Women's baseball world championship

The Women's Baseball World Cup is an international baseball tournament hosted by the International Baseball Association (IBAF). It takes place every two years in even-numbered years.

The first women's baseball world championship took place in Edmonton ( Canada ) in August 2004 , the last one in Viera ( USA ) in 2018 .

The record champions are the team from Japan with six titles won.

history

Before the World Cup, there was only one international tournament for women, the Woman's Baseball World Series. This took place for the first time in 2001 after the successful game between the USA and Japan in Tokyo in 2000 and was held annually. Gradually Canada, Australia, Korea, India, South Korea and Chinese Taipei joined the tournament. In 2002 the IBAF decided to hold a world championship for women from 2004. After 2004, the World Series became an all-American affair. The teams that had joined the World Series went over to the World Cup. The number of participating nations fluctuates between five (2004) and twelve (2016).

Attendees

A total of 14 teams registered for the various events, 13 of which actually competed. The teams from Australia, Canada, Japan, Chinese Taipei and the United States have participated in all seven previous events.

Status: after the 2016 World Cup

Explanations :

• The teams from Bulgaria and India were registered for the 2004 Women's World Cup but withdrew before the tournament began.
• The Hong Kong team withdrew after the second game of the 2010 Women's Baseball World Cup after an incident in which a player was injured.

Medalist

So far, six teams have won a medal, two of them gold.

year	Host country	Attendees	gold	silver	bronze
2004	Canada	05	United States	Japan	Canada
2006	Chinese Taipei	07th	United States	Japan	Canada
2008	Japan	08th	Japan	Canada	United States
2010	Venezuela	11	Japan	Australia	United States
2012	Canada	08th	Japan	United States	Canada
2014	Japan	11	Japan	United States	Australia
2016	South Korea	12	Japan	Canada	Venezuela
2018	United States	12	Japan	Chinese Taipei	Canada

Medal table

rank	team	gold	silver	bronze	Total
1	Japan	6th	2	0	8th
2	United States	2	2	2	6th
3	Canada	0	2	4th	6th
4th	Australia	0	1	1	2
5	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	1
6th	Venezuela	0	0	1	1

See also

Portal: Baseball  - Overview of Wikipedia content on baseball

• Baseball world championship (men)
• World Championship

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official site of the Women's Baseball World Championship. ibaf.org, accessed August 28, 2012 .