Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

The qualification for the Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament took place from 2010–2012; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones sent in teams.

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The first qualifying tournament was the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women in which the champion was guaranteed of a place in the Olympics. Throughout the next two years, several regional tournaments served as qualification for the zonal tournaments, which doubled as continental championships, to determine which teams would participate in the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

Qualification
Current qualifying situation.

Outright qualification

A total of 12 teams took part in the Olympics, with each NOC potentially nominating one team. The host nation (Great Britain) qualified automatically as hosts.

There were a total of 5 zonal tournaments (doubling as continental championships) that determined the qualifying teams, with a total of 5 teams qualifying outright. Each zone was allocated with the following qualifying berths:

Furthermore, the current world champion, United States qualified automatically by winning at the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women.

Qualification via the wild card tournament

The additional five teams were determined at the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women, with the best non-qualifying teams participating from teams that did not qualify outright. Each zone was allocated with the following berths:

Summary
Qualified for the Olympics outright
Qualified automatically
Qualified for the wild card Tournament

These are the final standings of the different Olympic qualifying tournaments. The venues are as follows, with the city of the knockout stage mentioned first:

RankWorldAfricaAmericasAsiaEuropeOceaniaWild Card
1st United States Angola Brazil China Russia Australia France
 Czech Rep.
 Croatia
 Turkey Ranked 1st
2nd Czech Rep. Senegal Argentina South Korea Turkey New Zealand
3rd Spain Mali Canada Japan France
4th Belarus Nigeria Cuba Chinese Taipei Czech Rep.
5th Australia Mozambique Puerto Rico Lebanon Croatia Canada
6th France Cameroon Mexico India Montenegro Japan
7th Russia DR Congo Colombia Malaysia Lithuania South Korea
 Argentina
Ranked 7th
8th South Korea Ivory Coast Jamaica Kazakhstan Latvia
9th Brazil Rwanda Paraguay Indonesia Belarus
 Great Britain
 Spain
 Poland
Ranked 9th		 Mali
 Mozambique
 New Zealand
 Puerto Rico Ranked 9th
10th Japan Tunisia Chile Uzbekistan
11th Greece Guinea Singapore
12th Canada Ghana Sri Lanka
13th China Greece
 Slovakia
 Germany
 Israel
Ranked 13th
14th Argentina
15th Mali
16th Senegal

Wild card tournament
Main article: 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women

This tournament consisted of 12 teams of which the top five teams earned a place in the Olympic Basketball tournament. It was held 25 June – 1 July 2012 in Ankara, Turkey.[1] The top eight teams qualified for the knockout round. All four quarterfinal winners advanced to the Olympics, then the four quarterfinal losers played two rounds to allocate the final slot. The four European teams won their quarterfinal matches, and Canada qualified for the final slot.

References
  1. "FIBA - Venezuela and Turkey to host 2012 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments" (Press release). FIBA. 2011-12-10. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
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