Women’s basketball at the Olympic Games

Abstract

The article refers to the evolution of Women Basketball Olympic Tournaments, trying to present and analyze these tournaments by associating the information related with the study of basketball to mapping representation. In the first part, the authors refer to a number of papers able to approach the research of sports as a result of the common study of specialists in physical education and sports, and also geography. There are also presented the main events that determined the inclusion of women basketball in the Olympic Games program. The gradual evolution of Women Basketball Olympic Tournaments, the participation of national teams, the medals obtained are presented and analyzed by associating the map with different ways of graphical representation.

Keywords

• Basketball
• women
• Olympic Games