The 2006

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took place in

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from September 12 to September 23, 2006. It was co-organised by the

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(FIBA) and Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, the Brazilian national federation. Sixteen national teams competed for the championship. Australia came away with the gold medal by beating

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91–74.

Venues

Competing nations

Except Brazil, which automatically qualified as the host, and the United States, which automatically qualified as the reigning Olympic champion, the 14 remaining countries qualified through their continents’ qualifying tournaments: * FIBA Europe – Spain, France, Lithuania, Czech Republic (European Champion), Russia *

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– Brazil (host), United States (Olympic Champion), Canada, Argentina, Cuba *

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– Nigeria, Senegal *

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– P.R. of China, Chinese Taipei (or Taiwan or Republic of China), Korea *

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– Australia (Oceanian Champion)

Squads

At the start of tournament, all 16 participating countries each had 12 players on their roster.

Referees

For the World Championship for Women, FIBA selected 25 professional

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Preliminary round

* The three best squads of each group qualify for second round. :Legend: Pts: classification points (game won is 2 pts, game lost is 1), W: games won, L: game lost, PF : points scored, PC: points against, Diff.: difference; in green the squads qualified for eighth-final round.

Eighth-final round

* The four best squads of each group qualify for quarter-finals. All Preliminary Round games played by teams qualifying for the Eighth-finals carry over into the Eighth-final standings.

Knockout Stage (
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)

All times local ( UTC −2)

5th through 8th place

9th through 12th place

13th through 16th place

Awards

Final standings

References

External links

2006 World Championship for Women.Official Web of FIBA World Championship for Women of 2006 in Chinese language.
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