Yugoslavia women's national basketball team
The Yugoslavia women's national handball team (Serbo-Croatian: Ženska košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije / Женска кошаркашка репрезентација Југославије) was the women's basketball side that represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in the international basketball matches, controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ).
The team's first major tournament appearance was at the 1954 European Championship, hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games.
The team disappeared during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and its last major tournament appearance was at the 1991 European Championship in Israel, where they finished as runners-up, losing to Soviet Union in the final.
Competition records
- Olympic Games
- FIBA World Championship for Women
- 1953 – Did not qualify
- 1957 – Did not qualify
- 1959 – 4th place
- 1964 – 6th place
- 1967 – 6th place
- 1971 – Did not qualify
- 1975 – Did not qualify
- 1979 – Did not qualify
- 1983 – 8th place
- 1986 – Did not qualify
- 1990 –
2nd place
- EuroBasket Women
Successor teams
References
- ↑ "Note: Montenegrin women's national basketball team is a successor of the SFR Yugoslavia national basketball team; At the time of 1992, FR Yugoslavia was one of the successors (Later Serbian national basketball team); Although, none of these teams is a results successor of what has the SFR Yugoslavia national basketball team accomplished)".
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Silver: 1988
Bronze: 1980
3rd place