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, 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 QQualificationPPreliminary round¼Quarterfinals½SemifinalsFFinals Event↓/Date → 13thSat 14thSun 15thMon 16thTue 17thWed 18thThu 19thFri 20thSat 21stSun 22ndMon 23rdTue 24thWed 25thThu 26thFri Men Q Q Q P P P P P ¼ ½ F Women P P P ½ F
Medalists MenDing JinhuiLiu WeiZhang QingpengWang ShipengZhu FangyuSun YueZhang ZhaoxuZhang BoTang ZhengdongLi XiaoxuWang ZhizhiZhou PengPark Chan-heeLee Jung-sukYang Dong-geunKim Joo-sungHa Seung-jinLee Kyu-supCho Sung-minYang Hee-jongHam Ji-hoonKim Sung-chulLee Seung-junOh Se-keunAmir AminiAren DavoudiJavad DavariMehdi KamraniSaeid DavarpanahOshin SahakianHamed AfaghHamed SohrabnejadAli JamshidiAsghar KardoustSamad Nikkhah BahramiAli DoraghiWomenZhang HanlanBian LanDing YuanZhang WeiMiao LijieGuan XinZhang FanMa ZengyuChen XiaoliGao SongLiu DanChen NanKim Bo-miKim Ji-yoonJung Sun-hwaLee Mi-sunLee Kyung-eunKang A-jeongBeon Yeon-haPark Jung-eunHa Eun-jooKim Dan-biKim Kwe-ryongSin Jung-jaYoko NagiMaki TakadaYuka MamiyaAi MitaniAyumi SuzukiHiromi SuwaSaori FujiyoshiYoshie SakuradaAsami YoshidaYuko OgaReika TakahashiSachiko Ishikawa
Medal table
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
Athletes from Kuwait*
Qualifying round – Group B *
Qualifying round – Group C
Qualifying round – Group D
Preliminary round – Group E (Host) (4) (5) (11) 1st Qualifying round – Group A 1st Qualifying round – Group C
Preliminary round – Group F (2) (3) (6) (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.
Women
Group A (Host) (4)
Group B (2) (3)
Final standing Men
Women
References
External links Basketball results at the official website