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2006 FIBA World Championship for Women

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Host nation
  
Brazil

Champions
  
Australia (1st title)

Venues
  
2 (in 2 host cities)

MVP
  
Penny Taylor-Gil

2006 FIBA World Championship for Women

Dates
  
September 12 - September 23

Teams
  
16 (from 5 federations)

The 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women took place in Brazil from September 12 to September 23, 2006. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, the Brazilian national federation.

Contents

Sixteen national teams competed for the championship. Australia came away with the gold medal by beating Russia 91-74.

Competing nations

Except Brazil, which automatically qualified as the host, and the United States, which automatically qualified as the reigning Olympic champion, the 14 remaining countries qualified through their continents’ qualifying tournaments:

  • FIBA Europe - Spain, France, Lithuania, Czech Republic (European Champion), Russia
  • FIBA Americas - Brazil (host), United States (Olympic Champion), Canada, Argentina, Cuba
  • FIBA Africa - Nigeria, Senegal
  • FIBA Asia - P.R. of China, Chinese Taipei (or Taiwan or Republic of China), Korea
  • FIBA Oceania - Australia (Oceanian Champion)

    • Squads

    At the start of tournament, all 16 participating countries each had 12 players on their roster.

    Referees

    For the World Championship for Women, FIBA selected 25 professional referees:

    Preliminary round

  • The three best squads of each group qualify for second round.
    • Legend: Pts: classification points (game won is 2 pts, game lost is 1), W: games won, L: game lost, PF : points scored, PC: points against, Diff.: difference; in green the squads qualified for eighth-final round.

    Eighth-final round

  • The four best squads of each group qualify for quarter-finals. All Preliminary Round games played by teams qualifying for the Eighth-finals carry over into the Eighth-final standings.

    • Knockout Stage (São Paulo)

    All times local (UTC -2)

    References

    2006 FIBA World Championship for Women Wikipedia
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