Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
# Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

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

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.

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.

The teams were officially confirmed on April 5, 2018.

## Qualification summary

| NOC | Boys | Girls | Total athletes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| Host Nation | - | - | 1 | Argentina | Argentina |
| 2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup | 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

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.

## Medal summary

### Medal table

* Host nation (Argentina)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 4 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (9 entries) | Totals (9 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

### Events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 |
