WBSC Premier12

The WBSC Premier12 is an international baseball tournament organized by the World Baseball Association WBSC . As the WBSC World Cup, it replaced the 2011 World Cup tournament . The tournament is held every four years. The opening season took place in 2015.

background

While baseball was one of the Olympic sports from 1992 to 2008 , the sport was not part of the Olympic program at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics . The Premier 12 was therefore founded as the new flagship of the WBSC, on the one hand to create an alternative international event to the Olympic Games and on the other hand with the ulterior motive of using the Premier 12 in 2019 as a qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics . This was implemented accordingly with the successful qualification for Tokyo 2020: The best-placed nation from the American continent and from Oceania / Asia (excluding Japan) secures participation in the 2020 Olympic Games.

qualification

The qualification takes place via the WBSC World Rankings . The 12 national teams with the most points in the ranking automatically qualify for participation in Premier 12.

Participating Nations

nation	2015	2019	Years
South Korea	1		1
United States	2		1
Japan	3		1
Mexico	4th		1
Canada	5		1
Cuba	6th		1
Netherlands	7th		1
Puerto Rico	8th		1
Taiwan	9		1
Venezuela	10		1
Dominican Republic	11		1
Italy	12		1
Nations	12	12

Medal table

year	Period	host	gold	silver	bronze
2015 details	November 8th - November 21st	Taiwan Japan	South Korea	United States	Japan
2019 details	November 2nd - November 17th	Japan South Korea Mexico Chinese Taipei

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New baseball tournament for top 12 national teams announced . In: ESPN.com . ( espn.com [accessed July 10, 2018]).
2. ↑ Baseball qualifying for 2020 Tokyo Games would be tricky . In: USA TODAY . ( usatoday.com [accessed July 10, 2018]).
3. ↑ WBSC reveals Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualifiers for Baseball, Softball . In: WBSC . March 24, 2018 ( wbsc.org [accessed July 10, 2018]).