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Basketball at the 1954 Asian Games
Venue	Rizal Memorial Coliseum
Date	2–8 May 1954
Nations	8
← 19511958 →

Basketball was one of the many sports which was held at the 1954 Asian Games in Manila, Philippines. It acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 1954 FIBA World Championship in Brazil.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Philippines Bayani Amador Florentino Bautista Jose Maria Cacho Napoleon Flores Antonio Genato Rafael Hechanova Eduardo Lim Carlos Loyzaga Ramon Manulat Lauro Mumar Francisco Rabat Ignacio Ramos Ponciano Saldaña Mariano Tolentino	Republic of China Hoo Cha-pen Lai Lam-kwong Edward Lee Jose Lim Julian Lim Ling Jing-huan Joachim Poon Tong Suet-fong Tsai Bon-hua Wang Yih-jiun Wu Yet-an Joachim Yao James Yap Yung Pi-hock	Japan Hirokazu Arai Jyunya Arai Riichi Arai Takashi Itoyama Takeshi Kinoshita Hitoshi Konno Hisashi Nagashima Shozo Noguchi Hiroshi Saito Shigeuji Saito Shutaro Shoji Takeo Sugiyama

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Philippines	3	3	0	271	149	+122	6	Final round
2	South Korea	3	2	1	203	197	+6	5
3	Singapore	3	1	2	249	206	+43	4
4	Cambodia	3	0	3	144	315	−171	3

Philippines	82–63	Singapore
Scoring by half: 47–31, 35–32

South Korea	89–48	Cambodia
Scoring by half: 34–22, 55–26

Philippines	105–41	Cambodia
Scoring by half: 47–14, 58–27

South Korea	69–65	Singapore
Scoring by half: 32–35, 37–30

Singapore	121–55	Cambodia
Scoring by half: 58–27, 63–28

Philippines	84–45	South Korea
Scoring by half: 48–20, 36–25

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Republic of China	3	3	0	231	145	+86	6	Final round
2	Japan	3	2	1	173	161	+12	5
3	Indonesia	3	1	2	175	224	−49	4
4	Thailand	3	0	3	166	215	−49	3

Japan	61–46	Indonesia
Scoring by half: 24–17, 37–29

Republic of China

73–46

Thailand

Republic of China	96–54	Indonesia
Scoring by half: 44–18, 52–36

Japan	67–53	Thailand
Scoring by half: 27–21, 40–32

Republic of China	62–45	Japan
Scoring by half: 34–19, 28–26

Indonesia	75–67	Thailand
Scoring by half: 36–34, 39–33

Final round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Philippines	3	3	0	178	119	+59	6
2	Republic of China	3	2	1	140	140	0	5
3	Japan	3	1	2	151	172	−21	4
4	South Korea	3	0	3	152	190	−38	3

Republic of China	56–53	South Korea
Scoring by half: 30–23, 26–30

Philippines	68–40	Japan
Scoring by half: 27–16, 41–24

Republic of China	57–53 (OT)	Japan
Scoring by half: 25–34, 26–17 Overtime: 6–2

Philippines	76–52	South Korea
Scoring by half: 39–23, 37–29

South Korea

47–58

Japan

Philippines	34–27	Republic of China
Scoring by half: 26–22, 8–5

Final standing

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	Philippines	6	6	0
	Republic of China	6	5	1
	Japan	6	3	3
4	South Korea	6	2	4
5	Indonesia	3	1	2
5	Singapore	3	1	2
7	Cambodia	3	0	3
7	Thailand	3	0	3

References

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Women 3x3	2018 2022
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