Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing was held from August 13 to August 23. All games were played at
Wukesong Baseball Field, a temporary venue constructed at the
Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center. For the third time in Olympic competition, professional baseball players were eligible to participate, though no active players from
Major League Baseball were available.
This was the last Olympic baseball tournament before the
International Olympic Committee voted to remove baseball from the program in the
2012 Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
. Along with
softball, baseball was rejected for inclusion in the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
at the IOC's meeting in October 2009. However, following a 2016 IOC vote, baseball was
again included for the 2020 Games.
This was also the first time that the IBAF's new extra-innings rule was officially in effect, allowing each team to start with two base runners from the 11th inning on.
won the gold medal in a 3–2 final victory against
Cuba.
Medalists
Competition format
Eight teams are competing in the Olympic baseball tournament, and the competition consists of two rounds. The preliminary round follows a
round robin format, where each of the teams plays all the other teams once. Following this, the top four teams advance to a single elimination round culminating in the bronze and gold medal games.
Qualification
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Chinese Taipei
"Chinese Taipei" is the term used in various international organizations and tournaments for groups or delegations representing the Republic of China (ROC), a country commonly known as Taiwan.
Due to the One-China principle stipulated by th ...
is the official
IOC designation for the state officially referred to as the
Republic of China
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...
(ROC), commonly known as
Taiwan.
Team squad
Group stage
All times are China Standard Time ( UTC+8)
August 13
August 14
August 15
August 16
August 17
August 18
August 19
August 20
Knockout stage
Semifinals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final standings
Notes
References
IOC BaseballInternational Baseball FederationConfederation of European BaseballStats from the 2008 Olympics: Baseball at SimCentral.NET
External links
Baseball – Official Results Book
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2008 Summer Olympics events
Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
2008
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
Baseball in Beijing