Basketball At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Qualification
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Twelve teams qualified for the women's
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tournament . The host nation and the 2018 World Cup winner qualified. Those two teams, however, had to play in the pre-qualifying and qualifying tournaments and took one of the qualifying spots from those tournaments. Thus, while two of the World Qualifying Tournaments provided quota spots to their three top teams, the other two tournaments provided quota spots only to the top two teams plus either the host nation or the World Cup winner. Teams had to qualify for the Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments through Women's EuroBasket or Pre-Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (which themselves must be qualified for through Continental Cups).


Qualification

The cities of
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had been awarded the hosting rights of the four FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments, from 6 to 9 February 2020. However, the Foshan tournament was moved to Belgrade due to concerns over the
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Pre-qualifying tournaments


Europe


EuroBasket

The top six teams in
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qualified directly to the WOQTs.


Africa


Africa pre-qualifying tournament

The top six teams from the
2019 Women's Afrobasket The 2019 AfroBasket Women was held from 10 to 18 August 2019 in Dakar, Senegal. It was also the first step for the qualification for FIBA Africa for the women's basketball tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The top six team ...
played in the Africa pre-qualifying tournament from 14 to 17 November 2019. The top two teams in the PQT advanced to the WOQTs. The tournament was held in
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. ''All times are local (
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).''


=Preliminary round

= The draw was held on 18 August 2019.


Group A


Group B

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Semifinals

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Americas


Americas pre-qualifying tournaments

The top eight teams in the
2019 FIBA Women's AmeriCup The 2019 FIBA Women's AmeriCup was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from 22 to 29 September 2019. The United States won their third title by defeating Canada in the final. Venue Qualification * Host nation ** * North America Subzone: ** (quali ...
played in two Americas pre-qualifying tournaments, with four teams in each tournament. The top two teams in each PQT advanced to the WOQTs. The draw was held on 30 September 2019. Canada and Argentina each hosted one tournament.


=Group A

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=Group B

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Asia/Oceania


Asia/Oceania pre-qualifying tournaments

The eight teams which took part in the
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, including Olympic host Japan, played in two Asia/Oceania pre-qualifying tournaments, with four teams in each tournament. For the tournament in which Japan plays, Japan and the best other team advanced to the WOQTs. For the other tournament, the top two teams advanced. The 2019 FIBA Women's Asia Cup was planned to have two divisions, Division A and B. Under the original set-up, only the top seven teams of Division A and the top team of Division B would have advanced to the Asia/Oceania qualifiers. However, Division B of was not held since there was no nation willing to host the tournament, and India which placed last in the FIBA Women's Asia Cup were given a slot in the Asia/Oceania qualifiers. The draw was held on 28 September 2019. The tournaments were held in
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and
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=Group A

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=Group B

= ''All times are local (
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Olympic Qualifying Tournaments


Qualification for WOQTs

There was a pre-qualifying process for the WOQTs. European teams had to finish in the top six of EuroBasket, while teams from the Americas, Asia (including Oceania), and Africa played in pre-qualifying tournaments. 16 total teams qualified for the WOQTs. The Olympic host (Japan) and the World Cup winner (United States) automatically qualified for the WOQTs, each taking a spot from their respective continent.


References

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