The third World Games were held in 1989 in Karlsruhe, then part of West Germany.
1981 · Santa Clara | 1985 · London | 1989 · Karlsruhe | 1993 · The Hague | 1997 · Lahti | 2001 · Akita | 2005 · Duisburg | 2009 · Kaohsiung | 2013 · Duisburg and Düsseldorf