Every Alone Winner in Order: The Complete List

Spoiler note: this post names every Alone winner, including their final day counts.

I keep the placement and days-lasted numbers for every season in our season guides, so here is the whole roll of champions in one place, ordered by show and season. It covers the flagship US show through season 12, all three completed Alone Australia seasons, and the Frozen spin-off. Season 13, the World Championship, is still airing as I write this, so it has no winner yet and is left off the table below.

The complete winners table

Days lasted and prize come straight from each season's normalized record. Locations are shortened here; the full regional detail lives on each season page.

Show / Season	Winner	Days	Location	Prize
US 1	Alan Kay	56	Vancouver Island, BC	$500,000
US 2	David McIntyre	66	Vancouver Island, BC	$500,000
US 3	Zachary Fowler	87	Patagonia, Argentina	$500,000
US 4	Jim Baird and Ted Baird	75	Vancouver Island, BC	$500,000 (split)
US 5	Sam Larson	60	Selenge, Mongolia	$500,000
US 6	Jordan Jonas	77	Great Slave Lake, NWT	$500,000
US 7	Roland Welker	100	Great Slave Lake, NWT	$1,000,000
US 8	Clay Hayes	74	Chilko Lake, BC	$500,000
US 9	Juan Pablo Quiñonez	78	Labrador, Canada	$500,000
US 10	Alan Tenta	66	Reindeer Lake, SK	$500,000
US 11	William Larkham Jr.	84	Mackenzie Delta, NWT	$500,000
US 12	Nathan Olsen	34	Great Karoo, South Africa	$500,000
AUS 1	Gina Chick	67	Tasmania	$250,000 AUD
AUS 2	Krzysztof Wojtkowski	64	Fiordland, New Zealand	$250,000 AUD
AUS 3	Shay Williamson	76	Tasmania	$250,000 AUD
Frozen	Woniya Thibeault	50	Labrador, Canada	$500,000

The two entries that need an asterisk

The season 4 line counts as one winning result but names two people, and that is not a data glitch. Season 4 ("Lost & Found") was a team format that paired contestants as siblings, parents and children, or spouses. Brothers Jim Baird and Ted Baird both finished with placement 1 at 75 days and split the standard $500,000 as a team, the only time the flagship show has produced co-winners.

The Frozen spin-off ran on a different logic again. Instead of last-person-standing, its $500,000 was structured to be divided among everyone who reached a fixed 50-day cap. Woniya Thibeault was the only one of six returnees to get there, so she took the whole amount and became the first woman to win any version of Alone. I break that format down further in our piece on Frozen versus the main show.

What the numbers show

The winning day counts cluster tighter than you might expect: most US champions land between the mid-50s and high-80s, with two clear outliers at either end. Roland Welker's 100 days on season 7 is the longest, but it came under a one-off format that swapped last-standing for a fixed 100-day goal and doubled the prize to a million dollars. At the other end, Nathan Olsen won season 12 in the semi-arid Great Karoo in just 34 days, the shortest winning run on record, because the field around him thinned out unusually fast in that dry, low-food environment.

For the prize structures behind each of these numbers, our prize money breakdown has the full detail, and for the record-holders across all seasons, see the records of Alone. The always-current champion roster lives on our winners page.