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2002 FIBA World Championship for Women

Field	Value
gender	women
continent	World
year	2002
host	China
dates	September 14–25
teams	16
federations	5
venues	9
cities	9
champions	USA
title_number	7
mvp	USA Lisa Leslie
ppg_p	AUS Jackson (23.1)
ppg_t	USA (88.6)
rpg_p	RUS Baranova (11)
rpg_t	USA (39.3)
apg_p	TPE Chien (5.5)
apg_t	TPE (14.4)
website	[2002 FIBA World Championship for Women](https://web.archive.org/web/20090616171054/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/sid/3119/_/2002_World_Championship_for_Women/index.html)
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The 2002 FIBA World Championship for Women () was hosted by China from September 14 to September 25, 2002. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the Chinese federation. The USA won the tournament, defeating Russia 79-74 for the gold medal.

Venues

City	Venue
Wuzhong
Taicang
Zhangjiagang
Changshu
Suzhou	Suzhou Sports Center
Changzhou
Huai'an
Zhenjiang
Nanjing	Wutaishan Gymnasium

Competing nations

Except China, 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:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D

Squads

Main article: 2002 FIBA World Championship for Women squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Pts.	W	L	PF	PA
6	3	0	256	164
5	2	1	255	191
4	1	2	182	247
3	0	3	181	272

September 14, 2002

****	73–58

September 15, 2002

****	100–63

September 16, 2002

	55–97	****	Wuzhong

Group B

Pts.	W	L	PF	PA
6	3	0	264	200
5	2	1	226	213
4	1	2	234	224
3	0	3	181	268

September 14, 2002

****	94–66

September 15, 2002

	52–93	****

September 16, 2002

****	86–75		Taicang

Group C

Pts.	W	L	PF	PA
6	3	0	274	142
5	2	1	235	196
4	1	2	201	282
3	0	3	165	255

September 14, 2002

****	89–55

September 15, 2002

	39–80	****

September 16, 2002

****	105–48		Zhangjiagang

Group D

Pts.	W	L	PF	PA
6	3	0	313	176
5	2	1	282	231
4	1	2	222	235
3	0	3	170	345

September 14, 2002

****	92–61

September 15, 2002

	35–131	****

September 16, 2002

****	90–80		Changshu

Eighth-final round

Group E

Pts.	W	L	PF	PA
11	5	1	492	176
11	5	1	524	231
10	4	2	472	235
10	4	2	473	345
8	2	4	466	235
7	1	5	352	345

September 18, 2002

****	72–59

September 19, 2002

****	101–72

September 20, 2002

****	102–55

Group F

Pts.	W	L	PF	PA
12	6	0	553	307
11	5	1	482	368
10	4	2	511	414
9	3	3	458	484
8	2	4	397	489
7	1	5	392	466

September 18, 2002

****	71–63

September 19, 2002

****	74–59

September 20, 2002

	68–101	****

Knockout stage

Championship bracket

|September 23 - Nanjing||70|**** |71 |September 23 - Nanjing||70|**** |86 |September 23 - Nanjing||55||94 |September 23 - Nanjing||78| |52 |September 24 - Nanjing||53||70 |September 24 - Nanjing||71||56 |September 25 - Nanjing||74||79 |September 25 - Nanjing||63||91

5th through 8th place

|September 24 - Nanjing||81||80 |September 24 - Nanjing||59||69 |September 25 - Nanjing||72||91 |September 25 - Nanjing||74||65

9th through 12th place

|September 23 - Zhenjiang||74||76 |September 23 - Zhenjiang||65||71 |September 24 - Zhenjiang||92||71 |September 24 - Zhenjiang||62||83

13th through 16th place

|September 19 - Huai'an||91||89 |September 19 - Huai'an||107||70 |September 20 - Huai'an||76||61 |September 20 - Huai'an||87||52

Awards

Most Valuable Player
USA Lisa Leslie

All-Tournament Team

USA Shannon Johnson
ESP Amaya Valdemoro
RUS Elena Baranova
AUS Lauren Jackson
USA Lisa Leslie

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
1		9–0
2		7–2
3		7–2
4		4–5
5		6–3
6		5–4
7		6–3
8		4–5
9		3–5
10		2–6
11		3–5
12		2–6
13		2–3
14		1–4
15		1–4
16		0–5

References

"FOURTEENTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR WOMEN -- 2002". usab.com.

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