2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup

2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup
Copa Mundial de Baloncesto Femenino FIBA 2018
Tournament details
Host countrySpain
CityTenerife
Dates22–30 September
Teams16
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions United States (10th title)
Runners-up Australia
Third place Spain
Fourth place Belgium
Tournament statistics
MVPUnited States Breanna Stewart
Top scorerAustralia Liz Cambage
(23.8 points per game)
2014
2022

The 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the 18th edition of FIBA's premier international tournament for women's national basketball teams, was held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain from 22 to 30 September 2018.[1] This was the first edition to use the name of FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. After the last edition in 2014, FIBA changed the name of the competition from the FIBA World Championship for Women, in order to align its name with that of the corresponding men's competition.

The United States were the two-time defending champions.[2] This tournament saw the World Cup debut of Belgium, Latvia and Puerto Rico.

The US Team won the final against Australia, to win their third straight and tenth overall title.[3]

  1. ^ "FIBA Calendar". Archived from the original on September 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "USA take down Spain in Turkey 2014 Final to retain world title". fiba.com. 5 October 2014. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014.
  3. ^ "USA three-peat as World Champions, punch ticket to Tokyo 2020 Olympics". fiba.basketball. 30 September 2018.

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