Editing Gomoku (section)

==World championships==
[[World Gomoku Championships]] have occurred 2 times in 1989, 1991.<ref name=":5">{{cite web|title=The Renju International Federation portal - RenjuNet|url=https://www.renju.net/gwc/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722164635/http://www.renju.net/media/gwc.php|archive-date=2021-07-22|access-date=2012-10-03|publisher=Renju.net}}</ref>
Since 2009 tournament play has resumed, with the opening rule changed to swap2.<ref name=":3" />

List of the tournaments occurred and title holders follows.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ World Championship
|-
!Title year
!Hosting city, country
!Gold
!Silver
!Bronze
!Opening rule
|-
|1989
|{{flagdeco|Japan}} [[Kyoto]], [[Japan]]
|{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[:ru:Чернов, Сергей Станиславович|Sergey Chernov]]
|{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[:ru:Таранников, Юрий Валерьевич|Yuriy Tarannikov]]
|{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Hirouji Sakamoto]]
|Pro
|-
|1991
|{{flagdeco|Soviet Union}} [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]]
|{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[:ru:Таранников, Юрий Валерьевич|Yuriy Tarannikov]]
|{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[Ando Meritee]]
|{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[:ru:Чернов, Сергей Станиславович|Sergey Chernov]]
|Pro
|-
|2009
|{{flagdeco|Czech Republic}} [[Pardubice]], [[Czech Republic]]
|{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Artur Tamioła]]
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Attila Demján]]
|{{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Pavel Laube]]
|Swap2
|-
|2011
|{{flagdeco|Sweden}} [[Huskvarna]], [[Sweden]]
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Attila Demján]]
|{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Artur Tamioła]]
|{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Michał Żukowski]]
|Swap2
|-
|2013
|{{flagdeco|Estonia}} [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]]
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Attila Demján]]
|{{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Pavel Laube]]
|{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Mikhail Kozhin]]
|Swap2
|-
|2015
|{{flagdeco|Russia}} [[Suzdal]], [[Russia]]
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Rudolf Dupszki]]
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Gergő Tóth]]
|{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Mikhail Kozhin]]
|Swap2
|-
|2017
|{{flagdeco|Czech Republic}} [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]]
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Zoltán László]]
|{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Rudolf Dupszki]]
|{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Denis Osipov (gomoku player)|Denis Osipov]]
|Swap2
|-
|2019
|{{flagdeco|Estonia}} [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]]
|{{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Martin Muzika]]
|{{flagicon|Ukraine}} [[Oleg Bulatowsky]]
|{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Michał Żukowski]]
|Swap2
|-
|2023
|{{flagdeco|Hungary}} [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]
|{{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Pavel Laube]]
|{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Adrian Fitzermann]]
|{{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Martin Muzika]]
|Swap2
|}
{| class="wikitable" <
|+ Team World Championship
|-
!Title year
!Hosting city, country
!Gold
!Silver
!Bronze
!Opening rule
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|2016
|{{flagdeco|Estonia}} [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]]
|{{flag|Poland}} <br /> Michał Żukowski <br /> Michał Zajk <br /> Łukasz Majksner <br /> Piotr Małowiejski
|{{flag|Czech Republic}} <br /> Pavel Laube <br /> Igor Eged <br /> Štěpán Tesařík <br /> Marek Hanzl
|{{flag|Chinese Taipei}} <br /> Lu Wei-Yuan <br /> Chen Ko-Han <br /> Chang Yi-Feng <br /> Sung Pei-Jung
|Swap2
|-
|2018
|{{flagdeco|Poland}} [[Płock]], [[Poland]]
|{{flag|Russia}}-1 <br /> Edvard Rizvanov <br /> Denis Osipov <br /> Ilya Muratov <br /> Maksim Karasev <br /> Mikhail Kozhin
|{{flag|Hungary}} <br /> Zoltán László <br />  Gergő Tóth <br />  Márk Horváth <br /> Gábor Gyenes <br />  Attila Hegedűs
|{{flag|Poland}} <br /> Łukasz Majksner <br /> Michał Żukowski <br /> Michał Zajk <br /> Marek Gorzecki <br /> Paweł Tarasiński
|Swap2
|-
|2020
| colspan="5" |
{|align="center"
|Cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
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|}
|}