The FIBA Africa Championship 2001 was hosted by

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

from August 4 to August 12, 2001. The games were played in

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...

and

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

. The top two countries in this FIBA Africa Championship earned the two berths allocated to Africa for the

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in the

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won the tournament, the country's 6th African championship, by beating

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78-68 in the final. Both teams qualified for the

Draw

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Group B

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Knockout stage

Classification Stage

Final standings

Angola and Algeria qualified for the

in the

All tournament team

* G

Miguel Lutonda Miguel Pontes Timóteo Lutonda, 186 cm/´6'1", 78 kg/72 lbs, (born December 24, 1971) is a retired Angolan professional basketball point guard. For two consecutive years: 2001 and 2002, he received the Angola Sportsman of the Yea ...

* G

Ali Bouziane Ali Bouziane (born 25 March 1977 in Boufarik, Blida Province) is a former Algerian professional basketball player. He also played for the Algeria national basketball team The Algeria national basketball team are the men's basketball side tha ...

* F

Edmar Victoriano Edmar Monteiro dos Santos Victoriano a.k.a. "Baduna", (born 10 November 1975 in Luanda) is a former Angolan professional basketball player with Petro Atlético and Primeiro de Agosto. A former player of the Angolan national basketball team, he c ...

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Ali El Amri ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

* C

Haytham Darwish Haytham or Haitham (Arabic: هيثم, Hebrew: הייתם, Syriac/Assyrian-Aramaic: ܗܝܬܡ ''pronounced: hay-tham'') is a male Semitic given name with Arabic origins meaning "young eagle" or "young hawk". It is highly popular among Middle Eastern ...

Statistical leaders

Points Rebounds Assists

External links

FIBA Archive
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