Women's basketball championship 2007

The 2007 European Basketball Championship for women (officially: Eurobasket Women 2007) took place from September 24th to October 7th, 2007 in Italy .

The European Basketball Championship is a biennial basketball competition between European teams and is organized by FIBA Europe, the basketball association in Europe.

Venues

group	city	Hall	Places
A.	Vasto	Palazzetto Comunale di Vasto
B.	Lanciano	Palazzetto Comunale di Lanciano
C.	Chieti	Palasantafilomena
D.	Ortona	Palazzetto Comunale di Ortona
Intermediate round (group E)	Vasto	Palazzetto Comunale di Vasto
Intermediate round (group F)	Ortona	Palazzetto Comunale di Ortona
Final round	Chieti	Palatricalle

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round four teams play against each other in four groups. The winner of a game receives two points, the loser one point. If a game is tied at the end of regular time, there is extra time.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Czech Republic  Latvia  Israel  Turkey	Belgium  Germany  Lithuania  Romania	France  Greece  Italy  Russia	Belarus  Croatia  Serbia  Spain

Group A - Vasto

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
A1	September 24, 2007	Israel	Czech Republic	11:17	13:18	07:19	12:21	-	43:75	Liron Cohen 16; Eva Vítečková 16
A2	September 24, 2007	Turkey	Latvia	18:18	13:20	18:21	13:14	-	62:73	Nevriye Yılmaz, Yasemin Horasan 21; Gunta Baško 17
A3	September 25, 2007	Latvia	Israel	17:12	13:27	23:18	24:16	-	77:73	Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota 28; Liad Suez Karni 21
A4	September 25, 2007	Czech Republic	Turkey	20:13	19:10	29:19	18:20	-	86:62	Jana Veselá, Eva Vítečková 17; Birsel Vardarlı 20
A5	September 26, 2007	Israel	Turkey	18:17	23:26	04:18	13: 09	-	58:70	Shai Doron 12; Yasemin Horasan 13
A6	September 26, 2007	Latvia	Czech Republic	11:15	13:22	09:17	11:16	-	44:70	Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota 17; Eva Vítečková 12

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Czech Republic	3	3	0	231: 149	6th	+82
2	Latvia	3	2	1	194: 205	5	−11
3	Turkey	3	1	2	194: 217	4th	−23
4th	Israel	3	0	3	174: 222	3	−48

Group B - Lanciano

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
B1	September 24, 2007	Belgium	Lithuania	21: 09	11:10	25:16	11:18	-	68:53	Anke de Mondt 18; Iveta Marčauskaitė 14
B2	September 24, 2007	Romania	Germany	19:25	21:17	19:26	19:17	-	78:85	Maria Pascalau 26; Alexandra Müller 22
B3	September 25, 2007	Germany	Belgium	10:18	12:15	18:15	13:13	-	53:61	Martina Weber 14; Ann Wauters 16
B4	September 25, 2007	Lithuania	Romania	24:16	11:11	15:11	17:12	-	67:50	Lina Brazdeikytė 15; Maria Pascalau 12
B5	September 26, 2007	Belgium	Romania	20:23	16:19	23:16	15:13	-	74:71	Ann Wauters 20; Ancuța Stoenescu 14
B6	September 26, 2007	Germany	Lithuania	18:20	16:16	13:15	10:20	-	57:71	Linda Fröhlich 24; Sandra Valužytė 18

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Belgium	3	3	0	203: 177	6th	+26
2	Lithuania	3	2	1	191: 175	5	+16
3	Germany	3	1	2	195: 210	4th	−15
4th	Romania	3	0	3	199: 226	3	−27

Group C - Chieti

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
C1	September 24, 2007	Italy	Russia	18:22	13:12	08: 08	16:18	-	55:60	Laura Macci 17; Maria Stepanova 10
C2	September 24, 2007	France	Greece	17:13	10: 06	13:13	18:18	-	58:50	Sandrine Gruda 14; Dimitra Kalentzou 16
C3	September 25, 2007	Greece	Italy	13:21	14:15	10:13	18:16	-	55:65	Anastasia Kostaki, Styliani Kaltsidou 13; Kathrin Rees 16
C4	September 25, 2007	Russia	France	21:13	18:15	13:13	11:18	-	63:59	Maria Stepanova 19; Émilie Gomis 16
C5	September 26, 2007	Italy	France	06:11	10:17	19:11	13:25	-	48:64	Laura Macchi 15; Sandrine Gruda 14
C6	September 26, 2007	Greece	Russia	13:29	09:15	12:21	13:21	-	47:86	Evanthia Maltsi 22; Irina Osipova 21

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Russia	3	3	0	209: 161	6th	+48
2	France	3	2	1	181: 161	5	+20
3	Italy	3	1	2	168: 179	4th	−11
4th	Greece	3	0	3	152: 209	3	−57

Group D - Ortona

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
D1	September 24, 2007	Belarus	Spain	12:17	15:23	24:20	11:16	-	62:76	Ekaterina Snitina 18; Amaya Valdemoro 17
D2	September 24, 2007	Serbia	Croatia	16:21	22:19	24:16	26:14	-	88:70	Miljana Musović 19; Petra Štampalija 20
D3	September 25, 2007	Croatia	Belarus	11:18	14:26	18:24	23:24	-	66:92	Petra Štampalija 20; Tatjana Troina 19
D4	September 25, 2007	Spain	Serbia	21:17	22:19	17:18	19:22	-	79:76	Elisa Aguilar 22; Maja Miljković 15
D5	September 26, 2007	Belarus	Serbia	21:16	22:20	17:11	19: 06	-	79:53	Elena Levchenko 14; Miljana Musović 15
D6	September 26, 2007	Croatia	Spain	09:14	18:15	19:17	06:17	-	52:63	Sonja Kireta 11; Amaya Valdemoro 15

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Spain	3	3	0	218: 190	6th	+28
2	Belarus	3	2	1	233: 195	5	+38
3	Serbia	3	1	2	217: 228	4th	−11
4th	Croatia	3	0	3	188: 243	3	−55

Intermediate round

After the preliminary round, the first three teams in each group qualify for the intermediate round. The three teams in groups A and B form group E, the qualified teams in groups C and D form the new group F. Each team competes once against each of the three teams from the other preliminary group. The points from the preliminary round games are continued.

So the groups look like this:

Group E	Group F.
Czech Republic  Latvia  Turkey  Belgium  Lithuania  Germany	Russia  France  Italy  Spain  Belarus  Serbia

Group E - Vasto

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
E1	September 28, 2007	Germany	Czech Republic	17:14	08:12	13:12	16: 09	-	54:47	Linda Fröhlich 18; Eva Vítečková 15
E2	September 28, 2007	Lithuania	Latvia	09:15	14:20	11:22	12:19	-	46:76	Iveta Marčauskaitė 18; Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota 20
E3	September 28, 2007	Turkey	Belgium	10:29	16:20	20:23	17:13	-	63:85	Yasemin Horasan 17; Laurence van Malderen 16
E4	September 30, 2007	Czech Republic	Lithuania	19:24	16:21	21:11	19:11	-	75:67	Markéta Mokrošová 13; Lina Brazdeikyte 13
E5	September 30, 2007	Germany	Turkey	15:22	13:22	13:16	22:16	-	63:76	Anne Breitreiner 19; Yasemin Horasan 18
E6	September 30, 2007	Latvia	Belgium	11:18	15:10	28:16	15:22	-	69:66	Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota 27; Ann Wauters 30
E7	October 2, 2007	Belgium	Czech Republic	21:19	17:16	20:23	12:14	-	70:72	Ann Wauters 22; Eva Vítečková 22
E8	October 2, 2007	Latvia	Germany	23:13	08:19	17: 05	12:10	-	60:47	Gunta Baško 16; Martina Weber 11
E9	October 2, 2007	Lithuania	Turkey	16:15	18:15	13:19	20:12	-	67:61	Rima Valentienė, Agnė Čiūdarienė 12; Nevriye Yılmaz 20

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Czech Republic	5	4th	1	350: 297	9	+53
2	Latvia	5	4th	1	322: 291	9	+31
3	Belgium	5	3	2	350: 310	8th	+40
4th	Lithuania	5	2	3	304: 337	7th	−33
5	Turkey	5	1	4th	324: 374	6th	−50
6th	Germany	5	1	4th	274: 315	6th	−41

Group F - Ortona

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
F1	September 29, 2007	Serbia	Russia	25:17	11:13	11:14	20:21	-	67:65	Milica Dabović 28; Maria Stepanova 18
F2	September 29, 2007	Belarus	France	18:15	15:26	16:12	11:19	-	60:72	Anastasija Weremejenko 15; Sandrine Gruda 17th
F3	September 29, 2007	Italy	Spain	18:25	14:22	15:16	17:16	-	64:79	Raffaella Masciadri 16; Elisa Aguilar 17th
F4	October 1, 2007	Russia	Belarus	24:15	17:16	27: 09	19:33	-	87:73	Ilona Korstin 21; Jelena Levchenko 18
F5	October 1, 2007	Serbia	Italy	12:17	08:14	13:16	10:17	-	43:64	Miljana Musović, Tamara Radočaj 7; Francesca Modica 13
F6	October 1, 2007	France	Spain	09:13	20:16	17:11	07:23	-	53:63	Sandrine Gruda 13; Amaya Valdemoro 17
F7	October 3, 2007	Spain	Russia	13:16	09: 08	20:21	07:19	-	49:64	Amaya Valdemoro 14; Maria Stepanova 19
F8	October 3, 2007	France	Serbia	18:23	21:11	17:13	12:13	-	68:60	Sandrine Gruda 16; Ivana Grubor 17th
F9	October 3, 2007	Belarus	Italy	19:15	19:15	12: 08	16:13	-	66:51	Elena Levchenko 18; Francesca Modica 15

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Russia	5	4th	1	339: 303	9	+36
2	Spain	5	4th	1	346: 319	9	+27
3	France	5	3	2	316: 294	8th	+22
4th	Belarus	5	2	3	340: 339	7th	+ 01
5	Italy	5	1	4th	282: 312	6th	−30
6th	Serbia	5	1	4th	299: 355	6th	−56

Final rounds

mode

After the intermediate round, the first four teams of both groups E and F qualify for the final round. In the quarter-finals, the game is played crosswise against an opponent from the other intermediate round group. Then both the winners of the quarter-finals meet in the semifinals, as well as the losers in the "small semifinals". The winners of the semi-finals play the final, the losers the game for 3rd place. The winners of the "small semifinals" play for 5th place, the losers for 7th place.

Tournament tree

All times in Central European Summer Time (CEST)

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	43 - October 4, 2007 - 9:00 p.m.
	Czech Republic	46
					49 - October 6, 2007 - 9:00 p.m.
	Belarus	52
					Belarus	54
	45 - October 5, 2007 - 9:00 p.m.
					Spain	70
	Belgium	53
									54 - October 7, 2007 - 7:30 p.m.
	Spain	72
									Spain	68
	44 - October 4, 2007 - 6:30 p.m.
									Russia	74
	Latvia	66
					50 - October 6, 2007 - 6:30 p.m.
	France	62
					Latvia	36			Game for third place
	46 - October 5, 2007 - 6:30 p.m.
					Russia	67
	Lithuania	58							Belarus	72
	Russia	75							Latvia	63
									53 - October 7, 2007 - 5:00 p.m.

Places 5 to 8

	Small semifinals				Finals 5th-8th space
	47 - October 6, 2007 - 4:00 p.m.
	Czech Republic	75
	Belgium	50
					52 - October 7, 2007 - 2:30 p.m.
					Czech Republic	93
					Lithuania	54
					7th and 8th place
	48 - October 6, 2007 - 1.30 p.m.				51 - October 7, 2007 - 12:15 pm
	France	65			Belgium	72
	Lithuania	67			France	63

Quarter finals

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
43	4th October 2007	Czech Republic	Belarus	15:11	12:20	14: 08	05:13	-	46:52	Jana Vaselá 11; Natalja Martschenko, Jelena Levtschenko 11
44	4th October 2007	Latvia	France	13:10	15: 08	16:22	22:22	-	66:62	Gunta Baško 17; Sandrine Gruda 14
45	October 5, 2007	Belgium	Spain	20:18	11:14	13:22	09:18	-	53:72	Ann Wauters 19; Amaya Valdemoro 19th
46	October 5, 2007	Lithuania	Russia	25:21	12:14	15:24	06:16	-	58:75	Iveta Marcauskaité 14; Olga Arteschina 17

Small semifinals

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
47	October 6, 2007	Czech Republic	Belgium	20: 07	19:17	19:13	17:13	-	75:50	Michaela Uhrová 15; Ann Wauters 17th
48	October 6, 2007	France	Lithuania	14:13	19:14	24:23	08:17	-	65:67	Isabelle Yacoubou 15; Eglė Šulčiūtė 21

Semifinals

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
49	October 6, 2007	Belarus	Spain	15:18	15:15	15:19	09:18	-	54:70	Tatiana Troina 10; Anna Montañana 14
50	October 6, 2007	Latvia	Russia	17:16	04:11	08:20	07:20	-	36:67	Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota 18; Olga Arteschina 15

Game for 7th place

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
51	October 7, 2007	Belgium	France	18:19	14: 09	15:19	25:16	-	72:63	Ann Wauters 25; Sandrine Gruda 23

Play for 5th place

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
52	October 7, 2007	Czech Republic	Lithuania	28:12	21: 06	17:18	27:18	-	93:54	Eva Vítečková 16; Egle Sulciute 10

3rd place match

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
53	October 7, 2007	Belarus	Latvia	16:17	16: 07	23:13	17:26	-	72:63	Anastasija Weremejenko 15; Liene Jansone 23

final

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1st Q.	2nd Q.	3rd Q.	4th Q.	Loss	Result	Top scorer
54	October 7, 2007	Spain	Russia	13:23	11:21	21: 09	23:21	-	68:74	Amaya Valdemoro 26; Ilona Korstin 18

Final results

rank	team	Siege: Niederl.	Basket ratio
Final rounds
1	Russia	8: 1	1.2520
2	Spain	7: 2	1.1214
3	Belarus	5: 4	1.0445
4th	Latvia	6: 3	0.9932
5	Czech Republic	7: 2	1.2833
6th	Lithuania	4: 5	0.8870
7th	Belgium	5: 4	1.0135
8th	France	4: 5	1.0273
Not in the quarterfinals
9	Italy	2: 4	0.9455
9	Turkey	2: 4	0.9120
11	Germany	2: 4	0.9135
11	Serbia	2: 4	0.9136
Not in the second round
13	Croatia	0: 3	0.7737
13	Greece	0: 3	0.7273
13	Israel	0: 3	0.7838
13	Romania	0: 3	0.8835

Honors

The Spaniard Amaya Valdemoro was chosen as the most valuable player . The all-tournament team is completed by Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota from Latvia , Natalja Martschenko from Belarus and Marija Stepanowa and Olga Arteschina from Russia .

statistics

All in all

• Games: 54
• Points: 6,986 (of which 2,036 2s, 564 3s and 1,222 free throws)
• Throw rate: 46.7% (44.0% 2, 31.1% 3 and 70.5% free throws)
• Rebounds: 3,969 (of which 1,185 offensive and 2,784 defensive)
• Assists: 1,261
• Fouls: 1,907
• Ball losses: 1,752
• Steals: 939
• blocked litters: 243

Most of the points

player	nationality	Points
Ann Wauters	Belgium	177
Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota	Latvia	155
Amaya Valdemoro	Spain	142
Eva Vítečková	Czech Republic	134
Sandrine Gruda	France	131

Most points per game

player	nationality	Points
Ann Wauters	Belgium	19.7
Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota	Latvia	17.2
Amaya Valdemoro	Spain	15.8
Linda Fröhlich	Germany	15.0
Eva Vítečková	Czech Republic	14.9

Most rebounds per game

player	nationality	Rebounds
Maria Stepanova	Russia	10.0
Linda Fröhlich	Germany	8.7
Ann Wauters	Belgium	8.1
Irina Osipova	Russia	7.6
Anastasija Weremeenko	Belarus	7.6

Most assists per game

player	nationality	Assists
Edwige Lawson-Wade	France	4.3
Birsel Vardarlı	Turkey	3.8
Kathy Wambe	Belgium	3.4
Natalia Marchenko	Belarus	3.3
Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota	Latvia	3.2

See also

• basketball
• European basketball championship

Web links

• EuroBasket Women 2007 Official Homepage (English / Italian)