Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification place match. All six teams qualified for the Olympic Games, since Yugoslavia had already qualified as world champions in 1998. With Australia being qualified as host, the only spot for Oceania in the Olympic Games was decided in a single elimination game where New Zealand defeated Guam 125–43. Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification The men's qualification for the 2000 Olympic basketball tournament occurred from 1998–2000; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones sent in teams. The first qualifying tournament was the 1998 FIBA World Championship in which the champion was guaranteed of a place in the
Germany at the Summer Olympics Germany at the Summer Olympics Athletes from Germany (GER) have appeared in 27 of the 30 Summer Olympic Games, having competed in all Games except those of 1920, 1924 and 1948, when they were not permitted to do so. Germany has hosted the Summer Olympic Games twice; the 1936 Games in Berlin, and the 1972 Games in Munich. The nation appeared 15 times as a single country (IOC code GER), before World War II and again after German reunification in 1990. Three times, from 1956 to 1964, German athletes from the separate states in West and East competed as a