Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

13th Basketball Olympic Tournament; Barcelona 1992
Tournament details
Olympics	1992 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Spain
City	Barcelona
Duration	July 26 – August 8
Men's teams	12
	Men's medals:
Gold medalists	United States
Silver medalists	Croatia
Bronze medalists	Lithuania
Women's teams	8
	Women's medals:
Gold medalists	CIS
Silver medalists	China
Bronze medalists	United States

The Basketball games of the 1992 Summer Olympics were played at the Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona. 12 men's teams and 8 women's teams participated in the tournament.

This was the first time that NBA players were eligible to play in Olympic basketball, following a decision of FIBA in 1989. Until 1988, only amateurs and players from professionals leagues except the NBA were allowed to play^{[citation needed]}.

The United States men's team, nicknamed the Dream Team, won the Gold Medal beating Croatia in the final, with Lithuania winning the bronze medal. The Unified Team, representing the Commonwealth of Independent States of the recently-defunct Soviet Union, won the women's tournament, with China as runner-up. The United States women won the bronze medal, after losing to CIS in the semifinal, suffering their third and last defeat in Olympic basketball history.

Medal summary [edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	United States (USA) David Robinson Patrick Ewing Larry Bird Scottie Pippen Michael Jordan Clyde Drexler Karl Malone John Stockton Chris Mullin Charles Barkley Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. Christian Laettner	Croatia (CRO) Dražen Petrović Velimir Perasović Danko Cvjetičanin Toni Kukoč Vladan Alanović Franjo Arapović Žan Tabak Stojko Vranković Alan Gregov Arijan Komazec Dino Rađa Aramis Naglić	Lithuania (LTU) Valdemaras Chomičius Alvydas Pazdrazdis Arūnas Visockas Darius Dimavičius Romanas Brazdauskis Gintaras Krapikas Rimas Kurtinaitis Arvydas Sabonis Artūras Karnišovas Šarūnas Marčiulionis Gintaras Einikis Sergėjus Jovaiša
Women's details	Unified Team (EUN) Yelena Zhirko Yelena Baranova Irina Guerlits Yelena Tornikidu Yelena Shvaybovich Marina Tkachenko Irina Minkh Yelena Khudashova Irina Soumnikova Elen Bounatiants Natalia Zasulskaya Svetlana Zaboluyeva	China (CHN) Cong Xuedi He Jun Li Dongmei Li Xin Liu Jun Liu Qing Peng Ping Wang Fang Zhan Shuping Zheng Dongmei Zheng Haixia	United States (USA) Teresa Edwards Daedra Charles Clarissa Davis Teresa Weatherspoon Tammy Jackson Vickie Orr Victoria Bullett Carolyn Jones Katrina Felicia McClain Medina Dixon Cynthia Cooper Suzanne McConnell

Qualification [edit]

An NOC may enter up to one men's team with 12 players and up to one women's team with 12 players. For the men's tournament, the host country qualified automatically, as did the winners of the continental championships held for Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas, plus the runner-up, third and fourth place from the Americas competitions. A special qualifying tournament was held for European teams to allocate four extra berths.^[1] For the women's tournament, the top four teams from the 1990 FIBA World Championship and the top four teams from a qualifying tournament held months prior to the competition were given a place in the Olympics.

Men [edit]

Main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Men's qualification

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers
Angola	United States Venezuela Brazil Puerto Rico	China	Lithuania Croatia CIS Germany	Australia	Spain – Olympic hosts

Women [edit]

Main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Women's qualification

Americas	Asia	Europe	Automatic qualifiers
United States Cuba Brazil	China	Italy^[b] CIS Czechoslovakia	Spain – Olympic hosts

^a Replaced Yugoslavia.

Format [edit]

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 through 12th places in the final ranking.
In the quarterfinals, the pairings 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 through 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:

Two groups of four teams are formed, where the top two 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.
The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.

Tie-breaking criteria:

Head to head results

Men's Tournament [edit]

Preliminary Round [edit]

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. The United States' Dream Team asserted their dominance by advancing to the next round undefeated and winning their five preliminary games by an average margin of almost 46 points. The only teams representing Asia and Africa, China and Angola respectively couldn't advance and ended up competing for ninth place with Venezuela and host nation Spain.

Group A [edit]

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
United States	5	0	579	350	+229	10
Croatia	4	1	423	400	+23	9
Brazil	2	3	420	463	−43	7	1–0
Germany	2	3	369	432	−63	7	0–1
Angola	1	4	324	392	−68	6	1–0
Spain	1	4	398	476	−78	6	0–1

July 26 16:30		Angola	48–116	United States		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 16–64, 32–52

July 26 20:30		Germany	83–74	Spain		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 46–39, 37–35

July 26 22:30		Croatia	93–76	Brazil		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 55–40, 38–36

July 27 14:30		Angola	63–64	Germany		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 42–36, 21–28

July 27 20:30		Croatia	70–103	United States		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 37–54, 33–49

July 27 22:30		Brazil	100–101	Spain		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 43–57, 57–48

July 29 11:30		Brazil	76–66	Angola		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 42–26, 34–40

July 29 20:30		United States	111–68	Germany		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 58–23, 53–45

July 29 22:30		Croatia	88–79	Spain		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 45–42, 43–37

July 31 11:30		Spain	63–83	Angola		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 36–37, 27–46

July 31 20:30		Croatia	99–78	Germany		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 46–41, 53–37

July 31 22:30		United States	127–83	Brazil		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 60–41, 67–42

August 2 9:30		Germany	76–85	Brazil		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 40–39, 36–46

August 2 11:30		Croatia	73–64	Angola		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 27–38, 46–26

August 2 22:30		Spain	81–122	United States		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 35–65, 46–57

Group B [edit]

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
CIS	4	1	425	373	+52	9	1–0
Lithuania	4	1	481	424	+57	9	0–1
Australia	3	2	432	396	+36	8	1–0
Puerto Rico	3	2	445	440	+15	8	0–1
Venezuela	1	4	392	427	−35	6
China	0	5	381	496	−115	5

July 26 9:30		Venezuela	64–78	CIS		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 16–34, 48–44

July 26 11:30		China	75–112	Lithuania		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 26–55, 49–57

July 26 14:30		Puerto Rico	76–116	Australia		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 31–57, 45–59

July 27 11:30		Venezuela	79–87	Lithuania		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 46–38, 33–49

July 27 16:30		CIS	85–63	Australia		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 35–51, 50–12

July 27 20:30		China	68–100	Puerto Rico		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 35–51, 33–49

July 29 9:30		Venezuela	71–78	Australia		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 27–43, 44–35

July 29 14:30		CIS	100–84	China		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 55–39, 45–45

July 29 16:30		Lithuania	104–91	Puerto Rico		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 50–43, 54–48

July 31 9:30		Venezuela	82–96	Puerto Rico		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 42–52, 40–44

July 31 14:30		Australia	88–66	China		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 39–28, 49–38

July 31 16:30		Lithuania	80–92	CIS		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 38–26, 42–66

August 2 14:30		Venezuela	96–88	China		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 52–52, 44–36

August 2 16:30		Australia	87–98	Lithuania		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 46–45, 41–53

August 2 20:30		Puerto Rico	82–70	CIS		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 36–39, 46–31

Knockout stage [edit]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal game

A1

United States

115

B4

Puerto Rico

77

A1

United States

127

B2

Lithuania

76

B2

Lithuania

114

A3

Brazil

96

A1

United States

117

A2

Croatia

85

B1

CIS

83

A4

Germany

76

B1

CIS

74

Bronze medal game

A2

Croatia

75

A2

Croatia

98

B1

CIS

78

B3

Australia

65

B2

Lithuania

82

Quarterfinals

August 4 14:30		Croatia	98–65	Australia		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 41–31, 57–34

August 4 16:30		CIS	83–76	Germany		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 35–36, 48–40

August 4 20:30		Lithuania	114–96	Brazil		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 48–52, 66–44

August 4 22:30		United States	115–77	Puerto Rico		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 67–40, 48–37

Semifinals

August 6 16:30		Croatia	75–74	CIS		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 30–40, 45–34

August 6 22:30		Lithuania	76–127	United States		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 30–49, 46–78

Bronze medal game

August 8 13:00		CIS	78–82	Lithuania 3 !		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 33–39, 45–43

Gold medal game

August 8 22:00		2 ! Croatia	85–117	United States 1 !		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 42–56, 43–61

Classification games [edit]

Teams eliminated in the group phase and teams eliminated in the quarterfinals competed in two separate brackets for 5th through 12th places.

5th to 8th place		5th Place game

Brazil	86
Puerto Rico	84
		Brazil	90
		Australia	80
Australia	109
Germany	79	7th Place game
		Puerto Rico	86
		Germany	96

August 6 14:30		Brazil	86–84	Puerto Rico		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 43–49, 43–35

August 6 20:30		Australia	109–79	Germany		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 52–44, 57–35

5th place game

August 8 11:00		Brazil	90–80	Australia		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 44–38, 46–42

7th place game

August 8 20:00		Puerto Rico	86–96	Germany		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 46–45, 40–51

9th to 12th place		9th Place game

Angola	79
China	69
		Angola	75
		Spain	78
Venezuela	81
Spain	95	11th Place game
		China	97
		Venezuela	100

August 4 9:30		Angola	79–69	China		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 40–35, 39–34

August 4 11:30		Venezuela	81–95	Spain		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 40–46, 41–49

9th place game

August 6 11:00		Angola	75–78	Spain		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 39–41, 36–37

11th place game

August 6 9:00		China	97–100	Venezuela		Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, Barcelona
		Scoring by half: 51–51, 46–49

Women's Tournament [edit]

Preliminary round [edit]

The best two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals. The United States and Cuba advanced undefeated through the group phase but couldn't reach the finals and ended up facing each other for the bronze medal instead.