The 2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade was one of four

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. The tournament was held in Belgrade,

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. It was originally scheduled to take place from 23 to 28 June 2020 but was postponed due to the

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, to 29 June to 4 July 2021. Following the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, it was the second consecutive men's Olympic qualifying tournament held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Teams

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initially qualified for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament by virtue of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. On 26 February 2021, Basketball New Zealand announced that they would pull out of the tournament. On the same day,

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announced that they would be replaced by the

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as the next-best team from the Asia-Oceania region in FIBA World Rankings.

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

had been initially included in the Belgrade Tournament, but it has been forced to withdraw before the start due to several

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positive cases, and not being replaced by any team, lowering the number of participants to 5.

Venue

Squads

Preliminary round

''All times are local (

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).''

Group A

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Group B

did not participate in the Qualifying Tournament. On 28 June, they informed FIBA about COVID-19 related disruptions to their preparations in

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. Afterwards, their scheduled games with

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and

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did not take place. Therefore, in Group B only one match has been played between

and

: the winner of this game finished first of group B and faced the second placed team of Group A, the other team finished second of Group B and faced the first placed team of group A, in the semi-finals. In fact, FIBA did not considered Senegal as a participant and did not applied the Rule 20.2.1, which could have awarded Senegal's opponents the game with score as 20 to 0 (Article 20 discusses the games lost by

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). FIBA indeed did not drew up any standings.

Final round

Semi-finals

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Final

Final ranking

References

External links

Official websiteTournament summary
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