FIBA – Record number of WNBA players at Women’s World Championship
BRNO/OSTRAVA/KARLOVY VARY (2010 FIBA World Championship for Women) – A total of 24 players who competed in the WNBA during the 2010 season are representing eight different countries – or half the number (16) of nations in the tournament – at the FIBA World Championship for Women in the Czech Republic, setting new records. Four years ...
BRNO/OSTRAVA/KARLOVY VARY (2010 FIBA World Championship for Women) – A total of 24 players who competed in the WNBA during the 2010 season are representing eight different countries – or half the number (16) of nations in the tournament – at the FIBA World Championship for Women in the Czech Republic, setting new records.
Four years ago, at the last World Championship for Women held in Brazil, 19 WNBA players suited up to represent five different nations. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, that number dropped to 16 players from four countries.
The 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women is setting new marks across the board: most players who play in the WNBA (24); most countries represented (eight) by those players; and highest ratio of WNBA players/total number of players (12.5%, compared with 9.9% in 2006 and 11.1% in 2008).
Here is a look at the list of players in question, one that features the likes of Lauren Jackson, Iziane Castro Marques, Jana Vesela, Hamchétou Maïga-Ba, Svetlana Abrosimova, Sancho Lyttle, and Diana Taurasi.
AUSTRALIA
Tully Bevilaqua (Indiana Fever)
Abby Bishop (Seattle Storm)
Lauren Jackson (Seattle Storm)
Penny Taylor (Phoenix Mercury)
BELARUS
Yelena Leuchanka (Atlanta Dream)
BRAZIL
Iziana Castro Marques (Atlanta Dream)
Erika de Souza (Atlanta Dream)
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jana Vesela (Seattle Storm)
MALI
Hamchétou Maïga-Ba (Minnesota Lynx)
RUSSIA
Svetlana Abrosimova (Seattle Storm)
Becky Hammon (San Antonio Silver Stars)
SPAIN
Sancho Lyttle (Atlanta Dream)
Nuria Martinez (Minnesota Lynx)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Jayne Appel (San Antonio Silver Stars)
Sue Bird (Seattle Storm)
Swin Cash (Seattle Storm)
Tamika Catchings (Indiana Fever)
Tina Charles (Connecticut Sun)
Candice Dupree (Phoenix Mercury)
Sylvia Fowles (Chicago Sky)
Asjha Jones (Connecticut Sun)
Angel McCoughtry (Atlanta Dream)
Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury)
Lindsay Whalen (Minnesota Lynx)