Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

The women's qualification for the 2004 Olympic women's basketball tournament occurred from 2002–2003; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones sent in teams.

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2004 women's teams.

The first qualifying tournament was the 2002 FIBA World Championship for Women in which the champion was guaranteed 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 2004 Athens Summer Olympics.

Qualification

A total of 12 teams took part in the Olympics, with each NOC sending in one team.

The host nation (Greece) qualified automatically as hosts.

United States qualified automatically by winning at the 2002 FIBA World Championship for Women.[1]

The other 10 teams were determined by five zonal tournaments (doubling as continental championships), held in 2003. Each zone was allocated with the following qualifying berths:

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
1st United States Nigeria Brazil China Russia Australia
2nd Russia Mozambique Cuba Japan Czech Republic New Zealand
3rd Australia Senegal Canada South Korea Spain
4th South Korea Angola Mexico Chinese Taipei Poland
5th Spain Mali Argentina Thailand France
6th China Tunisia Chile Malaysia Belgium
7th Brazil DR Congo Dominican Republic India Slovakia
8th France Cambodia Philippines Serbia and Montenegro
9th Cuba South Africa Hong Kong Greece
10th Argentina Algeria Hungary
11th Lithuania Ukraine
12th FR Yugoslavia Israel
13th Japan
14th Chinese Taipei
15th Senegal
16th Tunisia

References
  1. 2002 World Championship for Women, FIBA Archive. Accessed June 25, 2011
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