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Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Olympics |
| city | Helsinki |
| year | 1952 |
| logo | Olympic rings without rims.svg |
| size | 150px |
| games | 1952 Summer Olympics |
| host | Finland |
| dates | July 13 – August 2, 1952 |
| men_teams | 23 |
| men_gold | USA |
| men_silver | URS |
| men_bronze | URU |
| prev | London 1948 |
| next | Melbourne 1956 |
Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the third appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. 23 nations entered the competition.
The top six teams at the 1948 Summer Olympics qualified automatically, as did the winners of the 1950 FIBA World Championship (Argentina), the top two teams at the 1951 EuroBasket (USSR and Czechoslovakia), and the host country (Finland). Thirteen other nations competed in a qualifying round to determine the last six places in the sixteen-team Olympic tournament.
Medalists
| USA | |
|---|---|
| Ron Bontemps | |
| Marc Freiberger | |
| Wayne Glasgow | |
| Charlie Hoag | |
| Bill Hougland | |
| John Keller | |
| Dean Kelley | |
| Bob Kenney | |
| Bob Kurland | |
| Bill Lienhard | |
| Clyde Lovellette | |
| Frank McCabe | |
| Dan Pippin | |
| Howie Williams | URS |
| Stepas Butautas | |
| Nodar Dzhordzhikiya | |
| Anatoly Konev | |
| Otar Korkiya | |
| Heino Kruus | |
| Ilmar Kullam | |
| Justinas Lagunavičius | |
| Joann Lõssov | |
| Aleksandr Moiseyev | |
| Yuri Ozerov | |
| Kazys Petkevičius | |
| Stasys Stonkus | |
| Maigonis Valdmanis | |
| Viktor Vlasov | URU |
| Martín Acosta y Lara | |
| Enrique Baliño | |
| Victorio Cieslinskas | |
| Héctor Costa | |
| Nelson Demarco | |
| Héctor García Otero | |
| Tabaré Larre Borges | |
| Adesio Lombardo | |
| Roberto Lovera | |
| Sergio Matto | |
| Wilfredo Peláez | |
| Carlos Roselló |
Qualifying rounds
Nations that lost two games in the qualifying rounds were eliminated. When there were only two teams left in each group, those teams advanced to the main tournament.
Group A
Group A consisted of Cuba, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Switzerland.
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Group B
Group B consisted of Hungary, Greece, Israel, and the Philippines.
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Group C
Group C consisted of Canada, Italy, Turkey, Romania, and Egypt. | RD4-legs=0
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Group stage
The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarterfinal round.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
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Quarterfinals
The top two teams in each quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals. The other two teams in each quarterfinals played in the fifth through eighth place classification.
Group E
Group F
Knockout rounds
Brackets
| |**** |60||53 | ||59||44 | ||58||49 | |****|58||44
|July 31||61||57 |August 1||85||76 |August 2||36||25 |August 2||68||59
Semifinals
Classification 5–8 semifinals
Medal round semifinals
Finals
7th place final
5th place final
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Awards
| 1952 Olympic Basketball Champions |
|---|
| USA |
| United States |
| Third title |
Participating nations
For the team rosters see: Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.
Each country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation. A total number of 317 players were entered.
A total of 301*() basketball players from 23 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:
- ARG
- BEL
- BRA
- BUL
- CAN
- CHI
- CUB
- TCH
- EGY
- FIN
- FRA
- GRE
- HUN
- ISR
- ITA
- MEX
- PHI
- ROU
- URS
- SUI
- TUR
- USA
- URU
() NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least. Up to now only two reserve player can be named, 14 reserve players are unknown.*
Team rosters
| Place | Nation | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 4 | ||
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 9–16 | ||
| 17–23 | ||
| 17–23 | ||
| 17–23 | ||
| 17–23 | ||
| 17–23 | ||
| 17–23 | ||
| 17–23 |
References
References
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