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The first official Women's World Cup, known as the Women's World Championship through its 2014 edition, was held in Chile in 1953. The tournament was expanded to 16 countries (teams) in 1990. Since 2017, Australia qualifies for the World Cup through competing in the FIBA Women's Asia Cup , held each four years in the year preceding the Women's ...
Women's Basketball Conference. Official website. wnbl.basketball. The Women's National Basketball League ( WNBL) is a professional women's basketball league in Australia composed of eight teams. The league was founded in 1981 and is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League (NBL).
The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, also known as the Basketball World Cup for Women or simply the FIBA Women's World Cup, is an international basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially. It was created by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Its inaugural game was in 1953 in Chile, three years after the ...
Viktor Bout–Brittney Griner prisoner exchange. On December 8, 2022, Russia and the United States conducted a prisoner exchange, trading Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer. Griner, a WNBA champion star and Team USA Olympic athlete, had been convicted of smuggling and possession of cannabis in ...
Australian WNBA Players. Michelle Brogan (m. Griffiths) Carla Boyd (m. Porter) Key. a Annie La Fleur was born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, but moved to Australia as a child with her parents. [62] b Jay Kingi-Cross was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but moved to Australia with her parents at age 4.
Russian Basketball Federation ( Russian: Российская Федерация Баскетбола, romanized : Rossiyskaya Federatsiya Basketbola ), also known as RBF, is a national governing body of basketball in Russia. It was founded in 1991, and is the successor to the Soviet Basketball Federation. After the 2022 Russian invasion of ...
Yekaterina Viktorovna Lisina ( Russian: Екатерина Викторовна Лисина; born 15 October 1987), also known as Ekaterina Lisina, is a Russian model and former basketball player. She currently holds a Guinness World Record as the tallest professional model. Throughout her basketball career, she competed for the Russian ...
1998 FIBA World Championshipfor Women. The 1998 FIBA Women's World Championship (German: 1998 FIBA Frauen-Weltmeisterschaft) was hosted by Germany from May 26 to June 7, 1998. The USA won the tournament, defeating Russia 71-65 in the final.