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'''[[Softball]]''' was introduced as a [[World Games]] sport at the [[World Games 1981|1981 World Games]] in [[Santa Clara, California|Santa Clara]] and discontinued after the [[World Games 1985|1985]] games in [[London]]. It was reintroduced as a women's [[Demonstration sport|invitational sport]] in [[World Games 2009|2009]] in [[Kaohsiung]] after it had been removed from the [[Softball at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games programme]], and from [[2022 World Games|2022]] it was again part of the official programme.

==Medalists==
===Men===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Games}}
|-
|[[Softball at the 1981 World Games|1981 Santa Clara]]
|{{flagteam|USA}}
|{{flagteam|USA}}
|{{flagteam|CAN}}
|}

===Women===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Games}}
|-
|[[Softball at the 1981 World Games|1981 Santa Clara]]
|{{flagteam|USA}}
|{{flagteam|CAN}}
|{{flagteam|BAH}}
|-
|[[Softball at the 1985 World Games|1985 London]]
|{{flagteam|USA}}
|{{flagteam|TPE}}
|{{flagteam|NED}}
|-style="background:#BEBEBE"
|[[Softball at the 2009 World Games|2009 Kaohsiung]]
|{{flagteam|JPN}}
|{{flagteam|TPE}}
|{{flagteam|KOR}}
|-style="background:#BEBEBE"
|[[Softball at the 2013 World Games|2013 Cali]]
|{{flagteam|CUB}}
|{{flagteam|VEN}}
|{{flagteam|COL}}
|-
|[[Softball at the 2022 World Games|2022 Birmingham]]
|{{flagteam|USA}}
|{{flagteam|JPN}}
|{{flagteam|TPE}}
|}

==See also==
* [[Softball at the Summer Olympics]] women's competitions were held in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2020. 
* [[Women's Softball World Cup]]

==References==
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{{World Games Sports}}
{{International softball}}

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