Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's qualification

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The women's qualification for Olympic basketball tournament occurred from 2006-2008; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones sent in teams.

The first qualifying tournament was the 2006 FIBA World Championship in which the champion was guaranteed of a place in the Olympics. Throughout the next two years, several regional tournaments served as qualification for the zonal tournaments, which doubles as continental championships, to determine which teams will participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

1 Qualification
- 1.1 Outright qualification
- 1.2 Qualification via the wildcard tournament
2 Summary
3 Qualified teams
4 References

[edit] Qualification

[edit] Outright qualification

A total of 12 teams will take part in the Olympics, with each NOC sending in one team. The host nation (the People's Republic of China) qualifies automatically as hosts.

There are a total of 5 zonal tournaments (doubling as continental championships) that determined the qualifying teams, with a total of 5 teams qualifying outright. Each zone was allocated with the following qualifying berths:

FIBA Africa: 1 team (Champion)
FIBA Americas: 1 teams (Champion)
FIBA Asia: 1 team (Champion)
FIBA Europe: 1 teams (Champion)
FIBA Oceania: 1 team (Champion)

Furthermore, the current world champion, Australia qualified automatically by winning at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women.

[edit] Qualification via the wildcard tournament

The additional five teams will be determined at the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women 2008, with the best non-qualifying teams participating from teams that did not qualify outright. Each zone is allocated with the following berths:

FIBA Africa: 2 teams
FIBA Americas: 3 teams
FIBA Asia: 2 teams
FIBA Europe: 4 teams
FIBA Oceania: 1 team

[edit] Summary

	Qualified for the Olympics outright
	Qualified automatically
	Qualified for the Wildcard Tournament

These are the final standings of the different Olympic qualifying tournaments. The venues are as follows, with the city of the knockout stage mentioned first:

Rank	World	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Wildcard
1st	Australia	Mali	USA	Korea	Russia	Australia	Spain Czech Republic Latvia Belarus
2nd	Russia	Senegal	Cuba	China	Spain	New Zealand
3rd	USA	Angola	Brazil	Japan	Belarus	Fiji
4th	Brazil	Mozambique	Argentina	Chinese Taipei	Latvia
5th	France	Nigeria	Canada	Thailand	Czech Rep.
6th	Lithuania	Cameroon	Chile	Malaysia	Lithuania
7th	Czech Rep.	DR Congo	Mexico	India	Belgium
8th	Spain	Côte d'Ivoire	Jamaica	Hong Kong	France
9th	Argentina	Cape Verde		Uzbekistan	Turkey Germany Italy Serbia Ranked 9th		Senegal Argentina Fiji Chinese Taipei
10th	Canada	Madagascar		Vietnam
11th	Cuba	Tunisia		Singapore
12th	China	Kenya		Sri Lanka
13th	Korea				Israel Romania Greece Croatia Ranked 13th
14th	Chinese Taipei
15th	Senegal
16th	Nigeria

[edit] Qualified teams

After the end of women's continental championships of 2007, the seven teams that qualified for Beijing 2008 are:

[edit] References

2008 Olympic basketball tournament

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Men (Summary)		Women (Summary)
Africa \| Americas \| Asia \| Europe \| Oceania \| Wildcards \| World Championship	Tourneys	Africa \| Americas \| Asia \| Europe \| Oceania \| Wildcards \| World Championship
Angola \| Argentina \| Australia \| China \| Iran \| Lithuania \| Russia \| Spain \| USA	Teams	Australia \| Belarus \| China \| Czech Republic \| Korea \| Latvia \| Mali \| New Zealand \| Russia \| Spain \| USA

International women's basketball

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Africa: FIBA Africa – Africa Championship Americas: FIBA Americas – Americas Championship Asia: FIBA Asia – Asian Championship Europe: FIBA Europe – EuroBasket Oceania: FIBA Oceania – Oceania Championship