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{{Infobox basketball tournament at games
| type         = Olympics
| city         = Seoul
| year         = 1988
| logo         = Basketball pictogram.svg
| size         = 120px
| games        = [[1988 Summer Olympics]]
| host         = South Korea
| dates        = September 17 – September 30, 1988
| men_teams    = 12
| men_gold     = Soviet Union
| men_silver   = Yugoslavia
| men_bronze   = United States
| women_teams  = 8
| women_gold   = United States
| women_silver = Yugoslavia
| women_bronze = Soviet Union
| website      = 
| prev         = [[Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Los Angeles 1984]]
| next         = [[Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Barcelona 1992]]
}}
{{Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics}}
[[Basketball]] at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] was the twelfth appearance of the sport of [[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|basketball as an official Olympic medal event]]. It took place at the [[Jamsil Arena|Jamsil Gymnasium]] in [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]] from 17 September to 30 September 1988. The [[United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics|United States]] won the gold medal in the women's competition, repeating their performance from the [[Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 tournament]]. 

In the men's tournament, the [[Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Soviet Union]] won its second gold medal in the team's history for this event. That team included a large percentage of players from the [[Baltic states]]: Sabonis, Chomičius, Kurtinaitis and Marčiulionis from [[Lithuania]], Miglinieks from [[Latvia]] and Tiit Sokk from [[Estonia]].

This was the last Olympic basketball tournament where [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] players were not allowed to participate; FIBA voted in a rule change in 1989 that lifted that restriction, leading to the dominance of 1992's [[1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team|Dream Team]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kalb |first1=Elliott |last2=Weinstein |first2=Mark |title=The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All-Time |date=2009 |publisher=Skyhorse |isbn=9781602396784 |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1715slX-OrEC&pg=PA71 |access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Freedman |first1=Lew |title=The 100 Most Important Sporting Events in American History |date=2015 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781440835759 |page=121 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OgjHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 |access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref>

==Medalists==
{{see also|List of Olympic medalists in basketball}}

{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event}}
|-valign="top"
!Men's<br>{{DetailsLink|Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament}}
|valign=top|{{FlagIOC|URS|1988 Summer}}<hr>[[Alexander Anatolyevich Volkov|Aleksandr Volkov]]<br> [[Tiit Sokk]]<br> [[Sergei Tarakanov]]<br> [[Šarūnas Marčiulionis]]<br> [[Igors Miglinieks]]<br> [[Valeri Tikhonenko]]<br> [[Rimas Kurtinaitis]]<br> [[Arvydas Sabonis]]<br> [[Viktor Pankrashkin]]<br> [[Valdemaras Chomičius]]<br> [[Aleksandr Belostennyi]]<br> [[Valeri Goborov]]
|valign=top|{{FlagIOC|YUG|1988 Summer}}<hr>[[Dražen Petrović]]<br> [[Zdravko Radulović]]<br> [[Zoran Čutura]]<br> [[Toni Kukoč]]<br> [[Žarko Paspalj]]<br> [[Željko Obradović]]<br> [[Jure Zdovc]]<br> [[Stojko Vranković]]<br> [[Vlade Divac]]<br> [[Franjo Arapović]]<br> [[Dino Rađa]]<br>[[Danko Cvjetićanin]]
|valign=top|{{FlagIOC|USA|1988 Summer}}<hr>[[Mitch Richmond]]<br> [[Charles Smith (basketball, born 1967)|Charles Smith IV]]<br> [[Bimbo Coles]]<br> [[Hersey Hawkins]]<br> [[Jeff Grayer]]<br> [[Charles Smith (basketball, born 1965)|Charles D. Smith]]<br> [[Willie Anderson (basketball)|Willie Anderson]]<br> [[Stacey Augmon]]<br> [[Dan Majerle]]<br> [[Danny Manning]]<br> [[J. R. Reid]]<br> [[David Robinson (basketball)|David Robinson]]
|-valign="top"
!Women's<br>{{DetailsLink|Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament}}
|{{FlagIOC|USA|1988 Summer}} <hr>[[Teresa Edwards]]<br>[[Kamie Ethridge]]<br>[[Cindy Brown (basketball)|Cynthia Brown]]<br>[[Anne Donovan]]<br>[[Teresa Weatherspoon]]<br>[[Bridgette Gordon]]<br>[[Vicky Bullett|Victoria Bullett]]<br>[[Andrea Lloyd-Curry|Andrea Lloyd]]<br>[[Katrina McClain]]<br>[[Jennifer Gillom]]<br>[[Cynthia Cooper-Dyke|Cynthia Cooper]]<br>[[Suzie McConnell Serio|Suzanne McConnell]]
|{{FlagIOC|YUG|1988 Summer}} <hr>[[Stojna Vangelovska]]<br>[[Mara Lakić]]<br>[[Žana Lelas]]<br>[[Eleonora Vild]]<br>[[Kornelija Kvesić]]<br>[[Danira Nakić]]<br>[[Slađana Golić]]<br>[[Polona Dornik]]<br>[[Razija Mujanović]]<br>[[Vesna Bajkuša]]<br>[[Anđelija Arbutina]]<br>[[Bojana Milošević]]
|{{FlagIOC|URS|1988 Summer}} <hr>[[Olga Yevkova]]<br>[[Irina Gerlits]]<br>[[Olesya Barel]]<br>[[Irina Sumnikova]]<br>[[Olga Buryakina]]<br>[[Olga Yakovleva (basketball, born 1963)|Olga Yakovleva]]<br>[[Irina Minkh]]<br>[[Aleksandra Leonova]]<br>[[Yelena Khudashova]]<br>[[Vitalija Tuomaitė]]<br>[[Natalya Zasulskaya]]<br>[[Galina Savitskaya]]
|}

==Qualification==
A [[National Olympic Committee|NOC]] could enter one men's team with 12 players and one women's team with 12 players. For both tournaments, automatic qualifications were granted to the host country and the winners from the previous edition. For the men's tournament, the remaining teams were decided by the continental championships in Asia, Oceania, Africa and Americas and European qualifying tournament. Champions of Asia and Oceania, top two teams from Africa and top three from Americas earned direct qualification. The last three berths were allocated from the [[FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament|European qualifying tournament]], held in the Netherlands, two months before Olympics tournament. For the women's tournament, qualification was decided by a tournament held in [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]], where the top six teams earned a spot.

===Men===
{|class=wikitable width=100%
|-
!width=13%|Africa !!width=13%| Americas !!width=13%| Asia !!width=13%| Europe !!width=13%| Oceania !!width=26%| Automatic qualifiers
|- valign=top
|{{Bk|CAF}}<br>{{Bk|EGY}} || {{Bk|PUR|1952}}<br>{{Bk|BRA}}<br>{{Bk|CAN}} || {{Bk|CHN}} || {{Bk|URS}}<br>{{Bk|YUG|name=Yugoslavia}}<br>{{Bk|ESP}}|| {{Bk|AUS}} || {{Bk|USA}} – [[Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Olympic Champions]]<br>{{Bk|KOR}} – Olympic hosts
|}

===Women===
{|class=wikitable width=100% valign=top
|-
!width=13%| Asia !!width=13%| Europe !!width=13%| Oceania !!width=26%| Automatic qualifiers
|- valign=top
| {{Bkw|CHN}} || {{Bkw|URS}}<br>{{Bkw|YUG|name= Yugoslavia}}<br>{{Bkw|CSK}}<br>{{Bkw|BUL|1971}} || {{Bkw|AUS}} || {{Bkw|USA}} – [[Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Olympic Champions]]<br>{{Bkw|KOR}} – Olympic hosts and current silver medalists
|}

==Format==
'''Men's tournament:'''
* Two groups of six teams are formed, where the top four from each group advance to the knockout stage.
* Fifth and sixth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 9th–12th places in the final ranking.
* In the quarterfinals, the match ups are as follows: A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1.
** The four teams eliminated from the quarterfinals form an additional bracket to decide 5th–8th places in the final ranking.
* The winning teams from the quarterfinals meet in the semifinals as follows: A1/B4 vs. A3/B2 and A2/B3 vs. A4/B1.
* The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.

'''Women's tournament:'''
* Two groups of four teams are formed, where the top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage.
* Third and fourth places from each group form an additional bracket to decide 5th–8th places in the final ranking.
* In the semifinals, the match ups are as follows: A1 vs. B2, A2 vs. B1.
* The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.

Tie-breaking criteria:
# Head to head results
# [[Goal difference|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==
{{main|Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament}}

===Preliminary round===
The top four places in each of the preliminary round groups advanced to the eight team, single-elimination knockout stage, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams. Hosts Korea could not advance, finishing at the bottom of their group. The other Asia representative, China, met the same fate, together with the two African teams, Egypt and Central African Republic.

====Group A====
{{#section:Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|A}}

====Group B====
{{#section:Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|B}}

===Knockout stage===
====Championship bracket====
{{#section:Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|bracket}}

==Women's tournament==
{{main|Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament}}

===Preliminary round===
The first two places in each of the preliminary round groups advanced to the semifinals, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams. Like their male counterparts, the Korea women's team did not manage to advance to the knockout stage and ended up battling for 5th place against the other Asian representative, China and two European teams, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.

====Group A====
{{#section:Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|A}}

====Group B====
{{#section:Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|B}}

===Knockout stage===
====Championship bracket====
{{#section:Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|bracket}}

==Final standings==

{|class=wikitable
|-
!rowspan=2|Rank
!colspan=4| Men
!colspan=4| Women
|-
!width=200px|Team !!width=20px|Pld !!width=20px|W !!width=20px|L !!width=200px|Team !!width=20px|Pld !!width=20px|W !!width=20px|L
|-align=center
| {{Gold1}} ||align=left|{{Bk|URS}}  || 8 || 7 || 1
|align=left|{{Bkw|USA}}  || 5 || 5 || 0
|-align=center
| {{Silver2}} ||align=left|{{Bk|YUG|name= Yugoslavia}} || 8 || 6 || 2
|align=left|{{Bkw|YUG|name= Yugoslavia}} || 5 || 3 || 2
|-align=center
| {{Bronze3}} ||align=left|{{Bk|USA}} || 8 || 7 || 1
|align=left|{{Bkw|URS}} || 5 || 3 || 2
|-align=center
| 4th ||align=left|{{Bk|AUS}} || 8 || 4 || 4
|align=left|{{Bkw|AUS}} || 5 || 2 || 3
|-
!colspan=5|Eliminated in the quarterfinals!!colspan=4|Eliminated in the group round
|-align=center
| 5th ||align=left|{{Bk|BRA}} || 8 || 5 || 3
|align=left|{{Bkw|BUL|1971}} || 5 || 3 || 2
|-align=center
| 6th ||align=left|{{Bk|CAN}} || 8 || 3 || 5
|align=left|{{Bkw|CHN}} || 5 || 2 || 3
|-align=center
| 7th ||align=left|{{Bk|PUR|1952}} || 8 || 4 || 4
|align=left|{{Bkw|KOR}} || 5 || 2 || 3
|-align=center
| 8th ||align=left|{{Bk|ESP}} || 8 || 4 || 4
|align=left|{{Bkw|TCH}} || 5 || 0 || 5
|-
!colspan=9|Eliminated in the group round
|-align=center
| 9th ||align=left|{{Bk|KOR}} || 7 || 2 || 5 ||colspan=4 bgcolor=#eee|
|-align=center
| 10th ||align=left|{{Bk|CAF}} || 7 || 2 || 5 ||colspan=4 bgcolor=#eee|
|-align=center
| 11th ||align=left|{{Bk|CHN}} || 7 || 2 || 5 ||colspan=4 bgcolor=#eee|
|-align=center
| 12th ||align=left|{{Bk|EGY}} || 7 || 0 || 7 ||colspan=4 bgcolor=#eee|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Report]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110806135548/http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/national/moly_1988.html USA Basketball]
* [https://archive.today/20130103021412/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/cid/WOLYM/sid/2942/_/1988_Olympic_Games_Tournament_for_Men/index.html 1988 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men], ''FIBA Archive''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100114221205/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/cid/WOLYW/sid/2949/_/1988_Olympic_Games_Tournament_for_Women/index.html 1988 Olympic Games: Tournament for Women], ''FIBA Archive''

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