1983 FIBA World Championship for Women squads

The 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women squads were the squads of the 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women. Each one of the 14 teams at the tournament selected a squad of 12 players.Results Ages and clubs listed are as of the tournament start on 24 July 1983. Source: FIBA Archives Group A Bulgaria Bulgarian women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women White #00966e white #d62612 y 4 Madka Goltcheva 1983 7 24 y 5 Larrissa Sachova 1983 7 24 y 6 Petkana Makaveeva 1983 7 24 y 7 Mariana Ivanova 1983 7 24 y 8 Vanya Dermendzhieva 1958 12 3 1983 7 24 FRG y 9 Penka Markova 1963 2 11 1983 7 24 y 10 Radmila Vasileva 1964 1 5 1983 7 24 BUL y 11 Kostadinka Radkova 1962 6 27 1983 7 24 FRA y 12 Evladiya Slavcheva-Stefanova 1962 2 25 1983 7 24 BUL y 13 Madlena Staneva 1963 6 1 1983 7 24 FRA y 14 Silvia Ghermanova 1983 7 24 y 14 Krasimira Banova 1983 7 24 Cuba n Cuba women's national basketball team - 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women #FFFFFF darkblue black white y 4 Leonor Borrelli 1983 7 24 y 5 Nancy Atiez 1983 7 24 y 6 María Moret 1983 7 24 y 7 Barbara Becquer 1957 12 31 1983 7 24 y 8 Ivon Carrillo 1983 7 24 y 9 Caridad Despaigne 1983 7 24 y 10 Matilde Charro 1954 5 14 1983 7 24 y 11 Melvis Coss Quintana 1964 10 12 1983 7 24 y 12 G 1.81 Dalia Henry Hernandez Dalia Henry 1965 6 14 1983 7 24 y 13 Odalis Cala 1983 7 24 y 14 Margarita Skeet 1983 7 24 y 15 Zenaida McCarthy 1983 7 24 South Korea South Korea women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women #fefefe #e00d05 #fefefe #20254d y 4 Ae Young Choi Choi Ae-Yeong 1983 7 24 y 5 Jang Gae Park Park Yang-gae 1983 7 24 y 6 Hyung Sook Lee Lee Hyung-sook 1964 12 24 1983 7 24 y 7 Eun Kyung Woo 1962 8 19 1983 7 24 y 8 Myun Hee Kwon 1983 7 24 y 9 Sin Sil Bang 1983 7 24 y 10 Yang Sook Cha Cha Yang-sook 1983 7 24 y 11 Hwa Soon Kim Kim Hwa-soon 1983 7 24 y 12 Hyun Ja Gong 1983 7 24 y 13 Young Hee Kim Kim Young-hee (basketball) 1983 7 24 y 14 Kyung Ja Moon Moon Kyung-ja 1983 7 24 y 15 Chan-Sook Park Park Chan-sook 1959 6 3 1983 7 24 Peru Peru women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women #fefefe #e70013 #e70013 #fefefe y 4 Shellah Allison Hofeken 1958 12 19 1983 7 24 y 5 Silvana Perez Sotelo 1963 9 10 1983 7 24 y 6 Patricia Luna del Castillo 1965 3 24 1983 7 24 y 7 Marisa Casio 1983 7 24 y 8 Maria del Pilar Sueryras 1983 7 24 y 9 Katia Manzur Betalleluz 1958 2 14 1983 7 24 y 10 Mariella Picasso Salinas 1955 4 20 1983 7 24 y 11 Karin Junek de Seminario 1955 12 28 1983 7 24 y 12 Guadalupe Garces 1983 7 24 y 13 Liliana Comas Carbajal 1963 2 21 1983 7 24 y 14 Marilu Menendez Llosa 1960 2 20 1983 7 24 y 15 Rosa Quelopana Bohorquez 1954 9 4 1983 7 24 Group B Australia Australia women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women #177245 #FFD700 #FFD700 #177245 y 4 Robyn Maher 1959 10 6 1983 7 24 y 5 Bronwyn Marshall 1983 7 24 y 6 Patricia Cockrem 1961 5 17 1983 7 24 y 7 Jennifer Cheesman Jenny Cheesman 1957 11 2 1983 7 24 y 8 Karen Ogden 1983 7 24 y 9 Patricia Mickan 1957 3 12 1983 7 24 y 10 Julie Nykiel 1958 12 13 1983 7 24 y 11 Kathryn Foster Kathy Foster (basketball) 1960 5 7 1983 7 24 y 12 Karin Fields (Maar) 1953 6 11 1983 7 24 y 13 Sharon Amiet Deacon 1957 11 30 1983 7 24 y 14 Wendy Laidlaw 1959 2 19 1983 7 24 y 15 Karen Dalton basketball 1961 1 2 1983 7 24 Japan Japan women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women #FFFFFF #D21034 #ffffff #000000 y 4 Chika Yamamoto 1960 10 15 1983 7 24 y 5 Akemi Nakahashi 1961 8 5 1983 7 24 y 6 Nanae Fujii 1963 5 2 1983 7 24 y 7 Takako Ohno 1963 9 20 1983 7 24 y 8 Kaori Chikaishi 1963 9 23 1983 7 24 y 9 Junko Matsuura 1964 6 20 1983 7 24 y 10 Kumi Kobota 1983 7 24 y 11 Kazumi Shimizu 1962 12 20 1983 7 24 y 12 Mika Sugihara 1963 6 22 1983 7 24 y 13 Chie Harada 1961 11 25 1983 7 24 y 14 Michiko Takahashi 1964 7 7 1983 7 24 y 15 Setsuko Hashizume 1960 4 9 1983 7 24 Poland Poland women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women #DC143C #ffffff #ffffff #DC143C y 4 Krystyna Zagórska 1956 3 20 1983 7 24 y 5 Wiesława Konwent 1983 7 24 y 6 Małgorzata Janowicz 1962 1 21 1983 7 24 POL y 7 Teresa Kępka 1959 9 3 1983 7 24 y 8 Mariola Pawlak 1983 7 24 y 9 Irena Linka 1958 5 5 1983 7 24 y 10 Małgorzata Kozera 1983 7 24 y 11 Grażyna Seweryn 1959 11 14 1983 7 24 y 12 Bożena Sędzicka 1957 9 27 1983 7 24 FRA y 13 Małgorzata Niemiec 1963 4 18 1983 7 24 y 14 Małgorzata Wołujewicz 1983 7 24 y 15 Halina Iwaniec 1953 1 5 1983 7 24 Witold Huciński Yugoslavia Yugoslavia women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women white #033793 white #dd0000 y 4 Slavica Šuka 1959 8 6 1983 7 24 y 5 Snežana Božinović 1963 12 23 1983 7 24 y 6 Jelica Komnenović 1960 4 16 1983 7 24 YUG y 7 Olivera Čangalović 1960 3 7 1983 7 24 y 8 Olivera Krivokapić 1962 9 6 1983 7 24 BUL y 9 Stojna Vangelovska 1964 2 5 1983 7 24 MKD y 10 Slađana Golić 1960 2 12 1983 7 24 BIH y 11 Polona Dornik 1962 11 20 1983 7 24 ESP y 12 Biljana Majstorović 1959 12 31 1983 7 24 YUG y 13 Jasmina Perazić 1960 12 6 1983 7 24 y 14 Cvetana Dekleva 1963 4 24 1983 7 24 y 15 Marija Uzelac 1958 2 22 1983 7 24 Milan Vasojević Group C Canada Canada women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women White Red White Black y 4 Tracie McAra 1960 11 20 1983 7 24 y 5 Carol Turney 1955 6 26 1983 7 24 y 6 Anna Pendergast 1983 7 24 y 7 Deborah Huband 1956 9 5 1983 7 24 y 8 Carol Sealey 1959 4 18 1983 7 24 y 9 Alison Lang basketball 1961 6 28 1983 7 24 y 10 Heidi Bauer 1983 7 24 y 11 Sylvia Sweeney 1956 10 3 1983 7 24 y 12 Candace Lohr Candi Clarkson-Lohr 1958 11 30 1983 7 24 y 13 Toni Kordic 1964 1 1 1983 7 24 y 14 Andrea Jill Blackwell Andrea Blackwell 1962 11 23 1983 7 24 y 15 Andrea Verrecchia 1983 7 24 China China women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women #fc3 #CC0000 #CC0000 #fc3 y 4 Yuefang Chen Chen Yuefang 1963 5 1 1983 7 24 y 5 Yan Ba Ba Yan 1962 12 18 1983 7 24 y 6 Min Liu 1960 1 31 1983 7 24 y 7 Xiaobo Song 1958 9 9 1983 7 24 y 8 Chen Qiu Qiu Chen 1963 6 11 1983 7 24 y 9 Shumin You 1959 8 9 1983 7 24 y 10 Lijuan Xiu Xiu Lijuan 1957 10 26 1983 7 24 y 11 Haixia Zheng 1967 3 7 1983 7 24 y 12 Liquing Xian 1983 7 24 y 13 Hui Zhang Zhang Hui (basketball) 1959 9 29 1983 7 24 y 14 Ping Liu basketball 1983 7 24 y 15 Yuequin Zhang Zhang Yueqin 1960 1 21 1983 7 24 Soviet Union Soviet Union women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women white #c42104 #c42104 white y 4 Ramune-Neringa Shidlauskaite 1961 6 28 1983 7 24 y 5 Olga Korosteleva basketball 1954 8 24 1983 7 24 y 6 Olesya Barel 1960 2 9 1983 7 24 HUN y 7 Tania Beloshapko 1983 7 24 y 8 Olga Buryakina 1958 3 17 1983 7 24 y 9 Nadia Olknova 1983 7 24 y 10 Uljana Semjonova 1952 3 9 1983 7 24 FRA y 11 Lyudmila Rogozhina 1959 5 2 1983 7 24 TUR y 12 Elena Chausova 1957 7 30 1983 7 24 RUS y 13 Olga Sukharnova 1983 7 24 y 14 Vida Besselene 1983 7 24 y 15 Galina Savitskaya 1961 7 13 1983 7 24 ESP Zaire Zaire women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women white #06b04e #fcd205 white y 4 Loganza Kamimbay 1983 7 24 y 5 Evoloko Bokele 1983 7 24 y 6 Bofonda Lomboto 1983 7 24 y 7 Ndombe Kiangbeni 1983 7 24 y 8 Komichelo Kayumba 1983 7 24 y 9 Lingenga Iyoko 1983 7 24 y 10 Tumbe Agbasing 1983 7 24 y 11 Nguya Nakwete 1983 7 24 y 12 Kamango Kasala 1983 7 24 y 13 Bompoko Lomboto 1983 7 24 y 14 Bakununu Mpanzu 1983 7 24 y 15 Djema Bokonda 1983 7 24 Semifinal Entrants The United States qualified directly to the semifinal round as defending FIBA World Champions. Brazil qualified directly to the semifinal round as hosts. Brazil Brazil women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women blue #FFD700 #FFD700 #177245 y 4 Hortência de Fatima Marcari Hortência Marcari 1959 9 24 1983 7 24 y 5 Maria Angélica G. Silva 1966 10 1 1983 7 24 y 6 Anna Maria Krabenborg 1983 7 24 y 7 Solange Maria Castro 1983 7 24 y 8 Maria Paula Silva 1983 7 24 y 9 Eliza Garcia 1962 2 22 1983 7 24 y 10 Soraya B. Brandao 1957 9 25 1983 7 24 y 11 Marta Sobral 1983 7 24 y 12 Vania Teixeira 1983 7 24 y 13 Suzete Silva 1983 7 24 y 14 Cristina Punko 1957 12 1 1983 7 24 y 15 Vanda Rinalda Dal Col 1961 1 1 1983 7 24 United States United States women's national basketball team – 1983 FIBA World Championship for Women white #002868 white #BF0A30 y 4 Patty Hedges 1983 7 24 y 5 Cheryl Lynn Cook 1963 3 15 1983 7 24 ESP y 6 Lynette Woodard 1959 8 12 1983 7 24 ITA y 7 Anne Theresa Donovan Anne Donovan 1961 11 1 1983 7 24 y 8 LaTaunya Pollard 1983 7 24 y 9 Cheryl Miller 1964 2 3 1983 7 24 y 10 Janice Lawrence 1983 7 24 y 11 Cindy Noble 1958 11 14 1983 7 24 y 12 Kimberly Mulkey Kim Mulkey 1962 5 17 1983 7 24 y 13 Denise Marie Curry Denise Curry 1959 8 22 1983 7 24 FRA y 14 Pamela Denise McGee Pamela McGee 1962 12 1 1983 7 24 ESP y 15 Lisa Ingram 1964 7 14 1983 7 24 Notes Note In a few cases, names here have been corrected from source, where and only where a Wikipedia page exists for the player and the two are readily discernible as referring to the same person (e.g. slightly different Latinizations, married vs maiden names, reverse order of Chinese names, etc). If the birthdays for any such person disagree between their individual page and the FIBA source here, the FIBA source is preserved here regardless, as we have no way to determine which is correct. References Category:FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup squads