The

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, the 18th edition of

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's premier international tournament for women's national

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teams, was held in

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from 22 to 30 September 2018. This was the first edition to use the name of ''FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup''. After the last edition in 2014, FIBA changed the name of the competition from the ''FIBA World Championship for Women'', in order to align its name with that of the corresponding men's competition. The

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were the two-time defending champions. This tournament saw the World Cup debut of

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and

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. The US Team won the final against Australia, to win their third straight and tenth overall title.

Venues

Hosts selection

The whole bidding process started in October 2014. Bids from two nations were submitted. On 31 October 2014, it was confirmed that

and

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were the bidders. On 16 December 2014, it was announced that Spain won the bid and would host the upcoming World Cup.

Qualification

Spain as the hosts automatically qualified for the tournament in December 2014. The

were the next to qualify after winning Gold at the

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. The remaining teams were decided over June, July & August 2017 through the Women’s Continental Cups. The continental qualifiers vary in the number of teams; the European qualifiers featured 16 teams, Africa featured 12 teams, Americas featured 10 teams and Asia featured 8 teams. From the 46 teams competing for the final 14 spots, the field was completed by the top five teams from 2017 EuroBasket Women, the top three teams from the

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, the two finalists from the 2017 Women's Afrobasket; as well as the top four teams from the 2017 FIBA Asia Women's Cup, which saw teams from

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and

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compete together for the first time ever.

Format

The tournament was played in two phases. In the first phase, the 16 qualified teams were sorted into four groups of four (A-D), each team in a group played each other once, 24 games were played in the first phase. The top team from each group directly advanced to the quarterfinals. The teams that placed fourth in the group stage were eliminated. The teams placed second and third from each group advanced to the quarterfinal qualifications, where the winners of the qualification round then progressed to the quarterfinals, losers were eliminated. In the second phase, a

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was used to determine the champion. In the quarterfinals the four winners progressed to the semifinals, the four losers played in classification games for 5–8th. In total, 40 games were played over a total of 8 days.

Squads

Draw

The official draw ceremony took place on 6 February 2018, at

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, Island of Tenerife,

Seedings

Included are the respective FIBA World Rankings for women:

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Final round

Final

Final standings

Awards and statistics

Awards

The All-Star Five was revealed on 30 September 2018. *

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: Breanna Stewart * Breanna Stewart * Diana Taurasi * Astou Ndour *

Emma Meesseman Emma Meesseman (born 13 May 1993) is a Belgian professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's basketball), Fenerbahçe of the Women's Basketball Super League and EuroLeague Women. After playing basketball in Belgium, Meesseman was ...

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Statistics

Player tournament averages

Points Rebounds Assists Blocks Steals

Team tournament averages

Points Rebounds Assists Blocks Steals

Tournament game highs

Marketing

The logo and branding identity was unveiled on 5 February 2018 at the La Laguna Gran Hotel in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the logo is inspired by the treasures of the island of Tenerife, its coastlines and its heart of Spain. The Mascot Tina the Turtle were also unveiled at the ceremony in the town hall of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 7 August 2018, 6 Weeks before the Tournament kick off the mascot name is a short form of Tinerfina which means Coming from or Living from Tenerife, Both Logo and the Mascot were designed by a Tenerife Artist Raul Pena

References

External links

Official website
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