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2009 FIBA Africa Under 16 Championship

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Host nation
  
Mozambique

Teams
  
9

Champions
  
Egypt (1st title)

Dates
  
September 19–26

Venues
  
1 (in 1 host city)

MVP
  
Ahmed Mostafa

The 2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Men (alternatively the Afrobasket U16) was the 1st U-16 FIBA Africa championship, played under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body and qualified for the 2010 World Cup. The tournament was held from September 19–26 in Maputo, Mozambique, contested by 9 national teams and won by Egypt.

Contents

The tournament qualified the winner for the 2010 U17 World Championship.

Format

  • The 9 teams were divided into two groups (Groups A+B) for the preliminary round.
  • Round robin for the preliminary round; the top four teams advanced to the quarterfinals.
  • From there on a knockout system was used until the final.

    • Preliminary round

    Times given below are in UTC+2.

    Group B

    Guinea was disqualified due to age fraud

    Knockout stage

    All matches were played in: Pavilhão do Maxaquene, Maputo
    5th place bracket

    Awards

    All-Tournament Team

  • G Mohamed Guermat
  • PG Ahmed Mostafa MVP
  • F Boubacar Moungoro
  • PF René Manusse
  • C Khaled Moftan

    • References

    2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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