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2016 Women's Baseball World Cup Country South Korea City Gijang Venue(s) Dream Main Park, Dream Park 2, Dream Park 3 Dates 3 September - 11 September Teams 12 Champions Japan (5th title) Runner-up Canada Third place Venezuela Fourth place Chinese Taipei Games played 44 Attendance 18,767 (427 per game)
The 2016 Women's Baseball World Cup was the 7th edition of the WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup , the biennial international women's baseball world championship tournament. The competition was held in Gijang , South Korea from September 3 to September 11, 2016.[ 1]
Teams
For 2016, the number of qualifying teams grew from eight for its 6th edition in 2014 to twelve teams.[ 2]
The following 12 teams qualified for the tournament.
Round 1
The matches were played from September 3 to 5. The top two teams from each group advanced to the next round.[ 3] [ 4]
Group A
Group B
Group C
Round 2
Japan and South Korea square off in the Super Round
The matches were played from September 7 to 10. The head to head results of Opening Round games between two nations that advanced to the Super Round carried over and counted to establish four qualified nations for the Final Round as well as overall competition standings. The same methodology applied to the consolation round. The top two teams from the Super Round will qualify for the World Championship Final and the 3rd and 4th placed teams in the Super Round will play for the Bronze Medal Game.
Super Round
Consolation round
Round 3
Bronze Medal
[ 5]
Gold Medal
[ 6]
Final standings
2016 Women's Baseball World champions
Japan 5th title
Rosters
Canada [ 7]
Manager: Andre Lachance
Japan [ 8]
Manager: Koichi Okura
References
^ "Preparations for Women's Baseball World Cup Nearly Complete" . Haps Magazine . July 27, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .
^ "New Logo, Nations unveiled for LG Presents WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup 2016 Gijang (KOR)" . WBSC . February 29, 2016. Archived from the original on September 3, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
^ "LG Presents WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup 2016 set to open tomorrow" . WBSC . September 2, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .
^ "Schedule: 2016 Women's Baseball World Cup" (PDF) .
^ "Tournaments - WBSC" . Archived from the original on 2018-12-09. Retrieved 2016-09-12 .
^ "Tournaments | WBSC" . Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2016-09-12 .
^ "Tournaments WBSC" . World Baseball Softball Confederation . Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
^ "Tournaments WBSC" . World Baseball Softball Confederation . Retrieved December 22, 2017 .
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