2001 ABC Championship

The basketball Asia Championship 2001 ( officially: Asian Basketball Championship 2001) was the 21st edition of the tournament and was held from July 20 to July 28, 2001 in Shanghai, China instead. It was organized by FIBA ​​Asia, the Asian Basketball Federation. The two best team qualified for the World Basketball Championship in 2002.

• 3.1 Group E
• 3.2 Group F
• 3.3 Group G
• 3.4 Group H

• 4.1 mode
• 4.2 Places 1-4
• 4.3 places 5 to 14

Participant

They were qualified for the tournament a total of 16 teams. After the withdrawal of two teams and the disqualification of the Philippines took 14 teams participated in the Asia Cup 2001.

The top six teams in the basketball Asia Championship 1999:

• China People's Republic of China
• Flag of South Korea South Korea
• Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 2)
• Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei
• Japan Japan
• Kuwait Kuwait

From the regional qualifications:

West Asia:

• Lebanon Lebanon
• Syria Syria

Gulf region:

• Qatar Qatar
• United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates

Central Asia:

• India India
• Uzbekistan Uzbekistan

East Asia:

• North Korea North Korea 2)
• Hong Kong Hong Kong

Southeast Asia:

• Philippines Philippines 1)
• Thailand Thailand

1) Philippines were disqualified by FIBA ​​and replaced by Singapore. 2) North Korea and Saudi Arabia have withdrawn their teams.

All games were played in two different gyms in Shanghai.

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, two groups of three teams and two groups of four teams played against each other. The winner of the match was awarded two points, the loser one point. The top two of each group reached the group stage. The third - and fourth-placed play for places 9-14.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group stage

After the preliminary round, the top two teams, the third and fourth placed teams in Group G and H played in groups E and F for the places 1 to 8, for places 9 to 14 in the groups was a simple round each against each played.

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Final round

Mode

The top two from Groups E and F played in KO system to place 1 to 4 finishing third in Group E and F were playing for 5th place, the fourth-placed to 7th place The winners of the groups G and H were playing for second place 9, the runner-up to 11th place, the third place to 13th place

Places 1-4

Places 5-14

End figures

The national teams of China and Lebanon qualified for the Basketball World Championship 2002.