Basketball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

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Basketball
Basketball pictogram.svg
Venue Cairns Convention Centre
Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
Dates 5–15 April 2018
Competitors 192 from 11 nations
← 2006

Template:Basketball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Basketball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games is scheduled to be held in the Gold Coast, Australia from April 5 to 15.[1] The Basketball competition will be held at three venues: Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre in Townsville for the preliminaries and the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in the Gold Coast for the finals.[2] This is the second time that the basketball competition will be held, at the Commonwealth Games. A total of eight men's and eight women's teams from a total of eleven nations are scheduled to compete (192 athletes, at 12 per team) in each respective tournament.[3]

Venues

Three venues in Australia will be used. All seat 5,000 for the basketball competitions.

Gold Coast Cairns Townsville
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Cairns Convention Centre Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre
Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 5,000
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre.jpg 180px

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the basketball competitions:[1]

Medal table

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's tournament
details
Women's tournament
details

Qualification

A total of sixteen men's teams and eight women's team will qualify to compete at the games. Each nation may enter one team in each tournament (12 athletes per team) for a maximum total of 24 athletes.[3]

Qualification

A total of sixteen men's teams and eight women's team will qualify to compete at the games. Each nation may enter one team in each tournament (12 athletes per team) for a maximum total of 24 athletes.[3] At least four out of the six Commonwealth regions were considered to be represented in each tournament, if possible.[3] For the home nations, each country may compete, however the ranking of Great Britain was given to the home nation with the most players on the team. In this instance its unknown which team was used to determine that. For the purpose below England is attributed the rankings spot and Scotland is noted as being invited.[3]

The teams were officially confirmed on July 28, 2017.[4]

Men

Event Date Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A 1  Australia
FIBA World Rankings 1 July 2017 3  Nigeria
 New Zealand
 England
CGF/FIBA invitation 7 July 2017 4  Scotland
 Canada
 Cameroon
 India
Total 8

Women

Event Date Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A 1  Australia
FIBA World Rankings 1 July 2017 3  Canada
 England
 Mozambique
CGF/FIBA invitation 7 July 2017 4  Jamaica
 New Zealand
 India
 Malaysia
Total 8

Participating nations

There are 12 participating nations at the netball competitions with a total of 144 athletes.[3] The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

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