Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament of basketball at the 1992 Olympics at Barcelona, Spain began on July 30 and ended on August 7, when the Unified Team defeated China 76–66 for the gold medal.

13th Olympic Basketball Tournament
Barcelona 1992
Tournament details
Olympics1992 Summer Olympics
Host nationSpain
CityBarcelona
DurationJuly 30 - August 7
Women's tournament
Teams8
Medals
Gold medalists  CIS
Silver medalists China
Bronze medalists  United States
Tournaments
← Seoul 1988  Atlanta 1996 →
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Main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Participants

Format
  • Two groups of four teams are formed, where the top two 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.
  • The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal. The losing teams contest the bronze.

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

  1. Head to head results

Squads
Main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

Preliminary round

The best two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals. The United States and Cuba advanced undefeated through the group phase but couldn't reach the finals and ended up facing each other for the bronze medal instead.

Group A
Qualified for the semifinals
Team W L PF PA PD Pts
 Cuba30246230+166
 CIS21244222+225
 Brazil12237241−44
 Italy03190224−343
July 30
13:00
CIS  89–91  Cuba
Scoring by half: 44–44, 45–47
July 30
22:00
Brazil  85–70  Italy
Scoring by half: 41–35, 44–35
August 1
13:00
Cuba  95–88 (OT)  Brazil
Scoring by half: 34–42, 46–38 Overtime: 15–8
August 1
22:00
CIS  79–67  Italy
Scoring by half: 49–37, 30–30
August 3
11:00
CIS  76–64  Brazil
Scoring by half: 48–33, 28–31
August 3
13:00
Italy  53–60  Cuba
Scoring by half: 26–36, 27–24

Group B
Qualified for the semifinals
Team W L PF PA PD Pts
 United States30318181+1376
 China21205226−215
 Spain12181238−574
 Czechoslovakia03183242−593
July 30
11:00
Czechoslovakia  55–111  United States
Scoring by half: 33–53, 22–58
July 30
20:00
China  66–63  Spain
Scoring by half: 27–31, 39–32
August 1
11:00
United States  93–67  China
Scoring by half: 47–33, 46–34
August 1
20:00
Czechoslovakia  58–59  Spain
Scoring by half: 30–27, 28–32
August 3
20:00
Czechoslovakia  70–72  China
Scoring by half: 31–38, 39–34
August 3
20:00
Spain  59–114  United States
Scoring by half: 32–51, 27–63

Classification games
Semifinals 5th Place game
      
1  Spain 92
4  Italy 80
 Spain 59
 Czechoslovakia 58
3  Brazil 62
2  Czechoslovakia 74

Semifinals
August 5
11:00
Brazil  62–74  Czechoslovakia
Scoring by half: 34–24, 28–50
August 5
20:00
Spain  92–80 (OT)  Italy
Scoring by half: 37–33, 28–32 Overtime: 13–13, 14–2

7th place game
August 7
22:00
Brazil  86–83 (OT)  Italy
Scoring by half: 41–41, 37–37 Overtime: 8–5

5th place game
August 7
11:00
Czechoslovakia  58–59  Spain
Scoring by half: 29–25, 29–34

Knockout stage
  Semifinals Final
                     
B1  United States   73   
A2   CIS  79   
  A2   CIS  76   
  B2  China   66   
A1   Cuba  70 
B2   China  109      Third Place Game
  B1   United States  88 
  A1   Cuba  74 

Semifinals
August 5
13:00
United States  73–79  CIS
Scoring by half: 41–47, 32–32
August 5
22:00
Cuba  70–109  China
Scoring by half: 30–57, 40–52

Bronze medal game
August 7
13:00
United States  88–74  Cuba
Scoring by half: 44–44, 44–30

Gold medal game
August 7
22:00
CIS  76–66  China
Scoring by half: 43–35, 33–31

Awards
1992 Olympic Basketball Champions

CIS
First title

Final standings
RankTeamWL
 CIS41
 China32
 United States41
4th Cuba32
Eliminated at the preliminary round
5th Spain32
6th Czechoslovakia14
7th Brazil23
8th Italy05

References
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