FIBA World Championship for Women

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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.

1 History
2 Tournaments
3 Most Wins
4 See also
5 External links

[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] Tournaments

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

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

[edit] Most Wins

United States — 7
Soviet Union — 6
Brazil — 1
Australia — 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

Asia: FIBA Asia – Asian Championship Africa: FIBA Africa – Africa Championship Americas: FIBA Americas – Americas Championship Oceania: FIBA Oceania – Oceania Championship Europe: FIBA Europe – Eurobasket