Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Team sports medals, such as in football or basketball count as one, even if there are multiple players on each team, who get a medal. Some tied performances have resulted in multiple medals of the same colour being awarded for an event. If this tie is for gold or silver, there will be a consequent absence of a silver or bronze medal for that event.
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]
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.
The hockey team won India's first gold medal in the Olympics at Amsterdam. [14] This was the first gold medal won by any nation from Asia at the modern Olympic Games. [15] [16] For the 1932 Games, the Indian contingent consisted of the field hockey team and five athletes. [17]
This is the complete list of Asian Games medalists in basketball from 1951 to 2022. Basketball. Men. Games Gold Silver Bronze ... Olympic Council of Asia
Discipline (link to medalists list) Contested Number of Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold-silver-bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Olympics (up to 2022) Medal events (in 2022) Total Alpine skiing: Since 1936 19 11 167 168 165 500 Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2) Kjetil André Aamodt (4–2–2)
The 2020 Summer Olympics were held in Japan from 23 July to 8 August 2021 after being postponed a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 2,402 medals were won by 2,175 athletes in 339 events at the Games. [1]