China Olympic Basketball

China sent a mens basketball team to every olympics from 1984 through 2016. Basketball at the 2008 summer olympics was the seventeenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official olympic medal event. China lost to nigeria 86 73 in its last fiba world cup game on sunday.
china olympic basketball team

The four fiba womens olympic qualifying tournaments will complete the 12 team tokyo 2020 womens olympic basketball tournament with fiba womens basketball world cup 2018 champions usa and olympic hosts japan qualified directly.

China olympic basketball. 217 3 qualified to the final stage. Three on three basketball at the 2020 summer olympics. Its streak is in danger of being snapped. China national team news rumors roster stats awards.

It was held from 9 august to 24 august 2008. China has traditionally been the basketball powerhouse in asia and won the fiba asia cup 14 out of 16 times between 1975 and 2005. However the national team failed to defend its championship at the 2007 fiba asia cup. Competitions were held at the wukesong indoor stadium in beijing china.

This was due to the automatic berth at the 2008 beijing olympics as the host nation thus china sent its u23team to the 2007 tournament and finished 10th while its primary a team participated at the 2007 stankovic cup which took place around. China mens olympic basketball team index. For years three on three basketball has been a popular format worldwide but 2020 will be the first time it makes an appearance at the olympics. Team china in 2008 olympics.