| Year | Place | Lead Organizer | |
| 1976 | Primosten, Croatia | Sinisi Maricic | |
| 1978 | Eberswalde, Germany | Klaus Ruckpaul | |
| 1980 | Saltsjöbaden, Sweden | Jan-Åke Gustafsson | |
| 1982 | Kuopio, Finland | Osmo Hänninen | |
| 1985 | Budapest, Hungary | Laszlo Vereczkey | |
| 1988 | Vienna, Austria | Inge Schuster | |
| 1991 | Moscow, Russia | Alexander Archakov | |
| 1993 | Lisbon, Portugal | Maria C. Lechner | |
| 1995 | Zürich, Switzerland | Wolf Woggon | |
| 1997 | San Francisco, USA | John Dawson | |
| 1999 | Sendai, Japan | Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama & Yuzuru Ishimura | |
| 2001 | La Grande Motte, France | Reinhard Lange | |
| 2003 | Prague, Czech Republic | Pavel Anzenbacher | |
| 2005 | Dallas, USA | Julian Peterson & Sandra Graham | |
| 2007 | Bled, Slovenia | Damjana Rozman | |
| 2009 | Nago, Okinawa, Japan | Hirofumi Shoun | |
| 2011 | Manchester, UK | Andrew Munro | |
| 2013 | Seattle, USA | Allan Rettie & William Atkins | |
| 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | Hiroshi Yamazaki | |
| 2017 | Dusseldorf, Germany | Vlada Urlacher | |
| 2019 | Brisbane, Australia | Elizabeth Gillam & James DeVoss | |
| 2022 | Washington, DC USA | John Hackett | |
| 2023 | Japan | Shingo Nagano & Kouichi Yoshinari | |
