On behalf of WBSC and our athletes, I would like to thank Tokyo 2020 as well as IOC President Thomas Bach, whose Olympic Agenda 2020 vision has paved. Lastly, an intercontinental tournament will decide who gets the final slot. Tokyo 2020’s decision to propose our sport is a ‘home run’ and giant leap forward for baseball and softball, said World Baseball Softball Confederation President Riccardo Fraccari. Another slot will be allocated to the winner of an Americas qualifying competition between eight teams, including all those from the continent which took part in the WBSC Premier 12 without earning a ticket for Tokyo 2020, and the champion at the Pan-American Games 2019 in Lima. The best team from Asia/Oceania (not including Japan), and the best team in the Americas will each earn their Olympic place.Īfter that, there will be an Africa-Europe qualifying tournament between six teams (the top five nations in the 2019 European Championships and the winner of the African Championships) for one slot at the Games. For baseball, with Japan automatically present, the first two teams qualified will be decided by the world’s biggest competition, the WBSC Premier 12, a veritable world championship in November 2019 between the top 12 nations in the international ranking at the end of 2018.

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