World University Baseball Championship

World University Baseball Championship

Sport	Baseball
Founded	2002
No. of teams	8 (in 2010)
Continent	International
Most recent champion(s)	Cuba (in 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 sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), which was first held in 2002 in Italy. It is one of several tournaments considered by the IBAF to be considered a minor world championship, and as such the results of the tournaments have an impact on the IBAF World Rankings.^[1]

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	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 insufficient amount of teams participated.[3]
2016 Details	Raleigh-Durham

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	Chinese Taipei(Taiwan)^1	0	1	1	2
5	South Korea	0	0	1	1

¹ Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, due to complicated relations with People's Republic of China, is recognized by the name Chinese Taipei by most of the international organizations. For more information, please see Cross-Strait relations.

See also

• Baseball awards#World
• Baseball at the Summer Universiade

References

1. "IBAF World Ranking Notes". IBAF. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 3, 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
2. 5th World University Baseball Championship
3. Cancellation 2012 World University Baseball Championship