National Geographic World Championship - Locations and Winners

Locations and Winners

1993

Location: London, England, UK

• First place: United States (Captain Noel Erinjeri, Michigan; Michael Ring, Rhode Island; Jeffrey Hoppes, Pennsylvania)
• Second place: United Kingdom (Captain Colm Walsh; Richard Webb; David Hunt)
• Third place: Russia (Captain Roman Amburtsev; Valerij Perelygin; Roman Fomin)

1995

Location: Orlando, Florida, USA

• First place: Australia (Michael Lyon, Victoria; Patrick Chan, New South Wales; Michael Molinari, Western Australia)
• Second place: United Kingdom
• Third place: Canada

1997

Location: Washington, D.C., USA

Dates: August 5–6

• First place: Canada (Durgesh Saraph, Ontario; Rohan Verghese, Ontario; Armand Gaudry, British Columbia; Pierre-Marc Lanteigne, Quebéc)
• Second place: Argentina
• Third place: Russia

1999

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dates: August 10–11

• First place: United States (David Beihl, Saluda, South Carolina; Jason Borschow, San Juan, Puerto Rico; John Kizer, Portsmouth, Ohio; Evan Sparks, Germantown, Tennessee)
• Second place: Canada
• Third place: Russia

2001

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dates: August 1–2

• First place: United States (Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Bellevue, Washington; Nicholas Jachowski, Pukalani, Hawaii; Steven Young, Reston, Virginia; Joe Henry Legan, Haughton, Louisiana)
• Second place: Canada
• Third place: Hungary

2003

Location: Tampa, Florida, USA

Dates: July 15–16

• First place: United States (Captain John Rice, Maddock, North Dakota; Dallas Simons, Nashville, Tennessee; Alexander Smith, Burlington, North Carolina)
• Second place: Germany (Captain Julian Nitzsche, Bautzen, Saxony; Sebastian Norck, Sonneberg, Thuringia; Sebastian Wildgrube, Meuro, Saxony-Anhalt)
• Third place: France (Captain Vincent Lafon, Paris; Antony Lee, Les Ulis; Thibaut Decazes, Versailles)

2005

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Dates: July 11–14

• First place: United States (Captain Andrew Wojtanik, Overland Park, Kansas; Jesse Weinberg, Coral Gables, Florida; Karan Takhar, North Attleboro, Massachusetts)
• Second place: Russia (Captain Ivan Prokhorov, Murmansk; Vera Efremova, Sterlitamak; Renat Temirgaleev, Orenburg)
• Third place: Canada (Captain Daniel Siracusa, Burnaby, BC; Nathan Friedman, Kamloops, BC; John Yao, Toronto, Ontario).

2007

Location: San Diego, California, USA

Dates: August 5–10

• First place: Mexico (Captain Angel Aliseda Alonso, Guadalajara; Carlos Franco Ruiz, Zapotlan de Juarez; Emanuel Johansen Campos, Tejalpa)
• Second place: United States (Captain Matthew Vengalil, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan; Neeraj Sirdeshmukh, Nashua, New Hampshire; Kelsey Schilperoort, Prescott, Arizona)
• Third place: Canada (Captain Jonathan Whyte, Toronto, Ontario; Marky Freeman, Thornhill, Ontario; Maxim Ralchenko, Ottawa)

2009

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Dates: July 9–16

• First place: Canada (Chris Chiavatti, British Columbia; Peter Brandt, Manitoba; Graham Tompkins, Nova Scotia.)
• Second place: United States (Kenji Golimlim, Southgate, Michigan; Milan Sandhu, Bedford, New Hampshire; Eric Yang, The Colony, Texas.)
• Third place: Poland (Piotr Byrski, Łodygowice, Ślaskie; Wojciech Kaczmarczyk, Racibórz, Ślaskie; Gabriel Stachura, Lublin, Lubelskie.)

2011

Location: San Francisco, United States

Dates: July 23–28

• First place: Russia (Egor Shustov, Slyudyanka, Irkutsk State; Masha Samoletova, Saint-Petersburg; Alexandr Bondarchuk, Saint-Petersburg.)
• Second place: Canada (Alejandro Torres-Lopez, North Vancouver, British Columbia; Aoife M. O`Leary, Surrey, British Columbia; Alexander E.Cohen, Ottawa, Ontario.)
• Third place: Taiwan (Chen-Luo Cheng, Taipei; Po-Chen Chu, Taitung; Tong-Hong Hsu, Banqiao district,New Taipei City)