Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky was a Russian professional basketball player and coach. The Father of Soviet and Russian basketball, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
Anne Theresa Donovan was an American women's basketball player and coach. From 2013 to 2015, she was the head coach of the Connecticut Sun.
Zheng Haixia is a Chinese retired professional women's basketball player for the China women's national basketball team and the Women's National Basketball Association.
Laura Ann Hodges is an Australian female professional basketball player, having played in Australia's Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), Europe, and the WNBA. She currently plays for the Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL. She currently sits on the board of the Australian Basketball Players’ Association
Giancarlo Primo was an Italian professional basketball player and coach. He was a coach of the FIBA European Selection team in 1974, 1975, and 1976. In 2001, he was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit. In 2007, he was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame, and in 2008, he was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame.
China was the host nation of the 2008 Summer Olympics. It was represented by the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC), and the team of selected athletes were officially known as Team China.
Spain competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China, with a total of 286 athletes, 164 men and 122 women, took part in 154 events in 25 sports.
South Korea competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. This is a list of all of the South Korean athletes who qualified for the Olympics and their results. South Korea sent a delegation of 267 athletes to these games.
Argentina competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China, from 8 to 24 August 2008. 137 athletes qualified for the Olympic Games in 19 sports. Manu Ginóbili, basketball player and gold medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese taekwondo athlete. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal at the latter. Liu also won medals at the 2006 Asian Games and the 2008 and 2012 Asian Taekwondo Championships.
Song Xiaoyun, born December 11, 1982 in Anshan, Liaoning) is a Chinese basketball player who was part of the teams that won gold medals at the 2002 and 2006 Asian Games. She was part of the Chinese squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Miao Lijie is a female Chinese basketball player.
Zhang Xiaoni is a female Chinese basketball player who was part of the teams that won gold medals at the 2002 Asian Games and the 2006 Asian Games. She also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Hollie Florance is an Australian women's basketball player. She is 190 cm tall, weighs 84 kg and plays in the Centre position. She attended the Australian Institute of Sport in 2000 to 2002. She was named the WNBL MVP during the 2006–07 season playing for the Bulleen Boomers. During the 2007/08 season she played offshore in the Italian Serie A League suiting up for Italmoka Pozzuoli. She has represented her country on numerous occasions, debuting at the 2002 World Championships in China where the Australian team won bronze. She has also won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics after missing out on selection during the 2004 Olympics. She was also part of the Australian team that won the gold medal at the world championships in 2006 and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Hollie is of Maltese heritage.
Cong Xuedi is a former Chinese basketball player. With a height of 166 cm, she served as point guard.
Elīna Dikaioulaku is a Latvian former basketball player.
Penka Stoyanova was a Bulgarian basketball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Jasmina Perazić is a Serbian-American basketball coach and a former basketball player. Perazić was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. She is the current head coach of Division II Georgian Court University, a member of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC).
The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team is an award, that is given by FIBA, to the five best players of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
Beijing Great Wall is a Chinese professional women's basketball club based in Beijing, playing in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA). The team is owned by Beijing Shougang Co., Ltd., which also owns the Beijing Ducks men's basketball team. Beijing Great Wall sometimes also carries the name of its sponsor BBMG.
