Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 2004 |
Countries | FIBA Oceania member nations |
Continent | FIBA Oceania (Oceania) |
Most recent champion(s) | Australia (9th title) |
Most titles | Australia (9 titles) |
The FIBA Oceania Under-18 Championship for Women is an under-18 basketball championship in the International Basketball Federation's FIBA Oceania zone that was inaugurated in 2004. [1] The tournament is now known as the FIBA Under-17 Women's Oceania Championship .
As of 2017, the previously known as FIBA Oceania Under-18 competition (which was a qualifier for the World Cup) would now be an Under-17 competition for Oceania teams to qualify through to the Asian Championship (from which they can then qualify for the World Cup). [2]
Edition | Year | Host | Final | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | |||||
1 | 2004 Details | Melbourne | Australia | 2–0 | New Zealand | No other teams competed | ||||
2 | 2006 Details | / | Australia | 3–0 | New Zealand | |||||
3 | 2008 Details | Adelaide | Australia | 3–0 | New Zealand | |||||
4 | 2010 Details | Palmerston North | Australia | 3–0 | New Zealand | |||||
5 | 2012 Details | Porirua | Australia | 3–0 | New Zealand | |||||
6 | 2014 Details | Suva | Australia | 98–65 | New Zealand | Guam | 54–48 | Tahiti | ||
7 | 2016 Details | Suva | Australia | 107–52 | New Zealand | Samoa | 75–65 | New Caledonia |
Edition | Year | Host | Final | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | |||||
1 | 2017 Details | Hagåtña | Australia | 81–60 | New Zealand | Samoa | 88–58 | Guam | ||
2 | 2019 Details | Noumea | Australia | 88–41 | New Zealand | Tahiti | 62–56 | Samoa |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Australia | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
2 | New Zealand | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
3 | Samoa | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
4 | Guam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Tahiti | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (5 entries) | 9 | 9 | 4 | 22 |
Nation | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | Total |
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American Samoa | 10 | 1 | ||||||
Australia | 7 | |||||||
Fiji | 7 | 5 | 2 | |||||
Guam | 8 | 2 | ||||||
New Caledonia | 5 | 4 | 2 | |||||
New Zealand | 7 | |||||||
Papua New Guinea | 6 | 7 | 2 | |||||
Samoa | 9 | 2 | ||||||
Solomon Islands | 8 | 1 | ||||||
Tahiti | 4 | 6 | 2 | |||||
# Teams | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 |
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