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The Africa Cup Baseball Championship is the main international baseball competition in Africa. The Africa Cup Baseball Championship has not been played with the frequency, regularity or history of the European Championship, Asian Championship or South American Championship. Instead, it has been more irregular, like the Oceania Championship.
| Year | Final Host | Medalists | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||||
| 1992 |  Harare |  South Africa |  Zimbabwe |  Nigeria | |||
| 2001 |  Kampala | South Africa | Nigeria |  Uganda | |||
| 2019 details |  Johannesburg | South Africa | Uganda | Zimbabwe | |||
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 |  Nigeria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Uganda | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Zimbabwe | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Totals (4 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
Sports in Japan are a significant part of Japanese culture. Both traditional sports such as sumo and martial arts, and Western imports like baseball, association football, basketball and tennis are popular with both participants and spectators.
The International Baseball Federation is the former worldwide governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee as overseeing, deciding and executing the policy of the sport of baseball. The IBAF has since become the international baseball "Division" of the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the officially recognized world governing body for baseball. One of its principal responsibilities under the WBSC umbrella is to organize, standardize and sanction international competitions, using the WBSC name, among baseball's 124 national governing bodies through its various tournaments to determine a world champion and calculate world rankings for both men's and women's baseball. Prior to the establishment of the WBSC, which has since superseded its authority, the IBAF had been the lone entity that can assign the title of "world champion" to any baseball team delegated to represent a nation. Its offices are housed within the WBSC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland—the Olympic Capital.
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