Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics

5th Olympic Basketball Tournament
Rome 1960
Tournament details
Olympics	1960 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Italy
City	Rome
Duration	August 26 – September 10
Men's tournament
Teams	16
Medals Gold medalists  United States Silver medalists  Soviet Union Bronze medalists  Brazil
Tournaments
← Melbourne 1956  Tokyo 1964 →

Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics was the fifth appearance of the sport in Olympic competition. 16 nations were admitted into the Olympic tournament, with many others being eliminated in a pre-Olympic tournament held earlier in the year from 13 to 20 August 1960 at the Sports Palace at Bologna. 64 games of basketball were played in the Olympic tournament that was held at the Sports arena and Sports Palace, both in Rome.^[1]

The 16 teams were split up into four groups for the preliminary round. Each team played every other team in its group once. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals in two pools of four, while the lower two teams were sent to a consolation semifinal for 9th through 16th place.

In the semifinal, each team again played every other team in its pool, none of which it had played against previously. The top two teams in each of the two semifinals moved on to the final, with the lower two teams in each playing in a classification for 5th through 8th place. The consolation semifinal worked the same way, with the top two teams moving into a classification for 9th through 12th place and the lower two playing in classification for 13th through 16th places.

For the final, each of the four teams had already played against one of the other three in the semifinal. The results of those games carried over into the final and each team played the remaining two finalists once (even though the teams may have played each other in the preliminary round, those results were not carried over). The results of that pool determined final ranking. Each of the classifications worked identically to the final.

Medallists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States (USA) Jay Arnette Walt Bellamy Bob Boozer Terry Dischinger Burdette Haldorson Darrall Imhoff Allen Kelley Lester Lane Jerry Lucas Oscar Robertson Adrian Smith Jerry West	Soviet Union (URS) Yuri Korneev Jānis Krūmiņš Guram Minashvili Valdis Muižnieks Cēzars Ozers Aleksandr Petrov Mikhail Semyonov Vladimir Ugrekhelidze Maigonis Valdmanis Albert Valtin Gennadi Volnov Viktor Zubkov	Brazil (BRA) Edson Bispo dos Santos Moyses Blas Waldemar Blatskauskas Algodão Carmo de Souza Carlos Domingos Massoni Waldyr Boccardo Wlamir Marques Amaury Pasos Fernando Pereira De Freitas Antonio Salvador Sucar Eduardo Schall Jatyr

Final ranking

1.  United States
2.  Soviet Union
3.  Brazil
4.  Italy
5.  Czechoslovakia
6.  Yugoslavia
7.  Poland
8.  Uruguay
9.  Hungary
10.  France
11.  Philippines
12.  Mexico
13.  Puerto Rico
14.  Spain
15.  Japan
16.  Bulgaria

Pre-Olympic Qualifier

Five teams were given a spot in the 1960 Olympic Games via a tournament held on August:

•  Czechoslovakia
•  Spain
•  Hungary
•  Yugoslavia
•  Poland

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	3	3	0	320	183	+137	6
Italy	3	2	1	226	247	−21	5
Hungary	3	1	2	223	245	−22	4
Japan	3	0	3	224	318	−94	3

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Czechoslovakia	3	2	1	201	192	+9	5
Yugoslavia	3	2	1	193	199	−6	5
France	3	1	2	187	190	−3	4
Bulgaria	3	1	2	209	209	0	4

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	213	198	+15	6
Soviet Union	3	2	1	220	170	+50	5
Mexico	3	1	2	189	210	−21	4
Puerto Rico	3	0	3	199	243	−44	3

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Uruguay	3	2	1	228	225	+3	5
Poland	3	2	1	233	207	+26	5
Philippines	3	1	2	228	248	−20	4
Spain	3	1	2	222	231	−9	4

Classification 9–16

Pool C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Hungary	3	3	0	167	150	+17	6
Philippines	3	2	1	154	161	−7	5
Puerto Rico	3	1	2	162	166	−4	4
Bulgaria	3	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Pool D

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
France	3	3	0	270	173	+97	6
Mexico	3	2	1	218	214	+4	5
Spain	3	1	2	180	222	−42	4
Japan	3	0	3	184	243	−59	3

Classification 13–16

• Spain's victory over Japan carried over, as did Puerto Rico's win in Bulgaria's forfeit.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Puerto Rico	3	3	0	168	138	+30	6
Spain	3	2	1	131	139	−8	5
Japan	3	1	2	137	159	−22	4

Classification 9–12

France's victory over Mexico and Hungary's over the Philippines carried over.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Hungary	3	2	1	212	209	+3	5
France	3	2	1	283	211	+72	5
Philippines	3	1	2	210	267	−57	4
Mexico	3	1	2	195	213	−18	4

Semifinals

	Advance to the championship round
	Relegated to 5th-8th place classification playoffs

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	240	221	+19	6
Italy	3	2	1	226	216	−10	5
Czechoslovakia	3	1	2	236	237	−1	4
Poland	3	0	3	211	239	−28	3

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	3	3	0	293	144	+97	6
Soviet Union	3	2	1	234	195	+39	5
Yugoslavia	3	1	2	197	275	−78	4
Uruguay	3	0	3	186	291	−105	3

Classification 5–8

Czechoslovakia's victory over Poland and Yugoslavia's win over Uruguay carried over to this round.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	284	240	+44	6
Yugoslavia	3	2	1	282	262	+20	5
Poland	3	1	2	220	245	−25	4
Uruguay	3	0	3	217	256	−39	3

Championship Round

The United States' win over the Soviet Union and Brazil's victory over Italy carried over.

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
United States	3	3	0	283	201	+82	6
Soviet Union	3	2	1	199	213	−14	5
Brazil	3	1	2	203	229	−26	4
Italy	3	0	3	226	268	−42	3

References

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