Eurobasket Women (also known as Eurowomen) is a bi-annual basketball competition held between the nations of Europe (including Israel) for women's national basketball team. Eurobasket Women is also used as a qualifying tournament for the FIBA World Championship for Women and also for Olympic Games.
The most successful nation is the now defunct Soviet Union with 21 titles, while Russia are the 2003, 2007 and 2011 reigning champions.
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