The official draw of the olympic basketball tournaments from Tokyo 2020 for women’s and men’s competitions at the FIBA headquarters.
A total of 24 top teams from around the world, 12 men and 12 women, will seek gold at the Olympics, starting July 25 in Such.
The 12 teams that qualified for the women’s tournament achieved their pass in February last year through the four FIBA Women’s Olympic qualifying tournaments, in which 16 teams participated in Belgium, France and Serbia.
Eight teams from the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualified for the men’s tournament of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The teams designated as Pre-Olympic Winners (OQT) will be those that qualify through the FIBA Olympic Qualification Tournaments in Victoria (Canada); Split (Croatia); Kaunas (Lithuania), and Belgrade (Serbia) from June 29 to July 4, 2021.
These four qualifying tournaments were postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The winners of each Pre-Olympic (OQT) will occupy the four vacant positions of the olympic basketball tournament.
In both tournaments a new competition system was implemented to Such. The group stage will consist of three groups of four teams each. The teams placed first and second in each group, and the top two teams in third place in the group stage qualify for the final stage.
These changes were made to the competition system to attract additional interest to each group stage match and reduce the workload for players. To get Olympic gold, a team has to play six matches, instead of eight matches, as was the case in previous Olympic tournaments.