Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the third appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. 23 nations entered the competition.
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| Helsinki 1952 | |||||||||
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| Olympics | 1952 Summer Olympics | ||||||||
| Host nation | Finland | ||||||||
| City | Helsinki | ||||||||
| Duration | July 13 – August 2 | ||||||||
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| Teams | 23 | ||||||||
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The top six teams at the 1948 Summer Olympics qualified automatically, as did the winners of the 1950 FIBA World Championship (Argentina), the top two teams at the 1951 EuroBasket (USSR and Czechoslovakia), and the host country (Finland). Thirteen other nations competed in a preliminary round to determine the last six places in the sixteen-team Olympic tournament.
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