New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): International Basketball Federation on Wednesday introduced the dates of FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying tournaments 2023 which is scheduled to be held between August 12 to twenty this yr.
Forty groups, together with India, will compete for Paris 2024 Olympics berth on the FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying event, as per Olympics.com.
FIBA will maintain a gathering on April 28 and 29 to resolve on the host for the occasion. The draw of the event shall be on May 1.
There shall be 12 groups within the fray within the males’s basketball event on the Paris 2024 Olympics. While France has mechanically certified, seven groups shall be determined on the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. The Philippines, Japan and Indonesia will collectively host this occasion in August-September this yr.
And the remaining 4 groups will get their qualification on the FIBA Olympic qualifying tournaments. There are two levels within the event the place the primary pre-qualifying stage shall be performed at a continental stage and the second stage shall be performed on the world stage.
The 40 groups which didn’t qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 may also have the ability to strive their probability for the Paris 2024 qualification by this occasion.
India was one of many groups who had handed the primary spherical of qualifiers to qualify for the second spherical of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Asian qualifiers. In the primary spherical of qualifiers, India was in group A with New Zealand, the Philippines and South Korea.
The Indian males’s basketball group within the first spherical of qualifiers had misplaced two video games in opposition to New Zealand and the Philippines. However, after South Korea and another groups withdrew on account of COVID-19, they moved to second spherical.
In the second spherical, India didn’t win single video games and due to this fact didn’t qualify for World Cup.
Five groups from the 40 within the pre-qualifying tournaments will make it to the ultimate Olympic qualifying event in 2024. The 5 nations will embody one every from Asia, Africa and the Americas and two from Europe. (ANI)