FIBA World Championship for Women

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FIBA World Championship for Women
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1953
No. of teams	16
Continent	International (FIBA)
Most recent champion(s)	Australia

The FIBA World Championship for Women (also called the Basketball World Championship for Women) is a world basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially. It is held on the same cycle and in the same year as the FIBA World Championship (for Men), but in a different country.

[edit] History

Like the men's event, the Women’s World Championship was created by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). It began in 1953, three years after the first men's event, and was first held in Chile. For most of its early history, it was not held in the same year as the men's championship, and did not establish a consistent quadrennial cycle until 1967. After the 1983 event, FIBA changed the scheduling so that the women's tournament would be held in even-numbered non-Olympic years, a change that had come to the men's tournament in 1970.

For 2006, the number of participating teams will remain at 16, unlike the men's event, which has been expanded to 24.

Only four teams have won titles in the history of the World Championship for Women. The United States has won seven titles, including four of the last six. The Soviet Union won six titles, including five in a row from 1959 to 1975. The only other countries to win have been Brazil in 1994 and Australia in 2006.

[edit] Results

[edit] Summaries

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1953 Details	Chile (Santiago de Chile)		USA	N/A	Chile		France	N/A	Brazil
1957 Details	Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)		USA	N/A	Soviet Union		Czechoslovakia	N/A	Brazil
1959 Details	Soviet Union (Moscow)		Soviet Union	N/A	Bulgaria		Czechoslovakia	N/A	Yugoslavia
1964 Details	Peru		Soviet Union	N/A	Bulgaria		Czechoslovakia	N/A	USA
1967 Details	Czechoslovakia		Soviet Union	N/A	Korea		Czechoslovakia	N/A	West Germany
1971 Details	Brazil		Soviet Union	N/A	Czechoslovakia		Brazil	N/A	Korea
1975 Details	Colombia		Soviet Union	N/A	Japan		Czechoslovakia	N/A	Italy
1979 Details	South Korea (Seoul)		USA	N/A	Korea		Canada	N/A	Australia
1983 Details	Brazil		Soviet Union	84–82	USA		China	71–63	Korea
1986 Details	Soviet Union		USA	108–88	Soviet Union		Canada	64–59	Czechoslovakia
1990 Details	Malaysia		USA	N/A	Yugoslavia		Cuba	N/A	Czechoslovakia
1994 Details	Australia		Brazil	96–84	China		USA	100–95	Australia
1998 Details	Germany		USA	71–65	Russia		Australia	72–67	Brazil
2002 Details	China		USA	79–74	Russia		Australia	91–63	Korea
2006 Details	Brazil (Barueri & São Paulo)		Australia	91–74	Russia		USA	99–59	Brazil
2010 Details	Czech Republic

Note: From 1953 through 1979, and also in 1990, the medalists were decided in a league format instead of in a knockout tournament.

[edit] Successful national teams

Map of countries' best results

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	USA	7	1	2	10
2	Soviet Union	6	5	0	11
3	Australia	1	0	2	3
4	Brazil	1	0	1	2
5	Russia	0	3	0	3
6	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
6	Korea	0	2	0	2
8	Czechoslovakia	0	1	5	6
9	China	0	1	1	2
10	Chile	0	1	0	1
10	Japan	0	1	0	1
10	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
13	Canada	0	0	2	2
14	Cuba	0	0	1	1
14	France	0	0	1	1

[edit] See also

• 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women
• FIBA World Championship, the parallel event for men
  • 2006 FIBA World Championship, the most recent men’s tournament
• Netball World Championships

[edit] External links

• FIBA World Championship for Women 2006 Official Site

International basketball v • d • e
FIBA | Olympics | World Championship (men) - (women) | World Rankings U21 World Championship (men) - (women) | U19 World Championship (men) - (women) | Teams
Africa: FIBA Africa – Africa Championship      Americas: FIBA Americas – Americas Championship      Asia: FIBA Asia – Asian Championship      Europe: FIBA Europe – EuroBasket      Oceania: FIBA Oceania – Oceania Championship
FIBA World Championship for Women v • d • e
Chile 1953 | Brazil 1957 | USSR 1959 | Peru 1964 | Czechoslovakia 1967 | Brazil 1971 | Colombia 1975 | South Korea 1979 | Brazil 1983 | USSR 1986 | Malaysia 1990 | Australia 1994 | Germany 1998 | China 2002 | Brazil 2006 | Czech Republic 2010 Team appearances