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Youth Baseball5 World Cup

{{Infobox sports league

| title = Youth Baseball5 World Cup

| last_season = 2023 Youth Baseball5 World Cup

| upcoming_season =

| sport = Baseball5

| inaugural = 2023

| teams = 12

| champion = {{flagicon|CUB}} Cuba (1st title)

| champ_season = 2022

| most_champs =

| most successful club = {{flagicon|CUB}} Cuba (1 title)

| related_comps = Baseball5 World Cup

| website = https://www.wbsc.org/en/organisation/wbsc-events/youth-baseball5-world-cup

}}

The Youth Baseball5 World Cup (YBWSC) is a mixed-gender Baseball5 world championship consisting of 16 teams that occurs every two years,{{Cite web |title=WBSC reveals Continent Quota for expanded Baseball5 and Youth Baseball5 World Cups |url=https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/wbsc-reveals-continent-quota-for-expanded-baseball5-and-youth-baseball5-world-cups |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=World Baseball Softball Confederation |language=en}} with the first edition in 2023. It is governed by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). The 2025 edition will act as a qualifier for the mixed-gender Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics Baseball5 event, which will be Baseball5's first appearance at the Youth Olympics, as well as the first appearance of a mixed-gender team sport at an Olympic event.{{Cite web |date=10 December 2020 |title=Inaugural Baseball5 World Cup to take place in 2022 |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1101813/baseball5-world-cup-inaugural-2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210095833/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1101813/baseball5-world-cup-inaugural-2022 |archive-date=2020-12-10 |access-date=2021-10-07 |website=www.insidethegames.biz}}{{Cite web |title=High five: baseball5 hits the YOG |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/high-five-baseball5-hits-the-yog |access-date=2021-10-07 |website=Olympics.com}}

History

The YB5WC was initially scheduled to occur in 2021, but was postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. France and Turkey qualified from the first-ever U-17 European Baseball5 Championship in 2022 to play in the 2023 YB5WC.{{Cite web |title=France, Türkiye first National Teams to qualify for inaugural WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup |url=http://www.wbsc.org/en/news/france-turkey-first-national-teams-to-qualify-for-inaugural-wbsc-youth-baseball5-world-cup |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=World Baseball Softball Confederation |language=en}}

The 2025 edition will take place in Mexico.{{Cite web |title=WBSC awards hosting rights: Youth Baseball5 World Cup 2025 to Mexico, Baseball5 World Cup 2026 to Italy |url=https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/wbsc-awards-hosting-rights-youth-baseball5-world-cup-2025-to-mexico-baseball5-world-cup-2026-to-italy-italy |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=World Baseball Softball Confederation |language=en}}

Format

The 16 countries participating in the Youth World Cup are geographically broken down as follows:

  • The host nation automatically qualifies.
  • The host nation of the previous edition automatically qualifies.
  • 4 countries from the Americas
  • 3 from Europe
  • 2 from Africa
  • 3 from Asia
  • 1 from Oceania
  • 1 Wild Card (selected by WBSC)

The 16 countries play a total of 56 games over four or five days.

Results

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align: center;" width="95%"
rowspan="2" style="width:5%;"|Year

!rowspan="2" style="width:13%;"|Host

|rowspan="4" style="width:1%; border-top:none; border-bottom:none;"|

!colspan="3"|Final

|rowspan="4" style="width:1%; border-top:none; border-bottom:none;"|

!colspan="3"|Third place game

style="width:16%; background:Gold;"|Champions

!width=8%|Score

!style="width:16%; background:Silver;"|Runners-up

!style="width:16%; background:#c96;"|Third place

!width=8%|Score

!style="width:16%; background:#9acdff;"|Fourth place

2023
Details

|{{flagicon|TUR}}
Ankara

|{{flagicon|CUB}}
Cuba

|2–0

|{{flagicon|FRA}}
France

|{{flagicon|MEX}}
Mexico

|2–1

|{{flagicon|TUR}}
Turkey

=Medal table=

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = bb5

| event =

| team =

| gold_CUB = 1 | silver_CUB = 0 | bronze_CUB = 0

| gold_FRA = 0 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 0

| gold_MEX = 0 | silver_MEX = 0 | bronze_MEX = 1

}}

Participating nations

  • {{legend | 1=gold | 2= — Champion | outline=grey | text=1st}}
  • {{legend | 1=silver | 2= — Runner-up | outline=grey | text=2nd}}
  • {{legend | 1=#cc9966 | 2= — Third place | outline=grey | text=3rd}}
  • {{legend | 1=#9acdff | 2= — Fourth place | outline=grey | text=4th}}
  • {{legend | 1=# | 2= — Position | outline=grey | text=#}}
  • {{legend | 1=# | 2= — Withdrew | outline=grey | text=×}}
  • {{border|width=3px|color=red|   }} — Hosts

class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; text-align: center;"
Teams

! 2023

! {{tooltip|Years|Number of years participated}}

align="left" | {{flagicon|AUS|size=20px}} Australia

| 12th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|CHN|size=20px}} China

| 5th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|TPE|size=20px}} Chinese Taipei

| 6th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|CUB|size=20px}} Cuba

| style="background:gold;" | 1st

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|FRA|size=20px}} France

| style="background:silver;" | 2nd

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|GHA|size=20px}} Ghana

| 7th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|MAS|size=20px}} Malaysia

| 10th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|MEX|size=20px}} Mexico

| style="background:#cc9966;" | 3rd

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|KOR|size=20px}} South Korea

| 9th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|TUN|size=20px}} Tunisia

| 8th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|TUR|size=20px}} Turkey

| style="border: 3px solid red" bgcolor="#9acdff" | 4th

! 1

align="left" | {{flagicon|ZAM|size=20px}} Zambia

| 11th

! 1

No. of
Teams

! 12

!

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

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Category:Qualification for Baseball5 competitions

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{{Main world championships}}