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Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Field	Value
type	Olympics
city	Athens
year	2004
logo	Basketball, Athens 2004.png
size	150px
games	[2004 Summer Olympics](2004-summer-olympics)
host	Greece
dates	15–28 August 2004
men_teams	12
men_gold	Argentina
men_silver	Italy
men_bronze	United States
women_teams	12
women_gold	United States
women_silver	Australia
women_bronze	Russia
prev	Sydney 2000
next	Beijing 2008

Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was the sixteenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It took place at the Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena, a part of the Hellinikon Olympic Complex, in Athens, for the preliminary rounds, with the later stages being held in the Olympic Indoor Hall at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. thumb|right|Italy and Argentina warming up before the game.

Argentina, led by NBA standouts like Manu Ginóbili and Luis Scola, won the country's first and only gold medal in the event.

In Olympic basketball tournaments, 12 teams take part. The host nation (Greece in 2004) automatically receives a berth in the tournament. By winning the two World Championship tournaments in 2002, FR Yugoslavia, now named Serbia and Montenegro, also put a team into the men's tournament and the United States a team in the women's tournament.

The remaining 10 spots in each tournament were allocated by the five Olympic zones. Each of these zones held its own tournaments to select its entries in the Olympic tournament. Africa was allocated one spot in each of these, Oceania was allocated two apiece, and Europe was allocated three. Furthermore, the Americas were allocated three teams for the men's tournament and just one in the women's tournament, whereas Asia was allocated just one in the men's tournament and three in the women's tournament.

Medalists

Women
USA
AUS
RUS

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter just one men's team with 12 players, and just one women's team with 12 players in the regional tournaments. The reigning world champions and the host country qualify automatically, as do the winners of the five continental championships, plus the runner-up and third place teams from the Americas and Europe competitions, and the runner-up Oceania in the men's tournament. For the women's tournament, the extra teams consisted of the runner-up and third place teams from Asia and Europe, and the runner-up from Oceania.

Basketball – Men

Main article: Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers



– [World champions](2002-fiba-world-championship)
– Olympic hosts

Basketball – Women

Main article: Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers


– [World champions](2002-fiba-world-championship-for-women)
– Olympic hosts

Format

Twelve teams are split into two preliminary round groups of six teams each.
The top four teams from both groups qualify for the knockout stage.
Fifth-placed teams from both groups compete for 9th place in an additional match.
Sixth-placed teams from both groups compete for 11th place in an additional match.
In the quarterfinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1.
- From the eliminated teams at the quarterfinals, the loser from A1 vs. B4 competes against the loser from B1 vs. A4 for 7th place in an additional match. The remaining two loser teams compete for 5th place in an additional match.
The winning teams from the quarterfinals meet in the semifinals as follows: A1/B4 vs. A3/B2 and A2/B3 vs. A4/B1.
The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.

Tie-breaking criteria:

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

Teams

Men

The men's event involved twelve teams split equally into two groups.

Group A:

Group B:

Women

The women's event involved 12 teams split in two groups.

Group A:

Group B:

Men's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Preliminary round

The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Classification round

Women's tournament

Main article: Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Preliminary round

The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Classification round

Final standings

Rank	Women	Team	Pld	L	Team	Pld
	8	6	2	8	8	0
	8	5	3	8	7	1
	8	5	3	8	6	2
4th	8	6	2	8	4	4
5th	7	4	3	7	4	3
6th	7	3	4	7	4	3
7th	7	6	1	7	3	4
8th	7	2	5	7	2	5
9th	6	2	4	6	2	4
10th	6	1	5	6	1	5
11th	6	2	4	6	1	5
12th	6	0	6	6	0	6

References

[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/or2004b.pdf Olympic Games Official Report 2004 Athens-Volume II] {{webarchive. link. (19 August 2008)

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