The World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) is an international tournament for amateur Go players, held once a year since 1979. The organising body is the International Go Federation (IGF).
Each participating country sends one player, although in the beginning of the contest there were multiple players from the stronger Go Countries (e.g. China, Japan, South Korea); in 2007 there were 68 participants.
Some of the participants have gone on to become top Go professionals.
Past champions The names are ordered as Given name and Surname.
YearWinner2nd3rd1979 Wei-Ping Nie () Zu-De Chen () Jia-Rui Chen ()1980 Fumiaki Imamura () Zu-De Chen () Hajime Yasunaga ()1981 Zhen-Zhong Shao () Xiao-Chun Ma () Bunsho Murakami ()1982 Da-Yuan Cao () Jin-Ha Yang () Hironori Hirata ()1983 Xiao-Chun Ma () Hiroshi Miura () Fumiaki Imamura ()1984 Qun Wang () Chang-Hyuk Yoo () Hironori Hirata ()1985 Jian-Hong Wang () Jia-Rui Chen () Yasuro Kikuchi ()1986 Jia-Rui Chen () Yasuro Kikuchi () Xue-Lin Song ()1987 Fumiaki Imamura () Bin Yu () Gwan-Cheol Lee ()1988Wen-Dong Zhang ()Fumiaki Imamura () Ronald Schlemper () Chul-Joong Kim ()1989 Ze-Wu Che () Wen-He Cai () Hironori Hirata ()1990 Hao Chang () Quan-Wuk An () Hiroshi Miura ()1991 Fumiaki Imamura () Xia-Nyu Xia () Ronald Schlemper ()1992 Yasuro Kikuchi () Young-Man Lee () Qi-Yu Han ()1993 Yi-Guo Sun () Soon-Joo Seo () Hironori Hirata ()1994 Satoshi Hiraoka () Chun-Hsun Chou () Chun Wang ()1995 Hironori Hirata () Hong-Yi Shi () Ying Kan ()1996 Jun Liu () Hironori Hirata () Yong-Man Yi ()1997 Jun Liu () Hideyuki Sakai () Yeong-Sam Mun ()1998 Ch'an-U Kim () Satoshi Hiraoka () Wen-Dong Zhao ()1999 Chae-Seong Yu () Hideyuki Sakai () Pong-Il Ri ()2000 Hideyuki Sakai () Ho-Kil Pak () Maleun-Saem Hong ()2001 Dai-Chun Li () Moriei Kanazawa () Dong Ming Liu ()2002 Li Fu () Maleun-Saem Hong () Yasuro Kikuchi ()2003Not held due to SARS outbreak.2004 Kang-Wook Lee () You-Zheng Lai () Li Fu ()2005 Yu-Qing Hu () Tae-Weon Cho () Cheng-Rui Yu ()2006 Satoshi Hiraoka () Weixing Tang () Tae-Weon Cho ()2007 Zi-Teng Shan () Tong-Ha U () Hironobu Mori ()2008 Sung-Bong Ha () Yu-Zheng Guo () Fernando Aguilar ()2009 Yu-Ging Hu () Shin-Hwan Yu () Nai-San Chan ()2010 Hong-Suk Song () Chen Wang () Tae-Weon Cho ()2011 Baoxiang Bai () Woo-Soo Choi () Eric Lui ()2012 Zhi-Jian Qiao () Hyun-Joon Lee () Cheng-Hsun Chen ()2013 Hyun-Jae Choi () Yu-Qing Hu () Artem Kachanovskyi ()2014 Yi-Tien Chan () Tae-woong Wei () Ruoran Wang ()2015John Richardson (2015-06-10). "Gold for Korea, Silver for China and Bronze for Chinese Taipei". RANKA online Changhun Kim () Aohua Hu () Jyun-Fu Lai ()2016European Go Database Baoxiang Bai () Kibaek Kim () CHia-Cheng Hsu ()2017European Go Database Baoxiang Bai () Sang-bin Lee () Yu-Cheng Lai ()2018European Go Database Yi-Tien Chan () Sangcheon Kim () Chen Wang ()2019European Go Database Chen Wang () Jaesung Lee () Nai-San Chan ()2020Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic.2021Official Site Tianfang Ma () I-Tien Chan () Dabeen Kim ()2022Held online (Fox server).2023International Go Federation Report Jung Seon Kim () Chukun Yang () Yu-Cheng Lai ()2024Official Website Baoxiang Bai () Jung Seon Kim () Minoru Ozeki ()2025Tournament Results Tianfang Ma () Minoru Ozeki () Sawoo Kim ()2026Tournament Results Yu Fu () Hyo Ka () Lukas Podpera ()
See also Go competitions Go players List of world Go champions List of world championships in mind sports
References
External links World Amateur Go Championship all detailed results Sensei's Library WAGC page Official website of 28th WAGC with detailed results Official website of the 29th WAGC Official website of the 30th WAGC Official website of the 31st WAGC Official website of the 32nd WAGC