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Countries with the Most Olympic Medals at Basketball

Can you name the countries that have won at least 3 Olympic medals at the sport of basketball?
Some countries/teams no longer exist
Includes men's and women's events
Quiz by CMJ
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Last updated: August 8, 2021
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First submittedOctober 26, 2015
Times taken24,634
Rating4.29
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S
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Medals
Country
25
2
3
30
United States
4
4
4
13
Soviet Union / Unified Team
1
5
2
8
Yugoslavia
0
3
3
6
Australia
0
4
1
5
France
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S
B
Medals
Country
0
4
1
5
Spain
0
1
4
5
Brazil
0
0
3
3
Lithuania
0
0
3
3
Russia
KingofQuiz
+6
Level 54
Aug 22, 2016
Was blanking on #2 and #3...then read "Some countries/teams no longer exist" and crushed it for 100% with 2:57 remaining.
bkemp2001
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Level 58
Aug 17, 2021
I should have read the notes...I guessed all the former Yugoslavia countries, and didn't even think of the Soviet Union.
KoljiVriVoda
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Level 74
Aug 25, 2016
Only 68% for Serbia. People are guessing here. They did not watch final game this year :)
timshorts
+5
Level 33
Aug 17, 2021
It's a pretty boring sport for most of the world's tastes. As a spectator sport, the wheelchair basketball is so much more fun.
youtubeplayer
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Level 35
Aug 17, 2021
Yeah I agree... I love watching all sports except basketball and baseball
Jerry928
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Level 75
Aug 25, 2016
"Soviet Union" is probably worth a 13th medal - in 1992 the "Unified Team" (all of the just-dissolved Soviet Union, minus Georgia) won the women's gold.
CMJ
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Level 58
Aug 25, 2016
I don't know the quizmasters rules, but I always separate the Unified Team from the Soviet Union because it was less than the Soviet Union (just the republics minus Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), and more than just Russia.

Yugoslavia actually has 8, Biggie Smalls is correct, but those are only the men's medals for Yugoslavia. The women won bronze in 1980 and 1988. Serbia does only have two.

kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 25, 2016
on a recent QM quiz, the united team is counted along with the Soviet Union. I think I would group them together, as well. The medals don't belong to any one country... the athletes had been training together because they used to be Soviets... I think it makes the most sense to award them posthumously to the USSR.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Aug 26, 2016
Gave the USSR an extra medal for the Unified Team
Jerry928
+1
Level 75
Aug 28, 2016
Sorry, my mistake - Georgia WAS a part of the Unified Team. The ones that were not were Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
BaraChat
+1
Level 31
Jun 14, 2018
Cool quiz! I would probably cut the time in half since there's only 9 answers though.
levic
+4
Level 62
Aug 29, 2018
Lithuania, so tiny country but so passionate in basketball <3
JackintheBox
+1
Level 74
Feb 18, 2021
I had 30 secs remaining until I noticed the description that it includes former countries!
OldDakile2nd
+1
Level 60
Aug 4, 2021
Where is Serbia?????
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Aug 8, 2021
Serbia lies on the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe.
OldDakile2nd
+1
Level 60
Aug 9, 2021
Oh, didn't know that's the location of my home country....But we got so many medals at basketball. More than 3 clearly.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 82
Aug 17, 2021
I think he's right and Serbia is missing. The Serbian men's team has 2 silver medals. The women's team has one silver and one bronze. 4 total.
KingEureka
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Level 61
Aug 17, 2021
Serbia has 3 medals in total. A silver for the men and a bronze for the women in 2016. And another Bronze in 3x3 for the men this year, which I think does not count in this quiz.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 17, 2021
The men's team won silver in 2016. In 1996 the "FR Yugoslavia" team (Serbia and Montenegro) also won silver. Not sure if they should count or not. The women's team took home Bronze in 2016. Not sure where I saw that they won silver - looks like I may have been mistaken about that, read bad information, or gotten confused by the fact that they finished 4th in 2020.
Dembi
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Level 62
Aug 17, 2021
Serbia has silver in 2016 in men's basketball and bronze in women's basketball, as well as bronze in men's 3x3 in 2021.

There is also the silver medal in 1996, which was post-war Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro essentially). Whether Serbia inherits these medals or not is always debated but from that team only Paspalj, Danilovic and Savic were born outside of Serbia and all of them consider themselves ethnic Serbs.

Dembi
+1
Level 62
Aug 17, 2021
If 3x3 basketball was to be added to this Quiz we would have 2 more countries that would join the list:

Serbia (Silver (M) and Bronze (W) in 2016, 3x3 Bronze (M) in 2021)

China (Silver (W) in 1992, Bronze (W) in 1984 and 3x3 Bronze (W) in 2021)

jbro
+1
Level 48
Aug 17, 2021
Does 3x3 Basketball count?
FudgyOreo111
+1
Level 35
Aug 17, 2021
i think you got one wrong. 4+4+4 is 12, not 13, so 12 medals, not 13.
Chad
+1
Level 59
Aug 17, 2021
Really should have read the caveats for this one.
IamTheSam
+1
Level 29
Aug 18, 2021
I gave up when I realised that I was just naming countries at random.

Do these medals come from men's and women's basketball?

IamTheSam
+1
Level 29
Aug 18, 2021
Ah, it must be both as I'm pretty sure that our bronze medal at this year's Tokyo Games is the Boomers' very first one.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 66
Aug 21, 2021
I typed Serbia several times... surely...
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