Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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12th Olympic Basketball Tournament
Seoul 1988
Tournament details
Olympics	1988 Summer Olympics
Host nation	South Korea
City	Seoul
Duration	September 17 – September 30
Men's tournament
Teams	12
Medals Gold medalists  Soviet Union Silver medalists  Yugoslavia Bronze medalists  United States
Women's tournament
Teams	8
Medals Gold medalists  United States Silver medalists  Yugoslavia Bronze medalists  Soviet Union
Tournaments
← Los Angeles 1984  Barcelona 1992 →

Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	men	women
Tournament
	men	women
Rosters
	men	women
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Basketball in the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at the Jamsil Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea. The United States won the gold medal in the women's competition, thus repeating their performance from the 1984 tournament. In the men's tournament, the Soviet Union took home their second gold medal in the team's history for this event. This was the last Olympic basketball tournament where NBA players were not allowed to participate, although professionals from other leagues were allowed to compete, since players from other leagues were still considered amateurs. These were also the last Olympic basketball tournaments where the Soviets fielded a team, as the Soviet Union broke up prior to the 1992 Games. The United States was a major favorite to win it all with odds at -850.

Contents

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  1 Medalists
  


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  2 Qualification
  
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    2.1 Men
    
  
  
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    2.2 Women
    
  
  


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  3 Format
  


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  4 Men's tournament
  
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    4.1 Preliminary round
    
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      4.1.1 Group A
      
    
    
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      4.1.2 Group B
      
    
    
  
  
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    4.2 Knockout stage
    
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      4.2.1 Championship bracket
      
    
    
  
  


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  5 Women's tournament
  
  • 
    5.1 Preliminary round
    
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      5.1.1 Group A
      
    
    
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      5.1.2 Group B
      
    
    
  
  
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    5.2 Knockout stage
    
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      5.2.1 Championship bracket
      
    
    
  
  


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  6 Final standings
  


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  7 References
  

Medalists

See also: List of Olympic medalists in basketball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Volkov Tiit Sokk Sergei Tarakanov Šarūnas Marčiulionis Igors Miglinieks Valeri Tikhonenko Rimas Kurtinaitis Arvydas Sabonis Viktor Pankrashkin Valdemaras Chomičius Aleksandr Belostennyi Valeri Goborov	Yugoslavia (YUG) Dražen Petrović Zdravko Radulović Zoran Čutura Toni Kukoč Žarko Paspalj Željko Obradović Jure Zdovc Stojko Vranković Vlade Divac Franjo Arapović Dino Rađa Danko Cvjetićanin	United States (USA) Mitch Richmond Charles Smith IV Bimbo Coles Hersey Hawkins Jeff Grayer Charles D. Smith Willie Anderson Stacey Augmon Dan Majerle Danny Manning J. R. Reid David Robinson
Women's	United States (USA) Teresa Edwards Kamie Ethridge Cynthia Brown Anne Donovan Teresa Weatherspoon Bridgette Gordon Victoria Bullett Andrea Lloyd Katrina McClain Jennifer Gillom Cynthia Cooper Suzanne McConnell	Yugoslavia (YUG) Stojna Vangelovska Mara Lakić Žana Lelas Eleonora Wild Kornelija Kvesić Danira Nakić Slađana Golić Polona Dornik Razija Mujanović Vesna Bajkuša Anđelija Arbutina Bojana Milošević	Soviet Union (URS) Olga Yevkova Irina Gerlits Olesya Barel Irina Sumnikova Olga Buryakina Olga Yakovleva Irina Minkh Aleksandra Leonova Yelena Khudashova Vitalija Tuomaitė Natalya Zasulskaya Galina Savitskaya

Qualification

A NOC could enter one men's team with 12 players and one women's team with 12 players. For both tournaments, automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the winners from the previous edition. For the men's tournament, the remaining teams were decided by the continental championships in Asia, Oceania, Africa and Americas and European qualifying tournament. Champions of Asia and Oceania, top two teams from Africa and top three from Americas earned direct qualification. Last three berths are allocated from European qualifying tournament, held in Netherlands, two months before Olympics tournament. For the women's tournament, qualification was decided by a tournament held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where the top six teams earned a spot.

Men

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers
Central African Republic  Egypt	Puerto Rico  Brazil  Canada	China	Soviet Union  Yugoslavia  Spain	Australia	United States – Olympic Champions  South Korea – Olympic hosts

Women

Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers
China	Soviet Union  Yugoslavia  Czechoslovakia  Bulgaria	Australia	United States – Olympic Champions  South Korea – Olympic hosts

Format

Men's tournament:

• Two groups of six teams are formed, where the top four from each group advance to the knockout stage.


• Fifth and sixth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 9th–12th places in the final ranking.


• In the quarterfinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1.
  
  • The four teams eliminated from the quarterfinals form an additional bracket to decide 5th–8th places in the final ranking.


• 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.

Women's tournament:

• Two groups of four teams are formed, where the top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage.


• Third and fourth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 5th–8th places in the final ranking.


• In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2, A2 vs. B1.


• The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.

Tie-breaking criteria:

1. Head to head results


2. 
   Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams


3. Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Men's tournament

Preliminary round

The top four places in each of the preliminary round groups advanced to the eight team, single-elimination knockout stage, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams. Hosts Korea couldn't advance, finishing at the bottom of their group. The other Asia representative, China, met the same fate, together with the two African teams, Egypt and Central African Republic.

Group A

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	5	4	1	468	384	+84	9	Quarter-finals
2	Soviet Union	5	4	1	460	393	+67	9
3	Australia	5	3	2	429	408	+21	8
4	Puerto Rico	5	3	2	382	387	−5	8
5	Central African Republic	5	1	4	346	436	−90	6
6	South Korea	5	0	5	384	461	−77	5

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points average among tied; 4) Points average.

Group B

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	5	5	0	485	302	+183	10	Quarter-finals
2	Spain	5	4	1	484	435	+49	9
3	Brazil	5	3	2	590	522	+68	8
4	Canada	5	2	3	479	455	+24	7
5	China	5	1	4	433	527	−94	6
6	Egypt	5	0	5	338	568	−230	5

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points average among tied; 4) Points average.

Knockout stage

Championship bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	September 26
	(A1)  Yugoslavia	95
					September 28
	(B4)  Canada	73
					(A1)  Yugoslavia	91
	September 26
					(A3)  Australia	70
	(B2)  Spain	74
									September 30
	(A3)  Australia	77
									(A1)  Yugoslavia	63
	September 26
									(A2)  Soviet Union	76
	(B1)  United States	94
					September 28
	(A4)  Puerto Rico	57
					(B1)  United States	76
	September 26
					(A2)  Soviet Union	82			Bronze medal match
	(A2)  Soviet Union	110
									September 29
	(B3)  Brazil	105
									(A3)  Australia	49
									(B1)  United States	78

Women's tournament

Preliminary round

The first two places in each of the preliminary round groups advanced to the semifinals, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams. Like their male counterparts, the Korea women's team didn't manage to advance to the knockout stage and ended up battling for 5th place against the other Asian representative, China and two of the European teams, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.

Group A

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	2	1	178	196	−18	5	Semifinals
2	Soviet Union	3	2	1	208	188	+20	5
3	Bulgaria	3	1	2	217	241	−24	4
4	South Korea	3	1	2	244	222	+22	4

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points average among tied; 4) Points average.

Group B

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	282	234	+48	6	Semifinals
2	Yugoslavia	3	2	1	199	211	−12	5
3	China	3	1	2	200	214	−14	4
4	Czechoslovakia	3	0	3	202	224	−22	3

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points average among tied; 4) Points average.

Knockout stage

Championship bracket

	Semifinals (September 27)					Gold medal (September 29)
	A1	Australia	56
	B2	Yugoslavia	57
						B2	Yugoslavia	70
						B1	United States	77
	B1	United States	102
	A2	Soviet Union	88			Bronze medal (September 28)
						A1	Australia	53
						A2	Soviet Union	68

Final standings

Rank	Men				Women
	Team	Pld	W	L	Team	Pld	W	L
	Soviet Union	8	7	1	United States	5	5	0
	Yugoslavia	8	6	2	Yugoslavia	5	3	2
	United States	8	7	1	Soviet Union	5	3	2
4th	Australia	8	4	4	Australia	5	2	3
Eliminated in the quarterfinals					Eliminated in the group round
5th	Brazil	8	5	3	Bulgaria	5	3	2
6th	Canada	8	3	5	China	5	2	3
7th	Puerto Rico	8	4	4	South Korea	5	2	3
8th	Spain	8	4	4	Czechoslovakia	5	0	5
Eliminated in the group round
9th	South Korea	7	2	5
10th	Central African Republic	7	2	5
11th	China	7	2	5
12th	Egypt	7	0	7

References

• Official Olympic Report


• USA Basketball


• 
  1988 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men, FIBA Archive
  


• 
  1988 Olympic Games: Tournament for Women, FIBA Archive
  

v t e Events at the 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul)
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