U-23 Baseball World Cup
| Most recent season or competition: 2024 U-23 Baseball World Cup | |
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| Formerly | 21U Baseball World Cup (2014) |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| Founded | 2014 |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Continent | International |
| Most recent champion | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan (3rd title) |
| Most titles | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan (3 titles) |
| Official website | 2024 U-23 Baseball World Cup |
The U-23 Baseball World Cup is a biennial, professional-level, National Team, baseball world championship of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), replacing Baseball World Cup.
The inaugural tournament was held in November 2014, in Taichung, Taiwan, as the 21U Baseball World Cup, with each team made of 21-year-old and younger players but allowed for six players to be 23-year-old and younger.[1] Starting with the 2016 edition—in Monterrey, Mexico—the tournament has been expanded to permit nations to select players up to 23 years old for their entire rosters.[2] Players must also possess valid passports of the nations they are representing, in line with Olympic standards. The U-23 Baseball World Cup is the third-most-important international baseball tournament in terms of distribution of world ranking points, following the Premier12 and the World Baseball Classic.
The rosters of national teams that participated in the tournament included professional players from clubs affiliated to the Australian Baseball League, Chinese Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Major League Baseball, Mexican Baseball League, Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, and Nippon Professional Baseball.
Results
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- Notes
- ^ Originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed to September 2021.
Medal table
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chinese Taipei | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 5 | File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (9 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
Participating nations
[edit | edit source]Host country
See also
[edit | edit source]- Baseball awards § World
- Baseball at the Summer World University Games
- World University Baseball Championship
References
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- ^ 2014 U-21 Baseball World Cup
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- ^ 2016 U-23 Baseball World Cup>
- ^ 2018 II U-23 Baseball World Cup
- ^ 2021 III U-23 Baseball World Cup
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External links
[edit | edit source]- U-23 Baseball World Cup Official Website
- IBAF introduces new Format of International Tournaments. IBAF official website
- Hosting rights of 2016 Baseball World Cups awarded to Japan, Mexico, South Korea. IBAF official website
