| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 2014 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Yoann Kowal |  FRA | Krystian Zalewski |  POL | Ángel Mullera |  ESP |
| 2012 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | FRA | Tarik Langat Akdag |  TUR | García Víctor | ESP |
| 2010 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | FRA | Bouabdellah Tahri | FRA | Jose Luis Blanco | ESP |
| 2006 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Jukka Keskisalo |  FIN | Jos� Luis Blanco | ESP | Bouabdellah Tahri | FRA |
| 2002 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Antonio Jimenez | ESP | Simon Vroemen |  NED | Luis Miguel Martin | ESP |
| 1998 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Damian Kallabis |  GER | Alessandro Lambruschini |  ITA | Jim Sven�y |  NOR |
| 1994 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Alessandro Lambruschini | ITA | Angelo Carosi | ITA | William Van Dijck |  BEL |
| 1990 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Francesco Panetta | ITA | Mark Rowland |  GBR | Alessandro Lambruschini | ITA |
| 1986 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Hagen Melzer |  GDR | Francesco Panetta | ITA | Patriz Ilg |  FRG |
| 1982 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Patriz Ilg | FRG | Boguslaw Maminski | POL | Domingo Ramon | ESP |
| 1978 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | Patriz Ilg | FRG | Ismo Toukonen | FIN |
| 1974 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | Anders Gaerderud |  SWE | Michael Karst | FRG |
| 1971 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Jean-Paul Villain | FRA | Dusan Moravcek |  TCH | Pavel Sysoyev |  URS |
| 1969 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Mikhail Zhelev |  BUL | Aleksandr Morozov | URS | Vladimir Dudin | URS |
| 1966 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Viktor Kudinskiy | URS | Anatoliy Kuryan | URS | Gaston Roelants | BEL |
| 1962 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Gaston Roelants | BEL | Zoltan Vamos |  ROU | Nikolay Sokolov | URS |
| 1958 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Jerzy Chromik | POL | Semyon Rzhishchin | URS | Hans H�neke | FRG |
| 1954 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Sandor Rozsny�i |  HUN | Olavi Rinteenp�� | FIN | Ernst Larsen | NOR |
| 1950 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Jindrich Roudn� | TCH | Petar �egedin |  YUG | Erik Blomster | FIN |
| 1946 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Raphael Pujazon | FRA | Erik Elms�ter | SWE | Tore Sjoestrand | SWE |
| 1938 Men 3000 Steeplechase | Lars Larsson | SWE | Ludwig Kaindl | GER | Alf Lindblad | FIN |
