26.01.2016
Turkey's Senior Women’s and Men's Basketball National Teams will compete at Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. Turkish Men’s Team was invited to FIBA 2016 Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament with Croatia and Latvia in accordance with the final standings of EuroBasket 2015 and the FIBA World Ranking to complete the 18-team OQTs line-up. Serbia, Italy and Philippines will each host a six-team tournament between 4-10 July. The winner of each individual tournament will earn a place in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. 15 of the 18 spots in the OQTs are those which have qualified through their respective 2015 continental championships and the other 3 that are OQT hosts.
Also, Turkey’s Senior Women’s National Team has already qualified for the 2016 FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament by finishing in the 5th place at EuroBasket Women 2015. They will compete for a spot in Rio at the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women to be held in Nantes, France on June 13-19. Argentina, Belarus, Cameroon, China, Cuba, France, Korea, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain, and Venezuela will also compete in the tournament.