Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics

6th Basketball Olympic Tournament; Tokyo 1964
Tournament details
Olympics	1964 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Japan
City	Tokyo
Duration	October 11–23
Men's teams	16
	Men's medals:
Gold medalists	United States
Silver medalists	Soviet Union
Bronze medalists	Brazil

Basketball contests at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from October 11 to October 23. The United States defeated the Soviet Union to win their sixth straight gold medal at this event, while Brazil earned the bronze against Puerto Rico.

Results [edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's basketball	United States Jim Barnes Bill Bradley Larry Brown Joe Caldwell Mel Counts Richard Davies Walt Hazzard Lucious Jackson John McCaffrey Jeff Mullins Jerry Shipp George Wilson	Soviet Union Valdis Muižnieks Nikolay Bagley Armenak Alachachian Alexandr Travin Viacheslav Khrynin Jānis Krūmiņš Levan Moseshvili Yury Korneev Alexandr Petrov Gennadi Volnov Jaak Lipso Juris Kalniņš	Brazil Amaury Antônio Pasos Wlamir Marques Ubiratan Pereira Maciel Carlos Domingos Massoni Friedrich Wilhem Braun Carmo de Souza Jatyr Eduardo Schall Edson Bispo Dos Santos Antonio Salvador Sucar Victor Mirshawka Sergio de Toledo Machado Jose Edvar Simoes

Qualification [edit]

Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the first eight places at the previous tournament. Additional spots were decided by various continental championships held by FIBA plus two additional intercontinental championships that granted six extra berths total, after the withdrawal of Egypt and Czechoslovakia.

Africa	Americas	Asia	Oceania	Europe	Automatic qualifiers
Egypt^[a]	Puerto Rico Peru Mexico Canada^[b]	Korea^[b]	Australia	Hungary Finland	United States – Gold medal in 1960 Soviet Union – Silver medal in 1960 Brazil – Bronze medal in 1960 Italy – 4th place in 1960 Czechoslovakia^[a] – 5th place in 1960 SFR Yugoslavia – 6th place in 1960 Poland – 7th place in 1960 Uruguay – 8th place in 1960 Japan – Olympic hosts

^a Withdrew from the tournament.
^b Replacement teams.

Format [edit]

Two groups of eight teams are formed, where the top two from each group compete for the medals in a knockout round.
The remaining places are defined as follows:
- Fifth through eighth places are decided in a separate bracket between the third and fourth places from each group in a separate bracket.
- Ninth through sixteenth places are decided between the fifth through eighth places from each group in separate brackets.

Preliminary Round [edit]

The top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals, while the remaining teams compete for 5th through 16th places in separate brackets. Both group leaders, the United States and the Soviet Union advanced undefeated to the knockout stage.

Group A [edit]

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Soviet Union	7	0	562	424	+138	14
Puerto Rico	5	2	493	454	+39	12
Poland	4	3	467	448	+19	11	1W−0L
Italy	4	3	495	480	+15	11	0W−1L
Mexico	3	4	485	514	−29	10	1W−0L
Japan	3	4	421	428	−7	10	0W−1L
Hungary	2	5	407	469	−62	9
Canada	0	7	408	521	−113	7

October 11

13:30

Poland

56–53

6th Basketball Olympic Tournament Tokyo 1964
Tournament details
Olympics	1964 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Japan
City	Tokyo
Duration	October 11–23
Men's teams	16
Men's medals:
Gold medalists	United States
Silver medalists	Soviet Union
Bronze medalists	Brazil

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
United States	7	0	569	333	+236	14
Brazil	5	2	473	452	+21	12	1W−0L
SFR Yugoslavia	5	2	529	453	+76	12	0W−1L
Uruguay	4	3	472	482	−10	11
Finland	3	4	409	475	−66	10
Australia	2	5	434	460	−26	9	1W−0L
Peru	2	5	431	453	−22	9	0W−1L
Korea	0	7	432	641	−209	7

Semifinals (October 21)			Gold medal (October 23)

A1	Soviet Union	53
B2	Brazil	47
			A1	United States	73
			B1	Soviet Union	59
B1	United States	62
A2	Puerto Rico	42	Bronze medal (October 23)

			A2	Puerto Rico	60
			B2	Brazil	76

Semifinals (October 20)			5th place (October 22)

A3	Poland	82
B4	Uruguay	69
			A3	Poland	59
			A5	Italy	79
B3	SFR Yugoslavia	63
A4	Italy	75	7th place (October 22)

			B3	SFR Yugoslavia	78
			B4	Uruguay	55

Semifinals (October 21)			9th place (October 23)

A5	Mexico	58
B6	Australia	70
			B6	Australia	64
			A6	Japan	57
B5	Finland	45
A6	Japan	54	11th place (October 23)

			A5	Mexico	72
			B5	Finland	73

Semifinals (October 20)			13th place (October 22)

A7	Hungary	99
B8	Korea	83
			A7	Hungary	68
			A8	Canada	65
B7	Peru	81
A8	Canada	82	14th place (October 22)

			B7	Korea	66
			B8	Peru	71

Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Contents

Results [edit]

Qualification [edit]

Format [edit]

Preliminary Round [edit]

Group A [edit]

Group B [edit]

Knockout Stage [edit]

Medal bracket [edit]

Classification brackets [edit]

Final standings [edit]

References [edit]

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