Basketball at the 2018 Asian Games

Basketball at the 2018 Asian Games was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 14 August to 1 September 2018 and contested two events: 5x5 and 3x3 basketball.^[1][2] This was the first Asian Games tournament for 3x3 basketball.^[3]

Basketball at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	Gelora Bung Karno Basketball Hall Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Center Court Istora Gelora Bung Karno
Dates	14 August – 1 September 2018
Competitors	414 from 25 nations
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Schedule

P

Preliminary round

C

Classification

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	14th Tue	15th Wed	16th Thu	17th Fri	18th Sat	19th Sun	20th Mon	21st Tue	22nd Wed	23rd Thu	24th Fri	25th Sat	26th Sun			27th Mon	28th Tue	29th Wed	30th Thu	31st Fri	1st Sat
Basketball
Men	P		P				P	P	P	P		P				¼	C		½	C	F
Women		P		P		P	P	P		P			¼				C		½	C	F
3x3 basketball
Men								P	P		P	P	¼	½	F
Women								P	P		P	P	¼	½	F

Medalists

Basketball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	China Tian Yuxiang Fang Shuo Zhao Tailong Yu Changdong Ding Yanyuhang Zhao Rui Liu Zhixuan Zhou Qi Dong Hanlin Sun Minghui Abdusalam Abdurixit Wang Zhelin	Iran Meisam Mirzaei Sajjad Mashayekhi Aren Davoudi Behnam Yakhchali Vahid Dalirzahan Rouzbeh Arghavan Mohammad Jamshidi Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Haddadi Navid Rezaeifar Arsalan Kazemi Mohammad Hassanzadeh	South Korea Kim Jun-il Park Chan-hee Choi Jun-yong Lee Jung-hyun Kim Sun-hyung Heo Hoon Heo Ung Heo Il-young Kang Sang-jae Jeon Jun-beom Ra Gun-ah Lee Seoung-hyun
Women details	China Yang Liwei Li Yuan Wang Siyu Wang Lili Shao Ting Li Meng Wang Xuemeng Huang Sijing Liu Jiacen Sun Mengran Li Yueru Han Xu	Korea Kang Lee-seul Park Ji-hyun Kim Hye-yon Park Hye-jin Choi Eun-sil Jang Mi-gyong Park Ha-na Lim Yung-hui Ro Suk-yong Kim So-dam Park Ji-su Kim Han-byul	Japan Layla Takehara Stephanie Mawuli Haruka Suzuki Mio Shinozaki Shiori Yasuma Miyuki Kawamura Moe Nagata Saki Hayashi Saori Miyazaki Tamami Nakada Aya Watanabe Kadysha Umezawa

3x3 basketball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	China Chen Gong Xiao Hailiang Huang Wenwei Zeng Bingqiang	South Korea An Young-jun Kim Nak-hyeon Park In-tae Yang Hong-seok	Iran Ali Allahverdi Amir Hossein Azari Navid Khajehzadeh Mohammad Yousefvand
Women details	China Li Yingyun Dilana Dilixiati Jiang Jiayin Zhang Zhiting	Japan Ririka Okuyama Norika Konno Stephanie Mawuli Kiho Miyashita	Thailand Amphawa Thuamon Thunchanok Lumdabpang Warunee Kitraksa Rujiwan Bunsinprom

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	0	0	4
2	Iran (IRI)	0	1	1	2
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
5	Korea (COR)	0	1	0	1
6	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

Draw

The official draw for both the men's and women's basketball events were held on 5 July 2018 in Jakarta.^[4] The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2014 Asian Games.

Men

Group A  South Korea (1)  Mongolia (8)  Indonesia  Thailand

Group B  Iran (2)  Philippines (7)*  Syria  United Arab Emirates*

Group C  Japan (3)  Qatar (6)  Chinese Taipei  Hong Kong

Group D  Kazakhstan (4)  China (5)  Palestine*

* The Philippines^[5] and Palestine^[6] withdrew after the draw. On 5 August, the Philippines, through a hastily made press conference by their national basketball federation, decided to field a team but they were placed in Group D to balance the number of teams in each group. The United Arab Emirates withdrew few days before the start of the competition.

Women

Group X  Korea (1)  Chinese Taipei (4)  Indonesia  Kazakhstan  India

Group Y  China (2)  Japan (3)  Thailand  Hong Kong  Mongolia

Final standing

Basketball

Men

Further information: Basketball at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	5	5	0
	Iran	4	3	1
	South Korea	6	5	1
4	Chinese Taipei	6	4	2
5	Philippines	5	3	2
6	Syria	4	1	3
7	Japan	6	3	3
8	Indonesia	6	1	5
9	Qatar	3	1	2
10	Mongolia	3	1	2
11	Kazakhstan	2	0	2
12	Thailand	3	1	2
13	Hong Kong	3	0	3

Women

Further information: Basketball at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	7	7	0
	Korea	7	5	2
	Japan	7	5	2
4	Chinese Taipei	7	5	2
5	Kazakhstan	7	4	3
6	Thailand	7	3	4
7	Indonesia	7	2	5
8	Mongolia	7	1	6
9	India	4	0	4
10	Hong Kong	4	0	4

3x3 basketball

Men

Further information: 3x3 basketball at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	7	7	0
	South Korea	7	6	1
	Iran	8	7	1
4	Thailand	7	4	3
5	Japan	6	5	1
6	Qatar	6	4	2
7	Chinese Taipei	5	3	2
8	Kazakhstan	6	3	3
9	Iraq	5	3	2
10	Syria	5	3	2
11	Indonesia	4	2	2
12	Mongolia	4	2	2
13	Malaysia	5	2	3
14	Nepal	5	2	3
15	Turkmenistan	5	2	3
16	Sri Lanka	4	1	3
17	Kyrgyzstan	4	1	3
18	Jordan	5	1	4
19	Afghanistan	5	0	5
20	Bangladesh	4	0	4
21	Vietnam	4	0	4
—	Maldives	5	0	5

Women

Further information: 3x3 basketball at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	6	6	0
	Japan	6	5	1
	Thailand	6	5	1
4	Chinese Taipei	6	3	3
5	South Korea	4	3	1
6	Indonesia	4	2	2
7	Malaysia	4	2	2
8	Iran	4	2	2
9	Vietnam	3	1	2
10	Sri Lanka	3	1	2
11	Kazakhstan	3	1	2
12	Mongolia	3	1	2
13	Syria	3	0	3
14	Nepal	3	0	3
15	Qatar	3	0	3
—	Maldives	3	0	3