For the women's tournament, see FIBA Asia Championship for Women.

The FIBA Asia Championship for Men (formerly Asian Basketball Confederation Championship) is a tournament which takes place every two years between teams of the continent. This is the Asian qualifying tournament for the FIBA World Championship and the Olympic basketball tournament. The tournament is also known as the Asian Championships This article is about the sport. ... // December 4 — Fukuoka Marathon, Japan Mens Winner: Barry Magee (NZL) 2:19:04 Stock car racing: Junior Johnson won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Rex White Indianapolis 500 - Jim Rathmann USAC Racing - A.J. Foyt won the season championship Formula One Championship - Jack Brabham of Australia 24 hours of... For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ... FIBA Asia subzones FIBA Asia is a zone within the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) which contains all 44 Asian FIBA federations. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Iran. ... The FIBA Asia Championship for Women is a basketball tournament for womens national team organized by FIBA Asia. ... FIBA Asia subzones FIBA Asia is a zone within the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) which contains all 44 Asian FIBA federations. ... The FIBA World Championship (also called the Basketball World Championship) is a world basketball tournament for mens national teams held quadrennially by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). ... Basketball has been played consistently at the Summer Olympic Games since 1936, with a demonstration event in 1904. ...

History

The Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was inaugurated at Manila on 1960. The championship was held to find Asia's best team and for qualification for the World Championship and the Olympics. On the next four tournaments, the Philippines won 3 with the Japanese beating the Filipinos on 1965. Korea, Japan and the Philippines split the next 3 championships until China debuted on 1975 at Bangkok with the championship, where they've dominated ever since. Korea national basketball team (alternate names include Korea Republic and South Korea) is national basketball team representing South Korea. ...

There were only 3 instances where China didn't win the championship since then: at 1986 when the Philippines won with the presence of 2 naturalized Americans, at 1997, when the Chinese complained at Riyadh's climate, and at 2007, when the Chinese sent their "B team" since they've already qualified for the Olympics by virtue of their hosting.

Korea had been the perennial runner-ups, with Japan and DPR Korea sneaking in. The Philippines had become weaker due to its players being professionals (therefore ineligible for FIBA participation until 1989), and due to the politicization of basketball in that country. By the 21st century, the tournament has since been renamed into the FIBA Asia Championship. During the 2007 Championship, West Asian teams were able to compete with the traditional East Asian powers, as evidenced of an all-West Asian final when Iran defeated Lebanon. The 2009 FIBA Asia Championship will be held from September 1 to September 9, 2009 with Philippines bidding as next host. ^[1] The 2007 FIBA Asia Championship for Men is the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the mens basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. ... is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Qualification

The top 5 finishers of the previous championship and the host country qualify automatically; the other 10 teams are filled up with qualifying tournaments in each of FIBA Asia's 5 subzones, with each subzone sending at least 2 teams.

Results

Summaries

Results highlighted in blue are Olympic qualifiers, those which aren't are World Championship qualifiers.

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Performances by nation

Map of the countries' best results.

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MVP Awards

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Participating nations

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Countries not able to qualify

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See also

• Basketball at the Asian Games
• Basketball at the Southeast Asian Games
• Southeast Asia Basketball Association

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Footnotes

1. ^ ‘Like Chot, everyone’s bleeding,’ says Pangilinan
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z} A round-robin tournament determined the final standings.

External links

• FIBA-Asia Official Site