Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 2012 Olympic Games is scheduled to be held from 28 July to 12 August. Competitions will be held at the newly built Basketball Arena, which will seat 12,000 spectators, and the The O2 (called North Greenwich Arena because of the ban on commercialisation in arena names during Olympic events) in London. The United States men's and women's teams will be defending their current gold medal championships.

Competition Format

Twelve qualified nations will be drawn into two groups each consisting of six teams. After a robin-round, the four highest placed teams in each group will advance to a knock-out round to decide the medals.

Qualification

The National Olympic Committees may enter up to one 12-player men's team and up to one 12-player women's team.

Host nation

Initially, basketball was the only discipline in which the host nation was not to be automatically awarded entry. This was because the Great Britain basketball teams did not exist until 2006, and FIBA, the world governing body of basketball, was concerned about the future of the unified British teams after 2012, as well as the total lack of competitiveness of British basketball. However, in a meeting held in Lyon, France, on March 13, 2011, the FIBA Executive Board agreed to allow the British teams to qualify automatically. ^{[1] [2]}

Men

Women

See also

• Wheelchair basketball at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

References

External links

• London 2012 Olympic Games
• International Basketball Federation