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Five other individuals, all American, have won three golds – Katie Smith, Dawn Staley, Sheryl Swoopes, Seimone Augustus, and Breanna Stewart – and 23 other players, not including the previously mentioned, have won three medals. Two other American women, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young, are the only players to have won medals of any color in ...
A 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 winning team at the 1978 FIBA World Championship and the gold medal winners at the 1976 Summer Olympics .
The 1984 United States women's Olympic basketball team competed in the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, representing the United States of America.The U.S. women's Olympic team won their first gold medal at the event having previously finished runner-up in the 1976 Olympics and not having competed in the 1980 Olympics due to the Olympic boycott.
A 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.
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 following players represented Bulgaria: [2] Nadka Golcheva; Penka Metodieva; Petkana Makaveeva; Snezhana Mikhaylova; Krasimira Bogdanova; Diana Dilova-Braynova; Penka Stoyanova; Vanya Dermendzhieva; Angelina Mikhaylova; Evladiya Slavcheva-Stefanova; Kostadinka Radkova; Silviya Germanova
Games Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres details: Allan Wells Great Britain 10.25 Silvio Leonard Cuba 10.25 Petar Petrov Bulgaria 10.39 200 metres details: Pietro Mennea Italy 20.19
Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics was the twelfth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It took place at the Jamsil Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea from 17 September to 30 September 1988. The United States won the gold medal in the women's competition, repeating their performance from the 1984 tournament.