Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the tenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It was held from July 20 to July 30 at the Olympiiski Indoor StadiumStadium-Central Sector and at the CSKA Sports Palace, both located in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Finals of men's events were held 30 July at the Olympiiski Indoor Stadium.

Due to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, the United States and other nations withdrew from the tournament. The 1980 Olympics marked the second time (after a controversy in 1972) that the United States men's team did not win the gold medal in Olympic basketball; Yugoslavia won gold in the men's tournament and the Soviet Union in the women's competition.

Medal summary Men's Andro KnegoDragan KićanovićRajko ŽižićMihovil NakićŽeljko JerkovBranko SkročeZoran SlavnićKrešimir ĆosićRatko RadovanovićDuje KrstulovićDražen DalipagićMirza Delibašić Fabrizio Della FioriMarco SolfriniMarco BonamicoDino MeneghinRenato VillaltaRenzo VecchiatoPierluigi MarzoratiPietro GeneraliRomeo SacchettiRoberto BrunamontiMichael SylvesterEnrico Gilardi Stanislav YeryominValeri MiloserdovSergei TarakanovAleksandr SalnikovAndrey LopatovNikolai DeriuginSergei BelovVladimir TkachenkoAnatoly MyshkinSergejus JovaišaAleksandr BelostennyVladimir ZhigilyWomen's Olga BaryshevaTatyana IvinskayaNelli FeryabnikovaVida BeselienėTatyana OvechkinaAngelė RupšienėLyubov SharmayUljana SemjonovaTetiana NadyrovaOlga SukharnovaNadezhda Shuvayeva-OlkhovaLyudmila Rogozhina Krasimira BogdanovaVanya DermendzhievaSilviya GermanovaPetkana MakaveevaNadka GolchevaPenka StoyanovaEvladiya SlavchevaKostadinka RadkovaSnezhana MikhaylovaAngelina MikhaylovaPenka MetodievaDiana Dilova Vera ĐuraškovićMersada BećirspahićJelica KomnenovićMira BjedovVukica MitićSanja OžegovićSofija PekićMarija TonkovićZorica ĐurkovićVesna DespotovićBiljana MajstorovićJasmina Perazić

Qualification A NOC may enter up to one men's team with 12 players and up to one women's team with 12 players. Automatic qualifications were granted to the host country for both events, plus the winning team at the 1978 FIBA World Championship and the gold medal winners at the 1976 Summer Olympics. The remaining spots were decided by corresponding continental qualifying tournaments for the men's competition, and in a tournament held months before the Olympic Games in Varna, Bulgaria for the women's event.

Men Means of qualification Date Venue Berths Qualified Host nation 23 October 1974 Vienna 1 1976 Summer Olympics 18–27 July 1976 Montréal 1 0 1978 FIBA World Championship 1–14 October 1978 Philippines 1 1979 FIBA Oceania Championship 5–8 August 1979 1 1979 ABC Championship 30 November – 12 December 1979 Nagoya 1 FIBA Africa Championship 1980 22–30 March 1980 Rabat 1 1980 Tournament of the Americas 18–25 April 1980 San Juan 3 2 European Qualifying Tournament 6–17 May 1980 3 5 Total 12

Women Means of qualification Date Venue Berths Qualified Host nation 23 October 1974 Vienna 1 World Qualifying Tournament 5–15 May 1980 Varna 5 Total 6

Withdrew from the tournament. Replacement teams.

Format Men's tournament: Three round-robin groups of four teams were formed, where the top two from each one advanced to the final round, and the remaining teams to the classification round. Both the final and classification round groups consisted of another round-robin of six teams each where results between teams from the same preliminary group were carried over. The top two teams from the final round competed for the gold medal, while third and fourth places for bronze. With the exception of the first four places, the final standings were decided by the corresponding places in each group.

Women's tournament: One round-robin group is formed containing all six teams, where the top two compete for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places compete for the bronze medal in an additional match. The remaining two teams finish with their group rank in the final standings.

Tie-breaking criteria: Head to head results Goal average (not the goal difference) between the tied teams Goal average of the tied teams for all teams in its group

Men's tournament Preliminary round The top two teams from each group advance to the final round group, while the remaining teams compete for 8th through 12th places in the classification group. Hosts Soviet Union and the world champions Yugoslavia advanced undefeated to the final round. Meanwhile, qualification in Group C was closely contested between Italy, Cuba and Australia, which ended up being decided by a third tiebreaker in favor of the first two teams.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Classification round Results between Poland vs. Senegal, Australia vs. Sweden and Czechoslovakia vs. India were carried over from the preliminary round.

Semi-final round The first two places in the final round compete for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places compete for the bronze. The remaining teams' group ranking determines their positions in the final standings. The host nation failed to compete for the gold in spite of finishing the preliminary round undefeated, due to losses against the other two group leaders Yugoslavia and especially Italy, since the result from that match served as tiebreaker, giving the latter a passport to the gold medal match. The Soviet Union then won the bronze against Spain. Yugoslavia earned their first gold medal in men's basketball at this Olympic Games.

Results from Yugoslavia vs. Spain, Italy vs. Cuba and Soviet Union vs. Brazil were carried over from the preliminary round.

Medal matches Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Women's tournament The women's tournament was decided in a round robin group with all six teams. The first two places competed for the gold medal, while the third and fourth places for the bronze. The remaining teams retain their group ranks for the final standings. The host nation finished the group phase undefeated and won the gold against Bulgaria. Yugoslavia would go on to win the bronze medal against Hungary.

Medal matches Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Final standings Rank Men WomenTeam Pld W L Team Pld W L 8 8 0 6 6 0 Italy 8 4 4 6 4 2 8 6 2 6 4 2 4th Spain 8 4 4 6 2 4 5th 7 4 3 5 1 4 6th 7 2 5 Italy 5 0 5 7th 7 4 3 8th Australia 7 5 2 9th 7 3 4 10th 7 3 4 11th 7 1 6 12th 7 0 7

See also Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

References

, FIBA Archive. , FIBA Archive. Men Basketball Olympic Games Moscow (URS) 1980 – 20–30.07 todor66.com. Women Basketball Olympic Games Moskva (URS) 1980 – 20–30.07 todor66.com.