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| YEAR | NSW LIGHTNING CHAMPION |
| 2024 | Bayasgalan Khishigbaatar |
| 2023 | Samuel Asaka |
| 2022 | Gary Lane |
| 2021 | Igor Bjelobrk |
| 2020 | Not Held |
| 2019 | Jason Hu |
| 2018 | Brandon Clarke |
| 2017 | Brandon Clarke |
| 2016 | Anton Smirnov |
| 2015 | Anton Smirnov |
| 2014 | Blair Mandla |
| 2013 | Vladimir Smirnov |
| 2012 | Vladimir Smirnov |
| 2011 | Blair Mandla |
| 2010 | Max Illingworth |
| 2009 | Jason Chan |
| 2008 | Johny Bolens |
| 2007 | George Xie & Max Illingworth |
| 2006 | George Xie |
| 2005 | Zong Yuan Zhao |
| 2004 | Ronald Yu |
| 2003 | George Xie |
| 2002 | George Xie and Ronald Scott |
| 2001 | George Xie and Edgardo Agulto |
| 2000 | Stanislav Berezovski |
| 1999 | Johny Bolens & John Curtis |
| 1998 | Irina Berizina-Feldman |
| 1997 | Ivan Zirdum |
| 1996 | Johny Bolens |
| 1995 | Raul Samar |
| 1994 | Dimitri Gedevanishvili |
| 1993 | Raul Samar |
| 1992 | Dimitri Gedevanishvili |
| 1991 | John Curtis |
| 1990 | Dimitri Gedevanishvili |
| 1989 | Dimitri Gedevanishvili |
| 1988 | John Curtis |
| 1987 | Alfred Flatow |
| 1986 | Maxwell Leonard Fuller |
| 1985 | John Curtis |
| 1984 | Stephen Pickles |
| 1983 | John Curtis |
| 1982 | John Curtis |
| 1981 | John Curtis |
| 1980 | Roy B. Travers |
| 1979 | John Curtis |
| 1978 | John Curtis |
| 1977 | John Curtis |
| 1976 | Nabil Selim |
| 1975 | Nabil Selim |
| 1974 | Alfred Flatow |
| 1973 | Maxwell Leonard Fuller |
| 1972 | Maxwell Leonard Fuller |
| 1971 | Maxwell Leonard Fuller |
| 1970 | Maxwell Leonard Fuller |
| 1969 | Alfred Flatow |
| 1968 | Alfred Flatow |
| 1967 | Maxwell Leonard Fuller |
| 1966 | Gerd Niess |
| 1965 | Gerd Niess |
| 1964 | Alfred Flatow |
| 1963 | Alfred Flatow |
| 1962 | Roger Cook |
| 1961 | I. Langof |
| 1960 | Garry Koshnitsky |
| 1959 | Yaroslav Shewchyk |
| 1958 | Robert Pikler |
| 1957 | Bela Berger |
| 1956 | A. Pinchenko & G. Shmelef |
| 1955 | Robert Pikler |
| 1954 | Karl Madjaric |
| 1953 | I. Langof |
| 1952 | Lajos Steiner |
| 1951 | Gary Koshnitsky |
| 1950 | Gary Koshnitsky |
| 1949 | Robert Pikler |
| 1948 | Lajos Steiner |
| 1947 | Gary Koshnitsky |
| 1946 | Lajos Steiner |