| 2020 | Steven Gardiner (43sec 85) | Anthony Zambrano (44sec 8) | Kirani James (44sec 19) |
| 2016 | Wayde van Niekerk (43sec 3) | Kirani James (43sec 76) | LaShawn Merritt (43sec 85) |
| 2012 | Kirani James (43sec 94) | Luguelín Santos (44sec 46) | Lalonde Gordon (44sec 52) |
| 2008 | LaShawn Merritt (43sec 75) | Jeremy Wariner (44sec 74) | David Neville (44sec 80) |
| 2004 | Jeremy Wariner (44sec 0) | Otis Harris (44sec 16) | Derrick Brew (44sec 42) |
| 2000 | Michael Johnson (43sec 84) | Alvin Harrison (44sec 40) | Gregory Haughton (44sec 70) |
| 1996 | Michael Johnson (43sec 49) | Roger Black (44sec 41) | Davis Kamoga (44sec 53) |
| 1992 | Quincy Watts (43sec 50) | Steve Lewis (44sec 21) | Samson Kitur (44sec 24) |
| 1988 | Steve Lewis (43sec 87) | Harry Butch Reynolds (43sec 93) | Danny Everett (44sec 9) |
| 1984 | Alonzo Babers (44sec 27) | Gabriel Tiacoh (44sec 54) | Antonio McKay (44sec 71) |
| 1980 | Viktor Markin (44sec 60) | Rick Mitchell (44sec 84) | Frank Schaffer (44sec 87) |
| 1976 | Alberto Juantorena (44sec 26) | Fred Newhouse (44sec 40) | Herman Frazier (44sec 95) |
| 1972 | Vince Matthews (44sec 66) | Wayne Collett (44sec 80) | Julius Sang (44sec 92) |
| 1968 | Lee Evans (43sec 8) | Larry James (43sec 9) | Ron Freeman (44sec 4) |
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| 1964 | Michael Larrabee (45sec 1) | Wendell Mottley (45sec 2) | Andrzej Badeński (45sec 6) |
| 1960 | Otis Davis (44sec 9) | Carl Kaufmann (44sec 9) | Malcolm Spence (45sec 5) |
| 1956 | Charlie Jenkins (46sec 7) | Karl-Friedrich Haas (46sec 8) | Voitto Hellsten et Ardalion Ignatyev (47sec 0) |
| 1952 | George Rhoden (45sec 9) | Herb McKenley (45sec 9) | Ollie Matson (46sec 8) |
| 1948 | Arthur Wint (46sec 2) | Herb McKenley (46sec 4) | Mal Whitfield (46sec 9) |
| 1936 | Archie Williams (46sec 5) | Godfrey Brown (46sec 7) | James LuValle (46sec 8) |
| 1932 | Bill Carr (46sec 2) | Benjamin Eastman (46sec 4) | Alex Wilson (47sec 4) |
| 1928 | Ray Barbuti (47sec 8) | James Ball (48sec 0) | Joachim Büchner (48sec 2) |
| 1924 | Eric Liddell (47sec 6) | Horatio Fitch (48sec 4) | Guy Butler (48sec 6) |
| 1920 | Bevil Rudd (49sec 2) | Guy Butler (49sec 6) | Nils Engdahl (50sec 0) |
| 1912 | Charles Reidpath (48sec 2) | Hanns Braun (48sec 3) | Ed Lindberg (48sec 4) |
| 1908 | Wyndham Halswelle (50sec 0) | Non attribuée (sec ) | Non attribuée (sec ) |
| 1904 | Harry Hillman (49sec 2) | Frank Waller (49sec 8) | Herman Groman (50sec 0) |
| 1900 | Maxey Long (49sec 4) | William Holland (49sec 9) | Ernst Schultz (51sec 5) |
| 1896 | Thomas Burke (54sec 2) | Herbert Jamison (54sec 6) | Charles Gmelin (56sec 6) |