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(Top) 1 Competition schedule 2 Qualification 3 Squads 4 Referees 5 Draw 6 Group stage 6.1 Group A 6.2 Group B 7 Knockout stage 7.1 Bracket 7.2 Quarterfinals 7.3 Semifinals 7.4 Bronze medal game 7.5 Gold medal game 8 Statistical leaders 8.1 Individual statistical leaders 8.2 Individual game highs 9 Final ranking 10 References 11 External links

Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	6–20 August 2016
Teams	12
Venue(s)	Carioca Arena 1 Youth Arena
Final positions
Champions	United States (8th title)
Tournament statistics
Games played	38
Top scorer	Cambage (23.5)
Top rebounds	Dos Santos (12.4)
Top assists	Yoshida (8.7)
PPG (Team)	United States (102.1)
RPG (Team)	United States (45.5)
APG (Team)	United States (27.9)
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Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Qualification
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Tournament
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Rosters
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v t e

The 2016 Summer Olympics women's basketball tournamentinRio de Janeiro, began on 6 August and ended on 20 August 2016.^[1]

The United States won their eighth total and sixth consecutive gold medal by defeating Spain 101–72 in the final.^[2]^[3]^[4] Serbia captured their first bronze medal after beating France 70–63.^[5]

The medals were presented by Patrick Baumann of Switzerland, Sir Philip Craven of Great Britain, Angela Ruggiero of the United States of America, and members of the International Olympic Committee, while the gifts were presented by Horacio Muratore, Lena Wallin Kantzy, José Luis Sáez, and the President and Central Board Members of FIBA.

Competition schedule[edit]

G	Group stage	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Final

Sat 6	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9	Wed 10	Thu 11	Fri 12	Sat 13	Sun 14	Mon 15	Tue 16	Wed 17	Thu 18	Fri 19	Sat 20
G	G	G	G	G	G	G	G	G		¼		½		B	F

Qualification[edit]

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
2014 FIBA World Championship	27 September – 5 October 2014	Turkey	1	United States
EuroBasket Women 2015	11–28 June 2015	Various	1	Serbia
Host nation	9 August 2015	Tokyo	1	Brazil
2015 FIBA Americas Championship	9–16 August 2015	Edmonton	1	Canada
2015 FIBA Oceania Championship	15–17 August 2015	Various	1	Australia
2015 FIBA Asia Championship	29 August – 5 September 2015	Wuhan	1	Japan
AfroBasket Women 2015	24 September – 3 October 2015	Yaoundé	1	Senegal
2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament	13–19 June 2016	Nantes^[6]	5	Belarus
				China
				France
				Spain
				Turkey
Total			12

Squads[edit]

Each NOC was limited to one team per tournament. Each team had a roster of twelve players, one of which could be a naturalized player.

Referees[edit]

The following referees were selected for the tournament.^[7]

Carlos Júlio

Leandro Lezcano

Scott Beker

Vaughan Mayberry

Guilherme Locatelli

Cristiano Maranho

Karen Lasuik

Stephen Seibel

Duan Zhu

Sreten Radović

Natalia Cuello

Eddie Viator

Robert Lottermoser

Anne Panther

Christos Christodoulou

Nadege Zouzou

Hwang In-tae

Oļegs Latiševs

José Reyes

Chahinaz Boussetta

Ahmed Al-Bulushi

Ferdinand Pascual

Piotr Pastusiak

Roberto Vázquez

Ilija Belošević

Damir Javor

Juan Carlos García

Carlos Peruga

Borys Ryzhyk

Steven Anderson

Draw[edit]

The draw was held at the FIBA Headquarters, also known as the "House of Basketball" in Mies, Switzerland on 11 March 2016. As the five winners of the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women (OQT) were yet to be known, they were assigned placeholders as "OQT 1", "OQT 2", "OQT 3", "OQT 4" and "OQT 5". These were the pot assignments:

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
United States Australia	Canada Brazil	Senegal Japan	Serbia OQT 1	OQT 2 OQT 3	OQT 4 OQT 5

Group A was assigned with OQT 1, OQT 3 and OQT 5, while Group B had OQT 2 and OQT 4.^[8]

Group stage[edit]

All times are local (UTC−3).^[9]

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	5	0	400	345	+55	10	Quarter-finals
2	France	5	3	2	344	343	+1	8^[a]
3	Turkey	5	3	2	324	325	−1	8^[a]
4	Japan	5	3	2	386	378	+8	8^[a]
5	Belarus	5	1	4	347	361	−14	6
6	Brazil (H)	5	0	5	335	384	−49	5

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head points difference; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c Head-to-head record: France 3 pts, +8 PD; Turkey 3 pts, −2 PD; Japan 3 pts, −6 PD

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Turkey	39–55	France
Scoring by quarter: 16–8, 3–14, 16–19, 4–14
Pts: Yılmaz16 Rebs: Yılmaz6 Asts: Vardarlı5		Pts: Michel, Miyem14 Rebs: Yacoubou11 Asts: Epoupa5

Brazil	66–84	Australia
Scoring by quarter: 24–14, 15–21, 14–22, 13–27
Pts: Castro Marques25 Rebs: dos Santos13 Asts: Pinto7		Pts: Cambage20 Rebs: Cambage14 Asts: Mitchell6

Belarus	73–77	Japan
Scoring by quarter: 21–26, 19–15, 20–19, 13–17
Pts: Leuchanka15 Rebs: Verameyenka10 Asts: Harding5		Pts: Kurihara20 Rebs: Yoshida9 Asts: Yoshida8

Australia	61–56	Turkey
Scoring by quarter: 12–15, 14–14, 17–12, 18–15
Pts: Cambage22 Rebs: Cambage11 Asts: three players3		Pts: Sanders25 Rebs: Sanders7 Asts: Vardarlı7