Baseball at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama Fukushima Azuma Stadium, Fukushima City | |||||||||
Dates | 28 July – 7 August 2021 | |||||||||
No. of events | 1 | |||||||||
Competitors | 144 from 6 nations | |||||||||
Teams | 6 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
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Qualification | men |
Tournament | men |
Rosters | men |
Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
Qualification | women |
Tournament | women |
Rosters | women |
Baseball was featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1] Six national teams competed in the tournament: Israel, Japan (host), Mexico, South Korea, the United States, and the Dominican Republic.
Baseball/softball was one of five optional sports that were added to the programme of the 2020 Summer Olympics. It did not return in 2024 for the Paris Summer Olympics.[2] The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] As a result, the games were played behind closed doors.[4]