FIBA Africa Championship 2009

The basketball Africa Championship 2009 (in short: Afrobasket 2009) is the 25th edition of this tournament and was held from 5 to 15 August 2009 in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and Benghazi in place. The preliminary matches were held in the African Union Arena, as well as in the Suliman Ad- Dharrath Arena in half. The knockout games of the final round took place around the places nine through twelve, which was held with the participation of the Libyan team in Benghazi, completely in the arena of capital down to the placement round. The medal winner of the tournament qualified directly for the 2010 World Cup in Turkey.

Hosts Libya in 1978 had last participated in a continental final and can not last more sporty qualify. At least reached the national selection at the home - title bouts, the second group stage and was next to a victory over South Africa and the North African- Arab "brothers" Egypt and Morocco to conquer and occupy the eleventh. Angola won fairly safely without defeat in the tournament his sixth title success in series. In addition to silver medalist Ivory Coast Tunisia also failed to qualify for the World Cup finals in 2010. This was for the crew of the Libyan neighboring State, the first medal win in this competition since the 1970s, meaning the initial qualification of the Tunisian selection for a global finals.

  • 4.1 Group E
  • 4.2 Group F
  • 6.1 games to accommodate 13 to 16
  • 6.2 games to accommodate nine to twelve
  • 6.3 games to accommodate five to eight

Participant

Directly qualified were the hosts and the three medal winners of the African Cup of Nations 2007:

  • Libya Libya - Host
  • Angola Angola - Africa Champion 2007
  • Cameroon Cameroon - Silver Medal 2007
  • Cape Verde Cape Verde - Bronze Medal 2007

As the winner of the qualifications within the six different zones of the FIBA Africa following teams participated:

In addition, the following teams have qualified:

  • Morocco Morocco - Second zone 1
  • Ivory Coast Ivory Coast - Second zone 3
  • Republic of Congo Republic of Congo - Second Zone 4
  • Rwanda Rwanda - Second Zone 5

In addition, the FIBA Africa awarded two wildcards:

  • Senegal Senegal
  • South Africa South Africa

Mode

At the tournament a preliminary round in four groups was held to four teams as a round-robin tournament. The group last played in a placement round out the places 13 to 16. The three best qualified group is taking with all its preliminaries results for a second round with two groups of six teams in which they played against the teams of the other preliminary round groups. The two worst teams in the two intermediate groups played in a round Placement Round of the places nine through twelve. The four best teams of the two intermediate round groups qualified for the final round, in which they played off the medals in the knockout system. The losers of the games of the quarterfinals played in a Placement Round positions five to eight, while the losers of the games of the semifinal in the " small final " not only for the bronze medal in this tournament, but also to the remaining grid position for the final round of World Cup 2010 played. The winners of the semifinal games were qualified for the 2010 World Cup and played in the final for the gold medal.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round matches were held between the fifth and the seventh of August 2009.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

The matches of the second round took place between the ninth and eleventh of August 2009. The games in Group E were held in Benghazi and the games in Group F in Tripoli. The battered results of the preliminary round are indicated in italics.

Group E

Group F

Final round

The games of the final round took place between August 13th and 15th 2009.

Placement rounds

Games to accommodate 13 to 16

Games to accommodate nine to twelve

Games to accommodate five to eight

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