Year City, host country Champion Opening regulations
1996 St. Petersburg, Russia Russia (Ilyin D., Peskov S., Sinev I., Nikonov K., Kozhin M.) RIF
1998 Yerevan, Armenia The championship was not held, the match took place Armenia – Sweden (8:8) RIF
2000 Tallinn, Estonia Russia-1 (Sinev I., Klimashin A., Sushkov V., Salnikov P., Kozhin M.) RIF
2002 Adstena, Sweden Russia-1 (Salnikov P., Klimashin A., Artemyev S., Skuridin A., Semenov V.) RIF
2004 Tyumen, Russia Russia-1 (Sushkov V., Klimashin A., Chingin K., Nikonov K., Sinev I.) RIF
2006 Tallinn, Estonia Russia-1 (Sushkov V., Chingin K., Artemiev S., Savrasova Yu., Vershinin P.) RIF
2008 Helsinki, Finland Estonia (Taimla T., Oll A., Purk A., Soosyrv A., Lents J.) RIF
2010 Tokyo, Japan China (Li Yi, Cao Dong, Yin Lichen, Xi Zhenyang) Yamaguchi
2012 Beijing, China Japan (Yuki Osumi, Shigeru Nakamura, Takahiro Kudomi, Yamaguchi
2014 Taipei, Taiwan Estonia (Taimla T., Hybemägi M., Soosyrv A., Lents J., Meritee A.) Yamaguchi
2016 Tallinn, Estonia Estonia-1 (Oll A., Taimla T., Hybemägi M., Payuste R., Lents J.) Yamaguchi
2018 St. Petersburg, Russia China (Zhu Jianfeng, Cao Dong, Yang Yanxi, Liu Yang, Lan Zhizhen) Soosyrv-8
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%8E
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