Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

The qualification for the Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament took place between 2006 and 2008; all five FIBA zones sent in teams.

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The first qualifying tournament was the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women in which the champion was guaranteed of a place in the Olympics. Throughout the next two years, several regional tournaments served as qualification for the zonal tournaments, which doubles as continental championships, to determine which teams will participate in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

Qualification

Outright qualification

A total of 12 teams will take part in the Olympics, with each NOC sending in one team. The host nation (the People's Republic of China) qualifies automatically as hosts.

There are a total of 5 zonal tournaments (doubling as continental championships) that determined the qualifying teams, with a total of 5 teams qualifying outright. Each zone was allocated with the following qualifying berths:

Furthermore, the current world champion, Australia qualified automatically by winning at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women.

Qualification via the wildcard tournament

The additional five teams will be determined at the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women 2008, with the best non-qualifying teams participating from teams that did not qualify outright. Each zone is allocated with the following berths:

Summary
Qualified for the Olympics outright
Qualified automatically
Qualified for the Wildcard Tournament

These are the final standings of the different Olympic qualifying tournaments. The venues are as follows, with the city of the knockout stage mentioned first:

RankWorldAfricaAmericasAsiaEuropeOceaniaWildcard
1st Australia Mali United States South Korea Russia Australia Spain
 Czech Republic
 Latvia
 Belarus
Ranked 1st
2nd Russia Senegal Cuba China Spain New Zealand
3rd United States Angola Brazil Japan Belarus Fiji
4th Brazil Mozambique Argentina Chinese Taipei Latvia
5th France Nigeria Canada Thailand Czech Rep. Brazil
6th Lithuania Cameroon Chile Malaysia Lithuania Cuba
7th Czech Rep. DR Congo Mexico India Belgium Japan
 Angola
Ranked 7th
8th Spain Ivory Coast Jamaica Hong Kong France
9th Argentina Cape Verde Uzbekistan Turkey
 Germany
 Italy
 Serbia
Ranked 9th		 Senegal
 Argentina
 Fiji
 Chinese Taipei
Ranked 9th
10th Canada Madagascar Vietnam
11th Cuba Tunisia Singapore
12th China Kenya Sri Lanka
13th South Korea Israel
 Romania
 Greece
 Croatia
Ranked 13th
14th Chinese Taipei
15th Senegal
16th Nigeria

Qualified teams

The twelve teams that qualified for Beijing 2008 are:

The italicized teams are the wildcards.

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