The FIBA Oceania Women's Championship is the women's basketball

Basketball

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 continental championship of Oceania

Oceania

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, played biennially under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body

Sport governing body

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, and the Oceanian zone

FIBA Oceania

FIBA Oceania is a zone within the International Basketball Federation which contains all 21 national basketball associations in Oceania.- Top two FIBA Oceania teams :C Current zone champion- Competitions :* FIBA Oceania Championship...

 thereof. The tournament also serves to qualify teams for participation in the quadrennial FIBA World Championship for Women

FIBA World Championship for Women

The FIBA World Championship for Women is a world basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially...

 and the Olympic basketball tournament

Basketball at the Summer Olympics

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Summaries

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

Year	Host	Qualification series					Bronze medallists
		Gold	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Silver
1974	Australia		69-42	72-44	75-55
1978	New Zealand		68-37	63–33	89–32
1982	Australia		66–46	64–32	85-55
1985	Australia (Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...  & Newcastle Newcastle, New South Wales The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas... )		63–36	62-43
1989	New Zealand		93-45	107-59	80-38
1993	New Zealand (Auckland Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world... )		120-56	106-61	120-58
1995	Australia		89–44	79–45
1997	New Zealand (Palmerston North Palmerston North Palmerston North is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is an inland city with a population of and is the country's seventh largest city and eighth largest urban area. Palmerston North is located in the eastern Manawatu Plains near the north bank...  & Wellington Wellington Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range... )		99–61
2001	New Zealand		97-61	102-55
2003	New Zealand		69–55	84–61	n/a
2005	New Zealand		77–51	75–67	67–38
2007 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women 2007 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women 2007 is the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the women's basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing...	New Zealand (Dunedin Dunedin Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until... )		87–46
2009	Australia /  New Zealand			98–48	97–57
2011 2011 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women The 2011 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women was the 14th edition of the tournament. The tournament featured a three-game series between Australia and New Zealand. Game one was held in Melbourne followed by the second game in Brisbane and game three in Sydney, Australia.-Results:-External links:*...	Australia			77–64	92–73	82–57

The Oceania Basketball Tournament

In 1997 basketball was included in the Mini Games, so therefore the Oceania Tournament was not played. The South Pacific Mini Games are held every 4 years for Island teams in the two years between the main South Pacific Games

South Pacific Games

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. These Games are held in countries with limited facilities and because of the large number of basketball entries this sport has not been included in previous Mini Games.
Normally the Oceania Basketball Confederation

FIBA Oceania

FIBA Oceania is a zone within the International Basketball Federation which contains all 21 national basketball associations in Oceania.- Top two FIBA Oceania teams :C Current zone champion- Competitions :* FIBA Oceania Championship...

 conducts the Oceania Tournament at a similar time so as to provide competition for all countries. As a result no Australian or New Zealand teams participated.

Year	Host	Gold medal game			Bronze medal game
		Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth place
1981 Details	Fiji		Group Stage			Group Stage
1985 Details	Fiji		75–44			90–55
1989 Details	French Polynesia		77–40			112–64
1993 Details	Samoa		85–63			65–45
1997 Details	American Samoa		53–50			87–71
2001 Details	Fiji (Suva Suva Suva features a tropical rainforest climate under the Koppen climate classification. The city sees a copious amount of precipitation during the course of the year. Suva averages 3,000 mm of precipitation annually with its driest month, July averaging 125 mm of rain per year. In fact,... )		90–60			68–67

External links

• FIBA Oceania Official Website