2001 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women

2001 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup
Tournament details
Host country Czech Republic
DatesJuly 14–22
Teams12
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Czech Republic (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Top scorerJapan Oga (25.4)
Top reboundsBrazil Souza (10.9)
Top assistsCzech Republic Uhrova (6)
PPG (Team) United States (88.1)
RPG (Team) Russia (43.6)
APG (Team) Czech Republic (15.3)
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The 2001 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women (Czech: Mistrovství světa FIBA žen do 19 let 2001)took place in the Czech Republic from 14 to 22 July 2001. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and Czech Basketball Federation.

Twelve national teams competed for the championship. Czech Republic came away with the Gold medal by defeating Russia 82–80 in the final.[1]

Venues

Competing nations

Except Czech Republic, which automatically qualified as the host nation, the 11 remaining countries qualified through their continents’ qualifying tournaments:

Final standings

# Team W-L
Czech Republic Czech Republic 6-1
Russia Russia 5-2
United States United States 6-1
4 Australia Australia 5-2
5 France France 5-2
6 Cuba Cuba 3-4
7 Brazil Brazil 4-3
8 Lithuania Lithuania 2-5
9 China China 3-4
10 Poland Poland 2-5
11 Japan Japan 1-6
12 Mali Mali 0-7

Awards

 2001 FIBA Women's World Junior Championship winner 

Czech Republic
First title

References

  1. ^ FIBA Archive. 2001 World Championship for Junior Women. Event Standings. Retrieved 2016-07-23