Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 1997 |
Inaugural season | 1997 |
Ceased | 2010 |
No. of teams | FIBA Oceania member nations |
Continent | FIBA Oceania (Oceania) |
Last champion(s) | Australia (2nd title) |
Most titles | New Zealand (4 titles) |
FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament is a basketball tournament that debuted in 1997 and then took place every two years between 1998 and 2010. It featured under-20 national teams with the Oceania region.
Year | Host | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||||
1997 | Fiji | Fiji | 57–46 | Tahiti | Nauru | 67–60 | Vanuatu | ||
1998 | New Caledonia | New Zealand | 76–59 | Australia | New Caledonia | 71–66 | Fiji | ||
2000 | Vanuatu | New Zealand | 70–58 | New Caledonia | Australia | 72–29 | Tahiti | ||
2002 | Tonga | Fiji | 86–76 | Australia | New Caledonia | 105–88 | New Zealand | ||
2004 | Australia | New Zealand | 86–74 | Australia | Guam | 99–77 | Fiji | ||
2006 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 104–94 | Australia | New Caledonia | 70–67 | Tahiti | ||
2008 | Guam | Australia | 95–48 | Tahiti | Guam | 92–60 | New Caledonia | ||
2010 | New Caledonia | Australia | 57–46 | New Zealand | New Caledonia | 67–33 | Guam |
Nation | 1997 | 1998 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | Years |
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American Samoa | 7th | 5th | 7th | 5th | 4 | ||||
Australia | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 7 | |
Cook Islands | 7th | 1 | |||||||
Fiji | 1st | 5th | 4th | 1st | 6th | 4th | 5th | 7th | 8 |
Guam | 6th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4 | ||||
Nauru | 3rd | 1 | |||||||
New Caledonia | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 7 | |
New Zealand | 1st | 1st | 4th | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 6 | ||
Northern Mariana Islands | 6th | 1 | |||||||
Palau | 8th | 1 | |||||||
Papua New Guinea | 6th | 7th | 8th | 8th | 7th | 5 | |||
Samoa | 5th | 1 | |||||||
Tahiti | 2nd | 4th | 6th | 4th | 6th | 2nd | 6th | 7 | |
Tonga | 8th | 1 | |||||||
Vanuatu | 4th | 8th | 6th | 8th | 4 |
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