World University Baseball Championship

World University Baseball Championship
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2018
Sport Baseball
Founded 2002
No. of teams 8 (in 2018)
Continent International
Most recent
champion(s)		  Japan (2018)
Most titles  United States (3)

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).

History

The 5th 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

Year Final Host Medalists
Gold Silver Bronze
2002
Details		 Italy
Messina
Cuba
United States
Japan
2004
Details
Tainan City
United States
Japan
South Korea
2006
Details		 Cuba
Havana
United States
Chinese Taipei
Cuba
2008
Details		 Czech Republic
Brno
United States
Japan
Chinese Taipei
2010
Details		 Japan
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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States3205
2 Cuba2013
3 Japan1225
4 Chinese Taipei0213
5 South Korea0022
Totals (5 nations)66618

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IBAF World Ranking Notes". IBAF. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 3, 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  2. ↑ "International university sports federation - summer winter universiades". www.fisu.net. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
  3. ↑ "Cancellation 2012 World University Baseball Championship". Retrieved 2016-08-16.
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