Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
at the 2020 Summer Olympics in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
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Japan was held from 24 July to 8 August 2021. The basketball competitions were held at the
Saitama Super Arena
is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Chūō-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It opened preliminarily on May 5, 2000, and then was officially opened on September 1 of the same year. Its maximum spectator capacity is 36,500, making i ...
in
Saitama, while the
3x3 competitions were held at the temporary Aomi Urban Sports Park in Tokyo.
Medal summary
Medal table
Events
Qualification summary
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
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
whereas the women's qualification ended on time and unaffected.
Men's qualification
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.
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).
Competition schedule
Men's tournament
Preliminary round
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Knockout stage
Final standings
Women's tournament
Preliminary round
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Knockout stage
Final standings
3x3 basketball
On June 9, 2017, the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
announced that
3x3 basketball
3x3 basketball (pronounced ''three-ex-three'') is a variation of basketball played three-a-side, with one backboard and in a half-court setup. According to an ESSEC Business School study commissioned by the International Olympic Committee, 3x3 ...
would be contested at the Summer Olympics for the first time in 2020.
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
Women
Men's tournament
Pool
Knockout stage
Final standings
Women's tournament
Pool
Knockout stage
Final standings
See also
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Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was held at two venues: Musashino Forest Sport Plaza for group stage rounds and Ariake Arena for group stage and finals.
The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 202 ...
References
External links
Basketball at the Tokyo Olympics official website
3x3 basketball at the Tokyo Olympics official website
Results book – 3x3 Basketball
Results book – Basketball
{{Basketball at the Summer Olympics
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...
2020 Summer Olympics events
Olympics
International basketball competitions hosted by Japan