The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of 78,871 square kilometers (30,452 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec.
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.
The Czech Republic national rugby league team was established to broaden the skills of the rugby union team. The team has competed in a number of competitions and hosted the Slavic Cup in 2006.
Eight teams qualified for the Olympic baseball tournament. The host nation qualifies automatically. Additionally, two teams qualified from the American qualifying tournament, and one team qualified from both the European and Asian qualifying tournaments. The field was be rounded out by the top three teams from the world Olympic qualifying tournament. The qualifications were held in Taichung, Barcelona, and Havana.
Sports play a significant part in the life of many Czechs who are generally loyal supporters of their favourite teams or individuals.
The 2007 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament held from September 7 to 16, between national baseball teams of the Confederation of European Baseball. The tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain and served as the qualifying competition for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The Netherlands won the tournament for the 5th consecutive time and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Great Britain and Spain advanced to a final qualifying tournament in Taiwan. Prior to the tournament, Greece was removed by the European Baseball Confederation and replaced with Austria. Czech Republic was downgraded to the last place at the end of the tournament and its wins in the preliminary round vacated. This was the first time that 5 teams instead of 2 were relegated to the B-Pool.
The Czech Republic national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Czech Republic. The team competes in the biennial European Baseball Championship and debuted in the 2023 World Baseball Classic
The 2007–08 Czech Cup was the fifteenth season of the annual football knock-out tournament of the Czech Republic. It began on 22 August 2007 with the preliminary round and concluded with the final on 13 May 2008. The competition offered a place in the second qualifying round of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup for the winner; however since winners Sparta Prague qualified for the Champions League through the Czech First League this season, the place went to Slovan Liberec as runners-up.
The Czech Republic participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Aven Romale" written by Radoslav "Gipsy" Banga. The song was performed by the group Gipsy.cz, which was internally selected by the Czech broadcaster Česká televize (ČT) to represent the nation at the 2009 contest in Moscow, Russia. Gipsy.cz was announced as the Czech entrant on 30 January 2009, while ČT organised the national final Eurosong 2009 in order to select the song that Gipsy.cz would perform. Two songs were presented on 28 February 2009 and the public had until 14 March to vote for their favourite song, which resulted in "Aven Romale" as the Czech entry on 14 March 2009.
The Australia national baseball team has participated in nine of the International Baseball Federation World Cup tournaments. Australia has made it to the quarter-finals of a tournament three times—1998, 2007 and 2009— and its best result was in the most recent tournament held in 2009, in which Australia placed 5th.
The U-15 European Baseball Championship, formerly the European Youth Baseball Championship or European Baseball Championship Cadets, is an international baseball tournament sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB). In 2012, the maximum age for players was lowered from 16 to 15 years old.
The 2009 European Youth Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Brno, Czech Republic from July 7 to 11, 2009. It featured teams from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.
The U-12 European Baseball Championship, formerly the European Juveniles Baseball Championship, is an annual under-12 international baseball tournament sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB). Since 2006, the teams from Czech Republic dominated the tournament, but were defeated in 2010 by Russia.
The 2009 European Juveniles Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Dupnitza and Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from July 13 to 18, 2009. It featured teams from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine.
The 2008 European Juveniles Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Hluboka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic from July 13 to 18, 2008. It featured teams from Austria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
The 2007 European Juveniles Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Olomouc and Sumperk, Czech Republic from July 10 to 14, 2007. It featured teams from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Israel, Lithuania, Poland and Russia.
The 2006 European Juveniles Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Hluboka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic from July 16 to 22, 2006. It featured teams from Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, Russia and Slovakia.
The qualification for the 2007 European Baseball Championship was held from July 25–29, 2006 in Russia and August 1–5, 2006 in Belgium. 16 nations contested to qualify for 2 spots available among the 10 other sides already qualified. In the end, 3 teams qualified for the 2007 competition, because of the removal of Greece. Austria replaced Greece, being the runners-up in the qualifier pool in Russia, while Croatia and Russia won their qualifier pools and were qualified to compete in the 2007 competition, to be placed with the 9 already qualified teams from the 2005 competition. These were Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and United Kingdom.
The 2006–07 Czech Cup was the fourteenth season of the annual football knock-out tournament of the Czech Republic. It began on 22 July 2006 with the preliminary round and concluded with the final on 24 May 2007. The competition offered a place in the second qualifying round of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup for the winner; however since winners Sparta Prague qualified for the Champions League through the Czech First League this season, the place went to Jablonec 97 as runners-up.
The Women’s European Baseball Championship (WEBC) is the main championship tournament between national women’s baseball teams in Europe, governed by the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB).
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