2003 Baseball World Cup

2003 Baseball World Cup
XXXV Copa del Mundo de Béisbol
Cuba 2003
Tournament details
CountryCuba
Venue(s)5 (in 4 host cities)
Dates12–25 October
Teams15
Final positions
Champions Cuba (24th title)
Runner-up Panama
Third place Japan
Fourth place Chinese Taipei
Tournament statistics
Games played60
MVPJapan Takashi Yoshiura
← Taiwan 2001
Netherlands 2005 →

The 2003 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 35th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the 1986 AWS. The tournament was held, for the ninth time, in Cuba, from October 12 to 25 in the cities of Havana, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba and Holguín.[1]

Cuba defeated Panama in the final, winning its 24th title.

There were 15 participating countries, split into two groups, with the first four of each group qualifying for the finals. Guam qualified as runner up of the Oceania World Cup Qualifier but did not take part in the tournament.[2][3]

The next four competitions were also held as the BWC tournament, which was replaced in 2015 by the quadrennial WBSC Premier12.

  1. ^ "XXXV BWC - Cuba 2003". baseball.ch. Archived from the original on 2 October 2003. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  2. ^ Bjarkman, Peter C. (2005). Diamonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball. Greenwood Press. p. 483. ISBN 0-313-32268-6.
  3. ^ Jozsa, Frank P. Jr. (2006). Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 145. ISBN 0-7864-2534-2.

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