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The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, [1] is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), [a] the sport's global governing body, and organized in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The WBC is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , and certifies world champions in 18 different weight classes .
Japan is the only nation to successfully defend the World Baseball Classic as defending champions in 2009. Puerto Rico achieved runners-up in the World Baseball Classic as defending runners-up in 2017. The worst performance of defending champions was by the Dominican Republic in 2017, eliminating in the second round (now the quarterfinals).
After the pandemic-induced delay, the 2023 World Baseball Classic was held between March 8–21, with Japan defeating the United States 3–2 in the championship game. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The sixth and next Classic is scheduled for 2026, with the scheduling frequency of future Classic editions being subject to the terms and conditions agreed at the ...
The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic .
The United States was the victor of the previous edition of the WBC, in 2017 defeating Japan in the semi-final round. [7] Japan won the 2006 and 2009 editions of the WBC. [8]In 2023, Japan won all four games in Pool B, which it hosted at the Tokyo Dome. [9]
The first World Baseball Classic featured 16 teams in a round-robin.Each team played the other three teams in their pool once. Teams were ranked by winning percentage in the first round, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the second round, where the teams from Pools A and B (in Pool 1) and the teams from Pools C and D (in Pool 2) competed against each other in another round-robin.
The Netherlands has competed in all five World Baseball Classic tournaments. All 16 teams that played in the 2006 edition were invited to compete in the second in 2009 . The Netherlands was an automatic qualifier for the 2013 and 2017 tournaments.