Media in category united states women s national basketball team. All sports baseball cross country football men s basketball men s golf men s tennis softball track and field women s basketball women s golf women s soccer women s tennis women s volleyball go. Katie lou samuelson searching for olympic roster spot with. Team usa wins sixth straight womens basketball gold as. The usa dominates international basketball and won all the titles up to 1972, the year it was defeated by the soviet union at the munich games. United states mens national basketball team wikipedia. The top five teams will earn berths for the womens olympic basketball tournament. The usa basketball womens national teams next two games. Kobe bryant on reclaiming olympic basketball glory at beijing 2008.
The usa womens team win their 8th olympic basketball gold medal. Olympic team roster july 12, 2012 usa basketball chairman jerry colangelo confirmed this morning that he had been informed. Explore the schedules of your favorite sports, day by day and event by event, and stay on top of all the times s coverage from beijing. Access official results for the beijing 2008 basketball event basketball women at the beijing 2008 summer games olympics, plus view video highlights of top performances. It is a competition which the usa have dominated across the entire 80 years and will arrive in brazil as both the current holders, and having been crowned as olympic champions an absolutely eyepopping 14. In 2012, 140 women s event were held at the summer olympic games. The usa basketball women s national team, commonly known as the united states women s national basketball team, is governed by usa basketball and competes in fiba americas. View striking olympic videos of basketball see the best athletes, medalwinning performances and top olympic games moments. Find and follow the olympic events that interest you most.
Usa womens basketball extends dominating rio run the usa womens basketball team will go for a sixth straight gold medal after defeating france in its semifinal at the 2016 rio olympics. During its early years, the aau served as a leader in international sport representing the u. Usa women win sixth consecutive olympic basketball gold medal. Usa olympic basketball team rosters and stats basketball.
This is a list of the players who are on the rosters of the given teams who are participating in the. Paralympic womens wheelchair basketball team as recipients of team of the month honors for june. Page claimed bronze as a starter for serbia at the rio olympics in 2016, helping the serbians to their first women s basketball olympic medal in history. Rio 2016 women s olympic basketball competition schedule, results, stats, teams and players profile, news, photos and videos. Serving up notice to the rest of the world and cementing her spot on the 2008 olympic squad was fowles, who averaged team highs of 17.
Dawn staley will coach the team at the 2020 tokyo olympics, said two people with knowledge of the decision. The us womens basketball team came back from a slow start to hand a 30 point loss to. Injury profile in elite female basketball athletes at the. Team usa gold medal game full highlights vs serbia 2014. Well be in touch with news, updates, and ways you can help the team. Injury profile in elite female basketball athletes at the womens national basketball association combine. This is a list of the players who are on the rosters of the given teams who are participating in the 2008 beijing olympics for women s basketball group a. Feb 10, 2020 this is the first step in usa basketball identifying the 12 players who will represent the united states as members of the 2020 u. Past usa basketball teams ahead of the 1996, 2000 and 2008 olympic. They qualified for the olympics by winning the fiba american championships 2007 held in las vegas, nevada. And to stock up on stylish team usa gear that you can wear all year round, visit the team usa shop.
Usa v china beijing 2008 basketball replays throwback. Usa v spain boxscore 2016 rio 2016 olympic basketball. Aug 20, 2016 elena delle donne, us basketball win olympic gold. Ioc olympic channel presents dream team 1992 revisited just the facts. Freshman swimmer takes on olympic competition in national. Assistant equipment manager mens and womens basketball. She also boasts the incredible feat of being both the youngest and the oldest gold medallist in her sport, having helped team usa to the title for the first time in 1984 at the age of 20, and for the last in 2000 when she was 36. The new olympic channel brings you news, highlights, exclusive behind the scenes, live events and original programming, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. The aau worked closely with the olympic movement to prepare athletes for the olympic games. Columbias olympic history columbia university athletics. The aussies had finished second at both the 2000 and 2004 olympics. The womens tournament of the basketball at the 2008 olympics at beijing, china began on august 9 and ended on august 23, when the united states defeated australia 9265 for the gold medal. Fifa womens world cup veteran and twotime olympic gold medalist aly wagner is fox sports lead game analyst for the fifa womens world cup france 2019.
The team is by far the most successful in international women s basketball, winning eight out of ten olympic tournaments it had entered. The united states, represented by the united states olympic committee usoc, competed at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing, china. Summer olympics number of womens events 19922016 statista. Overview basketball at the tokyo games will feature a 12team mens tournament and a 12team womens tournament. Media in category 2008 summer olympics basketball f the following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total. History of basketball at the olympic games reference document. Wasserman to compete in the tokyo games, now scheduled for sometime in 2021.
Teresa edwards olympic basketball united states of america. Fourteen of those athletes have made multiple olympic appearances including norman armitage sixtime olympian in men s fencing, anne marsh threetime olympian in women s fencing, alfred skrobish threetime olympian in men s fencing, and erinn smart threetime olympian in women s fencing. It promised to be an incredibly exciting match, and after only grabbing the. The following is the united states roster in the women s basketball tournament of the 2008 summer olympics. When the olympic games get underway in rio in 2016, it will herald eight decades of basketball being played at the prestigious event. Usa basketball and red bull form groundbreaking partnership to grow 3x3 basketball. Discover the latest news and results from basketball 3x3 world championships, such as fiba 3x3. Teresa edwards is the only female basketball player to win five olympic medals four of them gold. The aau was founded in 1888 to establish standards and uniformity in amateur sports. Please see the mens olympic basketball section for complete olympic coverage, including team rosters, stats, results, and much more. In the professional era, the team won the olympic gold medal in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, and 2016.
United states basketball at the 2008 beijing summer games. The women s tournament of the basketball at the 2008 olympics at beijing, china began on august 9 and ended on august 23, when the united states defeated australia 9265 for the gold medal. United states at the 2008 summer olympics wikipedia. Mississippi state has hired old dominion coach nikki mccray as its new head coach, replacing vic schaefer at the helm of a talented bulldog program, according to ben portnoy of the dispatch. The team is by far the most successful in international womens basketball, winning eight out of ten olympic tournaments it had. Usa basketball unveils expanded womens national team program. The fiba basketball world cup is taking place in china right now reason enough to throw it back to the summer olympics 2008 in bejing. Team usa faced spain in the basketball final of the olympic games 2008 in beijing. Usa basketball at the beijing 2008 olympic games this page includes information about the performance of the united states national basketball team. Nov 22, 2018 team usa faced spain in the basketball final of the olympic games 2008 in beijing. American female gymnasts have participated in every olympic games since 1936 except for 1980. Amid all the fluidity surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, too many unanswered questions loom about the tokyo olympics and the wnba season. The people spoke to the associated press on thursday on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been publicly announced.
Football at the summer olympics, commonly known as football or soccer, has been included in every summer olympic games as a men s competition sport, except 1896 and 1932. The usa women s team win their 8th olympic basketball gold medal. Fiba organises the most famous and prestigious international basketball competitions including the fiba basketball world cup, the fiba world championship for women and the fiba 3x3 world tour. The official usa basketball site explains the significance of the team usa s presence in olympic history in capturing the 2008 olympic gold medal the u. Here you have information about the performance of the usa basketball team in the 2008 olympic games, including roster, all the games played, standings and some basic stats. The mens and womens tournaments will feature the same formats, which see the 12 teams divided into three pools of four. American women have won 48 medals at the olympics 9 in team allaround, 8 in individual allaround, 4 in vault, 8 in uneven bars, 10 in balance beam, and 9 in floor exercise. Catch a really close encounter between the usa and china in the women s basketball at the beijing 2008 summer olympic games. Usa v spain boxscore 2016 rio 2016 olympic basketball tournament women fiba. Mens basketball team represented the united states of america at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing, china. Of the 12 players selected for the 2008 olympic team, six were part of the 2006 usa basketball mens world championship team, and eight were part of the 2007 fiba americas championship that qualified the u. Thats the word used by eventual fourtime olympic gold medalist lisa leslie used at the 2008 u. The bulldogs get a coach with a rich pedigree in hoops.
Former husker forward danielle page, who spent 10 seasons in professional basketball, became the second olympian in the history of husker women s basketball and the first to earn a medal. Nebraska womens basketball history university of nebraska. The team was nicknamed the redeem team, a play on an alternative name for the legendary 1992 squad that was called the dream team, and a reference. With one year until the opening tip of the 2020 olympic women s basketball tournament, usa basketball today unveiled a collaborative and expanded usa women s national team program and training. History and evolution of basketball as an olympic sport keywords. The ioc olympic channel is offering weekly replays of the 1992 dream teams gold medal run. It also won eight of the last eleven world cups including the last three, and ten. This allows us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display skip to content. It promised to be an incredibly exciting match, and after only grabbing the bronze medal in 2004, the redeem. The usa basketball mens national team, commonly known as the united states mens national basketball team, is the most successful team in international competition, winning medals in all eighteen olympic tournaments it has entered, including fifteen golds. First nine members of 2008 us womens olympic basketball. Mens basketball story archives texas tech university. Beijing 2008 basketball men olympic beijing 2008 basketball.
Usa basketball the national governing body for mens and. Clarendon named to usa basketball 3x3 olympic qualifying team. Australia did the same in group a, as the two advanced to the elimination rounds. China vs usa womens basketball beijing 2008 summer. Women s football was added to the official program at the 1996 atlanta games. Usa womens national team rosters announced for january. Usa announces roster for womens olympic basketball team. Forty years ago this summer, a team of 12 women laid the foundation for the future of womens basketball in the united states, competing as part of team usa in the firstever olympic womens basketball tournament at the 1976 summer olympics in montreal. The website features live and on demand videos, basketball news, over 70,00 players profile. Spain vs usa gold medal match beijing 2008 throwback.
Lisa callahan hospital for special surgerynew york knicks. What it would mean for minnesota lynx center sylvia fowles 198c85, college. Olympic games basketball, news, teams, scores, stats. List of olympic female gymnasts for the united states wikipedia. Women s olympic basketball team that will head to beijing in hopes of defending the usa s string of. Find out more about olympic basketball 3x3, including videos, images, news, and interviews with olympic basketball 3x3 champions and athletes. United states womens national basketball team 2008 summer olympics roster. Dec 04, 2008 schmitt, who won a bronze medal as part of the 800meter freestyle relay team in china, is expected to compete in the 50, 100, 200 and 500 meter freestyles and the 200m butterfly. Please note that because a number of antidoping rules violations procedures are still in progress including procedures involving medalists further to the results of the retesting programmes carried out on the samples collected in beijing 2008 and london 2012 the information contained in the list is not final. The official website of fiba, the international basketball federation, and the governing body of basketball. Usain bolt is by far the most decorated sprinter of all times. Basketball at the 2008 summer olympics womens tournament.
Download the usa basketball app today for the latest news on the mens and womens teams, as well as youth development content. Mens and womens olympicnational teams as corecipients of the 2012 usa basketball team of the year award. United states womens national basketball team wikipedia. Today is the last day of the us olympics trials gymnastics.
This ends our olympic womens basketball liveblogging, but stick with the guardian for its nonstop. The usa basketball womens national team, commonly known as the united states womens national basketball team, is governed by usa basketball and competes in fiba americas. Usa announces roster for women s olympic basketball team. The remaining five places will be taken much closer to the event, via the tension and excitement of the 2016 fiba womens qualifying tournament woqt which offers 12 teams the chance to realise their olympic dreams. Nutrition hear about nutrition from usa basketball mens and womens national teams physician dr. Jul 14, 2012 injury forces blake griffin out of olympics, anthony davis added to u. A total of 83 female gymnasts have represented the united states.
Assistant equipment manager olympic sports 2010 san diego state university assistant equipment manager football, wgf, softball, water polo 20082009. Basketball at the 2008 summer olympics womens team rosters. Beijing 2008 basketball women olympic beijing 2008. Us womens basketball dominating at 2016 rio olympics. As the wnba season gets going, the 2008 and 2012 olympic champion has little to say about her future with the u. Basketball at the 2008 summer olympics womens team. Pool play teams will play in a round robin format, during which each team will play all. Official host city of usa mens and women s national teams. Team usa defeated spain 10172 saturday at the rio 2016 olympic games to win its sixth straight gold medal in womens basketball and a record eighth overall in the 10 olympic. Ksenia semenova photos ksenia semenova of russia competes on the uneven bars during the women s individual allaround artistic gymnastics final at the national indoor stadium on day 7 of the beijing 2008 olympic games on august 15, 2008 in beijing, china. The united states was drawn in group b and won all five of their games easily.
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