The International Basketball Federation announced the latest world ranking after the Tokyo Olympic women’s basketball qualifying tournament. The Chinese women’s basketball, which locked in the Olympic qualification, has dropped by one place compared with the previous one and currently ranks ninth.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 13, the International Basketball Federation announced the latest world ranking after the Tokyo Olympic Games women’s basketball qualifier. The Chinese women’s basketball, which locked the Olympic qualification, has dropped by one place compared with the previous one, and currently ranks ninth.
The US team still occupies the first place in this list. The Belgian team became the team with the largest increase in the world’s top ten teams. After winning the Olympic tickets, they rose two to seventh.
China won the third battle in the Olympic qualifier women’s basketball, and won the fifth consecutive Olympic Games final table. Although the points have increased, Serbia and China have both dropped one place, ranking eighth and ninth respectively. The International Basketball Federation explained that since the world ranking is based on the achievements of the past eight years, the change of team ranking is related to the change of the weight of achievements in the past few years to some extent.
In addition, the Nigeria team rose three places, ranking 14th. After the British team got the Olympic qualification, the 19th South Korean team (333.3 points) narrowed the gap with the former British team (333.5 points).
The International Basketball Federation said that most of the team points shortlisted for the Tokyo Olympics have increased, although this is not fully reflected in the world rankings.
This is also the last time that the International Basketball Federation updated the world ranking before the draw ceremony of the Olympic women’s basketball competition, thus becoming an important basis for determining the seed team. The draw ceremony for Olympic women’s basketball will be held on March 21.
The International Basketball Federation also revealed that it will update the world ranking of women’s basketball after the Tokyo Olympics.