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Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Baseball
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
VenueYokohama Stadium, Yokohama
Fukushima Azuma Stadium, Fukushima City
Dates28 July – 7 August 2021
No. of events1
Competitors144 from 6 nations
Teams6
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Dominican Republic
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2028 →

Baseball was featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1] Six national teams competed in the tournament: Israel, Japan (host), Mexico, South Korea, the United States, and the Dominican Republic.

Baseball/softball was one of five optional sports that were added to the programme of the 2020 Summer Olympics. It did not return in 2024 for the Paris Summer Olympics.[2] The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] As a result, the games were played behind closed doors.[4]

  1. ^ "Baseball/Softball". Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Gender equality and youth at the heart of the Paris 2024 Olympic Sports Programme". International Olympic Committee. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Tokyo Olympics to be held without fans after new COVID-19 state of emergency declared". usatoday.com. Retrieved 8 July 2021.

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