Wimbledon: Champions
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Wimbledon Champions

Every name on the honours boards since the Open Era began in 1968 — and the stories in the numbers. Not a list to read, a record to play with: pick any year and meet its two champions, or map a century of grass-court titles by nation.

58
Open-Era editions, each with two singles crowns
8
most men’s titles — Roger Federer
9
most women’s titles — Martina Navratilova
18
nations have produced a singles champion
16
years old — the age of the youngest champion, Martina Hingis (1997)
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years since a British champion (2016)

Pick any year

Who won each year?

The whole roll, one year at a time — slide, or step with the arrows, to any Open-Era year and meet its two champions. 2020 is missing because the Championships were not played.

2026

A global game

Champions by nation

BulgariaMyanmarBurundiBelarusCambodiaCameroonCanadaCentral African Rep.Sri LankaChadChileChinaTaiwanColombiaCongoDem. Rep. CongoCosta RicaCroatiaCubaCyprusCzechiaBeninDenmarkDominican Rep.EcuadorEl SalvadorEq. GuineaEthiopiaEritreaEstoniaFalkland Is.FijiFinlandFranceDjiboutiGabonGeorgiaGambiaPalestineGermanyGhanaGreeceGreenlandGuatemalaGuineaGuyanaHaitiHondurasHungaryIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIranIraqIrelandIsraelItalyCôte d'IvoireJamaicaJapanKazakhstanJordanKenyaNorth KoreaSouth KoreaKuwaitKyrgyzstanLaosLebanonLesothoLatviaLiberiaLibyaLithuaniaLuxembourgMadagascarMalawiMalaysiaMaliMauritaniaMexicoMongoliaMoldovaMontenegroMoroccoMozambiqueOmanNamibiaNepalNetherlandsNew CaledoniaVanuatuNew ZealandNicaraguaNigerNigeriaNorwayPakistanPanamaPapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalGuinea-BissauTimor-LestePuerto RicoQatarRomaniaRussiaRwandaSaudi ArabiaSenegalSerbiaSierra LeoneSlovakiaVietnamSloveniaSomaliaSouth AfricaZimbabweSpainS. SudanSudanW. SaharaSurinameeSwatiniSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTajikistanThailandTogoTrinidad and TobagoUnited Arab EmiratesTunisiaTurkeyTurkmenistanUgandaUkraineMacedoniaEgyptUnited KingdomTanzaniaUnited States of AmericaBurkina FasoUruguayUzbekistanVenezuelaYemenZambiaArgentinaBahamasBrazilBoliviaBelizeBotswanaAngolaAlgeriaBangladeshBhutanAfghanistanArmeniaAustriaAlbaniaBelgiumSolomon Is.AustraliaAzerbaijanBruneiKosovoBosnia and Herz.

Historical nations are shaded on their present-day territory: West Germany on Germany — Boris Becker’s three titles and Steffi Graf’s first two — and Czechoslovakia (Jan Kodeš, 1973) on Czechia, alongside the Czech champions who followed it.

Teenagers to thirty-somethings

Youngest & oldest

Champions bunch in their twenties, but the record-holders live in the tails.

16
Martina Hingis
youngest champion, 1997
17
Boris Becker
youngest man, 1985
34
Serena Williams
oldest woman, 2016
35
Roger Federer
oldest man, 2017
162024283236Martina Hingis, 16youngest ever, 1997Boris Becker, 17youngest man, 1985Roger Federer, 35oldest man, 2017Serena Williams, 34oldest woman, 2016
Men’s championsWomen’s champions

Grass has crowned teenagers and thirty-somethings alike. Boris Becker was 17 — still the youngest gentlemen’s champion in the tournament’s whole history, not just the Open Era — and Roger Federer’s 2017 win at 35 is the oldest of the Open Era. Ages are at the final.

The good stuff

Records & oddities

The tie-breaks, the wild cards, the droughts, and the year it didn’t happen at all. Flip a card.

The oldest champion
Roger Federer, 2017
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Federer won his eighth title at 35 — the oldest Wimbledon singles champion of the Open Era, and he did it without dropping a set. Serena Williams’ 2016 win at 34 is the women’s mark.
The youngest champion
Boris Becker, 1985
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Becker was 17 years and 227 days — the youngest gentlemen’s champion in the tournament’s entire history, the first unseeded one, and the first German. He lost eight sets and played 292 games getting there.
The longest streak
Martina Navratilova, 6 in a row
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Martina Navratilova won 6 straight Championships — the longest consecutive run of the Open Era. Bjorn Borg and Roger Federer share the men’s best at five, Borg’s the first since the Challenge Round was abolished.
The 34-point tie-break
Borg d. McEnroe, 1980
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The fourth-set tie-break of the 1980 final ran 22 minutes and 34 points; McEnroe took it 18–16, saving championship points. Borg won the fifth set anyway, for his fifth title in a row — and lost to McEnroe here the next year.
The longest final
Djokovic d. Federer, 2019
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Four hours 57 minutes, and the first singles match ever decided by Wimbledon’s new 12–12 final-set tie-break — introduced that year after the Anderson–Isner semi-final, and used in the final itself. Federer had two championship points on his own serve.
The 77-year wait
Perry, 1936 → Murray, 2013
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No British man won the gentlemen’s singles between Fred Perry in 1936 and Andy Murray in 2013. Murray won again in 2016, and the counter at the top of this page has been running since.
The year with no Championships
2020
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Cancelled for the Covid-19 pandemic — the only gap since the war years, and the reason the Open-Era roll runs to 58 editions rather than 59. Wimbledon was the one major carrying pandemic insurance at the time.
The wild card
Goran Ivanišević, 2001
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Ivanišević entered on a wild card and won it at the fourth attempt, having lost the final in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Rain pushed his semi-final across three days and the final itself to a Monday — the People’s Monday, with unreserved tickets.

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