Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Basketball

at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games

Venue| Parque Mujeres Argentinas
Dates| 7–17 October
No. of events| 4 (2 boys, 2 girls)
Competitors| 160 (80 boys, 80 girls) from 33 nations
Teams| 40

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Basketball at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Tournament| Boys| Girls
Dunk| Boys|
Shoot-out| | Girls

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Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 7 to 17 October. The events took place at the Parque Mujeres Argentinas in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As in previous Youth Olympic games, the 3x3 format is used along with the skill challenge.

## Qualification[edit]

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 teams, 1 team of 4 athletes per each gender. As hosts, Argentina was given 2 teams, 1 per each gender. The winner of the Men’s and Women’s 2017 U18 3x3 World Cup qualified to the Youth Olympics. Afterwards, the top 8 unqualified teams from each gender in the FIBA U18 3x3 National Federation Rankings (updated on 1 April 2018) qualified to the Youth Olympics. The remaining 10 teams qualified through the national rankings with the following restrictions; no more than 10 nations from the same continent can participate in one tournament and 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 2000 and 31 December 2002. Furthermore, all team members must have participated in two FIBA sanctioned 3x3 events between 31 July 2017 and 31 July 2018 and all national federations must have organized at least three FIBA endorsed events between 1 April 2017 and 1 April 2018.[1]

The teams were officially confirmed on April 5, 2018.[2]

## Qualification summary[edit]

NOC | Boys | Girls | Total athletes

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Andorra | X | X | 8
Argentina | X | X | 8
Australia |  | X | 4
Belgium | X |  | 4
Brazil | X |  | 4
China | X | X | 8
Czech Republic |  | X | 4
Egypt |  | X | 4
Estonia | X | X | 8
France |  | X | 4
Georgia | X |  | 4
Germany |  | X | 4
Hungary |  | X | 4
Indonesia |  | X | 4
Iran |  | X | 4
Italy | X |  | 4
Jordan | X |  | 4
Kazakhstan | X |  | 4
Kyrgyzstan | X |  | 4
Latvia | X |  | 4
Mexico |  | X | 4
Mongolia | X |  | 4
New Zealand | X |  | 4
Netherlands |  | X | 4
Romania |  | X | 4
Russia | X |  | 4
Slovenia | X |  | 4
Spain |  | X | 4
Sri Lanka |  | X | 4
Turkmenistan | X |  | 4
Ukraine | X | X | 8
United States | X | X | 8
Venezuela | X | X | 8
Total: 33 NOCs | 20 | 20 | 160
Event | Location | Date | Total Places | Boys Qualified | Girls Qualified

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Host Nation | - | - | 1 |  Argentina |  Argentina
2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup[3] |  Chengdu | 28 Jun–2 Jul 2017 | 1 |  Belgium |  United States
FIBA U18 3x3 National Federation Ranking | - | 1 April 2018 | Top 8 |  Venezuela
China
Ukraine
United States
Italy
Estonia
Latvia
Andorra |  China
Andorra
Ukraine
Venezuela
Estonia
Hungary
France
Romania
FIBA U18 3x3 National Federation Ranking | - | 1 April 2018 | 10 |  Jordan
Slovenia
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Russia
Georgia
Brazil
New Zealand |  Netherlands
Egypt
Czech Republic
~~Japan~~
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Spain
Germany
Mexico
Australia
Iran*
TOTAL |  |  | 20 |  |

* Replaced Japan

## Format[edit]

The boys' and girls' tournaments have the same format. Twenty teams are divided into four pools of five teams. Each team plays every other team in the same pool. The top two ranked teams in each pool proceed to the knockout stage and the losers are eliminated.[4]

## Medal summary[edit]

### Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (Argentina)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Argentina*| 2| 0| 1| 3
2|  France| 1| 1| 0| 2
3|  United States| 1| 0| 0| 1
4|  Belgium| 0| 1| 0| 1
Czech Republic| 0| 1| 0| 1
Russia| 0| 1| 0| 1
7|  Australia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Italy| 0| 0| 1| 1
Slovenia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (9 entries)| 4| 4| 4| 12

### Events[edit]

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Boys' tournament
details |  Argentina (ARG)
Juan Hierrezuelo
Fausto Ruesga
Juan De la Fuente
Marco Giordano |  Belgium (BEL)
Sasha Deheneffe
Ferre Vanderhoydonck
Sam Hofman
Moussa Noterman |  Slovenia (SLO)
Jan Razdevšek
Dan Osrečki
Erik Groznik
Adrian Hirschmann
Girls' tournament
details |  United States (USA)
Paige Bueckers
Hailey Van Lith
Samantha Brunelle
Aliyah Boston |  France (FRA)
Diaba Konaté
Mathilde Peyregne
Eve de Christophie Mahoutou
Olivia Yale |  Australia (AUS)
Alexandra Fowler
Ruby Porter
Sara-Rose Smith
Suzi-Rose Deegan
Boys' dunk contest
details | Fausto Ruesga
Argentina | Nikita Remizov
Russia | Niccolò Filoni
Italy
Girls' shoot-out contest
details | Mathilde Peyregne
France | Kateřina Galíčková
Czech Republic | Sofía Acevedo
Argentina

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Qualification System: Basketball" (PDF). FIBA. 11 April 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
2. ^ "33 countries to compete at 2018 Youth Olympic Games". www.fiba.basketball/. International Basketball Federation (FIBA). 5 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
3. ^ "Belgium's men and USA's women win FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup 2017". FIBA. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
4. ^ "Basketball 3x3 – Competition Format and Rules" (PDF). buenosaires2018.com. 17 September 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

* Official Results Book – Basketball 3x3

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