The American Basketball Championship 2009 (officially: Campeonato FIBA Americas 2009 ( English The FIBA Americas Championship 2009 )) is the 14th edition of this tournament and took place from August 26th to September 6th, 2009 in the Puerto Rican capital San Juan . In addition to the continental championship for the men's national teams of the continental association FIBA America, the tournament also included qualifying for the 2010 World Basketball Championship . Of the ten participating teams, the four semi-finalists qualified directly for the world championships. Since defending champions United States as Olympic champions were already directly qualified for the world championships, they decided not to participate in the continental championships. The games were played exclusively in the Coliseo Roberto Clemente .
Regional qualification according to the sub-zones of the Continental Union. The Mexican national team advanced to the United States as the fifth-placed team in Centrobasket 2008. After the Cuban national team, the semi-finalists of Centrobasket 2008, resigned, the Panamanian national team moved up as the sixth-placed team in this tournament.
MexicoMexico (Fifth Centrobasket 2008 and successor for the United States )United States
PanamaPanama (Sixth Centrobasket 2008 and successor for Cuba )Cuba
South America
ArgentinaArgentina (winner Campeonato Sudamericano 2008)
UruguayUruguay (Finalist Campeonato Sudamericano 2008)
VenezuelaVenezuela (bronze medal Campeonato Sudamericano 2008)
BrazilBrazil (semi-finalist Campeonato Sudamericano 2008)
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At the tournament, a preliminary round was held in two groups of five teams each as a round-robin tournament. The two worst-placed teams in the preliminary round were then eliminated from the tournament, while the other teams, taking their preliminary round results with them, played an intermediate round as a continuation of the round-robin tournament against the best four teams in the other preliminary round group. The best four teams of this intermediate round were qualified for the world championships and played the medals of the continental championships among themselves in the final round in the knockout system .
Preliminary round
The preliminary round games took place between August 26 and August 30, 2009.
The games of the intermediate round, which the four participants in the World Championships determined, took place between September 1st and 4th, 2009. The results of the preliminary round are shown in italics.