Basketball
at the 2010 Asian Games
VenueGuangti Gymnasium
Huangpu Gymnasium
International Sports Arena
Ying Tung Gymnasium
Date13–26 November 2010
Competitors273 from 18 nations

Basketball was one of the 42 sports at the 16th Asian Games 2010 at Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The event was held at the 13,000 seat Guangzhou International Sports Arena,[1] Huangpu Gymnasium, Guangti Gymnasium, Ying Dong Gymnasium and Sports and Entertainment Centre.

China defeated Korea in both of the tournament's gold medal games; Iran won the men's bronze medal defeating Japan, and Japan defeated Chinese Taipei to win the bronze medal in the women's tournament.

Schedule

QQualification PPreliminary round ¼Quarterfinals ½Semifinals FFinals
Event↓/Date →13th
Sat
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16th
Tue
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Fri
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Thu
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MenQQQPPPPP¼½F
WomenPPP½F

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
 China
Ding Jinhui
Liu Wei
Zhang Qingpeng
Wang Shipeng
Zhu Fangyu
Sun Yue
Zhang Zhaoxu
Zhang Bo
Tang Zhengdong
Li Xiaoxu
Wang Zhizhi
Zhou Peng
 South Korea
Park Chan-hee
Lee Jung-suk
Yang Dong-geun
Kim Joo-sung
Ha Seung-jin
Lee Kyu-sup
Cho Sung-min
Yang Hee-jong
Ham Ji-hoon
Kim Sung-chul
Lee Seung-jun
Oh Se-keun
 Iran
Amir Amini
Aren Davoudi
Javad Davari
Mehdi Kamrani
Saeid Davarpanah
Oshin Sahakian
Hamed Afagh
Hamed Sohrabnejad
Ali Jamshidi
Asghar Kardoust
Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
Ali Doraghi
Women
 China
Zhang Hanlan
Bian Lan
Ding Yuan
Zhang Wei
Miao Lijie
Guan Xin
Zhang Fan
Ma Zengyu
Chen Xiaoli
Gao Song
Liu Dan
Chen Nan
 South Korea
Kim Bo-mi
Kim Ji-yoon
Jung Sun-hwa
Lee Mi-sun
Lee Kyung-eun
Kang A-jeong
Beon Yeon-ha
Park Jung-eun
Ha Eun-joo
Kim Dan-bi
Kim Kwe-ryong
Sin Jung-ja
 Japan
Yoko Nagi
Maki Takada
Yuka Mamiya
Ai Mitani
Ayumi Suzuki
Hiromi Suwa
Saori Fujiyoshi
Yoshie Sakurada
Asami Yoshida
Yuko Oga
Reika Takahashi
Sachiko Ishikawa

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China (CHN)2002
2 South Korea (KOR)0202
3 Iran (IRI)0011
 Japan (JPN)0011
Totals (4 entries)2226

Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2006 Asian Games.

Men

  • Best 8 teams from the basketball competition of the 2006 Asian Games that are participating in 2010 directly entered the second round.

* The Philippines, which has made it to the latter stages of every Asian Games basketball tournament from 1951 to 2002, was originally drawn with Saudi Arabia but Saudi Arabia withdrew. Kuwait, which was originally drawn with Hong Kong and North Korea, was re-drawn with the Philippines to balance the number of teams in each group.[2][3]

Women

Final standing

Men

Rank Team Pld W L
1st place, gold medalist(s)  China880
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  South Korea862
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Iran862
4  Japan853
5  Qatar853
6  Philippines954
7  Jordan844
8  North Korea936
9  Chinese Taipei514
10  Mongolia624
11  Uzbekistan505
12  India615
13  Turkmenistan101
14  Afghanistan101
15  Hong Kong101
16 Athletes from Kuwait101

Women

Rank Team Pld W L
1st place, gold medalist(s)  China550
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  South Korea532
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan431
4  Chinese Taipei413
5  Thailand422
6  Maldives303
7  India303

References

  1. "Fully renovated basketball arena ready for Asian Games". 22 July 2009. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
  2. "RP's 1st round foe Kuwait withdraws from 16th Asiad". 28 October 2010. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  3. "Gilas 5 to go all out vs Kuwait in Asian Games opener". 9 November 2010. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
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