Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
Tournament details | |
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Host country | United Kingdom |
Dates | July 28 – August 11 |
Teams | 12 |
Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | United States (7th title) |
Tournament statistics | |
Top scorer | de Souza Leedham (16.2) |
Top rebounds | dos Santos (9.0) |
Top assists | Miao (6.5) |
PPG (Team) | United States (90.6) |
RPG (Team) | United States (50.5) |
APG (Team) | United States (23.1) |
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The women's tournament in basketball at the 2012 Olympic Games in London began on 28 July and ended on 11 August. All preliminary and quarterfinal games were held at the Basketball Arena within the Olympic Park, and the semifinal and the medal games were held at the North Greenwich Arena (renamed from The O2 Arena due to the no commercialization policy).
Qualification
Means of qualification[1] | Date | Venue | Berths | Qualified |
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Host nation | 6 July 2005 | 1 | Great Britain | |
2010 FIBA World Championship | 23 September – 3 October 2010 | Czech Republic | 1 | United States |
2011 FIBA Europe Championship | 18 June – 3 July 2011 | Poland | 1 | Russia |
2011 FIBA Asia Championship | 21–28 August 2011 | Japan[2] | 1 | China |
2011 FIBA Oceania Championship | 7–11 September 2011 | Australia | 1 | Australia |
2011 FIBA Americas Championship | 24 September – 1 October 2011 | Colombia[3] | 1 | Brazil |
2011 FIBA Africa Championship | 23 September – 2 October 2011 | Mali | 1 | Angola |
2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament | 25 June – 1 July 2012 | Turkey | 5 | Turkey Croatia Czech Republic France Canada |
Total | 12 |
Squads
Competition format
Twelve qualified nations were drawn into two groups, each consisting of six teams. Each game result merits a corresponding point:
Result | Points |
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Win | 2 |
Loss | 1 |
Loss via default* | 1 |
Loss via forfeiture** | 0 |
*The team has less than two players available to play on the court.
**A team cannot present five players at the start of the game, or its actions prevent play from being resumed.
In case teams are tied on points, the tiebreaking criteria are, in order of first application:[4]
- Results of the games involving the tied teams (head-to-head records)
- Goal average of the games involving the tied teams
- Goal average of all of the games played
- Points scored
- Drawing of lots
The teams with the four best records qualified for the knockout stage, which was a single-elimination tournament. The semifinal winners contested for the gold medal, while the losers played for the bronze medal.
Preliminary round
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).
Group A
Template:2012 Summer Olympics women's basketball group A standings
Group B
Template:2012 Summer Olympics women's basketball group B standings
Knockout round
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold medal match | ||||||||||||
A1 | United States | 91 | ||||||||||||
B4 | Canada | 48 | ||||||||||||
A1 | United States | 86 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Australia | 73 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Australia | 75 | ||||||||||||
A3 | China | 60 | ||||||||||||
A1 | United States | 86 | ||||||||||||
B1 | France | 50 | ||||||||||||
B1 | France | 71 | ||||||||||||
A4 | Czech Republic | 68 | ||||||||||||
B1 | France | 81 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||||
B3 | Russia | 64 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Turkey | 63 | B2 | Australia | 83 | |||||||||
B3 | Russia | 66 | B3 | Russia | 74 |
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Statistical leaders
Individual tournament highs
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Team tournament highs
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See also
References
- ^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXX Olympiad" (PDF). IBF. May 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
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