2nd Prize: Sachiko Nakajima (Japan) 3rd Prize: Yumi Mohri (Japan) 4th Prize: Edward Zienkowski (Poland) 5th Prize: Alexey Bruni (USSR) 6th Prize: Ola Rudner (Sweden) XXV Edition - 1978 1st Prize: Eugen Sârbu (Romania) 2nd Prize : Karen Eley (US) and Piotr Milewski (Poland) 4th Prize: Takashi Shimitzu (Japan) 5th Prize: Berthilde Dufour (France) 6th Prize: Daniel Stabrawa (Poland) XXVI Edition - 1979 1st Prize: Florin Paul (Romania) 2nd Prize: Yuriko Naganuma (Japan) 3rd Prize: Alexis Galpérine (France) 4th Prize: Mariko Senju (Japan) 5th Prize: Rodolfo Bonucci (Italy) XXVII Edition - 1980 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize: Niculae Tudor (Romania) 3rd Prize: Sonig Tchakerian (Italy) 4th Prize: Eduard Wulfson (USSR) 5th Prize: Mitsuko Ishii (Japan) 6th Prize : Daniel Stabrawa (Poland) and Walter Bertrand (France) XXVIII Edition - 1981 1st Prize: Ilja Kaler (USSR) 2nd Prize: Leonid Sorokov (USSR) 3rd Prize: Frank Almond (US) 4th Prize: Kuniko Nagata (Japan) 5th Prize: Mircea Călin (Romania) 6th Prize: Francine Trachier (France) XXIX Edition - 1982 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize : Alexander Markov (US) and Boris Garlitsky (USSR) 3rd Prize: Sonoko Numata (Japan) 4th Prize : Philippe Djokic (France-US), Maxim Fedotov (USSR) and Hiroko Suzuki (Japan) XXX Edition - 1983 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize: Laurent Korcia (France) 3rd Prize: Sung-Sic Yang (Korea) 4th Prize: Reiko Watanabe (Japan) 5th Prize: Boris Schmitz (Germany) 6th Prize: Soon-Ik Lee (Korea) and Kazimierz Olechowski (Poland) XXXI Edition - 1984 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize: Vadim Brodski (USSR) 3rd Prize: Reiko Watanabe (Japan) 4th Prize: Elisa Kawaguti (Japan) 5th Prize: Stéphane Tran Ngoc (France) XXXII Edition - 1985 1st Prize: Dmitri Berlinsky (USSR) 2nd Prize: Mark Moghilevski (USSR) 3rd Prize: Gabriel Croitoru (Romania) 4th Prize : Anguelina Abadjieva (Bulgaria) and Anton Kholodenko (USSR) 6th Prize: Thomas Böttcher (East Germany) XXXIII Edition - 1986 1st Prize: not assigned 2nd Prize: Reiko Watanabe (Japan) 3rd Prize: Yuri Braginski (Belgium) 4th Prize: Andreas Krecher (Germany) 5th Prize: Akiko Ueda (Japan) 6th Prize: Jeanne-Marie Conquer (France) XXXIV Edition - 1987 1st Prize: Lu Siqing (China) 2nd Prize: Pavel Berman (USSR) 3rd Prize: Alexei Koshvanets (USSR) 4th Prize : Adam Taubic (Poland) and Vincenzo Bolognese (Italy) 6th Prize: Viktor Kuznetsov (USSR) XXXV Edition - 1988 1st Prize: Leonidas Kavakos (Greece) 2nd Prize: Akiko Suwanai (Japan) 3rd Prize: Eijin Nimura (Japan) 4th Prize: Gabriele Pieranunzi (Italy) 5th Prize: Pavel Pekarsky (US) 6th Prize: Ara Malikian (Lebanon/Spain) XXXVI Edition