World memory championship

Participant table at the World Memory Championships

World Memory Championships 2006, in the foreground Andi Bell

The World Memory Championships (Engl. World Memory Championships ) find since 1991 a year and are from the international Memorial Sports Association , the World Memory Sports Council (WMSC) organized. The founder and organizer of the World Championships is the well-known English psychologist and mental trainer Tony Buzan . The world championships are held as a 3-day decathlon. The overall winner will receive the title World Memory Champion or English World Memory Champion .

Over the years, the number of participants has increased significantly. At the first world championship there were only 9 participants at the start, in 2010 this was well over 100. All continents were represented. In China in particular, the media are showing great interest in the World Cup. The 2010 competition in Guangzhou was broadcast live.

Venues and winners

year	venue	First place	Second place	third place
1991	London	Dominic O'Brien	Jonathan Hancock	Kenneth Wilshire
1992	failed
1993	London	Dominic O'Brien	Jonathan Hancock	Philip Bond
1994	London	Jonathan Hancock	Dominic O'Brien	James Lee
1995	London	Dominic O'Brien	Jonathan Hancock	Andi Bell
1996	London	Dominic O'Brien	Andi Bell	Tom Groves
1997	London	Dominic O'Brien	Andi Bell	David Thomas
1998	London	Andi Bell	Michael Tipper	Gunther Karsten
1999	London	Dominic O'Brien	Yu Zhang	Andi Bell
2000	London	Dominic O'Brien	Andi Bell	Gunther Karsten
2001	London	Dominic O'Brien	Gunther Karsten	Andi Bell
2002	London	Andi Bell	Dominic O'Brien	Gunther Karsten
2003	Kuala Lumpur	Andi Bell	Astrid Plessl	Ben Pridmore
2004	Manchester	Ben Pridmore	Astrid Plessl	Joachim Thaler
2005	Oxford	Clemens Mayer	Gunther Karsten	Joachim Thaler
2006	London	Clemens Mayer	Gunther Karsten	Joachim Thaler
2007	Bahrain	Gunther Karsten	Ben Pridmore	Simon Reinhard
2008	Bahrain	Ben Pridmore	Gunther Karsten	Johannes Mallow
2009	London	Ben Pridmore	Johannes Mallow	Simon Reinhard
2010	Guangzhou	Wang Feng	Johannes Mallow	Ben Pridmore
2011	Guangzhou	Wang Feng	Liu Su	Li Wei
2012	London	Johannes Mallow	Simon Reinhard	Jonas from Essen
2013	London	Jonas from Essen	Johannes Mallow	Christian Schäfer
2014	Hainan	Jonas from Essen	Simon Reinhard	Sengesamdan Ulziikhutag
2015	Cheng you	Alex Mullen	Marwen Wallonius	Simon Reinhard
2016	Singapore	Alex Mullen	Huang Shenghua	Su toe

Since 2017 there have been world championships from two different organizations (IAM and WMSC).

International Association of Memory (IAM)

year	venue	First place	Second place	third place
2017	Jakarta	Alex Mullen	Munkhshur Narmandakh	Yanjaa Wintersoul

World Memory Sports Council (WMSC)

year	venue	First place	Second place	third place
2017	Shenzhen	Munkhshur Narmandakh	Shi Binbin	Su toe

Web links

• Official website of the World Championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Memory Championships 2017 - Overall ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed September 12, 2018 
2. ↑ 26th World Memory Championships, Shenzhen, China - Full results (pdf) Retrieved on September 12, 2018 (English)