Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics

6th Olympic Basketball Tournament
	; Tokyo 1964
	;
Tournament details
Olympics	; 1964 Summer Olympics;
Host nation	; Japan;
City	; Tokyo;
Duration	; October 11–23
Men's tournament
Teams	; 16
Medals
; Gold medalists	United States
; Silver medalists	; Soviet Union;
; Bronze medalists	Brazil;
Tournaments
← Rome 1960;	Mexico City 1968 →

Basketball contests at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from October 11 to October 23. The United States defeated the Soviet Union to win their sixth straight gold medal at this event, while Brazil earned the bronze against Puerto Rico.^[1]

Results[edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's basketball	United States Jim Barnes Bill Bradley Larry Brown Joe Caldwell Mel Counts Richard Davies Walt Hazzard Lucious Jackson John McCaffrey Jeff Mullins Jerry Shipp George Wilson	Soviet Union Valdis Muižnieks Mykola Bahley Armenak Alachachian Alexandr Travin Viacheslav Khrynin Jānis Krūmiņš Levan Moseshvili Yury Korneev Alexsandr Petrov Gennadi Volnov Jaak Lipso Juris Kalniņš	Brazil Amaury Antônio Pasos Wlamir Marques Ubiratan Pereira Maciel Carlos Domingos Massoni Friedrich Wilhem Braun Carmo de Souza Jatyr Eduardo Schall Edson Bispo dos Santos Antonio Salvador Sucar Victor Mirshawka Sergio de Toledo Machado Jose Edvar Simoes

Qualification[edit]

Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the first eight places at the previous tournament. Additional spots were decided by various continental tournaments held by FIBA plus two additional intercontinental tournaments that granted six extra berths total, after the withdrawal of United Arab Republic and Czechoslovakia.

Means of qualification^[2]	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation			1	Japan
1960 Summer Olympics	26 August–10 September 1960	Rome	8 6	United States
				Soviet Union
				Brazil
				Italy
				Czechoslovakia^[a]
				SFR Yugoslavia
				Poland
				Uruguay
1963 Pan American Games	23 April–3 May 1963	São Paulo	2	Puerto Rico
1963 Pan American Games	23 April–3 May 1963	São Paulo	2	Peru
FIBA Africa Championship 1964	4–8 March 1964	Casablanca	1	United Arab Republic^[a]
European Pre-Olympic Tournament	4–13 June 1964	Geneva	2	Finland
European Pre-Olympic Tournament	4–13 June 1964	Geneva	2	Hungary
Pan-Continental Pre-Olympic Tournament	25 September–3 October 1964	Yokohama	2 4	Mexico
				Australia
				Canada^[b]
				South Korea^[b]
Total			16

^a Withdrew from the tournament.

^b Replacement teams.

Format[edit]

Two groups of eight teams are formed, where the top two from each group compete for the medals in a knockout round.

The remaining places are defined as follows:
- Fifth through eighth places are decided in a separate bracket between the third and fourth places from each group in a separate bracket.
- Ninth through sixteenth places are decided between the fifth through eighth places from each group in separate brackets.

Preliminary round[edit]

The top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals, while the remaining teams compete for 5th through 16th places in separate brackets. Both group leaders, the United States and the Soviet Union advanced undefeated to the knockout stage.

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	7	7	0	562	424	+138	14	Advanced to the semifinals
2	Puerto Rico	7	5	2	493	454	+39	12	Advanced to the semifinals
3	Poland	7	4	3	467	448	+19	11
4	Italy	7	4	3	495	480	+15	11
5	Mexico	7	3	4	485	514	−29	10
6	Japan (H)	7	3	4	421	428	−7	10
7	Hungary	7	2	5	407	469	−62	9
8	Canada	7	0	7	408	521	−113	7

Source: Unknown
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;
(H) Host.

October 11