Basketball at the 2010 Asian Games

Basketball at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Guangti Gymnasium Huangpu Gymnasium Guangzhou International Sports Arena Ying Tung Gymnasium
Date	13–26 November 2010
Competitors	273 from 18 nations
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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

Q

Qualification

P

Preliminary round

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	13th Sat	14th Sun	15th Mon	16th Tue	17th Wed	18th Thu	19th Fri	20th Sat	21st Sun	22nd Mon	23rd Tue	24th Wed	25th Thu	26th Fri
Men	Q	Q	Q	P	P		P		P	P		¼	½	F
Women						P		P		P		½	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	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 details	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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China  (CHN)	2	0	0	2
2	South Korea  (KOR)	0	2	0	2
3	Iran  (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Japan  (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

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.

Qualifying round – Group A   Hong Kong   North Korea Athletes from Kuwait*

Qualifying round – Group B   Saudi Arabia *   Philippines

Qualifying round – Group C   Turkmenistan   Mongolia

Qualifying round – Group D   Afghanistan   India

Preliminary round – Group E   China (Host)   Jordan (4)   South Korea (5)   Uzbekistan (11) 1st Qualifying round – Group A 1st Qualifying round – Group C

Preliminary round – Group F   Qatar (2)   Iran (3)   Japan (6)   Chinese Taipei (8) 1st Qualifying round – Group B 1st Qualifying round – Group D

* 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

Group A   China (Host)   South Korea (4)   Thailand   India

Group B   Chinese Taipei (2)   Japan (3)   Maldives

Final standing

Men

Further information: Basketball at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	8	8	0
	South Korea	8	6	2
	Iran	8	6	2
4	Japan	8	5	3
5	Qatar	8	5	3
6	Philippines	9	5	4
7	Jordan	8	4	4
8	North Korea	9	3	6
9	Chinese Taipei	5	1	4
10	Mongolia	6	2	4
11	Uzbekistan	5	0	5
12	India	6	1	5
13	Turkmenistan	1	0	1
14	Afghanistan	1	0	1
15	Hong Kong	1	0	1
16	Athletes from Kuwait	1	0	1

Women

Further information: Basketball at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	5	5	0
	South Korea	5	3	2
	Japan	4	3	1
4	Chinese Taipei	4	1	3
5	Thailand	4	2	2
6	Maldives	3	0	3
7	India	3	0	3

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.

External links

• Basketball results at the official website