The Sweden women's national basketball team ( sv, svenska dambasketlandslaget) represents

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in international

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competition and is controlled by the

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. The national team has entered five

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finals, the first in

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where they lost all of their matches and finished in 13th place. At the

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Sweden finished in 7th place, a feat repeated in

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. In

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Sweden reached the quarter-finals and was ranked 5th, a result that secured a spot in the 2020 Olympic qualifying tournament. Comparing with earlier decades, Sweden improved significantly during the 2010s. This was much thanks to the "Golden Generation" who won medals in junior championships on both

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and

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levels.

Competitive record

EuroBasket Women

Team

Current roster

Roster for

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; Assistant coaches * Viktor Bengtsson * Mats Levin ---- ;Legend: *Club – describes last
club before the tournament *Age – describes age
on 17 June 2021

References

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