Youth Basketball: FIBA Europe U18 European Championships Women groups 2010

International youth basketball draw 2010
FIBA Europe European Championships Women
U18 Division A, Division B groups

Spain U18 champions of Europe © FIBA Europe

The international youth basketball tournament in the Slovak Republic this year is not only the U18 FIBA Europe European Championship Women but also the qualifying tournament for the 2011 U19 FIBA World championship.

Spain are the defending champions. Yet no country has been able to retain its trophy since the championship has become an annual event.

However since 2004, Spain have won the title twice and finished third on three occasions.

The only time Spain had failed to win a medal was in 2008 when they finished fifth. This disappointing placing did not stop this generation of players to pick up a silver medal in the U19 World Championship in 2009.

France have never won the championship in this age group but picked up a silver medal last year. France had also won silver in 2002 and 1981 and bronze in 2005.

The 16 teams in Division A have been drawn into the following groups:

GROUP A	GROUP B	GROUP C	GROUP D
Serbia	Russia	Lithuania	Czech Republic
Spain	Sweden	Italy	France
Slovak Republic	Slovenia	Latvia	Ukraine
Hungary	Belgium	Poland	Turkey

Division B

Hungary return to Division A © womensbasketball-in-france.com

Hungary won the division B title in 2009

GROUP A	GROUP B	GROUP C	GROUP D
Portugal	Croatia	England	Montenegro
Greece	Germany	Finland	Belarus
Switzerland	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Estonia	Israel
Romania	Denmark	Bulgaria	Netherlands
Luxembourg		Scotland