2016 Summer Olympics Basketball Tournament
| 19th Olympic Basketball Tournament | |||||||||
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| Rio de Janeiro 2016 | |||||||||
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| Olympics | 2016 Summer Olympics | ||||||||
| Host nation | Brazil | ||||||||
| City | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||
| Duration | 6–21 August 2016 | ||||||||
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| Teams | 12 | ||||||||
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| Teams | 12 | ||||||||
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Gold medalists
Silver medalists
Bronze medalists
Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was held from 6 to 21 August 2016. The preliminary and knockout matches for men were played inside the Carioca Arena 1 in Olympic Park which seats up to 16,000 spectators, and the matches for women were played in Youth Arena. This marked the first time that the men's and women's Olympic tournaments were played in multiple/separate venues. Hosting country, Brazil, failed to make it to the quarterfinals of both the men's and women's division after being eliminated from the group stage. Three countries in both categories took all of the medals: United States (who took both gold medals), Serbia and Spain.
Carioca Arena 1, the largest among the three Carioca Arenas, and Youth Arena, are the arenas that are being used for the basketball tournaments. The Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, site of the 1954 FIBA World Championship and the 1963 FIBA World Championship, hosted the indoor volleyball tournaments instead.
Carioca Arena 1 hosted the entire men's tournament and the women's knockout stage, while Youth Arena hosted the women's preliminary round.
The National Olympic Committees might enter up to one 12-player men's team and up to one 12-player women's team.
Just as in 2012, the Olympic hosts were not guaranteed an Olympic berth. On 9 August 2015, it was announced that the Brazil men's and women's national teams would compete in the Olympic Basketball Tournament at the 2016 Rio Games after FIBA's Central Board decided to grant them automatic places at its meeting in Tokyo.
The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.
The teams were divided into two groups of six countries, playing every team in their group once. Two points were awarded for a victory, one for a loss. The top four teams per group qualified for the quarter-finals.
The knockout stage was a single-elimination tournament consisting of three rounds. Semi-final losers played for the bronze medal.
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