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The Canadian roster of 15 athletes was named on 12 May 2021, including four members of the last team that competed at the Olympics (Lawrie, Rafter, Regula and Sailing). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Canada roster
Baseball/softball was one of five optional sports added to the program of the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2] The first six opening round games were played at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium in an effort to highlight Fukushima's recovery from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster , while the remaining games were played at Yokohama Stadium . [ 3 ]
Softball and baseball were reinstated together on a one-time basis at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [15] Five nations have won medals in softball at the Olympics; the United States, China, Australia, Japan, and Canada. [5] With three gold medals and two silver, the United States were the most successful team. [5]
In 2022, the World Games featured a softball tournament for the first time, giving the Americans a chance to avenge their olympic loss in Japan. Eight members who won the silver medal a year earlier were on the team. The roster was composed of eleven former student athletes and seven current athletes from 12 NCAA Division 1 teams. [4]
Australia's Olympic softball squad will be among the first athletes to arrive from overseas for the Tokyo Games when they fly off for a training camp in Japan next Monday to get some desperately ...
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The decision to remove softball from the Olympics in advance of the Beijing Games created a sense of urgency for some development players to make their senior national teams by 2008 as they would not otherwise have a chance to compete at the Olympics. [18] The removal of softball from the Olympics has had an adverse impact on the game ...
The team represents Canada at international competitions such as the ISF World Championship, World Cup and Pan-Am Games events and competed at the Summer Olympic Games since the sport was inaugurated at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The team won bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo; this was the fifth Olympics to include softball ...