2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women

FIBA Americas Championship for Women 2011
11th FIBA American Women's Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Colombia
Dates	September 24 – October 1
Teams	10 (from 44 federations)
Venues	1 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Brazil (5th title)
MVP	Érika de Souza
Tournament statistics
Players Teams Points Javiera Novión Nicole Louden (18.8)  Brazil (79) Rebounds Vanessa Gidden Erika Gómez (8.3)  Brazil (39.8) Assists Erika Valek (5.8)  Brazil (16.2)
Official website
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The 2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Americas at the women's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The tournament was held at Coliseo Álvaro Sánchez Silva in Neiva, Colombia from September 24 to October 1. It was the first FIBA Americas Championship for Women to have 10 countries competing.^[1]

Qualification

Qualification was done via FIBA Americas' sub-zones. USA Basketball chose not to enter its national team, which sat atop the FIBA World Rankings going into the tournament, because the team had already qualified for the 2012 Olympics by winning the 2010 World Championship. The qualified teams are:

• South American Sub-Zone (FIBA South American Championship for Women 2010):
  •  Argentina
  •  Brazil
  •  Chile
  •  Colombia (Host)
  •  Paraguay
• North America Sub-Zone:
  •  Canada (qualified automatically)
• Central American and Caribbean Zone (2010 Centrobasket for Women):
  •  Cuba (qualified automatically)
  •  Jamaica
  •  Mexico
  •  Puerto Rico

Draw

The draw ceremonies were held in Neiva on May 5 2011 at the Auditorio Rodrigo Lara Bonilla de la Asamblea Departamental del Huila. The results, with the FIBA World Rankings prior to the draw, were:^[2]

Group A	Group B
25.  Chile 10.  Cuba 13.  Argentina 33.  Puerto Rico 72.  Colombia	49.  Jamaica 6.  Brazil 12.  Canada 27.  Mexico 72.  Paraguay

Note: Colombia and Paraguay had 0 ranking points and was therefore ranked after the last ranked team.

Format

• The top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals.
• The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final. The losers play for third place.

Tie-breaking criteria

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

1. Head to head results
2. Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
3. Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Preliminary round

Group A

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Eliminated in Preliminary Round

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Argentina	8	4	4	0	277	215	+62
Cuba	7	4	3	1	263	222	+41
Puerto Rico	6	4	2	2	243	228	+15
Colombia	5	4	1	3	225	259	–34
Chile	4	4	0	4	191	275	–84

All times local (UTC-5)

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Group B

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Eliminated in Preliminary Round

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Tie
Brazil	8	4	4	0	334	184	+150
Canada	7	4	3	1	254	176	+78
Mexico	5	4	1	3	257	273	–16	1–1, 1.336
Jamaica	5	4	1	3	237	274	–37	1–1, 1.022
Paraguay	5	4	1	3	175	350	–175	1–1, 0.737

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Final round

	Semi-finals				Final
	September 30
	Argentina	61
	Canada	59
					October 1
					Argentina	33
					Brazil	74
					Third place
	September 30			October 1
	Brazil	66		Canada	59
	Cuba	53			Cuba	46

Semifinals

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Third place game

Final

Awards

2011 Tournament of the Americas for Women Winners
Brazil Fifth title

Statistical Leaders

Individual Tournament Highs

Points Pos. Name PPG 1 Javiera Novión 18.8 1 Nicole Louden 18.8 3 Erika Gómez 18.5 4 Vanessa Gidden 18.3 5 Érika de Souza 16.2 6 Cynthia Valentín 14.8 7 Erika Valek 14.5 8 Erika Sánchez 14.3 9 Oyanaisis Gelis 12.0 10 Clenia Noblet 11.5

Rebounds Pos. Name RPG 1 Vanessa Gidden 8.3 1 Erika Gómez 8.3 3 Érika de Souza 8.0 4 Alexis Castro 8.0 5 Marlen Cepeda 7.8 6 Simone Edwards 6.8 7 Clenia Noblet 6.5 8 Agostina Burani 6.0 9 Damiris Dantas 5.8 10 Sandra Pavón 5.3

Assists Pos. Name APG 1 Erika Valek 5.8 2 Adriana Moisés Pinto 5.2 3 Shona Thorburn 3.3 4 Oyanaisis Gelis 3.0 5 Carla Cortijo 3.0 6 Taine Ramírez 2.8 7 Teresa Gabriele 2.7 8 Sandra Pavón 2.3 9 Patrícia de Oliveira 2.2 10 Débora González 2.0

Steals Pos. Name SPG 1 Erika Valek 2.3 2 Patrícia de Oliveira 2.0 3 Courtnay Pilypaitis 1.8 4 Adriana Moisés Pinto 1.7 5 Ineidis Casanova 1.7 6 Sandra Pavón 1.7 7 Palmira Marçal 1.5 8 Yamara Amargo 1.3 9 Clenia Noblet 1.3 10 Micaela Jacintho 1.3

Blocks Pos. Name BPG 1 Miranda Ayin 1.2 2 Tathiana Mosquera 1.0 3 Esmary Vargas 1.0 4 Érika de Souza 0.8 5 María Plácido 0.8 6 Lida Fernández 0.8 7 Levys Torres 0.8 8 Agostina Burani 0.7 9 Damiris Dantas 0.7 10 Oyanaisis Gelis 0.5

Final ranking

	Qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
	Qualified for the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women.

Rank	Team	Record
01 !	Brazil	6–0
02 !	Argentina	5–1
03 !	Canada	4–2
4	Cuba	3–3
5	Puerto Rico	2–2
6	Mexico	1–3
7	Colombia	1–3
8	Jamaica	1–3
9	Paraguay	1–3
10	Chile	0–4

• Cuba renounced to compete in the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women. In these circumstances, the FIBA has chosen Puerto Rico, the best team in the Americas Championship after Cuba.

			4th
Brazil Adriana Moisés Pinto Palmira Marçal Patrícia "Chuca" de Oliveira Micaela Jacintho Bárbara Generoso Franciele Nascimento Silvia Cristina Gustavo Clarissa dos Santos Damiris Dantas Nádia Colhado Érika de Souza Gilmara Justino	Argentina Stephany Thomas Ornella Santana Paula Reggiardo Diana Cabrera Débora González Marina Cava Agostina Burani Melisa Gretter Sandra Pavón Melani Soriani Erica Sánchez Melisa Pavicich	Canada Krista Phillips Teresa Gabriele Shona Thorburn Courtnay Pilypaitis Kim Smith Kadie Riverin Alisha Tathan Kalisha Keane Lizanne Murphy Tamara Tathan Chelsea Aubry Miranda Ayim	Cuba Islen Carbonell Ineidis Casanova Lisdeyvis Martínez Oyanaisis Gelis Edith Thompson Yamara Amargo Lazara Moises Marlen Cepeda Clenia Noblet Taimy Fernández Leidys Oquendo Suchitel Ávila

See also

• 2011 FIBA Americas Championship

References

External links

• Official Website

FIBA Americas Championship for Women Brazil 1989 Brazil 1993 Canada 1995 Brazil 1997 Cuba 1999 Brazil 2001 Mexico 2003 Dominican Republic 2005 Chile 2007 Brazil 2009 Colombia 2011 Mexico 2013 Canada 2015

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