Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics

3rd Olympic Basketball Tournament
Helsinki 1952
Tournament details
Olympics	1952 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Finland
City	Helsinki
Duration	July 13 – August 2
Men's tournament
Teams	23
Medals Gold medalists  United States Silver medalists  Soviet Union Bronze medalists  Uruguay
Tournaments
← London 1948  Melbourne 1956 →

Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Tournament
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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.

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 qualifying round to determine the last six places in the sixteen-team Olympic tournament.