MIES, Switzerland, April 18 (Xinhua) — The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) will manage Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments this yr to open the highway for 40 groups to earn tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the world basketball governing physique introduced right here on Tuesday.
12 highest-ranked groups that didn’t qualify for the Second Round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifiers, and 28 groups that participated within the Second Round however didn’t qualify for the 32-team World Cup within the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia this summer time, will compete within the occasion.
Five winners of the 40 groups will qualify for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in 2024.
The pre-qualifying occasion can be held on August 12-20, 2023 and the FIBA Central Board will resolve the host of the occasion on the assembly on April 28-29. The draw of the match can be on May 1, 2023.
Following are the 40 groups:
From Africa: Cameroon, Congo DR, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda
From Americas: Argentina, Bahamas, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Uruguay and US Virgin Islands
From Asia: Bahrain, Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Syria
From Europe: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Türkiye, Ukraine and Bulgaria.