Tug of war at the World Games

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Tug of war was introduced as a World Games sport at the first World Games in 1981 World Games in Santa Clara. It has been played at all editions since then.

Men[]

-640 kg[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1981 Santa Clara	England	Switzerland (SUI)	Netherlands (NED)
	Ireland (IRL)	Switzerland (SUI)	England
	Switzerland (SUI)	Ireland (IRL)	England
	Switzerland (SUI)	Ireland (IRL)	Spain (ESP)
	Spain (ESP)	Switzerland (SUI)	Ireland (IRL)
	Switzerland (SUI)	Sweden (SWE)	Germany (GER)
2009 Kaohsiung	Switzerland (SUI)	Germany (GER)	Netherlands (NED)
	Switzerland (SUI)	Great Britain (GBR)	Germany (GER)

-680 kg[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Akita	Netherlands (NED)	Switzerland (SUI)	Sweden (SWE)
	Netherlands (NED)	Sweden (SWE)	Ireland (IRL)
2009 Kaohsiung	Netherlands (NED)	Switzerland (SUI)	Great Britain (GBR)

-700 kg[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Netherlands (NED)	Switzerland (SUI)	Sweden (SWE)

-720 kg[]

This is a discontinued event.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1981 Santa Clara	Switzerland (SUI)	Netherlands (NED)	England
	Ireland (IRL)	England	Switzerland (SUI)
	England	Switzerland (SUI)	Ireland (IRL)
	Switzerland (SUI)	Ireland (IRL)	Germany (GER)
	Netherlands (NED)	Sweden (SWE)	Ireland (IRL)

Indoor -600 kg[]

This is a discontinued event.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Akita	England	Scotland	Japan (JPN)

Women[]

Indoor -520 kg[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	Japan (JPN)	Netherlands (NED)
2009 Kaohsiung	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	Netherlands (NED)	Great Britain (GBR)

Indoor -540 kg[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	Netherlands (NED)	South Africa (RSA)
2017 Wroclaw	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	China (CHN)	South Africa (RSA)