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2008 FIBA Asia Under 18 Championship

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Host nation
  
Iran

Champions
  
Iran (2nd title)

Venues
  
1 (in 1 host city)

2008 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship

Dates
  
August 28 – September 5

Teams
  
15 (from 44 federations)

The FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship 2008 is the 2008 edition of the FIBA Asia's youth championship for basketball. The games are held at Tehran, Iran

Contents

The top 3 teams qualified for the FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2009.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Iran) and holders (China) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2006 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.

Draw

* Uzbekistan withdrew from the tournament; their replacements, Kyrgyzstan, withdrew too after the plane carrying their team crashed, killing half of their team.

Group I

  • China forfeited the game against Syria after they walked out while leading 46–41 in the 3rd quarter.

    • References

    2008 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship Wikipedia
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