Africa Basketball Championship Facts
The FIBA Africa Championship (alternatively, the FIBA African Championship, or FIBA AfroBasket) is the men's basketball continental championship of Africa, played biennially under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body, and the African zone thereof. The tournament also serves to qualify teams for participation in the quadrennial FIBA World Cup and the Summer Olympic Games.
Qualification
Qualification is via the different FIBA Africa subzones from Zone 1 to Zone 7. Six subzones receive two berths each, only Zone 1 get one. The host and the champion from the preceding AfroBasket also get a berth each and finaly three teams are selected as wild cards. Each subzone conducts a qualification tournament up to a year before the championship to determine the qualifying teams.Summaries
A round-robin tournament determined the final standings.
Performances by nation
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Angola | 11 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
2 | Egypt | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
3 | Senegal | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
4 | Ivory Coast | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
5 | Central African Republic | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
6 | Nigeria | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
7 | Morocco | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
8 | Tunisia | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
9 | Algeria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Sudan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
11 | Cameroon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
12 | Cape Verde | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mali | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Palestine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Somalia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |