1904 St. Louis Olympics
- Gold: (USA)
- Robert Farnam
- Joseph Ryan
- Silver: (USA)
- John Mulcahy
- William Varley
- Bronze: (USA)
- John Joachim
- Joseph Buerger
1908 London Olympics
- Gold: (GBR)
- John Fenning
- Gordon Thomson
- Silver: (GBR)
- George Fairbairn
- Philip Verdon
- Bronze: (CAN)
- Frederick Toms
- Norwey Jackes
- Bronze: (GER)
- Martin Stahnke
- Willy Düskow
1912 Stockholm Olympics Not a part of Olympic events.
1920 Antwerp Olympics Not a part of Olympic events.
1924 Paris Olympics
- Gold: (NED)
- Teun Beijnen
- Willy Rösingh
- Silver: (FRA)
- Maurice Bouton
- Georges Piot
- Bronze: no 3rd place finisher
1928 Amsterdam Olympics
- Gold: (GER)
- Kurt Moeschter
- Bruno Müller
- Silver: (GBR)
- Terence O'Brien
- Robert Nisbet
- Bronze: (USA)
- Paul McDowell
- John Schmitt
1932 Los Angeles Olympics
- Gold: (GBR)
- Lewis Clive
- Hugh Edwards
- Silver: (NZL)
- Cyril Stiles
- Fred Thompson
- Bronze: (POL)
- Henryk Budziński
- Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak
1936 Berlin Olympics
- Gold: (GER)
- Willi Eichhorn
- Hugo Strauß
- Silver: (DEN)
- Harry Larsen
- Peter Olsen
- Bronze: (ARG)
- Horacio Podestá
- Julio Curatella
1948 London Olympics
- Gold: (USA)
- John Wilson
- Ran Laurie
- Silver: (BEL)
- Hans Kalt
- Josef Kalt
- Bronze: (SUI)
- Felice Fanetti
- Bruno Boni
1952 Helsinki Olympics
- Gold: (USA)
- Charles Logg
- Thomas Price
- Silver: (BEL)
- Michel Knuysen
- Robert Baetens
- Bronze: (SUI)
- Kurt Schmid
- Hans Kalt
1956 Melbourne / Stockholm Olympics
- Gold: (USA)
- James Fifer
- Duvall Hecht
- Silver: (URS)
- Igor Buldakov
- Viktor Ivanov
- Bronze: (AUT)
- Josef Kloimstein
- Alfred Sageder
1960 Rome Olympics
- Gold: (URS)
- Valentin Boreyko
- Oleg Golovanov
- Silver: (AUT)
- Josef Kloimstein
- Alfred Sageder
- Bronze: (FIN)
- Veli Lehtela
- Toimi Pitkanen
1964 Tokyo Olympics
- Gold: (CAN)
- George Hungerford
- Roger Jackson
- Silver: (USA)
- Steven Blaisse
- Ernst Veenemans
- Bronze: (DEN)
- Michael Schwan
- Wolfgang Hottenrott
1968 Mexico Olympics
- Gold: (GDR)
- Jörg Lucke
- Heinz-Jörg Bothe
- Silver: (USA)
- Lawrence Hugh
- Philip Johnson
- Bronze: (DEN)
- Peter Christiansen
- Ivan Larsen
1972 Munich Olympics
- Gold: (GDR)
- Siegfried Brietzke
- Wolfgang Mager
- Silver: (USA)
- Heinrich Fischer
- Alfred Bachmann
- Bronze: (FRG)
- Roel Luynenburg
- Ruud Stokvis
1976 Montreal Olympics
- Gold: (GDR)
- Bernd Landvoigt
- Jörg Landvoigt
- Silver: (USA)
- Calvin Coffey
- Michael Staines
- Bronze: (FRG)
- Peter Vanroye
- Thomas Strauss
1980 Moscow Olympics
- Gold: (GDR)
- Bernd Landvoigt
- Jörg Landvoigt
- Silver:(URS)
- Yury Pimenov
- Nikolay Pimenov
- Bronze: (GBR)
- Charles Wiggin
- Malcolm Carmichael
1984 Los Angeles Olympics
- Gold: (ROU)
- Petru Iosub
- Valer Toma
- Silver: (ESP)
- Fernando Climent
- Luis María Lasúrtegui
- Bronze: (NOR)
- Hans Magnus Grepperud
- Sverre Løken
1988 Seoul Olympics
- Gold: (GBR)
- Andy Holmes
- Steve Redgrave
- Silver: (ROU)
- Danut Dobre
- Dragos Neagu
- Bronze: (YUG)
- Sadik Mujkic
- Bojan Preseren
1992 Barcelona Olympics
- Gold: (GBR)
- Matthew Pinsent
- Steve Redgrave
- Silver: (GER)
- Colin Ettingshausen
- Peter Holtzenbein
- Bronze: (SLO)
- Iztok Cop
- Denis Žvegelj
1996 Atlanta Olympics
- Gold: (GBR)
- Matthew Pinsent
- Steve Redgrave
- Silver: (AUS)
- David Weightman
- Robert Geoffrey Scott
- Bronze: (FRA)
- Michel Andrieux
- Jean Christophe Rolland
2000 Sydney Olympics
- Gold: (FRA)
- Michel Andrieux
- Jean-Christophe Rolland
- Silver: (USA)
- Ted Murphy
- Sebastian Bea
- Bronze: (AUS)
- Matthew Long
- James Tomkins
2004 Athens Olympics
- Gold: (AUS)
- Drew Ginn
- James Tomkins
- Silver: (CRO)
- Sinisa Skelin
- Niksa Skelin
- Bronze: (RSA)
- Donovan Cech
- Ramon di Clemente
