2016 World Coffee Championships

Dublin, Ireland

Shanghai, China

Dubai, UAE

The World Coffee Championships are organized and managed by World Coffee Events, a premiere organization founded by the SCAA and the SCAE. Billed as The Coffee Event of the Year, there are several world class competitions hosted over the three days it is held.

World Barista Championships

  1. Berg Wu of Taiwan
  2. Yoshikazu Iwase of Japan
  3. Ben Put of Canada

World Latte Art Championship

  1. UMPAUL, Independent, SOUTH KOREA
  2. QI LI, Mellower Coffee, CHINA
  3. MINAKO YOSHIZUMI, Dean & Deluca Japan, JAPAN

World Brewers Cup

  1. Tetsu Kasuya of Japan
  2. Mikaela Wallgren of Finland
  3. Chad Wang of Taiwan

World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship

  1. MICHALIS DIMITRAKOPOULOS, The Underdog, GREECE
  2. MARTIN HUDAK, American Bar at The Savoy Hotel London, SLOVAKIA
  3. BERG WU, Simple Kaffa, TAIWAN

World Cup Tasters Championship

  1. JUAN GABRIEL CESPEDES, COSTA RICA
  2. DONGHO LEE, SOUTH KOREA
  3. MATEUSZ PETLINSKI, GERMANY

World Coffee Roasting Championship

  1. ALEXANDRU NICOLAIE, ROMANIA
  2. DMITRII BORODAI, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
  3. MATTHEW ROBLEY-SIMEONSMA, UNITED KINGDOM

Ibrik/Cezve Championship

  1. Konstantinos Komninakis of Greece
  2. Hazal Atesoglu of Turkey
  3. Karthikeyan Rajendran of the United Arab Emirates