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FIBA EuroBasket Women All-Tournament Team
The EuroBasket Women All-Tournament Team is a FIBA award given every two years, awarded to the five strongest competitors throughout the tournament. Honourees See also * FIBA EuroBasket Women Most Valuable Player * FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Most Valuable Player * FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team * FIBA Awards References {{DEFAULTSORT:FIBA EuroBasket Women All-Tournament Team Team A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson (academic), Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interde ... Basketball trophies and awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EuroBasket Women
EuroBasket Women is a biennial international women's basketball competition held between the nations of FIBA Europe for women's national teams. EuroBasket Women is also used as a qualifying tournament for the FIBA Women's World Cup and also the Olympic Games. History The first tournament was held in 1938 in Fascist Italy, with participation of only five national teams. Despite losing to Lithuania (21–23), the host team won all other matches and captured inaugural title thanks to better head-to-head point difference among Top 3 teams. Lithuania and Poland took silver and bronze medals respectively. The Second World War (1939–1945), which began the following year, interrupted the organization of women's basketball tournaments for a long time. The next continental championship was held in Hungary only 12 years later, in 1950. From 1950 to 1980, women's championships were held biennially each even year – unlike men's European Basketball Championship which were held each o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evanthia Maltsi
Evanthia "Evina" Maltsi ( el, Εβίνα Μάλτση, born 30 December 1978) is a Greek former professional basketball guard. In 2007, she played for Connecticut Sun in the WNBA, appearing in 29 games, 26 in the regular season (7 as a starter) and 3 in the playoffs. A three time Euroleague All-Star (2007–2009), Maltsi has a long career in European club basketball, having played in Spain, France, Czech Republic, Poland and Turkey besides her native Greece and she has won numerous titles as a player of CJM Bourges, Ros Casares Valencia, USK Praha and Olympiacos. Maltsi is the captain of Greece women's national basketball team, having represented her country in several Eurobasket Women, the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2010 FIBA World Championship. She led the Greek national team to the fifth place in 2009 FIBA Eurobasket earning the EuroBasket MVP award, a remarkable feat considering that Maltsi was voted MVP despite the fact that Greece didn't enter the semi-finals. She was als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Dabović
Ana Dabović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Дабовић; born August 18, 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player for the BLMA of the French Ligue 1 and EuroLeague Women. Standing at , she plays at the shooting guard position. She also represents the Serbian national basketball team. Since 17 April 2015 to October 2016, she was a president of ŽKK Vojvodina. Club career Dabović began her professional career in WBC Herceg Novi, playing there from 2005 until 2007. She then signed with the Albanian team Flamurtari Vlore for the 2007–08 season, only to return a year later to Herceg Novi. In the following years she played for several foreign teams, including Greek WBC Aris, Russian WBC Dynamo Novosibirsk, Polish Wisła Kraków and Turkish TED Ankara Kolejliler. In April 2013, she signed with Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Women's Basketball Premier League. She later played for Ormanspor in the Turkish Women's Basketball League. Dabović would play for Yakın Doğu Ünive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EuroBasket Women 2015
The 2015 EuroBasket Women, European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2015, was the 35th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. The tournament was co-held in Hungary, which hosted the championship for the fifth time after 1950, 1964, 1983 and 1997, and Romania which hosted it for the second time after 1966, on 11–28 June 2015. The event was hosted by more than one country for the first time. Serbia won their first title by defeating France 76–68 in the final. Host selection Initially six member federations expressed their intention to organize the tournament: Belarus and Lithuania, who applied a joint bid; Hungary, Israel, Serbia and Spain. Lithuania later refused the plan of a joint bid and eventually two countries submitted an official candidation, Belarus and Hungary. The final decision was made by the FIBA Europe Board on 18 December 2011 in their meeting in Munich, which awarded the organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sancho Lyttle
Sancho Lyttle (born September 20, 1983) is a Vincentian-Spanish former professional basketball player for the WNBA. Combining the WNBA and the European season, she has won six domestic leagues and four Euroleague titles with four teams in three countries. She was born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and was granted Spanish nationality in June 2010. With the Spanish basketball team she has won four medals between 2010 and 2017. Early life Sancho Lyttle was born to Evelyn Little and Ian Cain. Members of her family spell their surname 'Lyttle' or 'Little'. Sancho has a younger brother, Xavier Little. Sancho attended St. Vincent Girls' High School where she played netball and ran various Track and Field events. She never played basketball until prompted to do so after her move to the United States. She and three other girls from her country were requested by her Junior College and current assistant coach for the University of Houston Women's team Wade Scott who offered to tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Yacoubou
Isabelle Yacoubou (born 21 April 1986) is a Beninese-born French basketball player. She plays for France women's national basketball team. She has competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics where France won a silver medal. Since May 2004 she also holds the Beninese record in the shot put at 15.15 meters. References External links * 1986 births Living people Atlanta Dream draft picks Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Beninese emigrants to France Beninese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Beninese expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Beninese women's basketball players Black French sportspeople Centers (basketball) Fenerbahçe women's basketball players French women's basketball players Heilongjiang Dragons players Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players of France Olympic medalists in basketball Olympic silver medalists for France People from Atlantiqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Torrens
Alba Torrens Salom (born 30 August 1989) is a Spanish female basketball player at the small forward position who plays for UMMC Ekaterinburg. Winner of six EuroLeague titles with three clubs and eight medals with the Spanish senior team, she is considered one of the best European players of the 2010s. After the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she left the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg. Club career Torrens started playing basketball in clubs in her native Balearic Islands before moving in 2003 to Segle XXI, where young talents are developed. She made her debut in the Spanish top-tier league with Celta Vigourban in the 2007–08 season. Perfumerías Avenida was her clubs for the next two seasons, winning the Spanish league and the Euroleague in 2011 under coach Lucas Mondelo. Despite being picked by the Connecticut Sun in the 2009 WNBA draft, she has repeatedly refused to join the WNBA because of the commitment to the national team. She moved abroad in 2011 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Eldebrink
Frida Eldebrink (born 4 January 1988) is a Swedish basketball player who last played for the San Antonio Stars of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her twin sister Elin is also a basketball player. They are daughters of Kenth Eldebrink, javelin thrower and olympic medallist in 1984, while their uncle Anders Eldebrink Anders Karl Daniel Eldebrink (born 11 December 1960) is a former ice hockey defenceman in the Swedish Hockey League, SEL in the 1970s and 1980s. He also played 165 games for the Swedish national team. Playing career Eldebrink began h ... is a former professional ice hockey player. References 1988 births Living people Beşiktaş women's basketball players San Antonio Stars players Swedish expatriate basketball people in the United States Swedish women's basketball players Swedish expatriate basketball people in Spain Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Tarbes Gespe Bigorre players Guards (basketball) Swedish tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EuroBasket Women 2013
The 2013 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2013, was the 34th regional championship held by FIBA Europe. The competition was held in France from 15–30 June 2013. This was the fourth time that the EuroBasket Women has been hosted by France. Spain defeated France 70–69 in the final to win the title. Venues Qualified teams The Qualifying Round was held from June 12 to July 14, 2012. Squads Group draw The draw took place on September 21, 2012 at 16:30 local time at Paris, France. Seedings The seeding was announced on September 18, 2012. Draw Preliminary round The schedule was announced on 5 November 2012. ''All times are local (UTC+2).'' Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group C ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group D ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Main round Group E ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group F ---- - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevriye Yılmaz
Nevriye Yılmaz (; born 16 June 1980) is a Turkish retired basketball player. Yılmaz, who grew up in Bulgaria in a Turkish family, moved to İstanbul, Turkey with her parents when she was nine years old. In 1997, she won the World High School Basketball Championship with Boğaziçi Lisesi. Career in Europe She began her basketball career with I.U.S.B.K. (1997–99) and then she played Galatasaray (1999-01) where she won her first Turkish Championship in Turkey. She moved first to the Greek team Apollon Ptolemaida (2001–02) then later to the Bulgarian team Academic Plovdiv (2002). Yılmaz moved then to Italy to play for Termini Imerese (2002–03), La Spezia Basket (2003–04) and Pool Comense Como (2004–05). WNBA Yılmaz is the first Turkish woman to play in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In 1999, she participated in the Charlotte Sting's training camp, but was released before the season started. In 2000, she attended the training camp for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Kirillova
Elena Igorevna Kirillova, (russian: Елена Игоревна Данилочкина; born 27 January 1986), née Elena Danilochkina, (russian: Елена Данилочкина) is a Russian basketball player. She played as a shooting guard for the Russian women's national team and Nadezhda Orenburg in the Russian Premier League. She then switched to Dynamo Kursk in 2016, winning with her team the EuroLeague in 2017. Danilochkina led Russia to the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women 2011 and was voted the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. Her team placed fourth at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Mandir
Sandra Mandir, born Popović, (born 4 August 1977 in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Croatian basketball player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Croatia women's national basketball team in the women's event. She is 5 ft 10 inches tall. Career * Medveščak (1997–01, 2003–04), Gospić (2007–09, 2010–11), Novi Zagreb (2004–05, 2011–2013), Šibenik (2005–07) * Galatasaray (2001–02), Besiktas (2009–10), Istanbul Universitesi BGD (2013-) * Pécs Pécs ( , ; hr, Pečuh; german: Fünfkirchen, ; also known by other #Name, alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the fifth largest city in Hungary, on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the countr ... (2002–03) Awards * in 2011, among 10 nominated candidates for the best European player, nominated by FIBA Europe * 8th player of Europe in 2012 among 10 nominated candidates for the best European player, nominated by FIBA Europe (CroatianF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
