Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Basketball at the II Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Wutaishan Sports Center
Dates	August 18–26

Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Tournament	Boys	Girls
Dunk	Boys
Shoot-out		Girls

Basketball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 18 to August 26. The events took place at the Wutaishan Sports Center in Nanjing, China. As in 2010 the 3x3 format returned, along with a new event, the skill challenge.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 teams, 1 team of 4 athletes per each gender. As hosts, China was given 2 teams, 1 per each gender. 6 teams, 3 per each gender will qualify from the 2013 U18 3x3 World Championships and another 6 teams, 3 per each gender will qualify from the 2013 3x3 World Tour Final. The remaining 13 teams per gender will qualify based on the FIBA 3x3 National Federation Ranking updated on 1 June 2014. All continents must have at least one team present in each gender and no more than 10 from the same continent can participate. Also a minimum of 30 NOCs must participate across all events.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997. Furthermore, all team members must have participated in two FIBA sanctioned 3x3 events between 1 April 2013 and 8 June 2014.^[1]

Boys

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2013 U18 3x3 World Championships[2][3]	Jakarta	26–29 September 2013	3	Argentina France Russia
2013 3x3 World Tour Final[2][3]	Istanbul	4–5 October 2013	3	Romania Slovenia Venezuela
FIBA 3x3 National Federation Ranking[2][3]	-	1 June 2014	13	Andorra Brazil Germany Guatemala Hungary Indonesia Lithuania New Zealand Poland Puerto Rico Spain Tunisia Uruguay
TOTAL			20

Girls

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	1	China
2013 U18 3x3 World Championships[2][3]	Jakarta	27–29 September 2013	3	Estonia Spain United States
2013 3x3 World Tour Final[2][3]	Istanbul	4–5 October 2013	3	Romania Slovenia Venezuela
FIBA 3x3 National Federation Ranking[2][3]	-	1 June 2014	13	Andorra Belgium Brazil Chinese Taipei Czech Republic Egypt Germany Guam Hungary Indonesia Netherlands Syria Thailand
TOTAL			20

Format

The boys' and girls' tournament will adopt a round robin group stage and a single-elimination medal round, where the 20 participating teams are split into 2 pools of 10. Each team will play once against the other teams in its pool, and the top 8 teams from each pool will qualify for the knock-out stages.

Boys

Pool A	Pool B
Hungary	Andorra
Germany	Spain
Uruguay	Brazil
Lithuania	Romania
Poland	New Zealand
France	Guatemala
Puerto Rico	Venezuela
Indonesia	Argentina
China	Tunisia
Slovenia	Guam

Girls

Note: Guam entered a Girls Basketball team into Group B of the competition, there was no Guam Boys team at the tournament

Pool A	Pool B
Hungary	Belgium
Spain	Andorra
Germany	Chinese Taipei
Brazil	Czech Republic
Netherlands	United States
China	Romania
Estonia	India
Venezuela	Egypt
Syria	Thailand
Slovenia	Russia

Schedule

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.^[4]

All times are CST (UTC+8)

Medal Summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	1	1	0	2
2	Spain	1	0	1	2
2	United States	1	0	1	2
3	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
4	Slovenia	0	2	0	2
5	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
6	China	0	0	1	1
6	Argentina	0	0	1	1
Total		4	4	4	12

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' tournament	Lithuania	France	Argentina
Girls' tournament	United States	Netherlands	Spain
Boys' dunk contest	Karim Mouliom  France	Ziga Lah  Slovenia	Fu Lei  China
Girls' shoot-out contest	Lucia Togores Carpintero  Spain	Ela Micunovic  Slovenia	Katie Samuelson  United States

References