Copa Mundial de Baloncesto Femenino FIBA 2018 | |
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Tournament details | |
Country | Spain |
City | Tenerife |
Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
Dates | 22–30 September |
Teams | 16 |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runner-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Top scorer | ![]() (23.8 points per game) |
MVP | ![]() |
The 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup , the 18th edition of FIBA's premier international tournament for women's national basketball teams, was held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain from 22 to 30 September 2018. [1] This was the first edition to use the name of FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. After the last edition in 2014, FIBA changed the name of the competition from the FIBA World Championship for Women, in order to align its name with that of the corresponding men's competition.
The United States were the two-time defending champions. [2] This tournament saw the World Cup debut of Belgium, Latvia and Puerto Rico.
The US Team won the final against Australia, to win their third straight and tenth overall title. [3]
San Cristóbal de La Laguna | Santa Cruz de Tenerife | |
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Tenerife Sports Pavilion Santiago Martín | Palacio Municipal de Deportes | |
Group Phase, Qualification for Quarter-Finals, Final Phase | Group Phase, Qualification for Quarter-Finals | |
Capacity: 5,100 | Capacity: 3,600 |
The whole bidding process started in October 2014. Bids from two nations were submitted. On 31 October 2014, it was confirmed that Spain and Israel were the bidders. [4] On 16 December 2014, it was announced that Spain won the bid and would host the upcoming World Cup. [5]
2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup bidding results | ||||||
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Nation | Votes | |||||
![]() | 18 | |||||
![]() | 5 |
Spain as the hosts automatically qualified for the tournament in December 2014. The United States were the next to qualify after winning Gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The remaining teams were decided over June, July & August 2017 through the Women’s Continental Cups. The continental qualifiers vary in the number of teams; the European qualifiers featured 16 teams, Africa featured 12 teams, Americas featured 10 teams and Asia featured 8 teams. From the 46 teams competing for the final 14 spots, the field was completed by the top five teams from 2017 EuroBasket Women, the top three teams from the 2017 FIBA Women's AmeriCup, the two finalists from the 2017 Women's Afrobasket; as well as the top four teams from the 2017 FIBA Asia Women's Cup, which saw teams from Asia and Oceania compete together for the first time ever. [6]
Team | Qualification | Appearance | Best Performance | FIBA World Ranking | FIBA Zone Ranking | |||
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Method | Date | Last | Total | Streak | ||||
![]() | Host nation | 16 December 2014 | 2014 | 7 | 7 | Runners-up (2014) | 2 | 1 |
![]() | 2016 Summer Olympics | 20 August 2016 | 2014 | 17 | 15 | Champions (1953, 1957, 1979, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2010, 2014) | 1 | 1 |
![]() | EuroBasket Women | 22 June 2017 | — | 1 | 1 | Debut | 28 | 14 |
![]() | EuroBasket Women | 22 June 2017 | 2014 | 10 | 5 | 3rd Place (1953) | 3 | 2 |
![]() | EuroBasket Women | 22 June 2017 | 2010 | 2 | 1 | 11th Place (2010) | 20 | 9 |
![]() | EuroBasket Women | 24 June 2017 | — | 1 | 1 | Debut | 26 | 12 |
![]() | EuroBasket Women | 24 June 2017 | 2014 | 2 | 2 | 4th Place (2014) | 7 | 4 |
![]() | Women's Asia Cup | 27 July 2017 | 2014 | 15 | 15 | Runners-up (1967, 1979) | 16 | 4 |
![]() | Women's Asia Cup | 27 July 2017 | 2014 | 15 | 14 | Champions (2006) | 4 | 1 |
![]() | Women's Asia Cup | 27 July 2017 | 2014 | 10 | 10 | Runners-up (1994) | 10 | 1 |
![]() | Women's Asia Cup | 27 July 2017 | 2014 | 13 | 3 | Runners-up (1975) | 13 | 2 |
![]() | Women's AmeriCup | 12 August 2017 | 2014 | 11 | 4 | 3rd Place (1979, 1986) | 5 | 2 |
![]() | Women's AmeriCup | 12 August 2017 | 2010 | 9 | 1 | 6th Place (1953) | 15 | 5 |
![]() | Women's AmeriCup | 13 August 2017 | – | 1 | 1 | Debut | 22 | 6 |
![]() | Women's Afrobasket | 26 August 2017 | 2006 | 2 | 1 | 16th Place (2006) | 34 | 5 |
![]() | Women's Afrobasket | 26 August 2017 | 2010 | 8 | 1 | 12th Place (1979) | 17 | 1 |
The tournament was played in two phases. [7] In the first phase, the 16 qualified teams were sorted into four groups of four (A-D), each team in a group played each other once, 24 games were played in the first phase. The top team from each group directly advanced to the quarterfinals. The teams that placed fourth in the group stage were eliminated. The teams placed second and third from each group advanced to the quarterfinal qualifications, where the winners of the qualification round then progressed to the quarterfinals, losers were eliminated.
In the second phase, a knockout stage was used to determine the champion. In the quarterfinals the four winners progressed to the semifinals, the four losers played in classification games for 5–8th. In total, 40 games were played over a total of 8 days.
The official draw ceremony took place on 6 February 2018, at San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. [8] [9]
Included are the respective FIBA World Rankings for women:
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 234 | 173 | +61 | 6 | Quarterfinals |
2 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 224 | 200 | +24 | 5 | Qualification round |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 179 | 204 | −25 | 4 | |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 169 | 229 | −60 | 3 |
22 September 2018 | |||||
South Korea ![]() | 58–89 | ![]() | |||
Greece ![]() | 50–81 | ![]() | |||
23 September 2018 | |||||
Canada ![]() | 82–63 | ![]() | |||
France ![]() | 75–71 | ![]() | |||
25 September 2018 | |||||
South Korea ![]() | 48–58 | ![]() | |||
Canada ![]() | 71–60 | ![]() |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 260 | 175 | +85 | 6 | Quarterfinals |
2 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 217 | 224 | −7 | 5 | Qualification round |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 195 | 201 | −6 | 4 | |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 150 | 222 | −72 | 3 |
22 September 2018 | |||||
Australia ![]() | 86–68 | ![]() | |||
Turkey ![]() | 63–37 | ![]() | |||
23 September 2018 | |||||
Argentina ![]() | 43–84 | ![]() | |||
Nigeria ![]() | 74–68 | ![]() | |||
25 September 2018 | |||||
Australia ![]() | 90–64 | ![]() | |||
Argentina ![]() | 70–75 | ![]() |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 233 | 176 | +57 | 5 [lower-alpha 1] | Quarterfinals |
2 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 225 | 196 | +29 | 5 [lower-alpha 1] | Qualification round |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 217 | 220 | −3 | 5 [lower-alpha 1] | |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 150 | 233 | −83 | 3 |
22 September 2018 | |||||
Japan ![]() | 71–84 | ![]() | |||
Puerto Rico ![]() | 36–86 | ![]() | |||
23 September 2018 | |||||
Belgium ![]() | 75–77 (OT) | ![]() | |||
Spain ![]() | 78–53 | ![]() | |||
25 September 2018 | |||||
Japan ![]() | 69–61 | ![]() | |||
Belgium ![]() | 72–63 | ![]() |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 289 | 231 | +58 | 6 | Quarterfinals |
2 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 227 | 227 | 0 | 5 | Qualification round |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 203 | 231 | −28 | 4 | |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 206 | 236 | −30 | 3 |
22 September 2018 | |||||
Latvia ![]() | 61–64 | ![]() | |||
United States ![]() | 87–67 | ![]() | |||
23 September 2018 | |||||
Senegal ![]() | 70–69 | ![]() | |||
China ![]() | 88–100 | ![]() | |||
25 September 2018 | |||||
Senegal ![]() | 66–75 | ![]() | |||
Latvia ![]() | 76–102 | ![]() |
Qualification round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
28 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 53 | |||||||||||||
26 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 68 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 63 | |||||||||||||
29 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 48 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 66 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 72 | |||||||||||||
28 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 83 | |||||||||||||
26 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 42 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 87 | |||||||||||||
30 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 81 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 56 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 73 | |||||||||||||
28 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 86 | |||||||||||||
26 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 65 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 78 | |||||||||||||
29 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 61 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 77 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 93 | Third place | ||||||||||||
28 September | 30 September | |||||||||||||
![]() | 71 | ![]() | 67 | |||||||||||
26 September | ||||||||||||||
![]() | 40 | ![]() | 60 | |||||||||||
![]() | 57 | |||||||||||||
![]() | 56 | |||||||||||||
5–8th place semifinals | Fifth place | |||||
29 September | ||||||
![]() | 71 | |||||
30 September | ||||||
![]() | 76 | |||||
![]() | 67 | |||||
29 September | ||||||
![]() | 81 | |||||
![]() | 84 | |||||
![]() | 62 | |||||
Seventh place | ||||||
30 September | ||||||
![]() | 73 | |||||
![]() | 72 |
30 September 2018 20:00 |
Australia ![]() | 56–73 | ![]() |
Scoring by quarter: 15–20, 12–15, 11–26, 18–12 | ||
Pts: Smith 10 Rebs: Cambage 14 Asts: O'Hea 4 | Pts: Griner 15 Rebs: Stewart 8 Asts: Bird 5 |
Tenerife Sports Pavilion Santiago Martin, San Cristóbal de La Laguna Attendance: 3,715 Referees: Antonio Conde (ESP), Yu Jung (TPE), Yohan Rosso (FRA) |
# | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Preliminary round | FIBA World Ranking | |||||
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Grp | Rank | W–L | GA | Old | New | +/− | ||||||||
![]() | ![]() | 6 | 6 | 0 | 526 | 404 | +122 | D | — | 1 | 1 | ![]() | ||
![]() | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 1 | 471 | 356 | +115 | B | 4 | 3 | ![]() | |||
![]() | ![]() | 7 | 5 | 2 | 489 | 429 | +60 | C | 2 | 2 | ![]() | |||
4th | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 3 | 456 | 401 | +55 | C | 28 | 16 | ![]() | |||
Eliminated at the quarterfinals | ||||||||||||||
5th | ![]() | 7 | 5 | 2 | 532 | 476 | +56 | A | — | 3 | 4 | ![]() | ||
6th | ![]() | 7 | 4 | 3 | 499 | 543 | −44 | D | 10 | 7 | ![]() | |||
7th | ![]() | 6 | 4 | 2 | 431 | 389 | +42 | A | 5 | 5 | ![]() | |||
8th | ![]() | 7 | 3 | 4 | 448 | 508 | −60 | B | 34 | 19 | ![]() | |||
Eliminated at the qualification round | ||||||||||||||
9th | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 2 | 298 | 307 | −9 | C | 3rd | 2–1 | 0.723 | 13 | 10 | ![]() |
10th | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 3 | 256 | 279 | −23 | B | 1–2 | 0.650 | 7 | 6 | ![]() | |
11th | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 3 | 235 | 261 | −26 | A | 1–2 | 0.597 | 20 | 23 | ![]() | |
12th | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 3 | 251 | 294 | −43 | D | 1–2 | 0.677 | 17 | 17 | ![]() | |
Eliminated at the preliminary round | ||||||||||||||
13th | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 206 | 236 | −30 | D | 4th | 0–3 | 0.687 | 26 | 24 | ![]() |
14th | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 169 | 229 | −60 | A | 0–3 | 0.563 | 16 | 18 | ![]() | |
15th | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 150 | 222 | −72 | B | 0–3 | 0.500 | 15 | 15 | ![]() | |
16th | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 150 | 233 | −83 | C | 0–3 | 0.500 | 22 | 22 | ![]() |
Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics |
The All-Star Five was revealed on 30 September 2018. [10]
Points
| Rebounds
| Assists
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Blocks
| Steals
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Statistic | Player [13] | Total | Opponent | Team [14] | Total | Opponent |
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Points | ![]() | 34 | ![]() | ![]() | 102 | ![]() |
Rebounds | ![]() | 18 | ![]() | ![]() | 62 | ![]() |
Assists | ![]() | 13 | ![]() | ![]() | 30 | ![]() |
Steals | ![]() ![]() | 5 | ![]() ![]() | ![]() | 13 | ![]() ![]() |
Blocks | ![]() | 5 | ![]() | ![]() | 8 | ![]() ![]() |
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The Mascot Tina the Turtle were also unveiled at the ceremony in the town hall of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 7 August 2018, 6 Weeks before the Tournament kick off the mascot name is a short form of Tinerfina which means Coming from or Living from Tenerife, [15] Both Logo and the Mascot were designed by a Tenerife Artist Raul Pena [16]
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