Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

The women's qualification for the 2000 Olympic basketball tournament occurred from 1998–2000; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones sent in teams.

The first qualifying tournament was the 1998 FIBA World Championship for Women 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 intercontinental championships, to determine which teams were to participate in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Qualification

Outright qualification

Twelve teams took part in the Olympics, with each NOC sending in one team. The host nation (Australia) qualified automatically as hosts.

There are a total of 5 zonal tournaments (doubling as intercontinental championships) that determined the qualifying teams, with a total of 7 teams qualifying outright. Each zone was allocated with the following qualifying berths:

Furthermore, Yugoslavia qualified automatically by winning at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

Summary

Qualified for the Olympics outright
Qualified automatically

These are the final standings of the different Olympic qualifying tournaments. The venues are as follows:

Rank World Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Host
1st United States Senegal Cuba South Korea Poland Australia Australia
2nd Russia DR Congo Brazil Japan France New Zealand
3rd Australia Nigeria Canada Chinese Taipei Russia New Caledonia
4th Brazil Kenya Mexico China Slovakia
5th Spain Angola Argentina Thailand Czech Republic
6th Lithuania Mali Dominican Republic North Korea Lithuania
7th Cuba Cambodia Puerto Rico Malaysia Yugoslavia
8th Slovakia Tanzania Venezuela Hong Kong Croatia
9th Japan Uganda Sri Lanka Latvia
10th Hungary Bosnia and Herzegovina
11th Germany Italy
12th China Germany
13th South Korea
14th Senegal
15th Argentina
16th DR Congo

Qualified teams

References

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