Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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10th Basketball Olympic Tournament Moscow 1980
Tournament details
Olympics	1980 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Soviet Union
City	Moscow
Duration	July 20–July 30
Men's teams	12
Men's medals:
Gold medalists	Yugoslavia
Silver medalists	Italy
Bronze medalists	Soviet Union
Women's teams	6
Women's medals:
Gold medalists	Soviet Union
Silver medalists	Bulgaria
Bronze medalists	Yugoslavia

Basketball match during 1980 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held from July 20 to July 30 at the Olympiiski Indoor Stadium^[1]^[2] and at the CSKA Sports Palace,^[2] both located in Moscow. Finals of both men's and women's events were held 30 July at the Olympiiski Indoor Stadium.

Due to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics the United States and other nations withdrew from the tournament. The 1980 Olympics marked the second time that the United States' men's team did not win the gold medal in Olympic basketball; the Soviet Union won the gold in the women's competition and Yugoslavia in the men's tournament.

Contents

1 Medal summary
2 Qualification
- 2.1 Men
- 2.2 Women
3 Format
4 Men's Tournament
5 Women's Tournament
- 5.1 Medal matches
6 Final Standings
7 References

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Yugoslavia (YUG) Andro Knego Dragan Kićanović Rajko Žižić Mihovil Nakić Željko Jerkov Branko Skroče Zoran Slavnić Kresimir Ćosić Ratko Radovanović Duje Krstulović Dražen Dalipagić Mirza Delibašić	Italy (ITA) Fabrizio Della Fiori Marco Solfrini Marco Bonamico Dino Meneghin Renato Villalta Renzo Vecchiato Pierluigi Marzorati Pietro Generali Romeo Sacchetti Roberto Brunamonti Michael Sylvester Enrico Gilardi	Soviet Union (URS) Stanislav Yeryomin Valeri Miloserdov Sergei Tarakanov Aleksandr Salnikov Andrei Lopatov Nikolai Deriugin Sergei Belov Vladimir Tkachenko Anatoli Myshkin Sergėjus Jovaiša Aleksandr Belostenny Vladimir Zhigily
Women's	Soviet Union (URS) Angelė Rupšienė Liubov Sharmai Vida Beselienė Olga Barisheva-Korosteleva Tatiana Ovechkina Nadezhda Shuvaeva-Olkhova Uljana Semjonova Liudmila Rogozhina Nelli Feryabnikova Olga Sukharnova Tatiana Zakharova-Nadirova Tatiana Ivinskaia	Bulgaria (BUL) Nadka Goltcheva Penka Metodieva Petkana Makaveeva Snezhana Mikhailova Vania Dermendjieva Krasimira Bogdanova Angelina Mikhailova Diana Brainova Evladia Slavtcheva-Stefanova Kostadinka Radkova Silvia Germanova Penka Stoyanova	Yugoslavia (YUG) Vera Đurašković Mersada Bećirspahić Jelica Komnenović Mira Bjedov Vukica Mitić Sanja Ožegović Sofija Pekić Marija Tonković Zorica Đurković Vesna Despotović Biljana Majstorović Jasmina Perazić

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 winning team at the 1978 FIBA World Championship and the Olympic champions in the men's tournament. The remaining spots were decided by corresponding continental qualifying championships for the men's competition, and in a tournament held months before the Olympic Games in Varna, Bulgaria for the women's event.

Men

Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Automatic qualifiers
Egypt	Puerto Rico^[a] Canada^[a] Argentina^[a] Brazil^[b] Cuba^[b]	China^[a] India^[b]	Italy Czechoslovakia Spain Sweden^[b] Poland^[b]	Australia	SFR Yugoslavia – World Champions United States^[a] – Olympic champions Soviet Union – Olympic hosts

Women

Americas	Europe	Automatic qualifiers
United States^[a] Cuba	Bulgaria Italy SFR Yugoslavia Hungary^[b]	Soviet Union – Olympic hosts

^a Withdrew from the tournament.
^b Replacement teams.

Format

Men's tournament:

Three round-robin groups of four teams were formed, where the top two from each one advanced to the final round, and the remaining teams to the classification round.
Both the final and classification round groups consisted of another round-robin of six teams each where results between teams from the same preliminary group were carried over. The top two teams from the final round competed for the gold medal, while third and fourth places for bronze.
With the exception of the first four places, the final standings were decided by the corresponding places in each group.

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:

Head to head results
Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams
Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Men's Tournament

Preliminary Round

The top two teams from each group advance to the final round group, while the remaining teams compete for 8th through 12th places in the classification group. Hosts Soviet Union and the world champions Yugoslavia advanced undefeated to the final round. Meanwhile, qualification in Group C was closely contested between Italy, Bulgaria and Australia, which ended up being decided by a third tiebreaker in favor of the two European teams.

Group A

	Qualified for the quarterfinals

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	0	321	235	+86	6
Brazil	2	1	297	235	+62	5
Czechoslovakia	1	2	285	236	+49	4
India	0	3	194	391	−197	3

July 20

Brazil

72–70

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
SFR Yugoslavia	3	0	328	249	+79	6
Spain	2	1	289	241	+48	5
Poland	1	2	256	297	−41	4
Senegal	0	3	196	282	−86	3

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	1st Tie	2nd Tie	3rd Tie
Italy	2	1	248	233	+15	5	1W–1L	1.000	1.064
Cuba	2	1	226	214	+12	5	1W–1L	1.000	1.056
Australia	2	1	224	215	+9	5	1W–1L	1.000	1.042
Sweden	0	3	191	227	−36	3

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	1st Tie
Poland	4	1	453	359	+94	9	1W–0L
Australia	4	1	417	381	+36	9	0W–1L
Czechoslovakia	3	2	474	377	+97	8	1W–0L
Sweden	3	2	375	341	+34	8	0W–1L
Senegal	1	4	345	396	–51	6
India	0	5	329	539	–210	5

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	1st Tie
SFR Yugoslavia	5	0	506	442	+64	9
Italy	3	2	419	438	–19	9	1W–0L
Soviet Union	3	2	505	468	+37	8	0W–1L
Spain	2	3	488	485	+3	8	1W–0L
Brazil	2	3	448	477	–27	6	0W–1L
Cuba	0	5	434	490	–56	5

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Soviet Union	5	0	553	316	+237	10
Bulgaria	4	1	440	405	+35	9
SFR Yugoslavia	3	2	356	364	–8	8
Hungary	2	3	344	407	–63	7
Cuba	1	4	346	403	–57	6
Italy	0	5	308	452	–144	5

Rank	Men				Women
Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	Team	Pld	W	L
1 !	SFR Yugoslavia	8	8	0	Soviet Union	6	6	0
2 !	Italy	8	4	4	Bulgaria	6	4	2
3 !	Soviet Union	8	6	2	SFR Yugoslavia	6	4	2
4th	Spain	8	4	4	Hungary	6	2	4
5th	Brazil	7	4	3	Cuba	5	1	4
6th	Cuba	7	2	5	Italy	5	0	5
7th	Poland	7	4	3
8th	Australia	7	5	2
9th	Czechoslovakia	7	3	4
10th	Sweden	7	3	4
11th	Senegal	7	1	6
12th	India	7	0	7

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