Eight teams qualified for the Olympic baseball tournament. The host nation qualifies automatically. Additionally, two teams qualified from the American qualifying tournament, and one team qualified from both the European and Asian qualifying tournaments. The field was rounded out by the top three teams from the world Olympic qualifying tournament. The qualifications were held in Taichung, Barcelona, and Havana.
Table
- Note
American qualifying tournament
Qualifying round
North and Central America
Schedule
Caribbean
South America
- Notes
- ^ a b The third-place Caribbean team was scheduled to advance to the preliminary round. However, Aruba withdrew and the IBAF replaced it with the fifth-place North American team, Mexico.[1]
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Schedule
Final round
Team has qualified directly
Team has advanced to the Final Qualifying Tournament
Oceania qualifying tournament
With
New Zealand withdrawing from the tournament,
Australia received an automatic berth into the World Qualifying Tournament.
Team has advanced to the Final Qualifying Tournament
Schedule
European qualifying tournament
Qualifying round 1
Group A
Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | RS | RA | RD |
Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 35 | 3 | +32 |
Austria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 22 | 18 | +4 |
Poland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 24 | 23 | +1 |
Georgia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 8 | 45 | -37 |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | RS | RA | RD |
Belarus | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 33 | 10 | +23 |
Lithuania | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 29 | 17 | +12 |
Finland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 28 | 43 | -15 |
Turkey | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 22 | 42 | -20 |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | RS | RA | RD |
Croatia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 30 | 6 | +24 |
Ireland | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 14 | 5 | +9 |
Slovakia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 15 | 16 | -1 |
Norway | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 8 | 40 | -32 |
Group D
Qualifying round 2
European Baseball Championship
The European Baseball Championship in Barcelona, Spain served as the qualifying competition for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Netherlands won the tournament for the fifth consecutive time and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Great Britain and Spain advanced to a final qualifying tournament in Taiwan. Prior to the tournament, Greece was removed by the European Baseball Confederation and replaced with Austria. Czech Republic was downgraded to the last place at the end of the tournament and its wins in the preliminary round vacated.[2]
Preliminary round
Group A
Sweden 1 - 9
Germany
Czech Republic 0 - 9*
Croatia
Austria 0 - 22 (5 inn.)
Netherlands
Croatia 2 - 11
Sweden
Germany 10 - 0 (7 inn.)
Austria
Netherlands 11 - 0 (7 inn.)
Czech Republic
Netherlands 14 - 2 (7 inn.)
Sweden
Czech Republic 0 - 9*
Austria
Germany 8 - 7
Croatia
Netherlands 6 - 3
Germany
Austria 3 - 8
Croatia
Czech Republic 1 - 2
Sweden
Germany 6 - 1
Czech Republic
Croatia 0 - 13 (7 inn.)
Netherlands
Sweden 4 - 1
Austria
* The Czech Republic's 4-1 and 6-2 victories over Croatia and Austria were vacated and the results recorded as 9-0 forfeits.
Group B
Great Britain 12 - 8
Spain
Ukraine 0 - 13 (8 inn.)
Italy
France 4 - 2
Russia
Spain 5 - 4
Ukraine
Italy 1 - 5
France
Russia 7 - 10
Great Britain
France 6 - 2
Ukraine
Spain 4 - 0
Russia
Italy 6 - 0
Great Britain
France 3 - 4
Great Britain
Ukraine 4 - 3 (11 inn.)
Russia
Italy 4 - 6
Spain
Russia 2 - 7
Italy
Great Britain 9 - 0
Ukraine
Spain 6 - 2
France
Final round
Team has qualified directly
Team has advanced to the Final Qualifying Tournament
Team | Pld | W | L | PCT | RS | RA | RD | Tiebreaker* |
Netherlands | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1.000 | 54 | 14 | +40 |
Great Britain | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0.800 | 35 | 24 | +11 | 1-1, 0.833 RA/IN |
Spain | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 41 | 32 | +9 | 1-1, 0.833 RA/IN |
Germany | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 29 | 24 | +5 | 1-1, 0.889 RA/IN |
France | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0.200 | 16 | 35 | -19 |
Sweden | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0.000 | 15 | 51 | -36 |
* Tiebreakers: 1) W-L in games among tied teams 2) Runs against per 1 defensive inning among tied teams 3) Earned Runs against per 1 defensive inning among tied teams
Netherlands 18 - 0 (7 inn.)
France
Germany 3 - 11
Spain
Sweden 7 - 10
Great Britain
France 10 - 0 (7 inn.)
Sweden
Spain 8 - 10 (11 inn.)
Netherlands
Great Britain 5 - 7
Germany
Germany 7 - 1
France
Sweden 5 - 8
Spain
Netherlands 6 - 1
Great Britain
Classification
- Seventh Place Game
Czech Republic 2 - 7
Italy
- Ninth Place Game
Croatia 2 - 1
Ukraine
- Eleventh Place Game
Austria 2 - 7
Russia
2007 Asian Championship
The IBAF and IOC recognize Taiwan as Chinese Taipei. Internationally, the team plays as the Chinese Taipei National baseball team, however are referred to, in the country, as the Taiwan National baseball team and use the flag
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B Level
Schedule
A Level
Team has qualified directly
Team has advanced to the Final Qualifying Tournament
Schedule
African qualifying tournament
Team has advanced to the Final Qualifying Tournament
Schedule
Note: The final game between Lesotho and Nigeria was dependent on whether it had any impact upon the final standings. As South Africa had clinched the championship before the game was to begin, it was cancelled.
Final qualifying tournament
The final qualifying tournament will feature the third and fourth place teams from the Americas qualifying tournament, the second and third place teams from the Asian and European qualifying tournaments, and the Oceanian and African continental champions. However, European runner-up Great Britain withdrew from the tournament and were replaced by the fourth place team Germany.
Qualified Teams
Standings
Team has qualified
Schedule
See also
References
- ^ "USA, Mexico; Olympic qualifier". Minor League Baseball. 28 August 2006. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 23 Jul 2008.
- ^ "Euro Baseball 2007". Confederation of European Baseball. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
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