By Daily Sports Nigeria on October 6, 2023
African champions D’Tigress will face Senegal, US and Senegal at the 2024 FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.
The draws, which took place in Hungary on Thursday, had the Nigerians drawn in Tournament 2, which will be held in Antwerp, Belgium from February 8, 2024.
D’Tigress were seeded in Pot 3 due to their 11th ranked position in the world, and would hope to join the United States, who have already qualified as the World Cup winners.
The draw, which is for four women’s basketball tournaments, will be contested by 16 national teams, where the top teams earn a place in the 2024 Summer Olympics basketball tournament.
There are 10 Olympic tickets available since France are already assured of their spot as the Olympic hosts and US as the last FIBA Women’s world champions in 2022.
Both have a guaranteed spot in Paris but will take part in the qualifying tournaments.
As determined by the FIBA Central Board’s decision September 9, the FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournaments will be held from February 8 to 11, 2024 in four cities, namely Antwerp, Belgium; Belem, Brazil; Sopron, Hungary; and a city to be confirmed in China.
In tournament 1, France are paired with China, New Zealand and the yet-to-be-decided qualifiers from the Americas. In tournament 3, Brazil, Germany, Serbia and Australia will slug it out for a spot at the Olympics.
Meanwhile, Spain, Hungary, Japan and the other qualifier from the Americas region will hope to pick up one of the tickets from the group.
The teams from the Americas are Canada, Puerto Rico, Colombia and Venezuela.
Source Punch Ng
Posted October 6, 2023
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