Pesäpallo World Cup
Pesäpallo World Cup is an international tournament in pesäpallo that has been organised eight times so far: In Finland 1992, 1997, 2009 and 2017 in Australia in 2000 and 2012, in Sweden in 2003, in Germany 2006 , in Switzerland 2015 and in India 2019.
With additional to it, a new style of baseball was introduced in India in year 2007, now India has observed two styles of baseball (regular American based baseball and European based baseball which is also known as Pesapallo. Though it is an infrequent sport, people have come forward and recently a World Cup league was also played in India in year 2019. One of the emerging player’s of the league is Saiesh Reddy of Hyderabad,India. Indians have shown passionate efforts in recent World Cup and striving to develop this game.
Women and mixed teams have been played in 1992 and again since year 2000.
Tournaments and medalists
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Organiser |
| 1992 |  Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
 Sweden 2(men) Sweden (women) Sweden (mixed team) |
 Australia (men) Australia (women) Australia (mixed team) |
Helsinki, Finland |
| 1997 | Finland |
Sweden |
 Estonia |
Hyvinkää, Finland |
| 2000 | Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
 South Australia national pesäpallo team (men) Australia (women) Sweden (mixed team) |
 Germany (men) Australia (mixed team) |
Melbourne, Australia |
| 2003 | Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
Sweden (men) Sweden (women) Sweden (mixed team) |
Germany (men) Australia (women) Germany (mixed team) |
Södertälje, Sweden |
| 2006 | Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
Germany 1 (men) Australia (women) Germany (mixed team) |
Germany 2 (men) Germany (women) Australia (mixed team) |
München, Germany |
| 2009 | Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
Germany (men) Australia (women) Australia (mixed team) |
Australia (men) Sweden (women) Germany (mixed team) |
Pori, Finland |
| 2012 | Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
Australia (men) Australia (women) Australia (mixed team) |
Germany /  Switzerland / Europe(men) Germany / Switzerland / Europe(mixed team) |
Gold Coast, Australia |
| 2015 | Finland (men) Finland (mixed team) |
Australia (men) Australia (mixed team) |
Germany (men) Switzerland (mixed team) |
Lucerne, Switzerland |
| 2017 | Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
Germany (men) Australia (women) Australia (mixed team) |
Australia (men) India (women) Germany (mixed team) |
Turku, Finland |
| 2019 | Finland (men) Finland (women) Finland (mixed team) |
Switzerland (men) Bangladesh (women) Bangladesh (mixed team) |
Bangladesh (men) India (women) India (mixed team) |
Pune, India |
Medal table
The points have been counted as follow: Gold = 3 points, silver = 2 points and bronze = 1 point.
| Position | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | MX | M | F | MX | M | F | MX | ||||
| 1. | Finland | 9 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 72 |
| 2. | Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 30 |
| 3. | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 17 |
| 4. | Germany | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 16 |
| 5. | South Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6. | Combined team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 7. | Estonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8. | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9. | India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 |  USA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 |  Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 |  Nepal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
External links
- 2006 World Cup official pages (in English)
- 2015 World Cup official pages (in English)
- Ylen Elävä arkisto: Crushing superiority in the final of the Pesäpallo World Cup (in Finnish)