Competitions and rankings
The 18 competitions and guides we follow. Where we have republished a full results table it is linked here; the rest are described and counted, never summarised from memory.
A meta-ranking, not a contest: it totals results from the strictest competitions it tracks over a season.
The largest quality competition by entries — over a thousand oils from some thirty countries each spring.
Four divisions — Quality, Packaging, Health Claim (70% phenolic analysis) and Infused.
Publishes a ranked top hundred with every oil’s score, ties broken by a chemical quality index.
An annual printed guide, not a medal contest: each estate is tasted blind and scored out of 100.
Judged each May in a different Greek olive-growing region.
The oldest of the US competitions, judged in late February at the Los Angeles County Fair grounds.
The largest competition in Asia–Oceania, around eight hundred entries a year.
Results roll out from mid-April; winners are listed on eliteoliveoils.com.
Scores on a 7.00–10.00 decimal scale; also names a Best of Country and a highest-polyphenol oil.
The only competition run by the intergovernmental IOC itself; three places per category rather than unlimited medals.
Certified-organic oils only, since 1996 — the oldest competition on this list.
Successor to Veronafiere’s Leone d’Oro; winners are published in the Stars of the Golden Sun guide.
Three tiers of gold-named awards rather than gold, silver and bronze.
Began in Palermo in 2016 as the Domina IOOC; nominees are announced before the medals.
Sister event of London IOOC, with the same organiser and the same results portal.
Results are announced at the awards ceremony during the competition itself.
South Korea’s first international olive oil competition; categories for monovarietal, blended, organic, infused and PDO/PGI oils.
No competitions match every filter
Competitions are the one external signal on an oil that is not the producer’s own claim, which is why oil pages carry them and why the library links to a full table where we have one. They are also not all the same thing: a medal competition may award hundreds of golds in a year, a points guide scores every entry, and a meta-ranking like WBOO totals results across several contests. The card says which kind each one is.
What we republish: the full table, as published, with a link to our own page for every oil we cover. What we do not do: reorder it, cherry-pick it, or treat a medal as a tasting note.