Russia national baseball team

The Russia national baseball team is the national baseball team of Russia. The team competed in the bi-annual European Baseball Championship.

Russia national baseball team
Information
Country Russia
ConfederationWBSC Europe
WBSC ranking
Current 35 Decrease 3 (5 October 2023)[1]

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the World Baseball Softball Confederation banned Russian athletes and officials.[2] In addition, WBSC Europe relocated competitions that had been scheduled to be held in Russia during 2022, and excluded Russian teams from all its competitions for both national and club teams to be held in Europe in 2022.[3]

History

The Russian national baseball team has never won a championship. Their head coach is Vladimir Timakov. The team was formed in 1987.

Placings

Baseball World Cup

Intercontinental Cup

European Baseball Championship

References
  1. "The WBSC World Ranking". WBSC. 5 October 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. "A glance at reaction of sports to Russian invasion". Associated Press. 3 March 2022.
  3. "Russian and Belarusian teams excluded from all the WBSC Europe 2022 competitions". WBSC Europe.


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