FIBA Oceania Women's Championship explained

Sport:	Basketball
Founded:	1974
Folded:	2015
Replaced:	FIBA Women's Asia Cup
Inaugural:	1974
Teams:	2
Country:	FIBA Oceania member nations
Continent:	FIBA Oceania (Oceania)
Champion:	(15th title)
Most Champs:	(15 titles)
Website:	www.FIBAOceania.com

The FIBA Oceania Women's Championship was the women's basketball continental championship of Oceania, played biennially under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body, and the Oceanian zone thereof. The tournament also serves to qualify teams for participation in the quadrennial FIBA World Championship for Women and the Olympic basketball tournament.

Beginning in 2017, all FIBA continental championships for women will be held on a two-year cycle, and the continental championships will be part of the qualifying process for either the World Cup or Olympics. The 2015 Oceanian Championships were the last Oceanian Championships to ever be held as starting 2017, the tournament will merge with the FIBA Asia Championship to give way for the FIBA Asia-Pacific Championship^[1]

Summaries

Results highlighted in blue were Olympic qualifiers, those which are not were World Championship qualifiers.

As host nation for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia automatically qualified for the Olympics, and did not compete in 1999. New Zealand were scheduled to play American Samoa, but American Samoa withdrew, meaning the 1999 tournament was scratched and New Zealand were awarded the championship, becoming the FIBA Oceania qualifier for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.^[2]

Year	Host	Qualification series					Bronze medallists
width=6%	Gold	width=6%	Game 1	width=6%	Game 2	width=6%	Game 3	width=6%	Silver
1974 Details			69–42	72–44	75–55		bgcolor=#efefef rowspan=7	Only two teams competed
1978 Details			68–37	63–33	89–32
1982 Details			66–46	64–32	85–55
1985 Details			63–36	62–43	N/A
1989 Details			93–45	107–59	80–38
1993 Details			120–56	106–61	120–58
1995 Details			89–44	79–45	N/A
1997 Details			99–61	bgcolor=#efefef colspan=2	One game playoff for the championship
2001 Details			97–61	102–55	N/A		bgcolor=#efefef rowspan=3	Only two teams competed
2003 Details			69–55	84–61	N/A
2005 Details			77–51	75–67	67–38
2007 Details	New Zealand		87–46	bgcolor=#efefef colspan=2 rowspan=1	One game playoff for the championship
2009 Details			98–48	97–57	Two-legged tie		bgcolor=#efefef rowspan=4	Only two teams competed
2011 Details			77–64	92–73	82–57
2013 Details			66–50	84–66	Two-legged tie
2015 Details			61–41	80–63	Two-legged tie

Medal table

Participating nations

width=170	Nation	1974	1978	1982	1985	1989	1993	1995	1997	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015	Years
	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st		bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	1st	15
												3rd					1
								3rd									1
	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=silver	2nd	16
						bgcolor=silver	2nd											1
Total	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2

Notes and References

1. Central Board gives green light to new format and calendar of competition . https://web.archive.org/web/20121121211013/http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/presRele/p/newsid/54422/presReleArti.html . dead . 21 November 2012 . FIBA . 11 November 2012 . 31 August 2013.
2. Web site: The Landon Trophy for competition between Australian and New Zealand . FIBA . 7 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130520224106/http://www.fibaoceania.com/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/The_Landon_Trophy_-Bckgrnd_Article.pdf . 20 May 2013 .