky, Alexander | Soviet Union |
| 13 | 1974 | Manila | Miles, Anthony | England |
| 14 | 1975 | Tjentiste | Chekhov, Valery | Soviet Union |
| 15 | 1976 | Groningen | Diesen, Mark | United States |
| 16 | 1977 | Innsbruck | Yusupov, Artur | Soviet Union |
| 17 | 1978 | Graz | Dolmatov, Sergey | Soviet Union |
| 18 | 1979 | Skien | Seirawan, Yasser | United States |
| 19 | 1980 | Dortmund | Kasparov, Garry | Soviet Union |
| 20 | 1981 | Mexico City | Cvitan, Ognjen | Yugoslavia |
| 21 | 1982 | Copenhagen | Sokolov, Andrei | Soviet Union |
| 22 | 1983 | Belfort | Georgiev, Kiril | Bulgaria |
| 23 | 1984 | Kiljava | Hansen, Curt | Denmark |
| 24 | 1985 | Sharjah | Dlugy, Maxim | United States |
| 25 | 1986 | Gausdal | Arencibia, Walter | Cuba |
| 26 | 1987 | Baguio | Anand, Viswanathan | India |
| 27 | 1988 | Adelaide | Lautier, Joel | France |
| 28 | 1989 | Tunja | Spasov, Vasil | Bulgaria |
| 29 | 1990 | Santiago | Gurevich, Ilya | United States |
| 30 | 1991 | Mamaja | Akopian, Vladimir | Armenia |
| 31 | 1992 | Buenos Aires | Zarnicki, Pablo | Argentina |
| 32 | 1993 | Kozhikode | Miladinovic, Igor | Yugoslavia |
| 33 | 1994 | Caiobá | Grétarsson, Helgi | Iceland |
| 34 | 1995 | Halle | Slobodjan, Roman | Germany |
| 35 | 1996 | Medellín | Sutovsky, Emil | Israel |
| 36 | 1997 | Zagan | Shaked, Tal | United States |
| 37 | 1998 | Kozhikode | Sadvakasov, Darmen | Kazakhstan |
| 38 | 1999 | Yerevan | Galkin, Alexander | Russia |
| 39 | 2000 | Yerevan | Bruzón, Lázaro | Cuba |
| 40 | 2001 | Athens | Acs, Peter | Hungary |
| 41 | 2002 | Goa | Aronian, Levon | Armenia |
| 42 | 2003 | Nakhchivan | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | Azerbaijan |
| 43 | 2004 | Kochi | Harikrishna, Pentala | India |
| 44 | 2005 | Istanbul | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | Azerbaijan |
| 45 | 2006 | Yerevan | Andriasian, Zaven | Armenia |
| 46 | 2007 | Yerevan | Adly, Ahmed | Egypt |
| 47 | 2008 | Gaziantep | Gupta, Abhijeet | India |
| 48 | 2009 | Puerto Madryn | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | France |
Source: ChessBase.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
WOW! thanks Susan didnt know that, No persons of African descent on their list i guess we’re just not the brightest bulbs in da box huh? Hey Susan ill be at the Marshall club tommorrow ! im gunna take pictures of theses guys then send them to you in the mail! haha.So u can see the look on their faces! Like Lenderman and Kasvilli haha, they were funny! its a differnce when you meet someone in person i guess! hehehehe!!!
Has Magnus Carlsen ever participated in any World Junior Championship?
Vachier will be a world champion soon.
Don’t think so…
The question then is have any world champions tried and failed to win the World Junior? For one reason or another, Tal and Fischer never tried. Petrosian was 22 in 1951, so slightly too old. That leaves Kramnik. Did he ever play in a World Junior?
RE: The Africa comment, last time I looked Egypt is in Africa. Regardless, success in any sport is determined more by the level of national participation than any national hereditary traits.
Ah, but you see by “Africa” Lionel means “black” and Egyptians are not black, hence they are not “Africa”.
Just read Lionel’s comments here – he is a racists! (yes black people can be racist too).