World Champions
Dates given are the period in which the final of the championship took place, as given on the ICCF website.
The World Correspondence Chess Championship determines the World Champion in correspondence chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest the title. The official World Correspondence Chess Championship is managed by the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).
The world championship comprises four stages: Preliminaries, Semi-Finals, Candidates' Tournament, and Final. ICCF tournament rules define which players can access each stage. The first-, second- and third-placed finishers from the previous Final, and the first- and second-placed finishers from the Candidates' Tournaments have access to the World Correspondence Chess Championship Final.
The ICCF also manages the Ladies World Correspondence Chess Championships, that comprises Semi-Finals and Final.
Dates given are the period in which the final of the championship took place, as given on the ICCF website.
| N° | Years | Champion | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01. | 1968–1972 |  Olga Rubtsova |  Gertrude Schoisswohl |
| 02. | 1972–1977 | Lora Jakovleva | Olga Rubtsova |
| 03. | 1978–1984 |  Ljuba Kristol | Merike Rotova |
| 04. | 1984–1992 | Liudmila Belavenets | Nina Orlova |
| 05. | 1993–1998 | Ljuba Kristol |  Ingrida Priedite |
| 06. | 2000–2005 |  Alessandra Riegler |  Maja Zelcic |
| 07. | 2002–2006 |  Olga Sukhareva |  Mary Jones |
| 08. | 2007–2010 | Olga Sukhareva |  Marie Bazantová |
| 09. | 2011–2014 | Irina Perevertkina | Maria Lisitcina |
| 10. | 2014–2017 | Irina Perevertkina |  Tetiana Moyseenko |
| 11. | 2017–2020 | Irina Perevertkina |  Vilma Dambrauskaitè Tetiana Moyseenko |
| 11. | 2020–2023 | Irina Perevertkina | Dawn L. Williamson Tetiana Yurchuk  Victoria Schweer Luz Marina Tinjacá Ramirez |
| Nr. | Years | Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 01. | 1973–1977 | Karl Maeder |
| 02. | 1977–1983 | Gennadi Nesis |
| 03. | 1981–1986 | Nikolai Rabinovich |
| 04. | 1984–1989 | Albert Popov |
| 5A. | 1987–1994 | Alexandr Frolov |
| 5B. | 1987–1994 |  Gert Timmerman |
| 06. | 1994–1999 | Olita Rause |
| 07. | 1994–2001 | Alexei Lepikhov |
| 08. | 1998–2002 | Horst Staudler |
| 09. | 1998–2001 | Edgar Prang |
| 10. | 2001–2005 | Frank Schroder |
| 11. | 2008–2011 | Reinhardt Moll |
| 12E | 2005–2007 | Reinhardt Moll |
| 12P | 2009–2013 | Matthias Gleichmann |
| 13. | 2009–2012 | Reinhardt Moll |
| 14. | 2009–2012 | Reinhardt Moll |
| 15. | 2012–2015 |  Klemen Sivic |
| 16. | 2013–2016 | Uwe Nogga |
| 17. | 2014–2017 | Matthias Gleichmann |
| 18. | 2015–2019 | Reinhard Moll Stefan Ulbig |
| 19. | 2014–2016 | Thomas Herfurth |
| 20. | 2017–2020 | Sergey Kishkin |
| 21. | 2019–2021 | Matthias Gleichmann |
| 22. | 2021–2023 | Matthias Gleichmann Dmitry Viktorovich Morozov |
| Nr. | Years | Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 01. | 2014–2015 |  Fabian Stanach |
| 02. | 2015–2016 | Darko Babič |
| 03. | 2016–2018 |  Jean Banet |
| 04. | 2018–2019 | Ivan Panitevsky |
| 05. | 2019–2021 | Aleksey Voll |
| 06. | 2020–2022 | Aleksey Voll |
| 07. | 2020–2021 | Evgeny Tsygankov |
| 08. | 2021–2023 |  Paul Muljadi  Tudor Ristea |
| 09. | 2022–2023 | Viktor Aleksandrovich Pavlov  Daniel A. Weber-Widmer Vladimir Dobroselskiy Igor Korovnik  Antonio Sánchez Ródenas Aleksey Voll Dmitry Viktorovich Morozov Norbert Lukas |
| 10. | 2023–2024 | Alberto Pérez López  Hans-Christian Lykke |
