Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics was held from 17 to 30 September 1988 at the Jamsil Gymnasium.
This edition marked the last Olympics to allow amateur players and those coming from the professional basketball leagues outside NBA in the men's tournament before FIBA voted in a rule change to permit professional NBA players for the next Games in April 1989. Moreover, the women's field was expanded to eight teams with four in each of the two groups through a round-robin format to determine the top two semifinalists.
Medal Table[]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Soviet Union |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 United States |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 3 |  Yugoslavia |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Medalists[]
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| Men | Soviet Union Alexandre Belostennyi Valeri Goborov Valdemaras Khomitchious Rimas Kourtinaitis Raimondas-Charounas Martchioulenis Igor Migliniex Victor Pankratchkine Arvidas-Romas Sabonis Tiit Sokk Serguei Tarakanov Valeri Tikhonenko Alexandre Volkov |
Yugoslavia Franjo Arapovic Zoran Cutura Danko Cvjeticanin Vlade Divac Toni Kukoc Zelimir Obradovic Zarko Paspalj Drazen Petrovic Dino Radja Zdravko Radulovic Stojan Vrankovic Jurij Zdovc |
United States Willie Anderson Stacey Augmon Vernell Coles Jeffrey Grayer Hersey Hawkins Daniel Majerle Danny Manning Herman Reid Mitch Richmond David Robinson Charles D. Smith Charles E. Smith |
| Women | United States Cynthia Brown Victoria Bullett Cynthia Cooper Anne Donovan Teresa Edwards Mary Ethridge Jennifer Gillom Bridgette Gordon Andrea Lloyd Katrina McClain Suzanne McConnell Teresa Weatherspoon |
Yugoslavia Andjelija Arbutina Vesna Bajkusa Polona Dornik Sladjana Golic Kornelija Kvesic Mara Lakic Zana Lelas Bojana Milosevic Razija Mujanovic Danira Nakic Stojna Vangelovska Eleonora Wild |
Soviet Union Olessia Barel Olga Bouriakina Olga Evkova Irina Guerlits Olga Iakovleva Elena Khoudachova Alexandra Leonova Irina Minkh Irina Soumnikova Galina Savitskaia Vitalia Touomaite Natalia Zassoulskaia |
Statistics[]
- There were 236 total athletes from 14 countries.
- Zana Lelas was the youngest participant with 18 years and 114 days.
- Kim Mal-lyun was the oldest participant with 35 years and 93 days.
- No competitors were chosen to be flag bearers at the opening ceremony.
- Only 3 nations won medals in this sport, the lowest possible number.
