The 2002 ISF Women's World Championship for softball was held July 26-August 4, 2002 in Saskatoon, Canada. [1] The United States, which went undefeated for the tournament, won a fifth straight world championship with a 1-0 victory over Japan. The first four teams qualified for the 2004 Olympics.
| GP | W | L | RF | RA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 7 | 7 | 0 | 53 | 0 |
 China | 7 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 5 |
 Chinese Taipei | 7 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 12 |
 Italy | 7 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 8 |
 Canada | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 11 |
 Netherlands Antilles | 7 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 24 |
 Russia | 7 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 40 |
 Czech Republic | 7 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 50 |
| GP | W | L | RF | RA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Japan | 7 | 7 | 0 | 48 | 1 |
 Australia | 7 | 6 | 1 | 49 | 8 |
 New Zealand | 7 | 5 | 2 | 37 | 17 |
 Puerto Rico | 7 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 38 |
 Venezuela | 7 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 28 |
 Netherlands | 7 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 36 |
 South Africa | 7 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 45 |
 Dominican Republic | 7 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 66 |
| Chinese Taipei | 5-1 | Puerto Rico |
| New Zealand | 3-0 | Italy |
| United States | 4-3 | Australia |
| Japan | 5-0 | China |
Puerto Rico and Italy Eliminated.
| Australia | 2-4 | Chinese Taipei |
| China | 4-2 | New Zealand |
Australia and New Zealand Eliminated.
| Day Two | Bronze Medal | Gold Medal | |||||||||||
| A1 | United States | 1 | A1 | ' United States | 1 | ||||||||
| B1 | Japan | 0 | B1 | Japan | 0 | ||||||||
| B1 | Japan | 2 | |||||||||||
| A3 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | |||||||||||
| A2 | China | 5 | |||||||||||
| A3 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | |||||||||||
The Dominican Republic national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Dominican Republic. The team has won the Baseball World Cup in 1948 and World Baseball Classic in 2013. They are the first team to have won both world competitions. They are currently ranked the 9th-best in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation. At the Olympics in 2021 it faced Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and the United States.
The Italy national baseball team represents Italy in international baseball competitions. The Italian national team was ranked 16th in the world as of 2022. The team is managed by Mike Piazza, a former New York Mets player and Major League Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
Softball was on the Olympic program from 1996 to 2008. It was introduced at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was removed from the program for 2012 and 2016, but was added for a one-off appearance, along with baseball, for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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The Women's Softball World Cup is a fastpitch softball tournament for women's national teams held historically every four years, now every two years, by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). The tournament, originally known as the ISF Women's World Championship, was sanctioned by the International Softball Federation (ISF) until that body's 2013 merger with the International Baseball Federation to create the WBSC. The number of teams in the tournament began at five in its inaugural event in 1965, went to a high of 28 for the 1994 edition, and now the WBSC Code legislates that the maximum number of teams that may participate is 16. There are qualifying tournaments that determine which countries will play at the World Cup.
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Netherlands women's junior national softball team is the junior national under-17 team for Netherlands. The team competed at the 1985 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Fargo, North Dakota where they finished sixth. The team competed at the 1987 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where they finished sixth. The team competed at the 1991 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Adelaide, Australia where they had 5 wins and 6 losses. The team competed at the 1995 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Normal, Illinois where they finished seventh. The team competed at the 1999 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Taipei, Taiwan where they finished twelfth. The team competed at the 2003 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Nanjing, China where they finished tenth. The team competed at the 2007 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Enschede, Netherlands where they finished sixth. The team competed at the 2013 ISF Junior Women's World Championship in Brampton, Ontario where they finished tenth.
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