2006 FIBA World Championship for Women

2006 FIBA World Championship for Women
Campeonato Mundial de Basquetebol Feminino de 2006
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	September 12–23
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Australia (1st title)
Runners-up	Russia
Third place	United States
Fourth place	Brazil
Tournament statistics
MVP	Penny Taylor-Gil
Top scorer	Lauren Jackson; (21.3 points per game)
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The 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women took place in Brazil from September 12 to September 23, 2006. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, the Brazilian national federation.

Sixteen national teams competed for the championship. Australia came away with the gold medal by beating Russia 91–74.

Venues

City	Venue
Barueri	Ginásio José Corrêa
São Paulo	Ginásio G.J. de Almeida ( Ibirapuera)

Competing nations

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Brazil	Australia	United States	Czech Republic
Spain	Lithuania	Russia	France
South Korea	Canada	China	Cuba
Argentina	Senegal	Nigeria	Chinese Taipei

Except Brazil, which automatically qualified as the host, and the United States, which automatically qualified as the reigning Olympic champion, the 14 remaining countries qualified through their continents’ qualifying tournaments:

FIBA Europe – Spain, France, Lithuania, Czech Republic (European Champion), Russia
FIBA Americas – Brazil (host), United States (Olympic Champion), Canada, Argentina, Cuba
FIBA Africa – Nigeria, Senegal
FIBA Asia – P.R. of China, Chinese Taipei (or Taiwan or Republic of China), Korea
FIBA Oceania – Australia (Oceanian Champion)

Squads

At the start of tournament, all 16 participating countries each had 12 players on their roster.

Referees

For the World Championship for Women, FIBA selected 25 professional referees:

Andersson, Karolina
Avanessian, Heros
Baum Spalter, Gabriel Chiel
Blauch, Susan Elaine
Boltauzer, Matej
Chernova, Elena
Conde, Antonio

Crowley, Nadiene Renée
da Silva, Fátima Aparecida
Dolinek, Ivo
Etheir, Nancy
Gode, Vitalis Odhiambo
Ho, Kok Yew
Julien, Chantal

Leemann, Philippe
Lefwerth, Oscar
Mayberry, Vaughan Charles
Pacheco, Sérgio de Jesus
Pilipauskas, Kestutis
Peng, Ling
Rougier, Diego Hernan

Schaer Araya, Gabriela
Smith, Roberto Omar
Touré, Moussa Ismaïla
Varghese, Gens Vadayattu

Preliminary round

The three best squads of each group qualify for second round.

	Team	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Group A (São Paulo)
1	Argentina	5	2	1	219	199	+20
2	Brazil	5	2	1	243	222	+21
3	Spain	5	2	1	218	200	+18
4	Korea	3	0	3	207	266	−59

Tue Sept. 12 13:00	Korea	57	87	Spain
Tue Sept. 12 15:15	Argentina	69	71	Brazil
Wed Sept. 13 13:00	Spain	64	77	Argentina
Wed Sept. 13 15:15	Brazil	106	86	Korea
Thu Sept. 14 13:00	Korea	64	73	Argentina
Thu Sept. 14 15:15	Brazil	66	67	Spain

	Team	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Group B (São Paulo)
1	Australia	6	3	0	194	120	+74
2	Lithuania	5	2	1	158	123	+35
3	Canada	4	1	2	188	245	−57
4	Senegal	3	0	3	182	234	−52

Tue Sept. 12 17:30	Lithuania^[1]	0	2	Australia
Tue Sept. 12 19:45	Senegal	64	65	Canada
Wed Sept. 13 17:30	Canada	58	84	Lithuania
Wed Sept. 13 19:45	Australia	95	55	Senegal
Thu Sept. 14 17:30	Lithuania	74	63	Senegal
Thu Sept. 14 19:45	Canada	65	97	Australia

	Team	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Group C (Barueri)
1	United States	6	3	0	288	198	+90
2	Russia	5	2	1	250	206	+44
3	China	4	1	2	209	264	−55
4	Nigeria	3	0	3	155	234	−79

Tue Sept. 12 15:15	Russia	84	50	Nigeria
Tue Sept. 12 19:45	United States	119	72	China
Wed Sept. 13 15:15	China	66	86	Russia
Wed Sept. 13 19:45	Nigeria	46	79	United States
Thu Sept. 14 17:30	United States	90	80	Russia
Thu Sept. 14 19:45	Nigeria	59	71	China

	Team	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Group D (Barueri)
1	Czech Republic	5	2	1	224	185	+39
2	France	5	2	1	235	204	+31
3	Cuba	5	2	1	204	216	−12
4	Chinese Taipei	3	0	3	210	268	−58

Tue Sept. 12 13:00	France	62	58	Czech Republic
Tue Sept. 12 17:30	Cuba	75	70	Chinese Taipei
Wed Sept. 13 13:00	Chinese Taipei	68	100	France
Wed Sept. 13 17:30	Czech Republic	73	51	Cuba
Thu Sept. 14 13:00	Chinese Taipei	72	93	Czech Republic
Thu Sept. 14 15:15	France	73	78	Cuba

Legend: Pts: classification points (game won is 2 pts, game lost is 1), W: games won, L: game lost, PF : points scored, PC: points against, Diff.: difference; in green the squads qualified for eighth-final round.

Eighth-final round

The four best squads of each group qualify for quarter-finals. All Preliminary Round games played by teams qualifying for the Eighth-finals carry over into the Eighth-final standings.

	Team	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Group E (São Paulo)
1	Australia	12	6	0	431	310	+121
2	Spain	10	4	2	446	384	+62
3	Brazil	10	4	2	482	412	+70
4	Lithuania	9	3	3	342	329	+13
5	Argentina	9	3	3	377	402	−25
6	Canada	7	1	5	344	474	−130

Sat Sept. 16 09:30	Argentina	62	58	Canada
Sat Sept. 16 14:00	Brazil	84	67	Lithuania
Sat Sept. 16 16:15	Australia	72	68	Spain
Sun Sept. 17 09:30	Argentina	47	62	Lithuania
Sun Sept. 17 14:00	Spain	85	57	Canada
Sun Sept. 17 16:15	Australia	82	73	Brazil
Mon Sept. 18 13:00	Lithuania	55	75	Spain
Mon Sept. 18 15:15	Argentina	49	83	Australia
Mon Sept. 18 17:30	Brazil	82	41	Canada

	Team	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Group F (Barueri)
1	United States	12	6	0	517	339	+178
2	Czech Republic	10	4	2	438	404	+34
3	Russia	9	3	3	493	446	+47
4	France	9	3	3	414	410	+4
5	China	9	3	3	421	477	−56
6	Cuba	8	2	4	405	475	−70

Sat Sept. 16 11:45	Russia	64	74	France
Sat Sept. 16 14:00	Czech Republic	79	73	China
Sat Sept. 16 16:15	United States	90	50	Cuba
Sun Sept. 17 11:45	Czech Republic	85	83	Russia
Sun Sept. 17 14:00	China	73	70	Cuba
Sun Sept. 17 16:15	United States	76	41	France
Mon Sept. 18 15:15	Russia	96	81	Cuba
Mon Sept. 18 17:30	France	64	66	China
Mon Sept. 18 19:45	United States	63	50	Czech Republic

Knockout Stage (São Paulo)

All times local (UTC −2)

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

September 20, 2006 – 17:30

Australia	79
		September 21, 2006 – 15:15
France	66
		Australia	88
September 20, 2006 – 15:15
		Brazil	76
Czech Republic	51
				September 23, 2006 – 14:00
Brazil	75
				Australia	91
September 20, 2006 – 13:00
				Russia	74
Spain	56
		September 21, 2006 – 19:45
Russia	60
		Russia	75
September 20, 2006 – 19:45
		United States	68	Third place
United States	90
				September 23, 2006 – 9:30
Lithuania	56
				Brazil	59

				United States	99

5th through 8th place

Classification round		Fifth place

September 21, 2006 – 13:00

France (OT)	79
		September 22, 2006 – 17:30
Czech Republic	78
		France	79
September 21, 2006 – 17:30
		Lithuania	73
Spain	71

Lithuania	80
		Seventh place

		September 22, 2006 – 15:15

		Czech Republic	57

		Spain	49

9th through 12th place

Classification round		Ninth place

September 20, 2006 – 19:45

China	61
		September 21, 2006 – 19:45
Canada	65
		Canada	57
September 20, 2006 – 17:30
		Argentina	74
Argentina	76

Cuba	73
		Eleventh place

		September 21, 2006 – 17:30

		China	68

		Cuba	71

13th through 16th place

Classification round		Thirteenth place

September 16, 2006 – 09:30

Chinese Taipei	81
		September 17, 2006 – 16:15
Nigeria	77
		Chinese Taipei	52
September 16, 2006 – 16:15
		Korea	73
Korea	75

Senegal	69
		Fifteenth place

		September 17, 2006 – 09:30

		Nigeria	64

		Senegal	66

Awards

2006 FIBA Women's World champions
Australia First title

Most Valuable Player
Penny Taylor-Gil

Final standings

#	Team	W-L
	Australia	9–0
	Russia	5–4
	United States	8–1
4	Brazil	5–4
5	France	5–4
6	Lithuania	4–5
7	Czech Republic	5–4
8	Spain	4–5
9	Argentina	5–3
10	Canada	2–6
11	Cuba	3–5
12	China	3–5
13	South Korea	2–3
14	Chinese Taipei	1–4
15	Senegal	1–4
16	Nigeria	0–5

References

^ "Opals awarded two for default". Fox sports. 2006-09-13. Retrieved 2006-09-13.

External links

[1] "Opals awarded two for default". Fox sports. 2006-09-13. Retrieved 2006-09-13.

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