TUR - Spain, France, Serbia, Belarus and Czech Republic clinch spots for Turkey 2014

ORCHIES (EuroBasket Women/FIBA World Championship for Women) - Five teams accomplished one of their primary aims at the EuroBasket Women that finished late Sunday night in France.

Spain, France, Serbia, Belarus and the Czech Republic clinched their places for next year's FIBA World Championship for Women in Turkey.

Going into the tournament, 16 teams knew that a top-six finish would be good enough to qualify if Turkey were to finish in the top five.

That turned out to be the case when the Turks won their Quarter-Final against Belarus in Orchies.

Here is a look at how teams booked their places in the FIBA World Championship for Women.

Spain: By winning their Quarter-Final against the Czech Republic, 75-58, Lucas Mondelo's team assured itself of a top-four finish. The EuroBasket Women then became even better as Spain - who fell short of the last eight two years ago in Poland and missed out on the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women (OQTW) in Ankara - blew away Serbia, 88-69, in the Semi-Finals and then edged France in the Final, 70-69. Sancho Lyttle and Alba Torrens were voted to the All-Tournament Team by the media, and Lyttle scooped the honor as the tournament's MVP. Spain also sent out their veteran stars Amaya Valdemoro and Elisa Aguilar on a high with both players retiring from national team duty.

France: The host nation of the EuroBasket Women had to pull out all stops in the Quarter-Finals against Sweden. Celine Dumerc hit three late three-pointers after spending much of the game on the bench in foul trouble, and Les Bleues prevailed, 87-83, to assure themselves of a top-four finish and a spot in next year's basketball extravaganza in Turkey. France got revenge for their Semi-Final defeat to Turkey in 2011, winning their battle 57-49, but the tournament favorites lost to Spain the title game and had to settle for the silver medal. Dumerc and Isabelle Yacoubou, who were terrific from start to finish in the EuroBasket Women, made the all-tournament team.

Turkey: With their place already assured at the FIBA World Championship for Women as the host nation, Ceyhun Yildizoglu's side played with a lot of determination and passion in a bid to get back to the podium. They put their defeat to France behind them and won the Bronze Medal with a 92-71 romp against Serbia.

Serbia: The biggest surprise of all at the EuroBasket Women turned out to be Serbia, a team that clinched a spot in the FIBA World Championship for Women with an 85-79 come-from-behind win over Italy in the Quarter-Finals. The Serbians lost their first two games in Group C and only barely managed to progress to Round 2, where they won all three games. After the vital victory over the Azzurre, though, Serbia came back down to earth with losses to Spain and Turkey in their next two games. Even so, the country now has an extraordinary opportunity to boost the women's game with a spot in next year's big event.

Belarus: Awful against Turkey in the Quarter-Finals when they scored just 41 points and lost by 14, Belarus got a stunning shooting performance from Natallia Anufryienka in the Classification Round game against Sweden and won, 69-48. Anufryienka gave her country a launch pad for victory, nailing four three-pointers in the first half. She finished with a team-high 17 points. That triumph secured Belarus' spot in the FIBA World Championship for Women, but they wanted to finish as high as possible in the EuroBasket Women and won convincingly against the Czechs in the battle for fifth place, 64-50.

Czech Republic: The Czech Republic threw a scare into Spain in the Quarter-Finals, pulling even with the eventual champions midway through the third quarter before falling 17 points. Veteran coach Lubor Blazek, who lost star Jana Vesela to injury in the first game, made sure the Czechs would be at next year's tournament with a 72-68 victory over Italy in their first Classification Round game. Katerina Elhotova, who had been relatively quiet for much of the tournament, had 18 points to lead the Czechs. Blazek's team then fizzled in their final encounter of the EuroBasket Women, crashing to a 14-point defeat to Belarus in the battle for fifth place.

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