2008 Summer Olympics / Baseball

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At the XXIX. During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , a baseball competition was held. Eight teams took part in the men's tournament. Each country was allowed to field a team of 24 players each, resulting in a total of 192 participating athletes in this competition. The International Olympic Committee has decided to remove baseball from the 2012 Summer Olympics program . So this sport was played for the last time at the Olympic Games.

The following teams had qualified for the tournament:

Olympic competition

Medalist

Scene from the game Japan against the Netherlands
space country athlete
1 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea Bong Jung-keun , Chong Tae-hyon , Han Ki-joo , Hyuk Kwon , Jang Won-sam , Jeong Keun-woo , Jin Kab-yong , Kang Min-ho , Kim Dong-joo , Kim Hyung-soo , Kim Kwang -hyun , Kim Min-jae , Ko Young-min , Lee Dae-ho , Lee Jin-young , Lee Jong-wook , Lee Seung-yeop , Lee Taek-keun , Lee Yong-kyu , Oh Seung-hwan , Park Jin -man , Ryu Hyun-jin , Song Seung-jun , Yoon Suk-min

Manager: Kim Kyung-moon
Trainer: Cho Kye-hyun , Kim Gwang-soo , Kim Ki-tae

2 CubaCuba Cuba Alexei Bell , Frederich Cepeda , Alfredo Despaigne , Giorvis Duvergel , Michel Enríquez , Norberto González , Yuliesky Gourriel , Miguel La Hera , Pedro Luis Lazo , Jonder Martínez , Alexander Mayeta , Rolando Merino , Luis Navas , Vicyohandry Odelín , Héctor Olivera , Adiel Palma , Eduardo Paret , Yadier Pedroso , Ariel Pestano , Luis Rodríguez , Elier Sánchez , Eriel Sánchez , Yoandry Urgellés , Norge Luis Vera

Manager: Antonio Pacheco

3 United StatesUnited States United States Brett Anderson , Jake Arrieta , Brian Barden , Matt Brown , Trevor Cahill , Jeremy Cummings , Jason Donald , Brian Duensing , Dexter Fowler , John Gall , Mike Hessman , Kevin Jepsen , Brandon Knight , Michael Koplove , Matt LaPorta , Lou Marson , Blaine Neal , Jayson Nix , Nate Schierholtz , Jeff Stevens , Stephen Strasburg , Taylor Teagarden , Terry Tiffee , Casey Weathers

Manager: Davey Johnson
Trainer: Marcel Lachemann , Reggie Smith , Rick Eckstein , Dick Cooke , Rolando de Armas

Preliminary round

space country S. G V Points
1 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 7th 7th 0 1,000
2 CubaCuba Cuba 7th 6th 1 0.857
3 United StatesUnited States United States 7th 5 2 0.714
4th JapanJapan Japan 7th 4th 3 0.571
5 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan 7th 2 5 0.286
5 CanadaCanada Canada 7th 2 5 0.286
7th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 7th 1 6th 0.143
7th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 7th 1 6th 0.143
game date Stadion encounter Result
1 08/13/2008, 10:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 2 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan - NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 5-0
2 08/13/2008, 11:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 1 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China - CanadaCanada Canada 0:10 (8)
3 08/13/2008, 6:00 pm Wukesong Baseball Field 2 United StatesUnited States United States - Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 7: 8
4th August 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 1 CubaCuba Cuba - JapanJapan Japan 4: 2
5 08/14/2008, 10:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 2 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - United StatesUnited States United States 0: 7 (8) 1
6th 08/17/2008, 6:00 pm Wukesong Baseball Field 1 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea - China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1: 0 (11) 2
7th 08/14/2008, 6:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 2 CubaCuba Cuba - CanadaCanada Canada 7: 6
8th 08/14/2008, 7:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 1 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan - JapanJapan Japan 1: 6
9 08/15/2008, 10:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China - Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan 8: 7 (12)
10 08/15/2008, 11:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 1 United StatesUnited States United States - CubaCuba Cuba 4: 5 (11)
11 08/15/2008, 6:00 pm Wukesong Baseball Field 2 CanadaCanada Canada - Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0: 1
12 08/15/2008, 7:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 1 JapanJapan Japan - NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 6-0
13 08/16/2008, 10:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 2 United StatesUnited States United States - CanadaCanada Canada 5: 4
14th 08/16/2008, 11:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 1 CubaCuba Cuba - Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan 1-0
15th 08/16/2008, 6:00 pm Wukesong Baseball Field 2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China - NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 4: 6
16 August 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 1 JapanJapan Japan - Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 3: 5
08/17/2008 Rest day
17th 08/18/2008, 10:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 2 CanadaCanada Canada - JapanJapan Japan 0: 1
18th 08/18/2008, 11:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 1 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan - Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 8: 9
19th 08/18/2008, 6:00 pm Wukesong Baseball Field 2 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - CubaCuba Cuba 3:14 (8)
20th August 18, 2008, 7:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 1 United StatesUnited States United States - China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 9: 1
21st 08/19/2008, 10:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 2 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - CanadaCanada Canada 0: 4
22nd August 19, 2008, 11:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 1 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea - CubaCuba Cuba 7: 4
23 August 19, 2008, 6:00 pm Wukesong Baseball Field 2 JapanJapan Japan - China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 10: 0 (7)
24 August 19, 2008, 7:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 1 United StatesUnited States United States - Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan 4: 2
25th 08/20/2008, 10:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 2 CubaCuba Cuba - China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 17: 1 (7)
26th 08/20/2008, 11:30 am Wukesong Baseball Field 1 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0:10 (8)
27 08/20/2008, 6:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 2 CanadaCanada Canada - Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Taiwan 5: 6 (12)
28 08/20/2008, 7:00 p.m. Wukesong Baseball Field 1 JapanJapan Japan - United StatesUnited States United States 2: 4 (11)
08/21/2008 Rest day
1 Game 5 was canceled after eight innings due to rain and the result at that time was counted
2 Game 6 was postponed from August 14, 2008 to August 17, 2008 due to rain

(All times are local time)

Final round

  Semifinals final
August 22, 2008, 10:30 a.m.      
 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 6th
 JapanJapan Japan 2  
   
August 23, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 3
   CubaCuba Cuba 2
 
Game for third place
August 22, 2008, 6:00 p.m. August 23, 2008, 10:30 a.m.
 CubaCuba Cuba 10  JapanJapan Japan 4th
 United StatesUnited States United States 2    United StatesUnited States United States 8th

(All times are local time)

Web links

Commons : Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files