The 1997 FIBA Americas Championship for Women, was the fourth

FIBA Americas Championship for Women The FIBA Women's AmeriCup (formerly FIBA Americas Championship for Women) is the Americas Women's Basketball Championship that take place every two years between national teams of the continents. The Women's AmeriCup is also a qualifying tournam ...

regional

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championship held by

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, which also served as Americas qualifier for the 1998 FIBA World Championship for Women, granting berths to the top four teams in the final standings. It was held in

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between 5 August and 10 August 1997. Eight national teams entered the event under the auspices of

, the sport's regional governing body. The city of

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hosted the tournament.

won their first title after defeating the

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in the final.

Format

*Teams were split into two round-robin groups of four teams each. The top two teams from each group advanced to the second stage and qualified directly to the 1998 FIBA World Championship for Women. The second stage consisted of another round-robin group of four teams, where the top two teams played an extra game for the championship, and the other two teams played for third place. The results between teams from the same group are carried over to the first round. *The teams that did not advance to the second round were cross-paired (3A vs. 3B, 4A vs. 4B) and played an extra game to define fifth through eighth place in the final standings.

First round

Group A

Group B

Classification stage

Fifth place

Seventh place

Second stage

Third place

Final

Final standings

External links

1997 Championship of the Americas for Women
FIBA.com. Retrieved January 22, 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:FIBA FIBA Women's AmeriCup 1997 in women's basketball 1997 in Brazilian sport International women's basketball competitions hosted by Brazil 1997–98 in North American basketball 1997–98 in South American basketball