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At one time, Venezuela’s participation was in question due to possible sanctions to be considered by the International Baseball Federation in the wake of their refusal to grant visas to a youth team from Taichung to participate in the Youth World Baseball championships in August, 2007, but they were allowed to participate. China was originally scheduled to participate in Pool B, but dropped out and was replaced by the Thai national team, who placed fifth behind China at the 2006 Asian Games.
The next two competitions were also held as the BWC tournament, which was replaced in 2015 by the quadrennial WBSC Premier12.
^2 The IBAF, in agreement with the IBAF Executive Committee, has ruled on Panama starting play with five players without insurance cover on Nov. 7 and 8 during the 37th Baseball World Cup:
These five players were not eligible to play in the Games #3 and #11.
The Panama team must forfeit both Games #3 and #11.
The official result for Game #3 will be Spain 9, Panama 0.
The official result for Game #11 will be USA 9, Panama 0.
The official record and final standings will reflect these changes.
United States (3rd title)
Cuba
Japan
Netherlands
Chinese Taipei 
Mexico
Panama 
Italy
Spain
South Africa
Australia
South Korea
Canada
Venezuela
Germany
Thailand
South Korea