FIBA has announced an experienced lineup of referees, with the highest number of women referees to date, to officiate this summer's upcoming tournaments.
For the first time ever, women have been nominated to officiate at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup in Latvia, which will take place from July 3 to 11 in the cities of Riga and Daugavpils. Eight women referees will work at the tournament, while 12 female referees will be at the FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup in Debrecen, Hungary (August 7-15). The number of nominated female referees for both combinations - 20 out of the 56 - is the biggest that it has ever been.
The fact that women referees will have a prominent role this summer is evidence that FIBA is acting on one of its main strategic focus areas for 2019-2023, Women in Basketball, which has the specific aim to develop and leverage female coaches and officials.
There will be also female commissioners and referee instructors at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Basketball Tournaments, the four FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments and both FIBA U19 Basketball World Cups.
It is also noted that the FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup will have a diversified group of referees with all of them coming from 28 different National Federations.
FIBA has also selected the 30 referees who will be officiating at the Olympic Basketball Tournaments in Tokyo, all of whom have refereed at past major events such as FIBA Basketball World Cups and Olympic Games. The list of referees, below, which includes both men and women, represent 23 Federations, coming from Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
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