Basketball at the 2014 Asian Games

Basketball was one of the 36 sports featured at the 17th Asian Games 2014, which took place in Incheon, South Korea on 20 September – 3 October 2014. The event was held at the 7,406 seat Samsan World Gymnasium,[1] and the 5,158 seat Hwaseong Sports Complex.[2]

Basketball at the 2014 Asian Games
Venue	Hwaseong Indoor Arena Samsan World Gymnasium
Dates	September 20, 2014 (2014-09-20)–October 3, 2014 (2014-10-03)
Competitors	317 from 18 nations
Medalists
South Korea (men)  South Korea (women)    Iran (men)  China (women)    Japan (men)  Japan (women)

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	South Korea Moon Tae-jong Park Chan-hee Yang Dong-geun Kim Tae-sul Lee Jong-hyun Kim Sun-hyung Cho Sung-min Yang Hee-jong Kim Joo-sung Heo Il-young Oh Se-keun Kim Jong-kyu	Iran Rouzbeh Arghavan Sajjad Mashayekhi Behnam Yakhchali Mehdi Kamrani Arman Zangeneh Farid Aslani Hamed Afagh Oshin Sahakian Asghar Kardoust Mohammad Jamshidi Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Haddadi	Japan Takumi Ishizaki Ryumo Ono Makoto Hiejima Takatoshi Furukawa Atsuya Ota Naoto Tsuji Kosuke Takeuchi Daiki Tanaka Tenketsu Harimoto Yuki Togashi Kosuke Kanamaru Joji Takeuchi
Women	South Korea Kim Dan-bi Lee Mi-sun Lee Kyung-eun Park Hye-jin Kwak Joo-yeong Yang Ji-hee Beon Yeon-ha Lim Yung-hui Ha Eun-joo Kim Jung-eun Kang Young-suk Sin Jung-ja	China Liu Dan Jin Weina Yu Dong Shi Xiufeng Sun Xiaoyu Shen Binbin Ma Xueya Ding Yuan Zhang Fan Yang Banban Yang Hengyu Jin Jiabao	Japan Evelyn Mawuli Hiromi Suwa Sanae Motokawa Mucha Mori Maya Kawahara Yuri Ushida Rui Machida Naho Miyoshi Rui Kato Mikoto Onuma Aya Watanabe Sakura Akaho

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	2	0	0	2
2	China	0	1	0	1
	Iran	0	1	0	1
4	Japan	0	0	2	2
Totals (4 nations)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2010 Asian Games.

Men

• The best 8 teams from the basketball competition of the 2010 Asian Games that were participating in 2014 directly entered the second round. The teams were distributed according to their position at the 2010 Asian Games using the serpentine system for their distribution.

Qualifying round – Group A  Mongolia  Hong Kong  Kuwait  Maldives

Qualifying round – Group B  Saudi Arabia  Kazakhstan  Palestine  India

Preliminary round – Group C  China (1)  Chinese Taipei (9) 2nd Qualifying round – Group B

Preliminary round – Group D  South Korea (2)  Jordan (7) 2nd Qualifying round – Group A

Preliminary round – Group E  Iran (3)  Philippines (6) 1st Qualifying round – Group B

Preliminary round – Group F  Japan (4)  Qatar (5) 1st Qualifying round – Group A

Women

• The best 6 teams from the basketball competition of the 2010 Asian Games that were participating in 2014 directly entered the knockout round. The teams were distributed according to their position at the 2010 Asian Games using the serpentine system for their distribution.

Qualifying round

•  Mongolia
•  Hong Kong
•  Kazakhstan
•    Nepal
•  Qatar

Quarterfinals

•  China (1) vs. 2nd Qualifying round
•  South Korea (2) vs. 1st Qualifying round
•  Japan (3) vs.  India (7)
•  Chinese Taipei (4) vs.  Thailand (5)

Final standing

Men

Further information: Basketball at the 2014 Asian Games – Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	South Korea	7	7	0
	Iran	7	6	1
	Japan	7	4	3
4	Kazakhstan	10	4	6
5	China	7	5	2
6	Qatar	7	4	3
7	Philippines	7	3	4
8	Mongolia	10	3	7
9	Chinese Taipei	2	0	2
9	India	5	2	3
9	Jordan	2	0	2
9	Kuwait	5	3	2
13	Hong Kong	3	1	2
13	Saudi Arabia	3	2	1
15	Maldives	3	0	3
15	Palestine	3	0	3

Women

Further information: Basketball at the 2014 Asian Games – Women

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	South Korea	3	3	0
	China	3	2	1
	Japan	3	2	1
4	Chinese Taipei	3	1	2
5	Kazakhstan	7	5	2
6	India	3	1	2
7	Thailand	3	1	2
8	Mongolia	7	3	4
9	Hong Kong	4	3	1
10	Nepal	4	1	3
—	Qatar	4	0	4

References

1. "Samsan World Gymnasium". IAGOC. Incheon2014ag.org. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
2. "Hwaseong Sports Complex Gymnasium". IAGOC. Incheon2014ag.org. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.