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2008 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women

Field	Value
title	2008 FIBA World Olympic
Qualifying Tournament
subtitle	For Women
continent	World
year	2008
logo	FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women 2008 logo.png
size	85
host
dates	9–15 June
teams	12
federations	5
venues	1
cities	1
website	OQT Spain
nextseason	2012

Qualifying Tournament

The FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2008 for women took place from June 9 to June 15, 2008. On December 9, 2007, FIBA announced that Spain would host the wildcard tournament.

Through this tournament, the final five qualifying berths for the 2008 Olympics women's basketball competition were captured by Spain, Belarus, Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Brazil. The 12 teams that competed in the 2008 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament were based on the finishes in each of FIBA’s five zone qualifying tournaments.

Participating nations

Participating countries in the wildcard tournaments.

]] The draw was made on January 14, 2008 in Institute of Training and Studies of the Central Government of Madrid.

The teams were divided into three pots, roughly corresponding to the FIBA World Rankings and to their continental zones (all European teams are in Pot 3):

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3

Format

The 12 participating teams were divided into four groups (A, B, C and D) of three teams each. Each team played all the other teams in its own group. The teams placed 1st and 2nd in each group played in the Quarter-Finals, with the four winners of the Quarter-Finals qualifying for the Olympic Games. The four losers played in the Semi-Finals and Finals for one remaining qualifying place.

Squads

Main article: FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women 2008 squads

Preliminary round

	Qualified for the quarterfinals

:Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

Group A

Pts.	W	L	PCT	PF	PA	Diff
4	2	0	1.000	177	103	+74
3	1	1	0.500	140	152	-12
2	0	2	0.000	103	165	-62

Group B

Pts.	W	L	PCT	PF	PA	Diff
4	2	0	1.000	163	109	+54
3	1	1	0.500	113	144	-31
2	0	2	0.000	113	136	-23

Group C

Pts.	W	L	PCT	PF	PA	Diff
4	2	0	1.000	196	113	+83
3	1	1	0.500	181	113	+68
2	0	2	0.000	87	238	-151

Group D

Pts.	W	L	PCT	PF	PA	Diff
4	2	0	1.000	164	137	+27
3	1	1	0.500	139	133	+6
2	0	2	0.000	144	177	-33

Knockout stage

:Note: Italicized teams qualify for the Olympics. (quarterfinal losers) June 14 June 15

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final game

References

Official Website in English and Spanish
Video of the Draw @ fiba.com

References

link. (2007-09-14)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071212053345/http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/lateNews/p/langid/1/newsid/22889/arti.html PR N°58 - Meeting of the FIBA Central Board in Chicago] FIBA.com
[http://www.feb.es/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=11&ItemID=17285 Women’s FIBA Pre-Olympic Tournament drawing to be held on Monday in Madrid]

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