World University Baseball Championship

World University Baseball Championship
Current season, competition or edition: 2018
Sport	Baseball
Founded	2002
No. of teams	8 (in 2010)
Continent	International
Most recent champion(s)	Cuba (2010)
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	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Year	Final Host	Medalists
2002 Details	Messina	Cuba	United States	Japan
2004 Details	Tainan City	United States	Japan	South Korea
2006 Details	Havana	United States	Taiwan	Cuba
2008 Details	Brno	United States	Japan	Taiwan
2010 Details	Tokyo	Cuba	United States	Japan
2012	Taoyuan	FISU cancelled the tournament due to insufficient amount of teams participated.^[3]
2018 Details	Taiwan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	3	2	0	5
2	Cuba	2	0	1	3
3	Japan	0	2	2	4
4	Taiwan	0	1	1	2
5	South Korea	0	0	1	1

References

↑ "IBAF World Ranking Notes". IBAF. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 3, 2009. 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.

External links

FISU Baseball World University Championships

World University Baseball Championship

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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

FISU World University Championships

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