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6th Olympic Basketball Tournament
6th Olympic Basketball Tournament
Tokyo 1964
Tournament details
Olympics	1964 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Japan
City	Tokyo
Duration	October 11–23, 1964
Men's tournament
Teams	16
Medals
Gold medalists	United States
Silver medalists	Soviet Union
Bronze medalists	Brazil
Tournaments
← Rome 1960	Mexico City 1968 →

Basketball contests at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the sixth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from October 11 to October 23. The United States defeated the Soviet Union to win their sixth consecutive gold medal at this event, while Brazil earned the bronze against Puerto Rico.^[1]

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's basketball	United States Jim Barnes Bill Bradley Larry Brown Joe Caldwell Mel Counts Richard Davies Walt Hazzard Lucious Jackson John McCaffrey Jeff Mullins Jerry Shipp George Wilson	Soviet Union Valdis Muižnieks Mykola Bahley Armenak Alachachian Alexandr Travin Viacheslav Khrynin Jānis Krūmiņš Levan Moseshvili Yury Korneev Alexsandr Petrov Gennadi Volnov Jaak Lipso Juris Kalniņš	Brazil Amaury Antônio Pasos Wlamir Marques Ubiratan Pereira Maciel Carlos Domingos Massoni Friedrich Wilhelm Braun Rosa Branca Jatyr Eduardo Schall Edson Bispo dos Santos Antônio Salvador Sucar Victor Mirshauswka Sérgio de Toledo Machado José Edvar Simões

Qualification

Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the first eight places at the previous tournament. Additional spots were decided by various continental tournaments held by FIBA plus two additional intercontinental tournaments that granted six extra berths total, after the withdrawal of United Arab Republic and Czechoslovakia.

Means of qualification^[2]	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation			1	Japan
1960 Summer Olympics	26 August–10 September 1960	Rome	8 7	United States
				Soviet Union
				Brazil
				Italy
				Czechoslovakia^[a]
				SFR Yugoslavia
				Poland
				Uruguay
1963 Pan American Games	23 April–3 May 1963	São Paulo	2	Puerto Rico
1963 Pan American Games	23 April–3 May 1963	São Paulo	2	Peru
FIBA Africa Championship 1964	4–8 March 1964	Casablanca	1 0	United Arab Republic^[a]
European Pre-Olympic Tournament	4–13 June 1964	Geneva	2	Finland
European Pre-Olympic Tournament	4–13 June 1964	Geneva	2	Hungary
Pan-Continental Pre-Olympic Tournament	25 September–3 October 1964	Yokohama	2 4	Mexico
				Australia
				Canada^[b]
				South Korea^[b]
Total			16

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

Format

Two groups of eight teams are formed, where the top two from each group compete for the medals in a knockout round.
The remaining places are defined as follows:
- Fifth through eighth places are decided in a separate bracket between the third and fourth places from each group in a separate bracket.
- Ninth through sixteenth places are decided between the fifth through eighth places from each group in separate brackets.

Squads

For the team rosters see: Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.

Preliminary round

The top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals, while the remaining teams compete for 5th through 16th places in separate brackets. Both group leaders, the United States and the Soviet Union advanced undefeated to the knockout stage.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	7	7	0	562	424	+138	14	Semifinals
2	Puerto Rico	7	5	2	493	454	+39	12	Semifinals
3	Poland	7	4	3	467	448	+19	11^[a]	5th–8th classification round
4	Italy	7	4	3	495	480	+15	11^[a]	5th–8th classification round
5	Mexico	7	3	4	485	514	−29	10^[b]	9th–12th classification round
6	Japan (H)	7	3	4	421	428	−7	10^[b]	9th–12th classification round
7	Hungary	7	2	5	407	469	−62	9	13th–16th classification round
8	Canada	7	0	7	408	521	−113	7	13th–16th classification round

Source: FIBA archive
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: Poland 1–0 Italy
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: Mexico 1–0 Japan

October 11

13:30

Poland

56–53

Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Results

Qualification

Format

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Championship playoffs

Classification brackets

Awards

Final standings

References

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