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World Barista Championship Champions

Oldest WCC event; flagship. Competitor represents country via national championship body. Indirectly signals scene strength (a country with a WBC champion is unambiguously specialty-active).

2025Jack SimpsonAustralia · Axil Coffee2024Mikael JasinIndonesia · So So Good Coffee CompanyListed roaster2023Boram UmBrazil · Um Coffee CoListed roaster2022Anthony DouglasAustralia2021Diego CamposColombia2019Jooyeon JeonSouth Korea2018Agnieszka RojewskaPoland2017Dale HarrisUnited Kingdom2016Berg WuTaiwan2015Sasa SesticAustralia · Ona Coffee2014Hidenori IzakiJapan2013Pete LicataUSA2012Raul RodasGuatemala2011Alejandro MendezEl Salvador2010Michael PhillipsUSA2009Gwilym DaviesUnited Kingdom2008Stephen MorrisseyIreland2007James HoffmannUnited Kingdom · Square Mile Coffee Roasters (co-founder, 2008)2006Klaus ThomsenDenmark2005Troels Overdal PoulsenDenmark2004Tim WendelboeNorway2003Paul BassettAustralia2002Frits StormDenmark2001Martin HildebrandtDenmark2000Robert ThoresenNorway
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