FIBA zone FIBA Americas Appearances 16 Coach Dawn Staley | Appearances 10 Appearances 4 Location United States of America National federation USA Basketball | |
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Medals Gold: (1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Silver: (1976)
Bronze: (1992) Medals Gold: (1953, 1957, 1979, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2010, 2014)
Silver: (1983)
Bronze: (1994, 2006) | ||
The United States women's national basketball team are the defending Olympic and World champions in women's basketball. The team is composed of some of the top American players in the WNBA and the women's college tournaments.
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The team has won eight Olympic gold medals and nine FIBA world championships, and did not lose an international match between 1994 and 2006. However, with longtime leaders Dawn Staley, Lisa Leslie, and Teresa Edwards absent, they lost to Russia in the semifinal of the 2006 world championship, eventually settling for the bronze.
On August 11, 2012, the team won their 5th straight gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, beating France in an 86–50 victory. and on October 5, 2014, beat Spain 77-64 in the final of the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women for their second consecutive world title.And the same two countries met again at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in mid-August 2016 but the Americans won again for their 6th straight gold, beating them 101-72 to make it 49 straight Olympic basketball victories overall.
Gold medals
In addition, the US team won silver medals at the 1976 Olympics and 1983 world championship, and bronze medals at the 1992 Olympics and 1994 and 2006 world championship.
FIBA Women's World Cup
The USA women's national basketball team has competed in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, known through the 2014 edition as the FIBA World Championship for Women, since the inaugural event in 1953, except for 1959, when the games were held in Moscow. The results of the competition for Team USA:
Current roster
Tentative roster for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The following is the United States roster for the women's basketball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.