Basketball at the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...
was held from 18 to 26 August at the
Wutaishan Sports Center in
Nanjing, China. As in
2010
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the
3x3 format returned, along with a new event, the skill challenge.
Qualification
Each
National Olympic Committee
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games ...
(NOC) could enter a maximum of 2 teams, 1 team of 4 athletes per each gender. As hosts, China was given 2 teams, 1 per each gender. 6 teams, 3 per each gender qualified at the 2013 U18 3x3 World Championships and another 6 teams, 3 per each gender qualified from the 2013 3x3 World Tour Final. The remaining 13 teams per gender qualified based on the FIBA 3x3 National Federation Ranking based on the update from 1 June 2014. All continents must have at least one team present in each gender and no more than 10 from the same continent can participate. A minimum of 30 NOCs must participate across all events.
To be eligible to participate at the 2014 Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997. Furthermore, all team members must have participated in two FIBA sanctioned 3x3 events between 1 April 2013 and 8 June 2014.
Boys
Girls
Format
The boys' and girls' tournament will adopt a round robin group stage and a single-elimination medal round, where the 20 participating teams are split into 2 pools of 10. Each team will play once against the other teams in its pool, and the top 8 teams from each pool will qualify for the knock-out stages.
Boys
Girls
Note: Guam entered a girls' basketball team into Group B of the competition; there was no Guam boys' team at the tournament
Schedule
The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.
:''All times are
CST (
UTC+8)''
Medal summary
Medal table
Results
References
External links
Official Results Book – 3x3 Basketball
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