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was one of the 42 sports at the 16th Asian Games 2010 at

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, China. The event was held at the 13,000 seat

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, Huangpu Gymnasium, Guangti Gymnasium, Ying Dong Gymnasium and Sports and Entertainment Centre. China defeated Korea in both of the tournament's gold medal games; Iran won the men's bronze medal defeating Japan, and Japan defeated Chinese Taipei to win the bronze medal in the women's tournament.

Schedule

Medalists

Medal table

Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the

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Men

* Best 8 teams from the basketball competition of the 2006 Asian Games that are participating in 2010 directly entered the second round. ;Qualifying round – Group A * * * Athletes from Kuwait* ;Qualifying round – Group B ** * ;Qualifying round – Group C * * ;Qualifying round – Group D * * ;Preliminary round – Group E * (Host) * (4) * (5) * (11) *1st Qualifying round – Group A *1st Qualifying round – Group C ;Preliminary round – Group F * (2) * (3) * (6) * (8) *1st Qualifying round – Group B *1st Qualifying round – Group D * The

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, which has made it to the latter stages of every Asian Games basketball tournament from 1951 to 2002, was originally drawn with Saudi Arabia but Saudi Arabia withdrew.

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, which was originally drawn with Hong Kong and North Korea, was re-drawn with the

to balance the number of teams in each group.

Women

;Group A * (Host) * (4) * * ;Group B * (2) * (3) *

Final standing

Men

Women

References

External links

Basketball results at the official website
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2010 International basketball competitions hosted by China

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