Baseball at the Summer Universiade

Baseball is not a mandatory sport in the Summer Universiade. In 1993, the sport was held at the XVII Summer Universiade in Buffalo, USA, and it was staged two years after at the XVIII Summer Universiade in Fukuoka, Japan. Twenty years later, the sport made a comeback at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea and will played again at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan.

Tournament Results

Year	Host Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1993 Details	Buffalo, USA	Cuba	South Korea	Canada
1995 Details	Fukuoka, Japan	Cuba	South Korea	Japan
2015 Details	Gwangju, South Korea	Japan Chinese Taipei	None	South Korea
2017 Details	Taipei, Chinese Taipei

Sports at the Universiade

Summer Universiades	Archery Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Beach volleyball Belt Wrestling Boxing Canoeing Chess Cycling Diving Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Rowing Rugby sevens Sambo Sailing Shooting Softball Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Winter Universiades	Alpine skiing Biathlon Cross-country skiing Curling Figure skating Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Nordic combined Short track speed skating Skeleton Ski jumping Snowboarding Speed skating

International baseball

WBSC (former governing body: IBAF) World Rankings Teams

WBSC Events	World Baseball Classic WBSC Premier12 U23 World Cup U18 World Cup U15 World Cup U12 World Cup Women's Baseball World Cup

Minor World Events	Grand Forks International Haarlem Baseball Week Summer Universiade World Baseball Challenge World Port Tournament World University

Defunct World Events	Baseball at the Summer Olympics World Games Baseball World Cup Intercontinental Cup Women's Baseball World Series

Africa	African Baseball & Softball Association – All-Africa Games

Americas	Pan American Baseball Confederation – Pan American Games America Cup Caribbean Series Central American and Caribbean Games South American Games

Asia	Baseball Federation of Asia – Asian Championship Asian Games Junior (under 18) Southeast Asian Games SAARC Baseball Championship Asia Series

Europe	Confederation of European Baseball – European Championship European Cup "Final Four" Under-21 Junior (under 18) Youth (under 16) Juveniles (under 12)

Oceania	Baseball Confederation of Oceania – Oceania Championship Pacific Games

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