Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan was held from 24 July to 8 August 2021.^[1] The basketball competitions were held at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, while the debuting 3x3 competitions were held at the temporary Aomi Urban Sports Park in Tokyo.^[2]

Basketball at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Basketball pictograms
Venue	Saitama Super Arena Aomi Urban Sports Park (3x3)
Dates	24 July – 8 August 2021
No. of events	4
Competitors	352 from 24 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	3	0	0	3
2	Latvia	1	0	0	1
3	ROC	0	2	0	2
4	France	0	1	1	2
5	Japan*	0	1	0	1
6	Australia	0	0	1	1
	China	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	United States Bam Adebayo Devin Booker Kevin Durant Jerami Grant Draymond Green Jrue Holiday Keldon Johnson Zach LaVine Damian Lillard JaVale McGee Khris Middleton Jayson Tatum	France Andrew Albicy Nicolas Batum Petr Cornelie Nando de Colo Moustapha Fall Evan Fournier Rudy Gobert Thomas Heurtel Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot Frank Ntilikina Vincent Poirier Guerschon Yabusele	Australia Aron Baynes Matthew Dellavedova Dante Exum Chris Goulding Josh Green Joe Ingles Nick Kay Jock Landale Patty Mills Duop Reath Nathan Sobey Matisse Thybulle
Women details	United States Ariel Atkins Sue Bird Tina Charles Napheesa Collier Skylar Diggins-Smith Sylvia Fowles Chelsea Gray Brittney Griner Jewell Loyd Breanna Stewart Diana Taurasi A'ja Wilson	Japan Himawari Akaho Saki Hayashi Rui Machida Evelyn Mawuli Saori Miyazaki Yuki Miyazawa Naho Miyoshi Nako Motohashi Moeko Nagaoka Monica Okoye Maki Takada Nanaka Todo	France Alexia Chartereau Héléna Ciak Alix Duchet Marine Fauthoux Sandrine Gruda Marine Johannès Sarah Michel Endéné Miyem Iliana Rupert Diandra Tchatchouang Valériane Vukosavljević Gabby Williams
Men 3x3 details	Latvia Agnis Čavars Edgars Krūmiņš Kārlis Lasmanis Nauris Miezis	ROC Ilia Karpenkov Kirill Pisklov Stanislav Sharov Alexander Zuev	Serbia Dušan Domović Bulut Dejan Majstorović Aleksandar Ratkov Mihailo Vasić
Women 3x3 details	United States Stefanie Dolson Allisha Gray Kelsey Plum Jackie Young	ROC Evgeniia Frolkina Olga Frolkina Yulia Kozik Anastasia Logunova	China Wan Jiyuan Wang Lili Yang Shuyu Zhang Zhiting

Qualification summary

NOC	Men		Women		Total
	5-on-5	3x3	5-on-5	3x3	Athletes
Argentina					12
Australia					24
Belgium					16
Canada					12
China					20
Czech Republic					12
France					28
Germany					12
Iran					12
Italy					16
Japan					32
Latvia					4
Mongolia					4
Netherlands					4
Nigeria					24
Poland					4
Puerto Rico					12
Romania					4
ROC					8
Serbia					16
Slovenia					12
South Korea					12
Spain					24
United States					28
Total: 24 NOCs	12	8	12	8	352

5-on-5 basketball

Qualification

The National Olympic Committees may enter only one 12-player men's team and only one 12-player women's team. The men's qualification was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic whereas the women's qualification ended on time and unaffected.

Men's qualification

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Means of qualification[3]		Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation[4]		—	—	1	Japan
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup	Africa	31 August – 15 September 2019	China	1	Nigeria
	Americas			2	Argentina
					United States
	Asia			1	Iran
	Europe			2	France
					Spain
	Oceania			1	Australia
2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments		29 June – 4 July 2021	Victoria	1	Czech Republic
			Split	1	Germany
			Kaunas	1	Slovenia
			Belgrade	1	Italy
Total				12

Women's qualification

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Twelve teams qualified for the women's tournament. The host nation and the 2018 World Cup winners qualified. Those two teams, however, had to play in the pre-qualifying and qualifying tournaments and each took up one of the qualifying spots from those tournaments. Thus, while two of the World Qualifying Tournaments provided quota spots to their three top teams, the other two tournaments provided quota spots only to the top two teams plus either the host nation or the World Cup winners.^[5]

Teams had to qualify for the World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments through Women's EuroBasket or Pre-Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (which themselves had to be qualified for through Continental Cups).

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	—	—	1	Japan
2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup	22–30 September 2018	Spain	1	United States
2020 FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments	6–9 February 2020	Ostend	2	Belgium
				Canada
		Bourges	3	Australia
				France
				Puerto Rico
		Belgrade	2	Nigeria
				Serbia
			3	China
				South Korea
				Spain
Total			12

Competition schedule

Legend

G

Group stage

¼

Quarter-finals

½

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

Date Event	Sat 24	Sun 25	Mon 26	Tue 27		Wed 28			Thu 29	Fri 30	Sat 31	Sun 1	Mon 2	Tue 3	Wed 4	Thu 5	Fri 6	Sat 7		Sun 8
Men		G	G			G			G		G	G		¼		½		F	B
Women			G	G					G	G		G	G		¼		½	B		F
3x3 Men	G	G	G	G	¼	½	B	F
3x3 Women	G	G	G	G	¼	½	B	F

^[6][7][8]

Men's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	259	215	+44	6	Quarterfinals
2	United States	3	2	1	315	233	+82	5
3	Czech Republic	3	1	2	245	294	−49	4
4	Iran	3	0	3	206	283	−77	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	259	226	+33	6	Quarterfinals
2	Italy	3	2	1	255	239	+16	5
3	Germany	3	1	2	257	273	−16	4
4	Nigeria	3	0	3	230	263	−33	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovenia	3	3	0	329	268	+61	6	Quarterfinals
2	Spain	3	2	1	256	243	+13	5
3	Argentina	3	1	2	268	276	−8	4
4	Japan (H)	3	0	3	235	301	−66	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.
(H) Hosts

Third-placed team rankings

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Argentina	3	1	2	268	276	−8	4	Quarterfinals
2	B	Germany	3	1	2	257	273	−16	4
3	A	Czech Republic	3	1	2	245	294	−49	4

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) game points difference; 3) number of game points scored; 4) FIBA ranking.

Knockout stage

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal
	3 August
	Italy	75
					5 August
	France	84
					France	90
	3 August
					Slovenia	89
	Slovenia	94
									7 August
	Germany	70
									France	82
	3 August
									United States	87
	Spain	81
					5 August
	United States	95
					United States	97
	3 August
					Australia	78			Bronze medal
	Australia	97
									7 August
	Argentina	59
									Slovenia	93
									Australia	107

Final standings

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Standing	New rank
	United States	6	5	1	594	474	+120		1 ()
	France	6	5	1	515	466	+49		5 (2)
	Australia	6	5	1	541	475	+66		3 ()
4th	Slovenia	6	4	2	605	535	+70		4 (12)
Eliminated at the quarterfinals
5th	Italy	4	2	2	330	323	+7	B–2nd	8 (2)
6th	Spain	4	2	2	337	338	−1	C–2nd	2 ()
7th	Argentina	4	1	3	327	373	−46	C–3rd	7 (3)
8th	Germany	4	1	3	327	367	−40	B–3rd	11 (6)
Eliminated in the preliminary round
9th	Czech Republic	3	1	2	245	294	−49	A–3rd	12 ()
10th	Nigeria	3	0	3	230	263	−33	B–4th	23 (1)
11th	Japan	3	0	3	235	301	–66	C–4th	35 (7)
12th	Iran	3	0	3	206	283	−77	A–4th	22 (1)

Women's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	3	3	0	234	205	+29	6	Quarterfinals
2	Serbia	3	2	1	207	214	−7	5
3	Canada	3	1	2	208	201	+7	4
4	South Korea	3	0	3	183	212	−29	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	260	223	+37	6	Quarterfinals
2	Japan (H)	3	2	1	245	239	+6	5
3	France	3	1	2	239	229	+10	4
4	Nigeria	3	0	3	217	270	−53	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.
(H) Hosts

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	247	191	+56	6	Quarterfinals
2	Belgium	3	2	1	234	196	+38	5
3	Australia	3	1	2	240	230	+10	4
4	Puerto Rico	3	0	3	176	280	−104	3

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) head-to-head results; 3) head-to-head game points difference; 4) head-to-head number of game points scored.

Third-placed team rankings

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Australia	3	1	2	240	230	+10	4	Quarterfinals
2	B	France	3	1	2	239	229	+10	4
3	A	Canada	3	1	2	208	201	+7	4

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) classification points; 2) game points difference; 3) number of game points scored; 4) FIBA ranking.

Knockout stage

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal
	4 August
	Australia	55
					6 August
	United States	79
					United States	79
	4 August
					Serbia	59
	China	70
									8 August
	Serbia	77
									United States	90
	4 August
									Japan	75
	Japan	86
					6 August
	Belgium	85
					Japan	87
	4 August
					France	71			Bronze medal
	Spain	64
									7 August
	France	67
									Serbia	76
									France	91

Final standings

Rank	Team[9]	Record
	United States	6–0
	Japan	4–2
	France	3–3
4	Serbia	3–3
5	China	3–1
6	Spain	3–1
7	Belgium	2–2
8	Australia	1–3
9	Canada	1–2
10	South Korea	0–3
11	Nigeria	0–3
12	Puerto Rico	0–3

3x3 basketball

On June 9, 2017, the International Olympic Committee announced that 3x3 basketball would be contested at the Summer Olympics for the first time in 2020.^[10]

Qualification

Qualification for 3x3 determined the eight teams in each of the men's and women's tournaments. The host country, Japan, was guaranteed only one place, not one per gender. Four teams per gender (reduced to three if Japan uses its guaranteed place) were determined via world ranking. Three teams per gender were selected through an Olympic Qualifying Tournament. The final team per gender were determined in a Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Men

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 3x3 qualification

Means of qualification	Date(s)	Location	Berth(s)	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	Japan
FIBA 3x3 World Ranking[11]	1 November 2019	Utsunomiya	3	China ROC  Serbia
2021 FIBA 3x3 Olympic Qualifying Tournament	26–30 May 2021	Graz	3	Poland  Netherlands  Latvia
2021 FIBA Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament[12]	4–6 June 2021	Debrecen	1	Belgium
Total			8

Women

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 3x3 qualification

Means of qualification	Date(s)	Location	Berth(s)	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	0	—
FIBA 3x3 World Ranking[13]	1 November 2019	Utsunomiya	4	ROC  China  Mongolia  Romania
2021 FIBA 3x3 Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament	26–30 May 2021	Graz	3	United States  France  Japan
2020 FIBA Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament[14]	4–6 June 2021	Debrecen	1	Italy
Total			8

Men's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 3x3 tournament

Pool

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Serbia	7	7	0	138	91	+47	Semifinals
2	Belgium	7	4[a]	3	126	127	−1
3	Latvia	7	4[a]	3	133	129	+4	Quarterfinals
4	Netherlands	7	4[a]	3	132	129	+3
5	ROC	7	3	4	116	125	−9
6	Japan (H)	7	2[b]	5	123	134	−11
7	Poland	7	2[b]	5	120	130	−10
8	China	7	2[b]	5	119	142	−23

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Points scored.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1. Belgium 2–0, Latvia 1–1, Netherlands 0–2
2. Japan 1–1, 123 PS; Poland 1–1, 120 PS; China 1–1, 119 PS

Knockout stage

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal
					28 July
					Serbia	10
	27 July
					ROC	21
	Netherlands	19
									28 July
	ROC	21
									ROC	18
									Latvia	21
					28 July
					Belgium	8
	27 July
					Latvia	21			Bronze medal
	Latvia	21
									28 July
	Japan	18
									Serbia	21
									Belgium	10

Final standings

Rank	Team[15]
	Latvia
	ROC
	Serbia
4	Belgium
5	Netherlands
6	Japan
7	Poland
8	China

Women's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 3x3 tournament

Pool

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	United States	7	6	1	136	98	+38	Semifinals
2	ROC	7	5[a]	2	129	90	+39
3	China	7	5[a]	2	127	97	+30	Quarterfinals
4	Japan (H)	7	5[a]	2	130	97	+33
5	France	7	4	3	118	116	+2
6	Italy	7	2	5	98	125	−27
7	Romania	7	1	6	89	142	−53
8	Mongolia	7	0	7	79	141	−62

Source: TOCOG and FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Points scored.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1. ROC 2–0, China 1–1, Japan 0–2

Knockout stage

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal
					28 July
					United States	18
	27 July
					France	16
	Japan	14
									28 July
	France	16
									United States	18
									ROC	15
					28 July
					ROC	21
	27 July
					China	14			Bronze medal
	China	19
									28 July
	Italy	13
									France	14
									China	16

Final standings

Rank	Team[16]	Pld	W	L
	United States	9	8	1
	ROC	9	6	3
	China	10	7	3
4	France	10	5	5
5	Japan	8	5	3
6	Italy	8	2	6
7	Romania	7	1	6
8	Mongolia	7	0	7

See also

• Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics