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The Great Britain women's national basketball team represents Great Britain in international women's basketball.The current governing body for the Great Britain team was formed by the national basketball organisations of England (Basketball England), Scotland (Basketball Scotland) and Wales (Basketball Wales) on 1 December 2005 in order to provide a competitive team for international competition.
The team is organized by England Basketball, the sport's governing body in England. In 2005 England, along with the basketballscotland and their counterparts in Wales combined forces to form the Great Britain women's national basketball team , with the target goal to field a competitive team capable of winning medals at the London 2012 summer Olympics .
Amy Conroy (born 22 October 1992) is a 4.0 point British wheelchair basketball player who represented Great Britain in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in a Rio de Janeiro, co captained the team to win Gold in the under 25 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Beijing and won a silver medal at the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Hamburg.
The British Basketball League ( BBL) is a former men's professional basketball league in Great Britain. Since its establishment in 1987 the BBL represented the highest level of basketball competition within the United Kingdom. The organisation that operated the competition, Basketball League Limited, folded in July 2024 after the British ...
FIBA organizes both the men's and women's FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments and the Summer Olympics basketball tournaments, which are sanctioned by the IOC. [ 1 ] The United States is by far the most successful country in Olympic basketball, with United States men's teams having won 17 of 21 tournaments in which they participated, including seven consecutive titles from 1936 through 1968 .
Seven-time world champion Lotte Kopecky takes victory in a photo finish on stage one of the Women's Tour of Britain.
Representing England. Commonwealth Games. 2018 Gold Coast. Team. Dominique Jayne Allen (born 10 September 1989) is a British basketball player, currently playing for the Manchester Mystics of the Women's British Basketball League (WBBL). She was a member of the British women's basketball team at the 2012 Summer Olympics .
At the 2019 Women’s Wheelchair Basketball European Championships in Rotterdam, Great Britain secured qualification to the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. Going into the tournament, Great Britain were the reigning Worlds silver medalists as well as the third-place team in six consecutive European Championships.