World University Baseball Championship
The World University Baseball Championship is an under-23 international college baseball competition sponsored by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and was first held in 2002 in Italy. Until 2013, it was sanctioned by the then-International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and was one of several tournaments considered by the IBAF to be a minor world championship, and as such the results of the tournaments affected the IBAF World Rankings.[1] For its men's world rankings, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) -- successor to the IBAF—now uses the results of WBSC's biennial 23U Baseball World Cup (instead of the World University Championship).
Current season, competition or edition: 2018 | |
Sport | Baseball |
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Founded | 2002 |
No. of teams | 8 (in 2018) |
Continent | International |
Most recent champion(s) | Japan (2018) |
Most titles | United States (3 titles) |
History
editThe fifth World University Baseball Championship was held from July 29 to August 8, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan and was organized by the All Japan University Baseball Federation.[2]
Results
editYear | Final Host | Medalists | |||
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Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
2002 Details |
Messina |
Cuba |
United States |
Japan | |
2004 Details |
Tainan City |
United States |
Japan |
South Korea | |
2006 Details |
Havana |
United States |
Chinese Taipei |
Cuba | |
2008 Details |
Brno |
United States |
Japan |
Chinese Taipei | |
2010 Details |
Tokyo |
Cuba |
United States |
Japan | |
2012 |
Taoyuan |
FISU cancelled the tournament due to an insufficient number of teams participating.[3] | |||
2018 Details |
Chiayi |
Japan |
Chinese Taipei |
South Korea |
Medal table
editRank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
2 | Cuba | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
3 | Japan | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
5 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Totals (5 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "IBAF World Ranking Notes" (PDF). IBAF. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
- ^ "International university sports federation - summer winter universiades". www.fisu.net. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
- ^ "Cancellation 2012 World University Baseball Championship". Retrieved 2016-08-16.