List of Olympic medalists in baseball

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Main article: Baseball at the Summer Olympics
A dark-skinned man in a black baseball cap and black leather jacket holding up both his hands with his index fingers extended. He is holding a cigar in his right hand.
Orlando Hernández won gold with the Cuban team in the 1992 Summer Olympics, baseball's first appearance as an Olympic medal sport.

sport formerly contested at the Summer Olympic Games. It was originally played as a demonstration sport in seven Olympics—1912, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984, and 1988[1]— more than for any other sport in Olympic history.[2] These exhibitions featured a single game at the first five Olympic appearances and then a tournament format in 1984 and 1988.[1] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted baseball official status on October 13, 1986, for the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1][3][4]
The sport was contested at each subsequent Games through 2008, after which the IOC removed it from the roster of Olympic sports.

In 1992, the first official Olympic baseball tournament was won by the

40-man roster of an MLB team to compete.[8] In 2004, the reigning gold medalist United States did not qualify for the Olympic tournament, while the Cuban team won its third gold medal.[9]

In 2005, the IOC investigated the addition of sports to the Olympic schedule including

President Jacques Rogge said they were "looking for an added value – wide appeal, especially for young people."[12] The IOC ultimately voted to fill the two available slots for 2016 with rugby and golf.[13][14] However, the IOC ultimately approved the return of baseball and softball to the Olympic program for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2016.[15]

Baseball was open only to male amateurs in 1992 and 1996. As a result, the Americans and other nations where professional baseball is developed relied on collegiate players, while Cubans used their most experienced veterans, who technically were considered amateurs as they nominally held other jobs, but in fact trained full-time. In 2000, pros were admitted, but MLB refused to release its players in 2000, 2004, and 2008, and the situation changed only a little: the Cubans still used their best players, while the Americans started using minor leaguers. The IOC cited the absence of the best players as the main reason for baseball being dropped from the Olympic program.[16][17][18][19]

Cuba has been the most successful team, winning the most gold and silver medals and never finishing outside the podium. Cuban pitcher Pedro Luis Lazo is the most successful individual athlete, winning four medals—two gold and two silver—from 1996 to 2008.[20] No American ever appeared in the Olympics more than once.[16] Nine other Cuban players won three medals; no player from any other nation accomplished this feat.[21] From the 25 athletes who won two medals in baseball, 18 were Cuban, while the remaining seven included 4 South Korean and 3 Japanese players.[21]

Medal winners

A man in a blue batting helmet with a "C" on it, blue baseball jersey, white pinstriped pants, and a shin-guard on his right shin stands at home plate holding a baseball bat in a left-handed batting stance with his right foot lifted off of the ground.
Japanese player Kosuke Fukudome won silver in 1996 and bronze in 2004, one of seven non-Cuban players to win multiple medals in baseball.
A man in a white baseball jersey with "KOREA" on the chest in blue and "17" on his leg in orange pitches a baseball from the pitcher's mound with his left hand. He is wearing a black baseball glove on his right hand.
Kim Kwang-Hyun won gold with South Korea in 2008, Korea's second medal finish in baseball.
Event Gold Silver Bronze
1992 Barcelona
details 		 Cuba (CUB)[22]
Omar Ajete
Rolando Arrojo
José Raúl Delgado Diez
Giorge Diaz Loren
Osvaldo Fernández
José Estrada González
Lourdes Gourriel
Orlando Hernández
Alberto Hernández
Orestes Kindelán
Omar Linares
Germán Mesa
Víctor Mesa
Antonio Pacheco
Juan Padilla
Luis Ulacia
Ermidelio Urrutia
Jorge Luis Valdés
Lázaro Vargas 		 
Wu Shih-Hsih
  
Shinichi Sato
Yasuhiro Sato
Masanori Sugiura
Kento Sugiyama
Yasunori Takami
Akihiro Togo
Koji Tokunaga
Shigeki Wakabayashi
Katsumi Watanabe
1996 Atlanta
details 		 Cuba (CUB)[25]
Omar Ajete
Miguel Caldés Luis
José Contreras
Jorge Fumero
José Estrada González
Alberto Hernández
Rey Isaac
Orestes Kindelán
Pedro Luis Lazo
Omar Linares
Omar Luis
Juan Manrique
Eliecer Montes de Oca
Antonio Pacheco
Juan Padilla
Eduardo Paret
Ormari Romero
Antonio Scull
Luis Ulacia
Lázaro Vargas 		 Japan (JPN)[26]
Kosuke Fukudome
Tadahito Iguchi
Makoto Imaoka
Takeo Kawamura
Jutaro Kimura
Takashi Kurosu
Takao Kuwamoto
Nobuhiko Matsunaka
Koichi Misawa
Masahiko Mori
Masao Morinaka
Daishin Nakamura
Masahiro Nojima
Hideaki Okubo
Hitoshi Ono
Yasuyuki Saigo
Tomoaki Sato
Masanori Sugiura
Takayuki Takabayashi
Yoshitomo Tani 		 
Jason Williams
2000 Sydney
details 		 United States (USA)[28]
Brent Abernathy
Kurt Ainsworth
Pat Borders
Sean Burroughs
John Cotton
Travis Dawkins
Adam Everett
Ryan Franklin
Chris George
Shane Heams
Marcus Jensen
Mike Kinkade
Rick Krivda
Doug Mientkiewicz
Mike Neill
Roy Oswalt
Jon Rauch
Anthony Sanders
Bobby Seay
Ben Sheets
Brad Wilkerson
Todd Williams
Ernie Young
Tim Young 		 
Miguel Caldés
Danel Castro
José Contreras
Yobal Dueñas
Yasser Gómez
José Ibar
Orestes Kindelán
Pedro Luis Lazo
Omar Linares
Oscar Macías
Juan Manrique
Javier Méndez
Rolando Meriño
Germán Mesa
Antonio Pacheco
Ariel Pestano
Gabriel Pierre
Maels Rodríguez
Antonio Scull
Luis Ulacia
Lázaro Valle
Norge Luis Vera
  
Song Jin-Woo
2004 Athens
details 		 Cuba (CUB)[31]
Danny Betancourt
Luis Borroto
Frederich Cepeda
Yorelvis Charles
Michel Enríquez
Norberto González
Yuli Gurriel
Pedro Luis Lazo
Roger Machado
Jonder Martínez
Frank Montieth
Vicyohandri Odelín
Adiel Palma
Eduardo Paret
Ariel Pestano
Alexei Ramírez
Eriel Sánchez
Antonio Scull
Carlos Tabares
Yoandry Urgellés
Osmani Urrutia
Manuel Vega
Norge Luis Vera 		 
Rodney Van Buizen
Ben Wigmore
Glenn Williams
Jeff Williams
  Japan (JPN)[33]
Ryoji Aikawa
Yuya Ando
Atsushi Fujimoto
Kosuke Fukudome
Hirotoshi Ishii
Hisashi Iwakuma
Hitoki Iwase
Kenji Johjima
Makoto Kaneko
Takuya Kimura
Masahide Kobayashi
Hiroki Kuroda
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Daisuke Miura
Shinya Miyamoto
Arihito Muramatsu
Norihiro Nakamura
Michihiro Ogasawara
Naoyuki Shimizu
Yoshinobu Takahashi
Yoshitomo Tani
Koji Uehara
Kazuhiro Wada
Tsuyoshi Wada
2008 Beijing
details 		 
Oh Seung-hwan
Ryu Hyun-Jin
Song Seung-jun
Yoon Suk-min
  
Luis Rodríguez
Elier Sánchez
Eriel Sánchez
Yoandry Urgellés
Norge Luis Vera
  
Lou Marson
Blaine Neal
Jayson Nix
Nate Schierholtz
Jeff Stevens
Stephen Strasburg
Taylor Teagarden
Terry Tiffee
Casey Weathers
2012–2016 Not included in the Olympic program
2020 Tokyo
details 		 
Kensuke Kondo
Yuki Yanagita
Ryoya Kurihara
Masataka Yoshida
Seiya Suzuki
  United States (USA)
Shane Baz
Anthony Carter
Brandon Dickson
Anthony Gose
Edwin Jackson
Scott Kazmir
Nick Martinez
Scott McGough
David Robertson
Joe Ryan
Ryder Ryan
Simeon Woods Richardson
Tim Federowicz
Mark Kolozsvary
Nick Allen
Eddy Alvarez
Triston Casas
Todd Frazier
Jamie Westbrook
Tyler Austin
Eric Filia
Patrick Kivlehan
Jack López
Bubba Starling 		 
Cristopher Mercedes
Denyi Reyes
Ramón Rosso
Ángel Sánchez
Raúl Valdés
Roldani Baldwin
Charlie Valerio
José Bautista
Juan Francisco
Jeison Guzmán
Erick Mejia
Gustavo Núñez
Emilio Bonifácio
Melky Cabrera
Johan Mieses
Yefri Pérez
Julio Rodríguez
2024 Not included in the Olympic program
details

Athlete medal leaders

Athletes who won at least two gold medals or three total medals are listed below.[21]

Athlete Nation Olympics Total Gold Silver Bronze
Pedro Luis Lazo  Cuba (CUB) 1996–2008 4 2 2 0
Omar Ajete  Cuba (CUB) 1992–2000 3 2 1 0
Orestes Kindelán  Cuba (CUB) 1992–2000 3 2 1 0
Omar Linares  Cuba (CUB) 1992–2000 3 2 1 0
Antonio Pacheco
 		 Cuba (CUB) 1992–2000 3 2 1 0
Eduardo Paret  Cuba (CUB) 1996
2004–2008 		3 2 1 0
Antonio Scull  Cuba (CUB) 1996
2004–2008 		3 2 1 0
Luis Ulacia  Cuba (CUB) 1992–2000 3 2 1 0
Ariel Pestano  Cuba (CUB) 2000–2008 3 1 2 0
Norge Luis Vera  Cuba (CUB) 2000–2008 3 1 2 0
José Estrada González  Cuba (CUB) 1992–1996 2 2 0 0
Alberto Hernández  Cuba (CUB) 1992–1996 2 2 0 0
Juan Padilla  Cuba (CUB) 1992–1996 2 2 0 0
Lázaro Vargas  Cuba (CUB) 1992–1996 2 2 0 0

See also

References

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