The World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships were a biennial nine-pin bowling competitions organized by the World Ninepin Bowling Association (WNBA NBC). The World Championships was started in 1953 and until 1959 took place every two years. The next one was held in 1962 with the assumption of alternating with the European Championships every two years. In 1966, this concept was abandoned and thereafter the championships were biennial until 2004. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Since 2005, the competition has been divided. Team are held in odd years, while Singles in even years.

The following list shows when new events were added for the first time:

• 1953, singles and team events as first events.
• 1966, pair competitions were added.
• 1990, combination competitions were added.
• 1994, separation of team competition into two divisions A and B.
• 2004, sprint and mixed tandem competitions added. An individual event on a distance of 120 throws for the first time.

List of championships

Edition	Year	City	Country	Date	Events	Top of the medal table	Notes
1st	1953	Belgrade	Yugoslavia	21 - 24 Jun	4	Austria
2nd	1955	Essen	West Germany	30 Aug – 5 Sep	4	East Germany
3rd	1957	Vienna	Austria	9 – 14 Jun	4	Austria
4th	1959	Bautzen	East Germany	22 - 27 Sep	4	East Germany
5th	1962	Bratislava	Czechoslovakia	24 – 29 Sep	4	Czechoslovakia
6th	1966	Bucharest	Romania	19 – 25 Jun	6	Romania	First with pair
7th	1968	Linz	Austria (2)	9 – 15 Jun	6	East Germany
8th	1970	Bolzano	Italy	24 – 30 May	6	Romania
9th	1972	Split	Yugoslavia (2)	27 May – 4 Jun	6	Romania
10th	1974	Eppelheim	West Germany (2)	17 – 23 May	6	Romania
11th	1976	Vienna (2)	Austria (3)	14 - 20 May	6	Yugoslavia
12th	1978	Lucerne	Switzerland	20 - 26 May	6	Romania
13th	1980	Mangalia	Romania (2)	24 - 30 May	6	Romania
14th	1982	Brno	Czechoslovakia (2)	4 - 11 Jun	6	Yugoslavia
15th	1984	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia (3)	27 May - 1 Jun	6	Hungary
16th	1986	Munich	West Germany (3)	18 - 26 May	6	Hungary
17th	1988	Budapest	Hungary	17 - 20 May	6	Yugoslavia
18th	1990	Innsbruck	Austria (4)	20 - 26 May	8	Hungary	First with combination
19th	1992	Bratislava (2)	Czechoslovakia (3)	17 - 23 May	8	Slovenia
20th	1994	Ludwigshafen	Germany	15 - 22 May	10	Czech Republic	First with the division of teams into two groups
21st	1996	Prague	Czech Republic (4)	19 - 25 May	10	Yugoslavia
22nd	1998	Celje	Slovenia	9 - 15 May	10	Germany
23rd	2000	Poznań	Poland	14 - 20 May	8	Germany
24th	2002	Osijek	Croatia	19 - 25 May	8	Germany
25th	2004	Brașov	Romania (3)	15 - 22 May	11	Germany	First with sprint and mixed tandem. Individual on distance 120 throws.
Since 2005 separated into Singles and Team Championships.

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	28	34	23	85
2	Romania	28	26	25	79
3	Yugoslavia	23	20	22	65
4	Germany	21	19	13	53
5	East Germany	13	8	15	36
6	Slovenia	9	5	7	21
7	Czech Republic	9	3	3	15
8	Czechoslovakia	8	8	9	25
9	West Germany	7	14	17	38
10	Serbia and Montenegro	6	6	2	14
11	Austria	5	4	5	14
12	Croatia	4	8	11	23
13	Poland	2	4	1	7
14	Macedonia	2	0	1	3
15	Slovakia	0	5	4	9
16	Italy	0	1	0	1
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	4	4
18	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		165	165	164	494

List of hosts

List of hosts by the number of championships hosted.

Times hosted	Host	Year(s)
5	Germany (including East and West Germany)	1955, 1959, 1974, 1986, 1994
4	Austria	1957, 1968, 1976, 1990
4	Czech Republic (including Czechoslovakia)	1962, 1982, 1992, 1996
3	Romania	1966, 1980, 2004
3	Yugoslavia	1953, 1972, 1984
1	Croatia	2002
1	Hungary	1988
1	Italy	1970
1	Poland	2000
1	Slovenia	1998
1	Switzerland	1978

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