Queensland has won the right to host the 2027 Women’s Softball World Cup.<\/p>\n
It will be the first time Australia has hosted the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WSBC) tournament since the inaugural event in 1965 in Melbourne, where the national women’s team won gold.<\/p>\n
The top eight women’s teams in the world will battle for the title of World Champions at Talobilla Park in Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, from April 5 to 11, 2027.<\/p>\n
The tournament will be a qualifying event for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, held a year ahead of the games and with five years until the Brisbane 2032 Games.<\/p>\n
“This tournament will highlight Australia’s strong passion for softball and the deep roots the sport has in the country’s sporting community,” WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari said.<\/p>\n
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The Australian women’s softball team won medals at four consecutive Olympics from 1996 to 2008.\u00a0 (ALLSPORT via Getty Images: Darren England)<\/p>\n
Softball Australia CEO Sarah Loh said it was an important step in the lead-up to the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n
“The return of the WSBC Women’s Softball World Cup to Australian soil is a powerful opportunity to inspire the next generation with Olympic dreams, boost grassroots participation and deliver lasting benefits to local communities,” Ms Loh said.<\/p>\n
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Australia won silver in baseball at the Athens 2004 Olympics.\u00a0 (Getty Images: Nick Laham)<\/p>\n
The first Women’s Softball World Cup was played at Melbourne’s Albert Park in February 1965, with five participating teams: Australia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and USA.<\/p>\n
The Australians emerged with a 1-0 triumph over USA to claim the inaugural world title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland has won the right to host the 2027 Women’s Softball World Cup. It will be the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32601,64,63,61413,44,10018,94,61414,701,14767,588,12632,21418],"class_list":["post-80972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-32601","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-los-angeles-games","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-qld","tag-qualifier","tag-queensland","tag-softball","tag-sport","tag-women","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}