Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

11th Basketball Olympic Tournament Los Angeles 1984
Tournament details
Olympics	1984 Summer Olympics
Host nation	United States of America
City	Los Angeles
Duration	July 29 - August 10
Men's teams	12
Men's medals:
Gold medalists	United States
Silver medalists	Spain
Bronze medalists	Yugoslavia
Women's teams	6
Women's medals:
Gold medalists	United States
Silver medalists	Korea
Bronze medalists	China

Basketball contests at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place at The Forum in Inglewood, United States from July 29 to August 10. The United States won the gold medal in both events, the first in the women's team history. Due to the boycott, the Soviet Union and Hungary withdrew from the tournament. The former, having already qualified for both events was replaced by West Germany in the men's competition, while both nations' women's teams were replaced by Australia and South Korea.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	United States (USA) Steve Alford Leon Wood Patrick Ewing Vernon Fleming Alvin Robertson Michael Jordan Joe Kleine Jon Koncak Wayman Tisdale Chris Mullin Sam Perkins Jeff Turner	Spain (ESP) José Manuel Beirán José Luis Llorente Fernando Arcega Josep Maria Margall Andrés Jiménez Fernando Romay Fernando Martín Juan Antonio Corbalán Ignacio Solozábal Juan Domingo de la Cruz Juan Manuel López Iturriaga Juan Antonio San Epifanio, "Epi"	Yugoslavia (YUG) Dražen Petrović Aleksandar Petrović Rajko Žižić Andro Knego Nebojša Zorkić Ivan Sunara Sabit Hadžić Dražen Dalipagić Emir Mutapčić Ratko Radovanović Mihovil Nakić Branko Vukičević
Women's	United States (USA) Teresa Edwards Lea Henry Lynette Woodard Anne Donovan Catherine La Ora Boswell Cheryl Miller Janice Lawrence Cindy Noble Kim Mulkey Denise Curry Pam McGee Carol Jean Menken-Schaudt	South Korea (KOR) Yang-Gae Park Eun-Sook Kim Hyung-Sook Lee Kyung-Hee Choi Mi-Ja Lee Kyung-Ja Moon Hwa-Soon Kim Myung-Hee Jeong Young-Hee Kim Jung-A Sung Chan-Sook Park Aei-Young Choi	China (CHN) Yue-Fang Chen Xiao-Qin Li Yan Ba Song Xiaobo Chen Qui Jun Wang Li-Juan Xiu Zheng Haixia Xuedi Cong Hui Zhang Liu Qing Zhang Yueqin

Qualification

An NOC may enter up to one men's team with 12 players and up to one women's team with 12 players. Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country for both events plus the gold and silver medal winners from the previous Olympic Games in the men's tournament, and the champion at the 1983 FIBA World Championship in the women's tournament. Additional spots for the men's tournament were decided via the continental championships held by FIBA, while the remaining slots for the women's competition were assigned to the top six teams in a tournament held in Havana, Cuba months before the Olympic Games.

Men

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers
Egypt	Brazil Uruguay Canada	China	Soviet Union Spain France West Germany	Australia	SFR Yugoslavia – Gold medal in 1980 Italy – Silver medal in 1980 United States – Olympic hosts

Women

Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers
Canada	China Korea	SFR Yugoslavia Hungary	Australia	Soviet Union – World Champions United States – Olympic hosts

• ^a Withdrew from the tournament.
• ^b Replaced the Soviet Union.
• ^c Replaced the Soviet Union and Hungary.

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

Women's tournament:

• One round-robin group is formed containing all six teams, where the top two compete for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places compete for the bronze medal in an additional match.
• The remaining two teams finish with their group rank in the final standings.

Tie-breaking criteria:

1. Head to head results

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. Both the host nation's team United States and then Olympic Champions Yugoslavia advanced undefeated to the second stage. The only teams representing Asia and Africa, China and Egypt respectively couldn't advance and ended up competing for eighth place with Brazil and France.

Group A

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
SFR Yugoslavia	5	0	457	366	+91	10
Italy	4	1	437	363	+74	9
Australia	3	2	383	403	−20	8
West Germany	2	3	384	376	+8	7
Brazil	1	4	401	423	−22	6
Egypt	0	5	349	480	−131	5

July 29		Italy	110–62	Egypt		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 56–31, 54–31

July 29		SFR Yugoslavia	96–83	West Germany		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 49–41, 47–42

July 29		Australia	76–72	Brazil		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 34–38, 42–34

July 30		Italy	80–72	West Germany		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 33–39, 47–33

July 30		Brazil	91–82	Egypt		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 45–43, 46–39

July 30		SFR Yugoslavia	94–64	Australia		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 39–28, 55–36

August 1		Australia	67–66	West Germany		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 31–36, 36–30

August 1		SFR Yugoslavia	100–69	Egypt		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 56–31, 55–36

August 1		Italy	89–78	Brazil		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 43–44, 46–34

August 2		West Germany	85–58	Egypt		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 40–24, 45–34

August 2		SFR Yugoslavia	98–85	Brazil		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 55–50, 43–35

August 2		Italy	93–82	Australia		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 48–48, 45–34

August 4		Australia	94–78	Egypt		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 38–37, 56–41

August 4		West Germany	78–75	Brazil		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 41–37, 37–38

August 4		SFR Yugoslavia	69–65	Italy		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 34–28, 35–37

Group B

Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	5	0	511	315	+196	10
Spain	4	1	457	438	+194	9
Canada	3	2	462	401	+61	8
Uruguay	2	3	403	460	−57	7
China	1	4	364	477	−113	6
France	0	5	383	489	−106	5

July 29		Uruguay	91–87	France	OT	The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 35–41, 38–32 OT: 18–14

July 29		United States	97–49	China		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 50–29, 47–20

July 29		Spain	83–82	Canada		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 45–40, 38–42

July 31		China	85–83	France		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 39–48, 46–35

July 31		United States	89–68	Canada		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 43–28, 46–40

July 31		Uruguay	90–107	Spain		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 43–58, 47–49

August 1		China	80–121	Canada		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 32–59, 48–62

August 1		United States	104–68	Uruguay		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 58–37, 46–31

August 1		France	82–97	Spain		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 47–58, 35–39

August 3		China	83–102	Spain		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 38–50, 45–52

August 3		United States	120–62	France		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 57–25, 63–37

August 3		Canada	95–80	Uruguay		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 46–47, 49–33

August 4		United States	101–68	Spain		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 46–41, 55–27

August 4		Canada	96–69	France		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 40–31, 56–38

August 4		China	67–74	Uruguay		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 24–37, 43–37

Knockout Stage

Championship bracket

Quarterfinals (August 6)

Semifinals (August 8)

Gold medal (August 10)

A1

SFR Yugoslavia

110

B4

Uruguay

82

A1

SFR Yugoslavia

61

B2

Spain

74

B2

Spain

101

A3

Australia

93

B2

Spain

65

B1

United States

96

B1

United States

78

A4

West Germany

67

B1

United States

78

Bronze medal (August 9)

B3

Canada

59

A2

Italy

72

A1

SFR Yugoslavia

88

B3

Canada

78

B3

Canada

82

Classification brackets

5th–8th Place

	August 8					5th place (August 10)
	A3	Australia	95
	B4	Uruguay	101
						B4	Uruguay	102
						A2	Italy	111
	A2	Italy	98
	A4	West Germany	71			7th place (August 10)
						A3	Australia	83
						A4	West Germany	78

9th–12th Place

	August 5					9th place (August 10)
	A5	Brazil	100
	B6	France	86
						A5	Brazil	86
						B5	China	76
	B5	China	76
	A6	Egypt	73			11th place (August 9)
						B6	France	102
						A6	Egypt	78

Women's Tournament

Preliminary Round

The first two places in the preliminary group compete for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places compete for the bronze. The remaining teams' group ranking determines their positions in the final standings. With the withdrawal of the Soviet Union's women's team, a new Olympic champion was to be crowned in Los Angeles. The host nation's team went through the first round undefeated and won their first gold medal in women's basketball history against South Korea, one of the teams invited to replace the Soviet Union and Hungary. China, the other Asian representative, earned a bronze medal by defeating Canada. Yugoslavia's team couldn't repeat their bronze medal performance from the previous tournament and finished at the bottom of the rankings.

	Competed for the gold medal
	Competed for the bronze medal

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
United States	5	0	431	265	+166	10
Korea	4	1	292	302	−10	9
Canada	2	3	313	335	−22	7	1W–0L
China	2	3	318	348	−30	7	0W–1L
Australia	1	4	267	317	−50	6	1W–0L
SFR Yugoslavia	1	4	293	347	−54	6	0W–1L

July 30		SFR Yugoslavia	55–83	United States		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 29–43, 26–40

July 30		Australia	64–67	China		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 22–28, 42–39

July 30		Korea	67–62	Canada		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 34–32, 33–30

July 31		Australia	41–81	United States		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 28–51, 19–30

July 31		SFR Yugoslavia	52–55	Korea		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 24–27, 28–28

July 31		China	61–66	Canada		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 33–35, 28–31

August 2		Australia	45–56	Canada		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 18–30, 28–26

August 2		United States	84–47	Korea		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 40–20, 44–27

August 2		China	79–58	SFR Yugoslavia		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 34–28, 45–30

August 3		Australia	48–54	Korea		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 19–26, 29–28

August 3		Canada	68–69	SFR Yugoslavia		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 33–34, 35–35

August 3		China	55–91	United States		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 26–38, 29–53

August 5		Korea	69–56	China		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 34–25, 35–31

August 5		Canada	61–92	United States		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 31–41, 30–51

August 5		Australia	62–59	SFR Yugoslavia		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 25–31, 37–28

Medal matches

Gold Medal

August 7		United States	85–55	Korea		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 42–27, 43–28

Bronze Medal

August 7		China	63–57	Canada		The Forum, Inglewood
		Scoring by half: 37–29, 26–28

Final Standings

Rank	Men				Women
	Team	Pld	W	L	Team	Pld	W	L
1 !	United States	8	8	0	United States	6	6	0
2 !	Spain	8	6	2	Korea	6	4	2
3 !	SFR Yugoslavia	8	7	1	China	6	3	3
4th	Canada	8	4	4	Canada	6	2	5
Eliminated at the quarterfinals
5th	Italy	8	6	2	Australia	5	1	4
6th	Uruguay	8	3	5	SFR Yugoslavia	5	1	4
7th	Australia	8	4	4
8th	West Germany	8	2	6
Preliminary round 5th placers
9th	Brazil	7	3	4
10th	China	7	2	5
Preliminary round 6th placers
11th	France	7	1	6
12th	Egypt	7	0	7

References

• Official Olympic Report
• USA Basketball
• 1984 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men, FIBA Archive.
• 1984 Olympic Games: Tournament for Women, FIBA Archive.