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11th Olympic Basketball Tournament
Los Angeles 1984
Tournament details
Olympics	1984 Summer Olympics
Host nation	United States of America
City	Los Angeles
Duration	July 29 – August 10
Men's tournament
Teams	12
Medals Gold medalists  United States Silver medalists  Spain Bronze medalists  Yugoslavia
Women's tournament
Teams	6
Medals Gold medalists  United States Silver medalists  South Korea Bronze medalists  China
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Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Tournament
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Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics was the eleventh appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It took place at The Forum in Inglewood, California, United States from July 29 to August 10. The United States won the gold medal in both events, with the women's team's victory marking their first-ever gold medal. Due to the boycott, the Soviet Union and Hungary withdrew from the tournament. The former, having already qualified for both events was replaced by West Germany in the men's competition, while both nations' women's teams were replaced by Australia and South Korea.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	United States (USA) Steve Alford Leon Wood Patrick Ewing Vernon Fleming Alvin Robertson Michael Jordan Joe Kleine Jon Koncak Wayman Tisdale Chris Mullin Sam Perkins Jeff Turner	Spain (ESP) José Manuel Beirán José Luis Llorente Fernando Arcega Josep Maria Margall Andrés Jiménez Fernando Romay Fernando Martín Juan Antonio Corbalán Ignacio Solozábal Juan Domingo de la Cruz Juan Manuel López Iturriaga Juan Antonio San Epifanio, "Epi"	Yugoslavia (YUG) Dražen Petrović Aleksandar Petrović Rajko Žižić Andro Knego Nebojša Zorkić Ivan Sunara Sabit Hadžić Dražen Dalipagić Emir Mutapčić Ratko Radovanović Mihovil Nakić Branko Vukićević
Women's details	United States (USA) Teresa Edwards Lea Henry Lynette Woodard Anne Donovan Cathy Boswell Cheryl Miller Janice Lawrence Cindy Noble Kim Mulkey Denise Curry Pam McGee Carol Menken-Schaudt	South Korea (KOR) Choi Aei-young Kim Eun-sook Lee Hyung-sook Choi Kyung-hee Lee Mi-ja Moon Kyung-ja Kim Hwa-soon Jeong Myung-hee Kim Young-hee Sung Jung-a Park Chan-sook Park Yang-gae	China (CHN) Chen Yuefang Li Xiaoqin Ba Yan Song Xiaobo Qiu Chen Wang Jun Xiu Lijuan Zheng Haixia Cong Xuedi Zhang Hui Liu Qing Zhang Yueqin

Qualification

A NOC may enter up to one men's team with 12 players and up to one women's team with 12 players. Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country for both events plus the gold and silver medal winners from the previous Olympic Games in the men's tournament, and the champion at the 1983 FIBA World Championship in the women's tournament. Additional spots for the men's tournament were decided via the continental championships held by FIBA, while additional spots for the women's competition were assigned to the top six teams in a tournament held in Havana, Cuba.

Men

Qualified teams for the Men's Tournament

Americas	Europe	Asia	Africa	Oceania
United States	Soviet Union	China	Egypt	Australia
Canada	Yugoslavia
Brazil	Italy
Uruguay	France
	Spain
	West Germany

Women

Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers
Canada	China  South Korea	Hungary  Yugoslavia	Australia	Soviet Union – World Champions  United States – Olympic hosts

• Withdrew from the tournament.
• Replaced the Soviet Union.
• Replaced the Soviet Union and Hungary.

Format

Men's tournament:

• Two groups of six teams are formed, where the top four from each group advance to the knockout stage.
• Fifth and sixth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 9th–12th places in the final ranking.
• In the quarterfinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1.
  • The four teams eliminated from the quarterfinals form an additional bracket to decide 5th–8th places in the final ranking.
• The winning teams from the quarterfinals meet in the semifinals.
• The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.

Women's tournament:

• One round-robin group is formed containing all six teams, where the top two compete for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places compete for the bronze medal in an additional match.
• The remaining two teams finish with their group rank in the final standings.

Tie-breaking criteria:

1. Head to head results
2. Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
3. Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Men's tournament

Preliminary round

The top four places in each of the preliminary round groups advanced to the eight team, single-elimination knockout stage, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams. Both hosts United States and reigning Olympic Champions Yugoslavia advanced undefeated to the knockout phase. China, Egypt, Brazil, and France placed fifth and sixth in their respective groups and competed in the classification round.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	5	5	0	457	366	+91	10	Quarterfinals
2	Italy	5	4	1	437	363	+74	9
3	Australia	5	3	2	383	403	−20	8
4	West Germany	5	2	3	384	376	+8	7
5	Brazil	5	1	4	401	423	−22	6	9th–12th classification round
6	Egypt	5	0	5	349	480	−131	5

Italy	110–62	Egypt
Scoring by half: 56–31, 54–31

Yugoslavia	96–83	West Germany
Scoring by half: 49–41, 47–42

Australia	76–72	Brazil
Scoring by half: 34–38, 42–34

Italy	80–72	West Germany
Scoring by half: 33–39, 47–33

Brazil	91–82	Egypt
Scoring by half: 45–43, 46–39

Yugoslavia	94–64	Australia
Scoring by half: 39–28, 55–36

Australia	67–66	West Germany
Scoring by half: 31–36, 36–30

Yugoslavia	100–69	Egypt
Scoring by half: 56–31, 55–36

Italy	89–78	Brazil
Scoring by half: 43–44, 46–34

West Germany	85–58	Egypt
Scoring by half: 40–24, 45–34

Yugoslavia	98–85	Brazil
Scoring by half: 55–50, 43–35

Italy	93–82	Australia
Scoring by half: 48–48, 45–34

Australia	94–78	Egypt
Scoring by half: 38–37, 56–41

West Germany	78–75	Brazil
Scoring by half: 41–37, 37–38

Yugoslavia	69–65	Italy
Scoring by half: 34–28, 35–37

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States (H)	5	5	0	511	315	+196	10	Quarterfinals
2	Spain	5	4	1	457	438	+19	9
3	Canada	5	3	2	462	401	+61	8
4	Uruguay	5	2	3	403	460	−57	7
5	China	5	1	4	364	477	−113	6	9th–12th classification round
6	France	5	0	5	383	489	−106	5

Uruguay	91–87 (OT)	France
Scoring by half: 35–41, 38–32 Overtime: 18–14

United States	97–49	China
Scoring by half: 50–29, 47–20

Spain	83–82	Canada
Scoring by half: 45–40, 38–42

China	85–83	France
Scoring by half: 39–48, 46–35

United States	89–68	Canada
Scoring by half: 43–28, 46–40

Uruguay	90–107	Spain
Scoring by half: 43–58, 47–49

China	80–121	Canada
Scoring by half: 32–59, 48–62

United States	104–68	Uruguay
Scoring by half: 58–37, 46–31

France	82–97	Spain
Scoring by half: 47–58, 35–39

China	83–102	Spain
Scoring by half: 38–50, 45–52

United States	120–62	France
Scoring by half: 57–25, 63–37

Canada	95–80	Uruguay
Scoring by half: 46–47, 49–33

United States	101–68	Spain
Scoring by half: 46–41, 55–27

Canada	96–69	France
Scoring by half: 40–31, 56–38

China	67–74	Uruguay
Scoring by half: 24–37, 43–37

Knockout stage

Championship bracket

Quarterfinals (August 6)

Semifinals (August 8)

Gold medal (August 10)

A1

Yugoslavia

110

B4

Uruguay

82

A1

Yugoslavia

61

B2

Spain

74

B2

Spain

101

A3

Australia

93

B2

Spain

65

B1

United States

96

B1

United States

78

A4

West Germany

67

B1

United States

78

Bronze medal (August 9)

B3

Canada

59

A2

Italy

72

A1

Yugoslavia

88

B3

Canada

78

B3

Canada

82

Classification brackets

5th–8th Place

	August 8					5th place (August 10)
	A3	Australia	95
	B4	Uruguay	101
						B4	Uruguay	102
						A2	Italy	111
	A2	Italy	98
	A4	West Germany	71			7th place (August 10)
						A3	Australia	83
						A4	West Germany	78

9th–12th Place

	August 5					9th place (August 10)
	A5	Brazil	100
	B6	France	86
						A5	Brazil	86
						B5	China	76
	B5	China	76
	A6	Egypt	73			11th place (August 9)
						B6	France	102
						A6	Egypt	78

Women's tournament

Preliminary round

The first two places in the preliminary group compete for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places compete for the bronze. The remaining teams' group ranking determines their positions in the final standings. With the withdrawal of the Soviet Union's women's team, a new Olympic champion was to be crowned in Los Angeles. The host nation's team went through the first round undefeated and won their first gold medal against South Korea, one of the teams invited to replace the Soviet Union and Hungary. China, the other Asian representative, earned a bronze medal by defeating Canada. Yugoslavia's team couldn't repeat their bronze medal performance from the previous tournament and finished at the bottom of the rankings.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States (H)	5	5	0	431	265	+166	10	Gold medal game
2	South Korea	5	4	1	292	302	−10	9
3	Canada	5	2	3	313	335	−22	7	Bronze medal game
4	China	5	2	3	318	348	−30	7
5	Australia	5	1	4	267	317	−50	6
6	Yugoslavia	5	1	4	293	347	−54	6

1. ^ Head-to-head record: Canada 1–0 China
2. ^ Head-to-head record: Australia 1–0 Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia	55–83	United States
Scoring by half: 29–43, 26–40

Australia	64–67	China
Scoring by half: 22–28, 42–39

South Korea	67–62	Canada
Scoring by half: 34–32, 33–30

Australia	47–81	United States
Scoring by half: 28–51, 19–30

Yugoslavia	52–55	South Korea
Scoring by half: 24–27, 28–28

China	61–66	Canada
Scoring by half: 33–35, 28–31

Australia	45–56	Canada
Scoring by half: 18–30, 28–26

United States	84–47	South Korea
Scoring by half: 40–20, 44–27

China	79–58	Yugoslavia
Scoring by half: 34–28, 45–30

Australia	48–54	South Korea
Scoring by half: 19–26, 29–28

Canada	68–69	Yugoslavia
Scoring by half: 33–34, 35–35

China	55–91	United States
Scoring by half: 26–38, 29–53

South Korea	69–56	China
Scoring by half: 34–25, 35–31

Canada	61–92	United States
Scoring by half: 31–41, 30–51

Australia	62–59	Yugoslavia
Scoring by half: 25–31, 37–28

Bronze medal game

China	63–57	Canada
Scoring by half: 37–29, 26–28

Gold medal game

United States	85–55	South Korea
Scoring by half: 42–27, 43–28

Final standings

Rank	Men				Women
	Team	Pld	W	L	Team	Pld	W	L
	United States	8	8	0	United States	6	6	0
	Spain	8	6	2	South Korea	6	4	2
	Yugoslavia	8	7	1	China	6	3	3
4th	Canada	8	4	4	Canada	6	2	4
Eliminated at the quarterfinals
5th	Italy	8	6	2	Australia	5	1	4
6th	Uruguay	8	3	5	Yugoslavia	5	1	4
7th	Australia	8	4	4
8th	West Germany	8	2	6
Preliminary round 5th placers
9th	Brazil	7	3	4
10th	China	7	2	5
Preliminary round 6th placers
11th	France	7	1	6
12th	Egypt	7	0	7

See also

• Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters
• Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters
• Basketball at the Friendship Games

References

• Official Olympic Report
• USA Basketball
• 1984 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men, FIBA Archive.
• 1984 Olympic Games: Tournament for Women, FIBA Archive.

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