Australian beef and Wagyu steak have earned top honours at the World Steak Challenge year after year since 2023. This page brings together the complete results, the judging process and what the record means for Australian beef.
For years, Australian beef has set the benchmark at the World Steak Challenge. This page brings together the results from 2023 onwards, creating a clear record of Australian beef’s performance at one of the world’s most respected international steak competitions. The event, started in 2015, has been a standout for chefs and meat lovers alike.
Updated annually and focused on recent years, this article captures each year’s headline results in full, with the most recent year appearing first. Since 2023, Australian producers have secured the competition’s highest honours consistently, with Jack’s Creek earning consecutive World’s Best Steak titles and Australian producers leading the medal tables across multiple categories.
For more on why Australian beef and Wagyu steak perform so strongly at competitions like these, read our companion article: The World’s Best Steak Is Australian.
Year |
Headline Result |
| 2025 | Australian producers won 25 Gold Medals, including 14 of the 24 Gold Medals in the Wagyu category. |
| 2024 | Jack’s Creek Purebred Wagyu Sirloin named World’s Best Steak for the second consecutive year. |
| 2023 | Jack’s Creek Grain-fed Australian Cross Breed Wagyu Sirloin crowned World’s Best Steak. |
Australian beef once again dominated the World Steak Challenge in 2025, delivering one of the strongest collective performances in the competition’s history.
Across the full competition, Australian producers collected 25 Gold Medals. In the Wagyu category alone, Australian entries claimed 14 of the 24 Gold Medals available. That result shows the strength of Australia’s premium beef industry across multiple cuts, categories and producers, rather than the success of a single standout Wagyu beef sirloin entry.
The World Steak Challenge brings together leading producers from countries including Japan, Ireland, Spain, New Zealand and Australia. Every steak is assessed blind by an independent panel of judges, making the competition one of the most rigorous and respected in the industry. Because Australia’s 2025 result was achieved across multiple producers and entries, rather than through one standout cut, it offers a clear measure of the consistency behind Australian beef production.
Australian success in 2025 was built on the qualities that independent judges consistently reward: exceptional marbling, outstanding tenderness, rich flavour, consistent eating quality and strong provenance credentials. These qualities are not delivered by one farm in one season. They are the result of decades of investment in breeding programmes, feeding systems, quality assurance and production standards across the Australian beef industry.
The 2025 results also reinforced the maturity of Australia’s Wagyu steak sector specifically. From the earliest Australian Wagyu breeding programmes in the 1990s to the world-leading producers competing today, the industry has developed the expertise and infrastructure to compete with the most established beef-producing nations year after year.
The 2024 World Steak Challenge saw Jack’s Creek further strengthen Australia’s position on the international stage, with its Purebred Wagyu Beef Sirloin crowned World’s Best Steak for the second consecutive year.
It was the fourth time in ten years that the family-owned Australian producer had claimed the competition’s highest honour, a record that speaks to the consistency and quality of its beef across different competition years and judging panels. The awards were held at Smith & Wollensky Steakhouse in London.
Jack’s Creek had an exceptional competition overall, collecting 17 medals in total, including 10 Gold Medals across Fillet, Ribeye and Sirloin categories from Grain-fed Wagyu, Wagyu Cross and Black Angus entries. The producer also secured additional Silver and Bronze medals across further categories, demonstrating that its performance extended well beyond a single winning cut.
Across the whole competition, Australian producers won 21 Gold Medals, more than any other country represented at the event.
Attendees at the event expressed their delight:
“We are incredibly proud to be recognised once again among the top contenders at the World Steak Challenge. These prestigious accolades are a testament to our unwavering commitment to producing exceptional beef and delivering unparalleled quality on the international stage. We are honoured to represent Jack’s Creek here in London, alongside one of our long-standing European distributors, Albers Foods.”
Kaine Allan, UK and EU Head of Sales, Jack’s Creek
“Jack’s Creek’s consecutive World’s Best Steak title is a remarkable accomplishment, and having experienced the quality of their products first-hand, it comes as no surprise. They are a true frontrunner in the production of high-end red meat products, consistently ranking among the world’s finest. Their four World’s Best Steak titles speak volumes about the unwavering commitment to quality that characterises both Jack’s Creek and the broader Australian beef industry.”
Stephen Edwards, UK Business Manager, Meat & Livestock Australia
“These awards are a culmination of decades of hard work and unwavering passion that fuel Jack’s Creek’s operations. Since the 1980s, our family has been dedicated to raising premium Black Angus cattle. In the 1990s, we embarked on a journey to further elevate the quality of our beef by introducing Tajima Wagyu sires into our breeding programme. This rich history, coupled with our relentless pursuit of improvement, has positioned us at the forefront of the global beef industry.”
Patrick Warmoll, Managing Director, Jack’s Creek
Australia’s winning run at the World Steak Challenge began in 2015, where Jack’s Creek won the inaugural event. The Jack’s Creek Grain-fed Australian Cross Breed Wagyu Sirloin was named World’s Best Steak at the London awards ceremony.
The same entry also received the titles of World’s Best Grain-fed Steak and Oceania’s Best Steak for 2023, achieving the highest scores across appearance, aroma, tenderness, flavour, consistency and marbling. It was a result that established Australian Wagyu beef sirloin as the benchmark for premium grain-fed beef on the international stage and laid the foundation for the success that followed in subsequent years.
The 2023 competition was judged at Vlees & Co steakhouse in Amsterdam, with an independent panel that included Richie Wilson, culinary director of FIRE Steakhouse & Bar; Ioannis Grammenos, executive chef and meatologist at Heliot Steak House in London; Paul Foster, chef-patron of Michelin-starred Salt in Stratford; Abdulrahman Alswailem, chef owner of Marble in Riyadh; and Katie Doherty, CEO at the International Meat Trade Association.
The breadth and calibre of the judging panel underlined the credibility of the result. These were not promotional awards decided by popular vote, but independent assessments by some of the most knowledgeable meat professionals in the world.
“This award-winning, world-beating beef sirloin is exactly the kind of product we hope to be showcasing to chefs and food service professionals here in the UK. Our Aussie Beef & Lamb brand stands for quality assurance, sustainable practices, the highest food safety, and animal welfare standards. We’re proud to add the Aussie Beef & Lamb stamp of approval to partners like Jack’s Creek who are consistently producing some of the best steaks in the world.”
Stephen Edwards, UK Business Manager, Aussie Beef & Lamb
The World Steak Challenge is one of the most rigorous independent competitions for premium beef, drawing entries from major beef-producing nations and assessing them against a consistent set of technical and sensory criteria.
Unlike consumer polls or industry popularity awards, every steak is judged blind. Producers are assessed solely on the quality of the beef in front of the judges, with no branding, country of origin or producer reputation influencing the scores.
Judging panels typically include experienced chefs, butchers, restaurateurs, food journalists and meat industry specialists. Each judge brings significant professional expertise to the evaluation process, and panels are selected to reflect a range of perspectives and backgrounds.
Every entry undergoes detailed assessment against a structured set of criteria, covering:
After initial scoring, the highest-performing entries are assessed by an independent verification panel, which confirms category winners and the overall World’s Best Steak before results are announced.
Crucially, the competition rewards consistency as much as individual excellence. Producers cannot rely on a single exceptional cut to win. They must demonstrate the ability to deliver outstanding beef across multiple entries, which is precisely where Australia’s production systems and quality assurance frameworks provide a structural advantage.
Winning one international competition is a significant achievement. Winning consistently, across multiple years, multiple producers and multiple categories of Wagyu steak and premium beef, is a different order of result entirely.
Australia’s continued performance at the World Steak Challenge provides independent, verifiable evidence that the country’s beef industry delivers outstanding quality with consistency. For chefs, retailers and consumers choosing between premium beef options, these results offer proof assessed by independent experts with no stake in the outcome.
To understand what sits behind these results, from breeding and feeding systems to quality assurance, traceability and farming standards, read Coast to Coast: Why Australia's Vast Landscape Produces the Best Beef and Lamb.
Where to Buy Australian Wagyu Steak and Premium Australian Beef
If you would like to try award-winning Australian Wagyu steak for yourself, Australian beef and Wagyu cuts are available from selected retailers, butchers and foodservice suppliers across the UK.
Visit our Where to Buy page to find your nearest stockist.
