By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
The path for the participating countries in the 2024 Olympic Games will be set on March 19.
Scheduling the draw for the tournaments across men and women, FIBA also revealed seedings and explained the principles for the draw on Friday.
Per the press release: “The Draws for the Men’s and Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournaments Paris 2024 on March 19 in Mies, Switzerland will be completed according to specific Draw Principles.
Scheduled to take place at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball at 19:00 CET and performed by legends of the game Penny Taylor and Carmelo Anthony, the Draws will be available live and in full on the FIBA YouTube channel.
Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles
A total of 12 nations will compete at the Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024, which is scheduled to run from July 27 to August 10. There are currently eight national teams from five different Continents that have already qualified as the host nation or based on their respective results at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
The remaining four tickets on offer will be punched by the winners of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQT’s) which will be held between July 2 and 7 in Piraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Valencia (Spain).
The following video explains the complete Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles:
The Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles are based on the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike, as well as other geographical principles. The distribution of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQT’s) winners will be based on the best-ranked team at each event.
The teams will be divided into four pots based on the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike. In each of the final three group drawn, there will be a minimum of two and a maximum of three teams from Europe. For Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania, there shall be no more than one team per continent in each group.
Pot 1 – USA, the winner of OQT Spain and Germany
Pot 2 – Serbia, Australia and the winner of OQT Latvia
Pot 3 – Canada, France and the winner of OQT Puerto Rico
Pot 4 – The winner of OQT Greece, Japan and South Sudan
Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles
A total of 12 national teams from five Continents will compete at the Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024, which is scheduled to run from July 28 to August 11.
The following video explains the complete Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles:
The Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament Paris 2024 Draw Principles are based on the FIBA World Ranking Women, presented by Nike, as well as other geographical principles.
The 12 teams will be divided into four pots based on the FIBA Women’s World Ranking, presented by Nike. In each of the final group drawn, there will be a minimum of one and a maximum of two teams from Europe. For Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania, there shall be no more than one team per Continent in each group.
Pot 1 – USA, China and Australia
Pot 2 – Spain, Canada and Belgium
Pot 3 – France, Japan and Serbia
Pot 4 – Puerto Rico, Nigeria and Germany”
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