2006 FIBA World Championship for Women
The Basketball Women's World Cup 2006 was held from September 12 to September 23, 2006 in Brazil instead. On the Enter the Games in São Paulo ( Ibirapuera ) and Barueri were (about 30 kilometers away from Sao Paulo). The tournament was organized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA ) and the Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, the Brazilian Federation.
The World Cup tournament contest 16 nations.
- 2.2.1 place play- 15 ( Ibirapuera )
- 2.2.2 place play- 13 ( Barueri )
- 2.3.1 Group E ( Ibirapuera )
- 2.3.2 Group F ( Barueri )
- 2.4.1 place match 11
- 2.4.2 place play- 9
- 2.6.1 Game for 7th place
- 2.6.2 game for 5th place
- 2.8.1 3rd place match ( Ibirapuera )
- 2.8.2 Final ( Ibirapuera )
- 4.1 points per game
- 4.2 rebounds per game
- 4.3 assists per game
Participating nations
Except for Brazil, which has automatically qualified as the host country, and the United States, who were qualified as reigning Olympic champion, the remaining 14 participants were determined by continental qualifying tournaments:
- FIBA Europe: Spain, France, Lithuania, the Czech Republic ( European Champion ), Russia
- FIBA Americas: Brazil, United States (Olympic Champion), Canada, Argentina, Cuba
- FIBA Africa: Nigeria, Senegal
- FIBA Asia: China, Taiwan, South Korea
- FIBA Oceania: Australia ( Oceania champions )
Results
Preliminary round
The first three teams in each of the four preliminary round groups qualified for the second round.
Group A ( Ibirapuera )
Group B ( Ibirapuera )
*) The match Australia against Lithuania had to be canceled and was rated 2-0 for Australia because of a flight cancellation forced the Lithuanians to travel across French Guiana, to reach Brazil. However, they needed to travel to the South American country may, a yellow fever vaccination, something that the team had not expected.
Group C ( Barueri )
Group D ( Barueri )
Placement matches (No. 13 to 16)
Place play- 15 ( Ibirapuera )
Place play- 13 ( Barueri )
Second round
The first four teams of two intermediate round groups qualified for the quarter-finals.
Group E ( Ibirapuera )
Group F ( Barueri )
Placement matches (No. 9-12 ) ( Ibirapuera )
Place play- 11
Place play- 9
Quarterfinals ( Ibirapuera )
Placement matches (No. 5-8 ) ( Ibirapuera )
Game for 7th place
Match for 5th place
Semi Finals ( Ibirapuera )
Medal Games
3rd Place Match ( Ibirapuera )
Finale ( Ibirapuera )
Final rankings
Statistics
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Honors
- Penny Taylor of the gold medalist Australia ( most valuable player ) was elected MVP of the tournament. In the gold medal game against Russia, she scored 28 points and 9 rebounds. On average, Taylor scored 18.0 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game and had hit rates of 59.3 percent from the field (51 of 86 ), 40.0 percent from three- point line ( 12 of 30 ) and 85.7 percent in free throws (30 of 35). Her teammate Lauren Jackson was number 2 in the election. The Russian Maria Stepanova was third.
Referee
For the tournament the following 25 professional referees have been selected:
- Antonio Conde Spain
- Chantal Julien France France
- Diego Hernan Rougier Argentina Argentina
- Elena Chernova Russia Russia
- Fátima Aparecida da Silva Brazil Brazil
- Gabriel Chiel tree splitters Uruguay Uruguay
- Gabriela Schaer Araya Costa Rica Costa Rica
- Gene Vadayattu Varghese India India
- Heros Avanessian Iran Iran
- Ivo Dolinek Czech Republic Czech Republic
- Karolina Andersson Finland Finland
- Kestutis Pilipauskas Lithuania Lithuania
- Kok Yew Ho Malaysia
- Ling Peng People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
- Matej Boltauzer Slovenia
- Moussa Ismaila Toure Mali Mali
- Nadiene Renée Crowley Canada Canada
- Nancy Etheir Canada Canada
- Oscar Lefwerth Sweden Sweden
- Philippe Leeman Switzerland Switzerland
- Roberto Omar Smith Argentina Argentina
- Sérgio de Jesus Pacheco Brazil Brazil
- Susan Elaine Blauch United States United States
- Charles Vaughan Mayberry Australia
- Vitalis Gode Odhiambo Kenya