1990 FIBA World Championship for Women squads

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The 1990 FIBA World Championship for Women was held in Malaysia. The list includes the twelve-women rosters of the sixteen participating countries, totaling 172 players.

The 1990 edition of the FIBA World Championship for Women was held in four cities in Malaysia, from July 17 to July 22, 1990. The USA won the tournament ahead of Yugoslavia and Cuba.

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Group A

Flag of Australia.svg Australia

Jenny Evans is a former Australian women's basketball player.

Joanne (Jo) Metcalfe is a former Australian women's basketball player.

Karen Dalton is a former Australian women's basketball player.

Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria

Kostadinka Radkova is a Bulgarian former basketball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Madlena Staneva is a Bulgarian basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Polina Tzekova is an international basketball player from Bulgaria, considered to be among the best female basketballers the country has ever produced. She has represented the Bulgaria women's national basketball team, averaging 18,5 points for the side. In 1999, Tzekova signed with the Houston Comets in the Women's National Basketball Association and was part of the roster that won the title at the end of the 1999 WNBA season.

Flag of Italy.svg Italy

Anna Costalunga is an Italian basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Catarina Pollini is an Italian basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Cristina Rivellini is a former Italian basketball player.

Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia

Group B

Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil

Hortência Marcari Brazilian basketball player

Hortência Maria de Fátima Marcari is a former basketball player who is often considered to be one of the greatest female basketball players in Brazil, along with Paula, and regarded by specialists as one of the world's greatest female basketball players of all time. Marcari is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and FIBA Hall of Fame. She is known in her country as Hortência, and her nickname is The Queen.

Janeth Arcain basketball player

Janeth dos Santos Arcain is a retired Brazilian professional women's basketball player. She played in the United States for the Houston Comets in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997–2005.

Maria Paula Silva basketball player

Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva, nicknamed "Magic Paula", is a retired Brazilian women's basketball player. She is considered one of the greatest players in her country, along with Hortência Marcari and Janeth Arcain. For Brazil women's national basketball team, Paula is the second biggest scorer with 723 points and holds the record for caps with 45 games, being in two Olympic Games and six World Championships.

Flag of Canada.svg Canada

Flag of Japan.svg Japan

Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union

Group C

Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia

Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal

Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea

Flag of the United States.svg United States

Group D

Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg PR China

Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba

Flag of Yugoslavia (1943-1992).svg Yugoslavia

Flag of Zaire.svg Zaire

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