Gold Medalists at World Ultimate (and Guts) Championships

There have been 13 previous World Ultimate (and Guts) Championships. The 2016 World Ultimate Championships over June 18-25 will be played in London.

The United States ultimate teams have dominated; collectively winning 25 gold medals (61%) out of the 41 tournament final matches.

Five (5) different countries have won a gold medal during the last 13 events. The first WUC event occurred in 1983 featuring just men and women divisions while the most recent tournament in 2012 hosted 5 divisions.

• Five countries have won a gold medal — Canada, Finland, Japan, Sweden and the United States.
• United States and Canada are the only countries to have won more than ten (10) gold medals.
• United States is the only country to have won more than twenty (20) gold medals.
• 1983, 1986, 1998, 1990, and 1994 were "sweep" years for the U.S. teams by winning gold in all those year's available competition divisions.
• The United States is the only country to have won the gold medal in all 5 divisions.

Since 1998, WFDF has held 21 championship games across the divisions.

• Canada and USA have won 20 of the last 21 WUGC championship games. 
• Canada has won 10 gold medals since 1998
• USA has won 10 gold medals since 1998
• Japan is the only other country since 1998 to win a gold medal (a 2012 win in the Women's division)

Debut of Divisions at World Ultimate Championships

Men: 1983
Women: 1983
Masters: 1990
Mixed: 1998
Masters Women: 2012