Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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.<ref>Olympic Games Official Report 2004 Athens-Volume II Template:Webarchive</ref>

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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

Men Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Carlos Delfino Gabriel Fernández Manu Ginóbili Leonardo Gutiérrez Walter Herrmann Alejandro Montecchia Andrés Nocioni Fabricio Oberto Juan Ignacio Sánchez Luis Scola Hugo Sconochini Rubén Wolkowyski	Template:FlagIOCteam Roberto Chiacig Luca Garri Denis Marconato Giacomo Galanda Nikola Radulović Alex Righetti Matteo Soragna Gianluca Basile Massimo Bulleri Gianmarco Pozzecco Michele Mian Rodolfo Rombaldoni	Template:FlagIOCteam Allen Iverson Stephon Marbury Dwyane Wade Carlos Boozer Carmelo Anthony LeBron James Emeka Okafor Shawn Marion Amar'e Stoudemire Tim Duncan Lamar Odom Richard Jefferson
Women Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Shannon Johnson Dawn Staley Sue Bird Sheryl Swoopes Ruth Riley Lisa Leslie Tamika Catchings Tina Thompson Diana Taurasi Yolanda Griffith Katie Smith Swin Cash	Template:FlagIOCteam Alicia Poto Allison Tranquilli Sandy Brondello Penny Taylor Suzy Batkovic Trisha Fallon Kristi Harrower Laura Summerton Belinda Snell Natalie Porter Rachael Sporn Lauren Jackson	Template:FlagIOCteam Olga Arteshina Oxana Rakhmatulina Natalia Vodopyanova Diana Goustilina Yelena Baranova Tatiana Shchegoleva Ilona Korstin Maria Stepanova Maria Kalmykova Elena Karpova Irina Osipova Anna Arkhipova

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

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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:

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

Teams

Men

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

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Women

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

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Men's tournament

Preliminary round

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

Group A

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Women's tournament

Preliminary round

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

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Final standings

Rank	Men				Women
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Template:Silver2	Template:Bk	8	5	3	Template:Bkw	8	7	1
Template:Bronze3	Template:Bk	8	5	3	Template:Bkw	8	6	2
4th	Template:Bk	8	6	2	Template:Bkw	8	4	4
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6th	Template:Bk	7	3	4	Template:Bkw	7	4	3
7th	Template:Bk	7	6	1	Template:Bkw	7	3	4
8th	Template:Bk	7	2	5	Template:Bkw	7	2	5
Preliminary round 5th placers
9th	Template:Bk	6	2	4	Template:Bkw	6	2	4
10th	Template:Bk	6	1	5	Template:Bkw	6	1	5
Preliminary round 6th placers
11th	Template:Bk	6	2	4	Template:Bkw	6	1	5
12th	Template:Bk	6	0	6	Template:Bkw	6	0	6

External links

• Olympics: men's basketball tournament 2004
• Olympics: women's basketball yournament 2004
• FIBA Olympic basketball website
• 2004 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men, FIBA Archive. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
• 2004 Olympic Games: Tournament for Women, FIBA Archive. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
• Official result book – Basketball