The women's

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tournament at the

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was held in

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, Canada at the Ryerson Athletic Centre from July 16 to 20. For these Games, the women competed in an 8-team tournament. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each group will advance to a single elimination bracket.

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are the defending champions from the

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, defeating

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, 85–67 in the final. The official detailed schedule for the tournament was announced on February 5, 2015. Canada won the tournament for the first time, becoming the first host nation to win the gold medal since the United States in

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Qualification

A total of eight women's teams qualified to compete at the games. The top three teams at the South American and Central American and Caribbean Championships will qualify for each respective tournament. The host nation (Canada) along with the United States automatically qualified a teams for the event.

Summary

Medalists

Draw

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on December 16, 2014. Canada as host nation were able to select their group after the first three pots were drawn. This automatically placed the United States into the group Canada did not select. *Latest

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(September 2014) per team is shown in brackets.

Rosters

At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had up to 12 players on their rosters. * * * * * * * *

Results

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Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Classification round

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Knockout Round

Semifinals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final standings

References

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