FIBA Basketball

    PR N°11 - Accreditation for FIBA U17 World Championship for Women

    Press Release

    GENEVA/TOULOUSE-RODEZ (FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - With the inaugural edition of the FIBA U17 World Championship for Women - held in Toulouse and Rodez from 16th to 25th July 2010 - less than three months away, the application process for media accreditation has now been launched. All media wishing to attend the Championship are required to ...

    GENEVA/TOULOUSE-RODEZ (FIBA U17 World Championship for Women) - With the inaugural edition of the FIBA U17 World Championship for Women - held in Toulouse and Rodez from 16th to 25th July 2010 - less than three months away, the application process for media accreditation has now been launched.

    All media wishing to attend the Championship are required to complete the accreditation application form and return it by e-mail or post to Sylvain Bourdois Chupin, Press Officer of the Local Organising Committee (LOC):

    Sylvain Bourdois Chupin
    Communications Office - French Basketball Federation
    117 rue du Chateau des Rentiers, 75013 Paris, FRANCE
    sbourdoischupin@basketfrance.com

    The application deadline is 6th July 2010. We would like to remind you that this is an application form only and accordingly does not guarantee accreditation to the event.

    Official media hotels with preferential rates will be made available to interested media representatives. Click here for media hotels information. Please note that the deadline for room bookings in the official media hotels is 22nd May 2010. However, every effort will be made to ensure that media representatives are offered a room in the media hotel beyond this deadline. Please contact the LOC at the following e-mail address for further information: press-hosting@basketpyrenees.org

    FIBA and the Local Organising Committee will inform all applicants of the success of their requests no later than 10th July 2010.
    For more information, please contact the LOC Press Officer Sylvain Bourdois Chupin.

    Extensive information about the FIBA U17 World Championship for Men is available on the event website france2010.fiba.com.

    Click here to go to the accreditation page for the FIBA U17 World Championship for Women.

    We also would like to remind the interested media that the accreditation process for the 2010 FIBA World Championships for Men and Women and the FIBA U17 World Championship for Men are already underway.

    • To apply for accreditation for the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Men in Turkey, click here
    • To apply for accreditation for the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women in the Czech Republic, click here
    • To apply for accreditation for the FIBA U17 World Championship for Men in Germany, click here