15U Baseball World Cup
| Most recent season or competition: 2014 15U Baseball World Championship |
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| Sport | Baseball |
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| Founded | 2012 |
| No. of teams | 18 (in 2014) |
| Continent | International |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Cuba (2014) |
The IBAF 15U Baseball World Cup is the 15-and-under baseball world championship that features National Teams as authorized ("sanctioned") by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). The 15U Baseball World Cup was first launched in 2012 in Mexico and is contested every two years. Because it is a world championship event, the results of the 15U Baseball World Cup have an impact on the IBAF World Rankings.[1]
The 15U Baseball World Cup is the pinnacle of baseball in this youth category. Like the 12U Baseball World Cup, the 15U Baseball World Cup is the only world championship across all of sport to feature National Teams in its age group, with the best young baseball players in the world selected to represent their countries, unlike other youth international competitions like the Little League World Series, which involve local clubs and have limitations imposed on the selection of players.
The 2014 15U Baseball World Cup was held in Sinaloa, Mexico, from 31 July to 10 August, and contested by 18 countries' National Teams.
Prior to 2012, the IBAF organized the 16U World Youth Championship.
Results
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Cuba |
5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| 2 |  United States |
5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 |  Japan |
2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 |  Chinese Taipei1 |
1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 |  Brazil |
1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 |  Venezuela |
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 |  South Korea |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 |  Dominican Republic |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | a |
1Chinese Taipei is the official IBAF designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)
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