U-15 Baseball World Cup

U-15 Baseball World Cup

Current season, competition or edition:
Sport	Baseball
Founded	2012
No. of teams	12 (in 2021)
Continent	International
Most recent champion(s)	United States ()
Official website	https://u15bwc.wbsc.org

The U-15 Baseball World Cup is the 15-and-under baseball world championship that features national teams as authorized ("sanctioned") by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). It began in 1989 as the World Youth Baseball Championship. In 2012 it became the 15U Baseball World Cup and is contested every two years. Because it is a world championship event, the results of the 15U Baseball World Cup affect the WBSC World Rankings.^[1]

The 15U Baseball World Cup is the pinnacle of baseball in this youth category. Like the 12U Baseball World Cup, the 15U Baseball World Cup is the only world championship across all of sport to feature national teams in its age group, with the best young baseball players in the world selected to represent their countries, unlike other youth international competitions like the Little League World Series, which involve local clubs and have limitations imposed on the selection of players.

Results[]

World Youth Baseball Championship
Year	Finals Host[2]		Medalists
			Gold	Silver	Bronze
1989	Tokyo		Japan	Chinese Taipei	China
1990	Mexico		Japan	Brazil	Cuba
1991	Melbourne		Chinese Taipei	Japan	Brazil
1993	Londrina		Brazil	Chinese Taipei	South Korea
1994	Mexico		Cuba	Dominican Republic	Brazil
1995	Londrina		Cuba	Brazil	United States
1996	Chiba		South Korea	Cuba	Chinese Taipei
1997	Hsinchu		Cuba	Chinese Taipei	Australia
1998	United States		United States	Chinese Taipei	Venezuela
2001	Monterrey		United States	Venezuela	Australia
2003	Kaohsiung		United States	Chinese Taipei	Cuba
2005	Mexico		Cuba	United States	Australia
2007	Venezuela		IBAF withdrew its sanction of the tournament.[3]
2009 Details	Taichung		United States	Cuba	Mexico
2011 Details	Lagos de Moreno		United States	Cuba	Japan

15U Baseball World Championship
Year	Finals Host		Medalists
			Gold	Silver	Bronze
2012 Details	Chihuahua		Venezuela	Cuba	Chinese Taipei
15U Baseball World Cup
2014	Mazatlán	Cuba	United States	Venezuela
U-15 Baseball World Cup
2016	Iwaki	Cuba	Japan	United States
2018	David / Chitré	United States	Panama	Chinese Taipei
2021	Tijuana	Originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	6	4	2	12
2	United States	6	2	2	10
3	Japan	2	2	1	5
4	Chinese Taipei[a]	1	5	3	9
5	Brazil	1	2	2	5
6	Venezuela	1	1	2	4
7	South Korea	1	0	1	2
8	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	1
	Panama	0	1	0	1
10	Australia	0	0	3	3
11	China	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		18	18	18	54

• ^[a] Chinese Taipei is the official WBSC designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)

See also[]

• Baseball awards#World
• International Baseball Federation
• World Baseball Softball Confederation

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