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The United States is the defending champion of both the men's and women's tournaments. As of the 2016 Summer Olympics, 90 medals (30 of each color) have been awarded to teams from 20 National Olympic Committees. Two gold medal-winning teams were inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Prior to its inclusion as a medal sport, basketball was held as an unofficial demonstration event in 1904 and 1924. Women's basketball made its debut in the Summer Olympics in 1976. FIBA organizes both the men's and women's FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments and the Summer Olympics basketball tournaments, which are sanctioned by the IOC. [1]
Tennis: Women's doubles: September 27 Gold: Rulon Gardner: Wrestling: Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg: September 27 Gold: Steven López: Taekwondo: Men's 68 kg: September 28 Gold: Venus Williams: Tennis: Women's singles: September 28 Gold: Nick Hysong: Athletics: Men's pole vault: September 29 Gold: Kenneth Brokenburr * Jon Drummond Maurice Greene ...
Team USA has dominated men's 5x5 basketball at the Olympics, winning 16 of 20 gold medals since the event made its debut as a medal sport in 1936. ... All-time Olympic medal winners in men's 5x5 ...
The United States women’s national basketball team won its eighth straight Olympic gold medal on Sunday, via a startlingly close 67-66 victory over host country France at Bercy Arena.
Olympic women's basketball quarterfinals results. United States 88, Nigeria 74. Australia 85, Serbia 67. France 84, Germany 71. Belgium 79, Spain 66. Olympic women's basketball semifinals results
Australia captured the bronze medal with a win over Belgium. [4] Diana Taurasi of the victorious American women's national team became the only basketball player with six Olympic gold medals, joining dressage equestrian Isabell Werth of Germany and Hungarian sabre fencer Aladar Gerevich as the only Olympians to win six gold medals in the same ...
The United States women's team won the bronze medal after losing to the CIS in the semifinal, suffering their third and last defeat to date in the Olympic basketball history. The men's top scorer was Oscar Schmidt with 198 points in 8 games, with an average of 24.7 points, and Drazen Petrovic was second with 187 points in 7 games, with an ...