Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 at the Friendship Games

Friendship Games

The Friendship Games or Friendship-84 was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....

was contested between 22 and 30 August 1984. Two events (one men's, with eleven teams and one women's, with eight teams) took place at two venues in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 – the CSKA Sports Palace

CSKA Universal Sports Hall

Alexander Gomelsky CSKA Universal Sports Hall, formerly known as CSKA Palace of Sports, is an indoor sporting arena located in Moscow, Russia...

 and the Dynamo Sports Palace

Dynamo Sports Palace

Dvorec Sporta Dinamo is an indoor sporting arena located in Moscow, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 5,000. It hosted the home games of MBC Dynamo Moscow until 2006. It was built during the preparations for the 1980 Summer Olympics, hosted by Moscow, USSR and was used as a venue of the...

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Group A

229

93

22

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
	5	0	646	347
10
	4	1	491	398
9
	3	2	426	404
8
	2	3	393	432
7
	1	4	388	421
6
	0	5	229	571
5

Results

Results	|	|	|	|	|	|
		123:90	136:82	115:64	129:70	143:41
	90:123		85:77	97:75	93:76	126:47
	82:136	77:85		97:71	73:71	97:4
	64:115	75:97	71:97		76:73	107:50
	70:129	76:93	71:73	73:76		98:50
	41:143	47:126	41:97	50:107	50:98

Group B

153

109

121

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
	4	0	381	228
8
	3	1	381	272
7
	2	2	393	272
6
	1	3	227	369
5
	0	4	188	429
4

Results

Results	|	|	|	|	|
		87:75	82:72	100:45	112:36
	75:87		102:88	85:55	119:42
	72:82	88:102		114:48	119:40
	45:100	55:85	48:114		79:70
	36:112	42:119	40:119	70:79

Final round

Classification 5th–8th

Classification 9th–12th

Because of the odd number of teams, 5th team of Group A (i. e. Finland) was seeded in the ninth place match without playing any second round match.

Final ranking

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5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Women's event

Eight teams competed in a round-robin tournament

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

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239

43

22

7

1

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
		7	0	687	398
14
		5	2	574	531
12
		5	2	558	536
12
4		3	4	440	499
10
5		3	4	519	512
10
6		3	4	529	528
10
7		1	6	522	691
8
8		1	6	441	575
8

Results

Results	|	|	|	|	|	|	|	|
		99:56	102:75	81:24	84:72	91:62	135:60	95:49
	56:99		86:73	77:67	97:65	69:82	110:83	79:62
	75:102	73:86		69:68	69:64	82:73	98:68	92:75
	24:81	67:77	68:69		63:62	77:75	81:73	60:62
	72:84	65:97	64:69	62:63		67:52	101:89	88:58
	62:91	82:69	73:82	75:77	52:67		96:77	89:65
	60:135	83:110	68:98	73:81	89:101	77:96		72:70
	49:95	62:79	75:92	62:60	58:88	65:89	70:72

Winning teams' squads

Men's	Alexander Belostenny Alexander Belostenny Alexander Mikhaylovich Belostenny was a Ukrainian basketball player. He was a member of the Soviet national team from 1977 to 1992, except for an absence during a single competition, EuroBasket 1987...   Valdemaras Chomičius Valdemaras Chomicius Valdemaras Chomičius is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball team. Assistant coach on the Lithuanian national team...   Sergėjus Jovaiša Sergejus Jovaiša Sergėjus Jovaiša ) Sergėjus Jovaiša ) Sergėjus Jovaiša ) (born December 17, 1954 in Anykščiai, Lithuania is a former basketball player from Lithuania, who won the bronze medal with the Lithuania national basketball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In 1980 he was a member of the...   Stanislav Yeryomin  Rimas Kurtinaitis Rimas Kurtinaitis Rimas Kurtinaitis is a basketball trainer, head coach of the VEF Riga, retired Soviet and Lithuanian basketball player who was a member of the USSR and Lithuanian national basketball teams. He played as a shooting guard and is the only non-NBA player to participate in the NBA All-Star Three Point...   Andrei Lopatov  Anatoli Myshkin  Arvydas Sabonis Arvydas Sabonis Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...   Sergei Tarakanov Sergei Tarakanov Sergey Nikolayevich Tarakanov is a Russian retired basketball player. He played for Spartak Leningrad , CSKA Moscow , German team Ludwisburg Stuttgart BC , and Belgian team St. Louis Liège .Tarakanov was a member of the Soviet national team from 1979 to 1990...   Valery Tikhonenko  Vladimir Tkachenko Vladimir Tkachenko Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko is a retired Ukrainian professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Olympics Basketball medals and three FIBA World Championship medals with the Soviet Union national basketball team in a career that lasted 16 years. He was named both the Euroscar and the Mr...   Valdis Valters Valdis Valters Valdis Valters is a retired Latvian basketball player.A point guard for the USSR, he is regarded as one of the greatest to have played the game in Europe in the 1980s....	Zdenek Böhm Kamil Brabenec Gerald Dietr Vlastimil Havlik Ludomis Kristinik Stanislav Kropulak Oto Miticki Jiri Okac Peter Rajniak Jaroslav Skala Igor Vratniak Jiri Zuffa	Pascal Abreo Calsado Bise Rosel Cabrera Matenso Campos Raul Dubois Brais Daniel Esco Martines Herrera Indigas Laferte Alberto Maturel Alfonso Morales Almentere Perez Salomon Simon
Women's	Olesya Barel Tatiana Belochapko Olga Buyakina Yelena Chausova Olga Yakovleva Larisa Kuriksha Liudmila Muravyeva Nadezhda Olkhova Galina Savitskaya Uljana Semjonova  Olga Sukharnova Olga Sukharnova Olga Leonidovna Sukharnova is a retired female basketball player, who twice won the gold medal with the Soviet national team at the Summer Olympics; 1976 and 1980.# Participation in the Final Four of the Champions League 1993 in Valencia... Ramune-Neringa Shidlauskaite	Lubka Alipyeieva Krassimira Banova Vania Dermendjieva Radostina Dimitrova Nadka Goltcheva Mariana Ivanova Nenka Ivanova Petkana Makaveeva Evladia Slavtcheva-Stefanova Madlena Staneva Nina Todorova Radmila Vasilyeva	Hernandes Albares Vilinueva Arias Rivero Beccer Hernandes Borrell Dias Cala Cinmana Cos Maria Leon Molinet Hernandes More Munjagon Osoria Cinbones Scite

Medal table

1	Soviet Union	2	0	0	2
2	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
2	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
4	Cuba	0	0	2	2
Total		2	2	2	6