Basketball At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Tournament
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The men's basketball tournament at the
2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
was the 20th edition of the event for men at the
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. It was held from 25 July to 7 August 2021. All games were played at the
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in Saitama,
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. It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the
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. Because of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors. The
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won their 16th overall and fourth consecutive gold medal, after defeating France in the final. Australia won the bronze with a 107–93 win over Slovenia, winning its first medal in men's basketball after a series of losses in bronze medal games. The medals for the competition were presented by IOC vice-president
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and the medalists' bouqets by
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first vice-president Sheikh Saud Ali Al-Thani. With a FIBA World Cup Changed a format & A Champions in FIBA World Cup will no longer be automatically qualify to the Olympics 11 Teams will battle for the Olympics through The 2019 FIBA World Cup along with 2 best teams in America & Europe, best teams in Asia, Africa and Oceania & 4 winners of 2020 FIBA Olympics Qualifying Tournament in different places alongside a host hountry Japan who automatically qualify to the Olympics as host & for the first time since 1996 that the slots are using 11 for qualify to the Olympics and the format will also change from 6 teams in each group (Group A & B) to 4 team in each group (Group A, B and C) The Top 2 teams in each group along with the 2 best 3rd place in their different group will advance to the knockout round.


Format

The twelve teams were split into three groups of four teams, and a single round-robin was held within each group. The first- and second-placed teams of each group advanced to the quarterfinals as well as the two best third-placed teams. After the preliminary round, the teams were grouped according to their results (top four and bottom four), and a draw paired teams between the groups for the quarterfinals. From there on a knockout system was used.


Schedule

The schedule of the tournament was as follows.


Qualified teams


Squads


Draw

The draw was held on 2 February 2021. The 12 teams were divided into four pots of three teams based on their
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. The three groups were formed by drawing one team from each pot. Two teams from the same continent could not be placed into the same group, with the exception of European teams, where up to two teams could be in the same group. Due to scheduling requests from the
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, defending champions the United States were drawn into either Group A or B, and hosts Japan were automatically allocated Group C.


Seeding

As the four winners of the 2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments (OQTs) were yet to be decided at the time of the draw, they were assigned placeholders of " OQT Belgrade", " OQT Kaunas", " OQT Split" and " OQT Victoria." Each of the four placeholders were seeded based on the highest-ranked team in each tournament. ; Notes


Referees

The following 30 referees were selected for the tournament. * Juan Fernández * Leandro Lezcano * Scott Beker * James Boyer * Ademir Zurapović * Guilherme Locatelli * Andreia Silva * Matthew Kallio * Maripier Malo * Michael Weiland * Yu Jung * Maj Forsberg * Yohan Rosso * Ahmed Al-Shuwaili * Manuel Mazzoni * Takaki Kato * Yevgeniy Mikheyev * Mārtiņš Kozlovskis * Rabah Noujaim * Samir Abaakil * Kingsley Ojeaburu * Gizella Györgyi *
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* Luis Vázquez * Aleksandar Glišić * Luis Castillo * Antonio Conde * Yener Yılmaz * Amy Bonner * Steven Anderson


Preliminary round

''All times are local (
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).'' In the preliminary round, teams received 2 classification points for a win, 1 classification point for a loss, and 0 classification points for a forfeit.


Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Third-placed teams ranking


Knockout stage

A draw after the preliminary round decided the pairings, where a seeded team played an unseeded team. The draw was held after the last group stage match on 1 August. Teams qualified were divided into two pots: * Pot D comprised the three first-placed teams from the group phase, along with the best second-placed team. * Pot E comprised the two remaining second-placed teams, along with the two best third-placed teams. Draw principles: * Each game pairing had one team from Pot D and one team from Pot E. * Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other in the quarterfinals. * The second-placed team from Pot D could not be drawn against a third-placed team from Pot E.


Ranking


Bracket


Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Bronze medal game


Gold medal game


Statistics and awards


Statistical leaders


Players

;Points ;Rebounds ;Assists ;Blocks ;Steals ;Efficiency


Teams

Points Rebounds Assists Blocks Steals Efficiency


Awards

The awards were announced on 8 August 2021.


Final ranking

Rankings were determined by: * 1st–4th: ** Results of gold and bronze medal games * 5th–8th: ** Win–loss record of the teams eliminated in the quarterfinals * 9th–12th: ** Teams eliminated in the preliminary round groups were classified 9th–12th based on the win–loss record in the preliminary round group.


See also

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Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament The 2020 Summer Olympics women's Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics, basketball tournament in Tokyo, began on 26 July and ended on 8 August 2021. All games were played at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama (city), Saitama, Japan. It was orig ...


References

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