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The European Baseball Championship is a biennial tournament between the national teams of Confederation of European Baseball (CEB) members. It was first held in 1954, a year after the founding of the CEB. The competition has been dominated by the Netherlands and Italy which have combined to win 27 of the 29 Championships and placing one-two 16 times.
It has also serves as the European qualification tournament for the Olympics since games' first tournament in 1984. In that year, Italy earned a spot in the Olympics as the 1983 tournament's winner. The second place team (the Netherlands) advanced to a play-out versus the third place nation at the 1983 Pan American Games. After 1987, the Netherlands received the European slot in the games as the tournament's winner. The second place team (Italy) advanced to a play-out versus the third place nation at the 1987 Pan American Games.
For the 1992 Olympics, with Italy earning a spot in the games as the 1991 tournament's winner. The second place team (the Netherlands) advanced a play-out versus the third place nation at the 1991 Pan American Games. Spain, the third place team, was the Olympic host nation and also played.
For both the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, the top two teams from the previous year's Championships advanced to the Olympics. In both years the Netherlands and Italy finished in first and second place respectivly.
The 2003 tournament also served as a pre-qualification tournament for the 2004 Olympics, with the top seven teams earning spots in the European Olympic Qualification Tournament. Greece, which placed second, was exempted due to it have already qualified as the host nation of the Olympics.
[edit] European Championships
| Year
| Host City
| Dates
| Teams
| Gold
| Silver
| Bronze
|
| 1954
| Antwerp, Belgium
| June 26 - June 27
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
|
| 1955
| Barcelona, Spain
| July 5 - July 10
|
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
| Image:Flag of Germany.jpg Germany
|
| 1956
| Rome, Italy
| July 10 - July 15
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
|
| 1957
| Mannheim, Germany
| July 7 - July 13
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Germany.jpg Germany
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
|
| 1958
| Amsterdam, Netherlands
| June 5 - June 12
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Germany.jpg Germany
|
| 1960
| Barcelona, Spain
| September 22 - September 25
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1962
| Amsterdam, Netherlands
| July 21 - July 29
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1964
| Milan, Italy
| August 29 - September 6
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1965
| Madrid, Spain
| August 29 - September 5
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Germany.jpg Germany
|
| 1967
| Antwerp, Belgium
| August 6 - August 12
|
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
| Image:Flag of Great Britain.gif Great Britain
| Image:Flag of Germany.jpg Germany
|
| 1969
| Wiesbaden, Germany
| July 27 - August 3
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1971
| Parma and Bologna in Italy
| September 5 - September 12
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Germany.jpg Germany
|
| 1973
| Haarlem, Netherlands
| June 30 - July 8
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1975
| Barcelona, Spain
| July 25 - August 3
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Germany.jpg Germany
|
| 1977
| Haarlem, Netherlands
| July 23 - July 31
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
|
| 1979
| Trieste, Italy
| August 11 - August 19
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
|
| 1981
| Haarlem, Netherlands
| July 11 - July 19
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Sweden.gif Sweden
|
| 1983
| Florence, Italy
| July 28 - August 7
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
|
| 1985
| Haarlem, Netherlands
| July 6 - July 14
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
|
| 1987
| Barcelona, Spain
| July 17 - July 26
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1989
| Paris, France
| September 6 - September 15
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1991
| Rome, Italy
| August 2 - August 11
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1993
| Stockholm, Sweden
| July 9 - July 18
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Sweden.gif Sweden
|
| 1995
| Haarlem, Netherlands
| July 7 - July 16
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).gif Belgium
|
| 1997
| Paris, France
| August 30 - September 6
|
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 1999
| Parma and Bologna in Italy
| July 23 - July 31
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of France.gif France
|
| 2001
| Bonn and Cologne in Germany
| July 28 - August 5
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Russia.gif Russia
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
|
| 2003
| Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Rotterdam in the Netherlands
| July 23 - July 27
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Greece.gif Greece
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 2005
| Blansko, Chocen, Olomouc, and Prague in the Czech Republic
| July 7 - July 17
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Italy.gif Italy
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
| 2007
| Spain
| September 5 - September 16
|
| Image:Flag of the Netherlands.gif Netherlands
| Image:Flag of Great Britain.gif Great Britain
| Image:Flag of Spain.gif Spain
|
[edit] Medaling Nations
