World Barista Championship

The World Barista Championship is the world championship for baristas — the people who pull espresso for a living. One competitor at a time gets fifteen minutes on stage to make twelve drinks for a panel of judges, talk the whole way through, and clean up before the buzzer.¹²

It is the flagship of the seven World Coffee Championships, and the oldest: the first edition was held in 2000 in Monte Carlo, and it has run annually since, in a different host city each year. It is the title people mean when they say someone is “a world champion barista.”

How it works

Twelve drinks, in three sets of four, all inside the same fifteen minutes:

• Four espressos — the plain shot, nowhere to hide.
• Four milk drinks — espresso and steamed milk, judged on how the two taste together, not on the pattern in the foam. (Latte art has its own separate championship.)
• Four signature beverages — the competitor’s own invented drink. It must contain espresso; beyond that the rules are wide open, and this is where competitors bring in unusual coffees, fruit, aromatics and fermentation ideas.

Judges score on taste, cleanliness, creativity, technical proficiency and overall presentation. Wikipedia describes the panel in more detail: four sensory judges, scoring the drinks on taste, balance and presentation, plus one technical judge watching hands, hygiene and workflow. The talking matters as much as the coffee: competitors are expected to explain where the coffee came from, how it was grown and processed, and what the judges should be tasting.

The rounds narrow fast. From the opening round, the top 15 plus one wild card — 16 in total — go to the semifinals; the top 6 from there reach the final, and the highest-scoring finalist is champion.

Entry is bottom-up, like the rest of the championships: you win your national barista championship, run by an affiliated body in your own country, and that title is your seat at the world round.

Who runs it

The championship is run by the Specialty Coffee Association, headquartered in Irvine, California. Older sources — including Wikipedia — credit World Coffee Events, the body that originally operated the championships for the American and European specialty associations before they unified in 2017.

Both are correct at different times, and the World Coffee Events note traces exactly how the older name was retired into the newer one. If two articles seem to disagree about who owns this competition, that merger is almost always why.

Champions

	Year	Champion	Country	Host city
1	2000	Robert Thoresen	Norway	Monte Carlo
2	2001	Martin Hildebrandt	Denmark	Miami
3	2002	Fritz Storm	Denmark	Oslo
4	2003	Paul Bassett	Australia	Boston
5	2004	Tim Wendelboe	Norway	Trieste
6	2005	Troels Overdal Poulsen	Denmark	Seattle
7	2006	Klaus Thomsen	Denmark	Bern
8	2007	James Hoffmann	United Kingdom	Tokyo
9	2008	Stephen Morrissey	Ireland	Copenhagen
10	2009	Gwilym Davies	United Kingdom	Atlanta
11	2011	Alejandro Mendez	El Salvador	Bogotá
12	2012	Raúl Rodas	Guatemala	Vienna
13	2013	Pete Licata	United States	Melbourne
14	2014	Hidenori Izaki	Japan	Rimini
15	2015	Sasa Sestic	Australia	Seattle
16	2016	Berg Wu	Taiwan	Dublin (25 June)
17	2017	Dale Harris	United Kingdom	Seoul
18	2018	Agnieszka Rojewska	Poland	Amsterdam
19	2019	Jooyeon Jeon	South Korea	Boston
20	2021	Diego Campos	Colombia	Milan
21	2022	Anthony Douglas	Australia	Melbourne
22	2023	Boram Julio Um	Brazil	Athens
23	2024	Mikael Jasin	Indonesia	Busan
24	2025	Jack Simpson	Australia	Milan

The table comes from Wikipedia; the 2000, 2013–2019 and 2025 rows are independently corroborated by Sprudge’s compiled finalist ranking.³ Two early names are spelled differently between those two sources — Fritz vs Frits Storm (2002) and Troels Overdal vs Trouls Overdahl Poulsen (2005); the versions above follow Wikipedia. Note also that the 2010 row is missing from Sprudge’s list but present on Wikipedia (Michael Phillips, United States, London).

There was no 2020 championship. It was due to be held in Melbourne and was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic — a documented cancellation, unlike the unexplained 2020 gap on the World Brewers Cup list.

A few patterns are visible in that column of countries. The first decade is overwhelmingly Nordic and British — the espresso culture that built third-wave coffee. From 2014 onward the title moves east and south: Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Colombia, Brazil, Indonesia. Berg Wu’s 2016 win is still Taiwan’s only one, and the business he built on it, Simple Kaffa, is now a name on record Best of Panama bid sheets — see that note for how a competition result converts into buying power.

One more thing that column shows: every champion from 2000 to 2017 was a man. Agnieszka Rojewska’s 2018 win was the first by a woman, and Jooyeon Jeon won the next edition.

Scores, and why you can’t compare them

Sprudge publishes final-round scores for most years, drawn from the event’s own score sheets. Read them with care: the winning totals run from 364.5 (2000) up to 809.5 (2006) and back down to 469.5 (2019), which is not a story about baristas getting worse. It is a story about the scoresheet being rebuilt several times — different judge counts, different maximums, different weightings. A score is only meaningful against the other competitors in that same year’s final.

To verify

The score series itself. The figures above come from a single compiled list on a coffee news site, not from an official archive. The organisers publish rankings as year-by-year PDFs and send older results to a UC Davis digital collection rather than a browsable table,⁴ and no official score sheet was reachable here. Two entries in that list are visibly broken: 2001 is given as 101, which cannot be on the same scale as its neighbours, and 2021 (Diego Campos) is listed as “TK” — an editor’s placeholder for a number never filled in. Do not quote any of these scores as an official result.

2025: Jack Simpson, Milan

Jack Simpson of Australia won the 2025 World Barista Championship, held in Milan, Italy, inside the HOST Milano hospitality fair; the result was announced on 21 October 2025.⁵⁶⁷ The research behind this note describes it as the 25th edition. It is Australia’s fourth title, after Paul Bassett (2003), Sasa Sestic (2015) and Anthony Douglas (2022) — the most of any country outside Europe. Simpson and Douglas both competed for the same Melbourne roastery, Axil Coffee Roasters, whose own site claims “2 World Barista Championships and 7 Australian Barista Championships”.⁸

To verify

The rest of the 2025 podium, and the final scores. The research report behind this note gives the final six as Jack Simpson (Australia) 643.0, Simon SunLei (China) 628.0, Ben Put (Canada) 592.5, Jason Loo (Malaysia) 588.5, Hiroki Ito (Japan) 566.0, Christopher Sahyoun Hoff (Denmark) 412.0, sourced to a trade-magazine report and a Perfect Daily Grind Facebook post.⁹¹⁰ The BeanScene page returned HTTP 403 when fetched here, the Facebook post is not an official record, and the organisers’ own site publishes no 2025 results page. The report itself also flags that the runner-up’s name is romanised inconsistently across sources (“Simon SunLei” / “Simon Sallay”). Only the champion’s name and country are confirmed by a second independent source. Treat the placings below first and every number here as unverified.

To verify

What any of them brewed. No source consulted names the coffee, farm, variety, processing method or price behind the 2025 routines. The closest thing to a lead is the champion’s own roastery: Axil says Simpson worked with Jamison Savage of Finca Deborah in Panama and Johnathan Gasca of Finca Zarza in Colombia on “unique processing methods for his competition coffees” — but that is a general collaboration, not a statement of what went on stage in Milan, and Finca Deborah’s own site does not mention him at all.⁶¹¹ Competitors’ coffees live in the event’s technical sheets, which are not publicly browsable. Do not attach a farm or a lot to a champion without one.

2014 is documented in even more detail, which is the clearest sign that the gap is one of reporting rather than of secrecy. Hidenori Izaki won in Rimini on two lots from the Monte Copey micromill in Tarrazú, Costa Rica, at 1,800–1,900 m — a honey-processed Typica for the espresso course and a natural red Caturra for the milk course.¹² Farm, producer, altitude, variety and processing, all from one contemporaneous news report. Nothing equivalent exists for most other years.

The 2016 routine is the exception that shows what confirmation should look like. Berg Wu competed with a washed Geisha from Finca Deborah in Volcán, Panama, from the 2015/2016 crop¹³ — reported by Sprudge from the event floor¹⁴ and stated by Wu himself in an interview on his own company’s site.¹⁵ Event reporting plus the competitor’s own words clears the bar; a roaster directory repeating a rumour does not. See Simple Kaffa for the detail, including what is still missing — no lot name, no score, and no acknowledgement from the farm.

2026: Panama City

The next championship is scheduled for 22–25 October 2026 in Panama City, Panama, staged inside World of Coffee Panama. As of it has not yet happened: the organisers’ news feed carries 2026 winners for the Roasting, Brewers Cup, Coffee in Good Spirits, Cup Tasters and Latte Art championships, and nothing for the barista title beyond rules and regulations.¹⁶

That location is worth a second look. Panama is where Best of Panama sets the world price for Geisha, and the barista championship — the competition most likely to put an expensive, exotic lot in front of a global audience — is being held there for the first time. Nobody has documented that as deliberate, but the two sit in the same country in the same year.

To verify

The exact dates. The championship page says 22–25 October 2026; the World of Coffee show listing recorded on World Coffee Events gives the Panama show as 23–25 October 2026.¹⁷ One of the two is wrong, or the competition runs a day before the show floor opens. Check the official event page before booking anything.

Why it matters

A championship result is a public verdict, and a public verdict reprices things. Best of Panama and Cup of Excellence deliver that verdict on a lot of green coffee and the price per kilo jumps. The barista championship delivers it on a person — but the coffee they chose to serve rises with them, the roaster behind them gets a decade of marketing, and the farm gets a name.

Simple Kaffa in Taipei still leads with a 2016 title ten years later. Emi Fukahori’s 2018 World Brewers Cup win put a Laurina lot from Daterra on the map. That is the same premiumisation engine this wiki keeps running into, with a human face bolted to the front of it.

Champion history

	Year	Champion	Country	Company	Score	Host city
1	2025	Jack Simpson	Australia	Axil Coffee	643	Geneva, Switzerland
2	2024	Mikael Jasin	Indonesia	So So Good Coffee Company	591	Busan, South Korea
3	2023	Boram Um	Brazil	Um Coffee Co	561	Athens, Greece
4	2022	Anthony Douglas	Australia	Axil Coffee Roasters	499.5	Melbourne, Australia
5	2021	Diego Campos	Colombia	Amor Perfecto - Café de Colombia	511.5	Milan, Italy
6	2019	Jooyeon Jeon	South Korea	Momos Coffee	469.5	Boston, USA
7	2018	Agnieszka Rojewska	Poland	Independent	493	Amsterdam, Netherlands
8	2017	Dale Harris	United Kingdom	Hasbean Coffee	526.5	Seoul, South Korea
9	2016	Berg Wu	Taiwan	Simple Kaffa	583	Dublin, Ireland
10	2015	Sasa Sestic	Australia	Ona Coffee	618	Seattle, USA
11	2014	Hidenori Izaki	Japan	Maruyamacoffee Co., Ltd.	642.5	Rimini, Italy
12	2013	Pete Licata	United States	—	631	Melbourne, Australia
13	2012	Raul Rodas	Guatemala	—	695	Vienna, Austria
14	2011	Alejandro Mendez	El Salvador	Viva Espresso	710.5	Bogota, Colombia
15	2010	Michael Phillips	United States	—	706	London, United Kingdom
16	2009	Gwilym Davies	United Kingdom	—	623	Atlanta, USA
17	2008	Stephen Morrissey	Ireland	—	738.5	Copenhagen, Denmark
18	2007	James Hoffman	United Kingdom	—	703.5	Tokyo, Japan
19	2006	Klaus Thomsen	Denmark	Estate Coffee	809.5	Bern, Switzerland
20	2005	Troels Overdal Poulsen	Denmark	—	790	Seattle, USA
21	2004	Tim Wendelboe	Norway	—	662	Trieste, Italy
22	2003	Paul Bassett	Australia	Espresso Emporium	607	Boston, USA
23	2002	Frits Storm	Denmark	Cafe Europa	457.5	Oslo, Norway
24	2001	Martin Hildebrandt	Denmark	Café Europa	101	Miami, USA
25	2000	Robert Thoresen	Norway	—	364.5	Monte Carlo, Monaco

Results archive (every edition)

Final-round placings for every World Barista Championship edition on record — 25 editions, 2000–2025. Earlier rounds (the full field, 1450 rows in total) are kept as data in data/competitions/wcc/wbc.json.

2025 — Geneva, Switzerland

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Jack Simpson	Australia	Axil Coffee	643
2	2	Simon SunLei	China	Marus Coffee	628
3	3	Ben Put	Canada	Monogram Coffee	592.5
4	4	Jason Loo	Malaysia	Contour	588.5
5	5	Hiroki Ito	Japan	Sarutahiko Coffee	566
6	6	Christopher Sahyoun Hoff	Denmark	April	412

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (16), Round One (51).

2024 — Busan, South Korea

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Mikael Jasin	Indonesia	So So Good Coffee Company	591
2	2	Jack Simpson	Australia	Axil Coffee Roasters	590
3	3	Takayuki Ishitani	Japan	Independent	575
4	4	Honoka Kawashima	New Zealand	Frank’s Coffee	562
5	5	Junghwan Lim	South Korea	aerycoffee	544
6	6	Ian Kissick	Ireland	Formative coffee	541
7	7	Zjevaun Lemar Janga	Netherlands	Ripsnorter coffee	507

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (17), Round One (53).

2023 — Athens, Greece

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Boram Um	Brazil	Um Coffee Co	561
2	2	Daniele Ricci	Italy	MAME	542.5
3	3	Jack Simpson	Australia	Axil Coffee Roasters	511.5
4	4	Isaiah Sheese	United States	Archetype Coffee	485.5
5	5	Dawn Chan	Hong Kong	Wan Wan Coffee Roaster	450.5
6	6	Patrik Rolf	Denmark	April	437

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (16), Round One (44).

2022 — Melbourne, Australia

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Anthony Douglas	Australia	Axil Coffee Roasters	499.5
2	2	Morgan Eckroth	United States	Onyx Coffee Lab	469.5
3	3	Claire Wallace	United Kingdom	Assembly Coffee	457
4	4	Takayuki Ishitani	Japan	Independent	445.5
5	5	Benjamin Put	Canada	Monogram Coffee	400
6	6	Patrik Rolf	Sweden	April	391.5

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (16), Round One (45).

2021 — Milan, Italy

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Diego Campos	Colombia	Amor Perfecto - Café de Colombia	511.5
2	2	Andrea Allen	United States	ONYX Coffee Lab	487
3	3	Hugh Kelly	Australia	ONA Coffee	475.5
4	4	Emi Fukahori	Switzerland	MAME	443
5	5	Martin Shabaya	Kenya	Independent	429.5
6	6	Wojciech Tysler	Ireland	Bewleys Tea and Coffee	420.5

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (16), Round One (38).

2019 — Boston, USA

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Jooyeon Jeon	South Korea	Momos Coffee	469.5
2	2	Michalis Dimitrakopoulos	Greece	The Underdog Roasters	459.5
3	3	Cole Torode	Canada	Rosso Coffee Roasters	451
4	4	Mikael Jasin	Indonesia	Common Grounds Coffee Roasters	431
5	5	Wojtek Bialczak	Germany	Five Elephant Coffee	435.5
6	6	Mathieu Theis	Switzerland	Mame	406.5

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (16), Round One (54).

2018 — Amsterdam, Netherlands

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Agnieszka Rojewska	Poland	Independent	493
2	2	Lex Wenneker	Netherlands	Friedhats / ESW	436
3	3	Mathieu Theis	Switzerland	Mame	396.5
4	4	Michalis Katsiavos	Greece	The Underdog Roasters	396
5	5	Cole Torode	Canada	Rosso Coffee Roasters	368
6	6	John Gordon	New Zealand	Gorilla Gear	358.5

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (16), Round One (57).

2017 — Seoul, South Korea

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Dale Harris	United Kingdom	Hasbean Coffee	526.5
2	2	Miki Suzuki	Japan	Maruyama Coffee	508.5
3	3	Kapo Chiu	Hong Kong	Cupping Room Coffee Roasters	507.5
4	4	Ben Put	Canada	Monogram Coffee	498.5
5	5	Hugh Kelly	Australia	ONA Coffee	481.5
6	6	Kyle Ramage	United States	Black & White Coffee	436.5

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (16), Round One (57).

2016 — Dublin, Ireland

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Berg Wu	Taiwan	Simple Kaffa	583
2	2	Yoshikazu Iwase	Japan	Rec Coffee	553.5
3	3	Ben Put	Canada	Monogram Coffee	545.5
4	4	Lem Butler	United States	Counter Culture Coffee	480.5
5	5	Charlotte Malaval	France	Ditta Artigianale	473.5
6	6	Lex Wenneker	Netherlands	Espresso Service West	444.5

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (12), Round One (61).

2015 — Seattle, USA

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Sasa Sestic	Australia	Ona Coffee	618
2	2	Charles Babinski	United States	Go Get Em Tiger	613
3	3	Ben Put	Canada	Monogram Coffee	593.5
4	4	Chan Kwun Ho	Hong Kong	The Cupping Room	587
5	5	Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood	United Kingdom	Colonna & Small’s	568
6	6	Charlotte Malaval	France	Independent	548

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (12), Round One (48).

2014 — Rimini, Italy

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Hidenori Izaki	Japan	Maruyamacoffee Co., Ltd.	642.5
2	2	Kapo Chiu	Hong Kong	The Cupping Room	594
3	3	Christos Loukakis	Greece	TAF	583
4	4	Craig Simon	Australia	Think Tank Coffee	576.5
5	5	Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood	United Kingdom	Colonna& Smalls	499
6	6	William Hernandez	El Salvador	Viva Espresso	485

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (12), Round One (54).

2013 — Melbourne, Australia

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Pete Licata	United States	—	631
2	2	Matthew Perger	Australia	—	619
3	3	William Hernandez	El Salvador	—	596
4	4	Colin Harmon	Ireland	—	561.5
5	5	Nick Clark	New Zealand	—	540
6	6	Francesco Sanapo	Italy	—	535

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (12), Round One (51).

2012 — Vienna, Austria

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Raul Rodas	Guatemala	—	695
2	2	Fabrizio Sención Ramírez	Mexico	—	667
3	3	Colin Harmon	Ireland	—	665.5
4	4	Miki Suzuki	Japan	—	649.5
5	5	Stefanos Domatiotis	Greece	—	627
6	6	Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood	United Kingdom	—	572

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (12), Round One (54).

2011 — Bogota, Colombia

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Alejandro Mendez	El Salvador	Viva Espresso	710.5
2	2	Pete Licata	United States	Honolulu Coffee Co.	659.5
3	3	Matt Preger	Australia	Axil Coffee Roasters	659
4	4	Javier Garcia	Spain	Independent	631.5
5	5	Miki Suzuki	Japan	Maruyama Coffee	629.5
6	6	John Gordon	United Kingdom	Square Mile Coffee Roasters	613.5

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (12), Round One (53).

2010 — London, United Kingdom

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Michael Phillips	United States	—	706
2	2	Raul Rodas	Guatemala	—	691
3	3	Scottie Callaghan	Australia	—	672.5
4	4	Colin Harmon	Ireland	—	659.5
5	5	Søren Stiller Markussen	Denmark	—	644.5
6	6	Stefanos Domatiotis	Greece	—	632

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (12), Round One (53).

2009 — Atlanta, USA

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Gwilym Davies	United Kingdom	—	623
2	2	Sammy Piccolo	Canada	—	619.5
3	3	Michael Phillips	United States	—	618.5
4	4	Colin Harmon	Ireland	—	572
5	5	Lee Jong Hoon	South Korea	—	542
6	6	Attila Molnar	Hungary	—	535.5

Earlier rounds: Round One (51).

2008 — Copenhagen, Denmark

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Stephen Morrissey	Ireland	—	738.5
2	2	David Makin	Australia	—	733
3	3	Liesbeth Sleijster	Netherlands	—	694.5
4	4	Daniel Remheden	Sweden	—	693
5	5	Michael Yung	Canada	—	687.5
6	6	Soren Stiller Markussen	Denmark	—	671

Earlier rounds: Round One (51).

2007 — Tokyo, Japan

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	James Hoffman	United Kingdom	—	703.5
2	2	Heather Perry	United States	—	685
3	3	Carl Sara	New Zealand	—	681.5
4	4	Miyuki Miyamae	Japan	—	635
5	5	Anna Kaeppeli	Switzerland	—	602
6	6	Silvia Magalhaes	Brazil	—	572

Earlier rounds: Round One (38).

2006 — Bern, Switzerland

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Klaus Thomsen	Denmark	Estate Coffee	809.5
2	2	Sammy Piccolo	Canada	Caffe Artigiano	746
3	3	Matthew Riddle	United States	Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea	727
4	4	Anne Lunell	Sweden	Мосса	676.5
5	5	James Hoffmann	United Kingdom	La Spaziale	669
6	6	Ingibjorg Jona Siguroarsdottir	Iceland	Kaffitar	658.5

Earlier rounds: Round One (37).

2005 — Seattle, USA

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Troels Overdal Poulsen	Denmark	—	790
2	2	Hiroyuki Kadowaki	Japan	—	771.5
3	3	Sammy Piccolo	Canada	—	758.5
4	4	Carl Sara	New Zealand	—	756
5	5	Jonina S. Tryggvadottir	Iceland	—	726.5
6	6	Gunhild Selijenes	Norway	—	705.5

Earlier rounds: Round One (35).

2004 — Trieste, Italy

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Tim Wendelboe	Norway	—	662
2	2	Sammy Picolo	Canada	—	656
3	3	Klaus Thomsen	Denmark	—	655
4	4	Njall Bjorgvinsson	Iceland	—	598
5	5	Joseph El Khoury	Lebanon	—	568
6	6	Carl Sara	New Zealand	—	552

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (35).

2003 — Boston, USA

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Paul Bassett	Australia	Espresso Emporium	607
2	2	Asa Jelena Petterson	Iceland	Kaffitar	586.5
3	3	Eirik S. Johnsen	Norway	Stockfleth’s	580.5
4	4	Troels Overdal Poulsen	Denmark	Café Europa	568.5
5	5	Vikram Khurana	India	Café Coffee Day	512.5
6	6	Irina Puzachkova	Russia	Coffeemania	477

Earlier rounds: Round One (26).

2002 — Oslo, Norway

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Frits Storm	Denmark	Cafe Europa	457.5
2	2	Tim Wendelboe	Norway	Stockfleth’s	432
3	3	Vikram Khurana	India	Coffee Day	394
4	4	Luigi Lupi	Italy	Musetti	382.5
5	5	Emma Markland-Webster	New Zealand	—	332
6	6	Dismas Smith	United States	Zoka	304.5

Earlier rounds: Round One (26).

2001 — Miami, USA

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Martin Hildebrandt	Denmark	Café Europa	101
2	2	Tim Wendelboe	Norway	Stockfleth’s	88
3	3	Roberto Dell Aquilla	Italy	—	—
4	4	Lilja Perursdottir	Iceland	Kaffitar	79
5	5	Andrea Gherardi	Italy	—	—
6	6	Corrine Tweedale	Australia	—	—

2000 — Monte Carlo, Monaco

	Place	Competitor	Country	Company	Score
1	1	Robert Thoresen	Norway	—	364.5
2	2	Erla Kristisdottir	Iceland	—	350.5
3	3	Martin Hillebrandt	Denmark	—	343
4	4	George Sabados	Australia	—	334
5	5	Thomas Polti	Italy	—	320.5
6	6	Zelmir Bajic	Croatia	—	279

Earlier rounds: Semi-Finals (14).

Source conflicts

To verify

The hand-written table on this page and the imported archive disagree on 4 field(s). Neither is assumed correct — check them against the official World Coffee Events record and fix whichever is wrong at its source.

	Year	Field	This page says	The archive says
1	2002	name	Fritz Storm	Frits Storm
2	2007	name	James Hoffmann	James Hoffman
3	2023	name	Boram Julio Um	Boram Um
4	2025	host city	Milan	Geneva, Switzerland

Related

• Barista — the profession itself: how people get into it, what it pays, and what training exists
• World Coffee Championships — the seven-title circuit this one heads
• World Brewers Cup — the filter-coffee sibling, same organisers, different rules
• World Coffee Events · Specialty Coffee Association — who runs it, then and now
• Berg Wu · Simple Kaffa — the 2016 champion and the business built on the title
• Hidenori Izaki — the 2014 champion, the first from Asia, and the best-documented competition coffee on this wiki
• Agnieszka Rojewska — the 2018 champion, and the first woman to win this title
• Anthony Douglas · Jack Simpson · Axil Coffee Roasters — the 2022 and 2025 champions, and the one Melbourne roastery behind both
• Emi Fukahori — what a world title does for a career, on the Brewers Cup side
• James Hoffmann — the 2007 champion, and the widest-reaching coffee educator to come out of this competition
• Tim Wendelboe — the 2004 champion, who went on from the Oslo roastery to buying his own farm in Colombia
• Matt Perger — 3rd in 2011 and 2nd in 2013, never champion here, but won the World Brewers Cup in between
• Best of Panama · Cup of Excellence — the green-coffee equivalents, judged on lots rather than people
• Cupping · Coffee scoring — how judging scales work
• Geisha · Premiumisation — why the coffee on stage matters as much as the barista

Official links

• Official site — World Barista Championship (World Coffee Championships)
• Official — World Coffee Championships past rankings
• Official — World Coffee Championships news

Footnotes

1. World Coffee Championships — World Barista Championship (official) ↩

2. Wikipedia — World Barista Championship ↩

3. Sprudge — Every World Barista Championship Finalist, Ranked ↩

4. World Coffee Championships — Past rankings (official) ↩

5. 2025 World Barista Championship: Winners Announcement (video) ↩

6. Axil Coffee Roasters — Jack Simpson wins the 2025 World Barista Championship (official) — confirmed via WebFetch; the HOST Milano venue and the two named producers ↩ ↩²

7. Sprudge — “Australia’s Jack Simpson Wins The 2025 World Barista Championship,” 21 October 2025 — headline and date from Sprudge’s own search listing; the full article was not read ↩

8. Axil Coffee Roasters — About us (official site) ↩

9. BeanScene — Jack Simpson wins World Barista Championship ↩

10. Perfect Daily Grind — 25th World Barista Championship results (Facebook post) ↩

11. Finca Deborah — official site — confirmed via WebFetch; carries no mention of Jack Simpson or the 2025 championship ↩

12. Sprudge — Hidenori Izaki of Japan wins the 2014 World Barista Championship ↩

13. Finca Deborah — official site ↩

14. Sprudge — Berg Wu of Taiwan wins the 2016 World Barista Championship ↩

15. Simple Kaffa journal — Berg Wu on his 2016 championship coffee (official) ↩

16. World Coffee Championships — Latest news (official) ↩

17. World of Coffee — upcoming shows (official) ↩