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Countries with the Most Olympic Medals at Basketball

Can you name the countries that have won at least three Olympic medals at the sport of basketball?
Some countries/teams NO LONGER EXIST
Includes men's and women's events
Does not include 3x3 basketball
Quiz by CMJ
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First submittedOctober 26, 2015
Times taken49,198
Average score80.0%
Rating4.35
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Medals
Country
27
2
3
32
United States
4
4
4
13
Soviet Union
including Unified Team
1
5
2
8
Yugoslavia
0
6
1
7
France
0
3
3
6
Australia
0
4
1
5
Spain
0
1
4
5
Brazil
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1
2
3
Serbia
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0
3
3
Lithuania
0
0
3
3
Russia
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34 Comments
KingofQuiz
+12
Level 57
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
+3
Level 60
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
+7
Level 78
Aug 25, 2016
Only 68% for Serbia. People are guessing here. They did not watch final game this year :)
timshorts
+8
Level 58
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
+2
Level 37
Aug 17, 2021
Yeah I agree... I love watching all sports except basketball and baseball
DictatorTal
+10
Level 89
Jun 19, 2023
As a basketball fan, I am disgusted by these takes. You can't beat a buzzer-beating, highly-contested fadeaway jumper smh. I won't stand for such slander of my favorite sport.
CobaltKing
+3
Level 54
Apr 22, 2024
Womp womp
ILoveTurkiye
+4
Level 65
May 17, 2024
basketball is so much more exciting than something like baseball, football (AMERICAN), cricket, rugby, etc. They have so much downtime between plays that it feels like you’re just waiting half the time.
Yanni47
+3
Level 78
Aug 12, 2024
Even soccer, I find, is overrated, albeit the most popular sport in most countries outside of the US and Asia. With 90 minutes, it probably has the longest set playing time of all sports, and many times not a lot is happening. So you need to have a lot of patience and goodwill, and quite often you go away with a score of 0-0. How boring. Basketball, on the other hand, is full of action and can be an exciting sport to watch, especially if you have someone to root for. The one annoyance I have with it is that with the many interruptions a basketball game can take as long as - if not longer than - a soccer game!
ColonelFoxy
+2
Level 59
Aug 13, 2024
I get your point, i'm not big basketball fan, but i enjoy game here and there. NBA ruined it for me, cause of referees and media outlets.

Using 0:0 score in footbal (soccer) as reason for game being boring is dishonest. It's not about score, but what game was played, there are games which are boring as in any sport, football is more about tension and waiting on the edge of the seat for goal moment.

bxtterflyfx
+1
Level 73
Aug 19, 2024
Thats the whole point, some of us don't want to wait for something to happen
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
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
+1
Level 53
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
+3
Level 81
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
+3
Level ∞
Aug 26, 2016
Gave the USSR an extra medal for the Unified Team
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Aug 28, 2016
Sorry, my mistake - Georgia WAS a part of the Unified Team. The ones that were not were Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
jankapr
+1
Level 61
Feb 16, 2022
Ther was some basketball players from Latvia compeating in unfied basketball team in 1992
BaraChat
+1
Level 29
Jun 14, 2018
Cool quiz! I would probably cut the time in half since there's only 9 answers though.
levic
+8
Level 70
Aug 29, 2018
Lithuania, so tiny country but so passionate in basketball <3
JackintheBox
+1
Level 81
Feb 18, 2021
I had 30 secs remaining until I noticed the description that it includes former countries!
Dembi
+1
Level 74
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
+2
Level 71
Aug 17, 2021
Does 3x3 Basketball count?
FudgyOreo111
+2
Level 45
Aug 17, 2021
i think you got one wrong. 4+4+4 is 12, not 13, so 12 medals, not 13.
Chad
+1
Level 64
Aug 17, 2021
Really should have read the caveats for this one.
IamTheSam
+1
Level 44
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 44
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
+2
Level 68
Aug 21, 2021
I typed Serbia several times... surely...
nicotorrado
+3
Level 70
Aug 23, 2023
🇦🇷 the only once who stole a Golden medal to the Drean team
turnerhg14
+6
Level 70
Aug 12, 2024
I understand this is the "Most" medals one, but it feels weird leaving off a specific gold medal winner from 2004 seeing how they are the only team to win gold besides the USA since 1992. I don't feel like it would add too many answers to include every nation that has won a medal, but great quiz nonetheless!
dumBunny
+1
Level 55
Aug 13, 2024
Still bitter about 1972, and the Soviet loving organizer who gave the gold to the USSR
Lucas88
+1
Level 39
Aug 22, 2024
So funny that you did not include all teams that won at least one gold medal, but added the ones with silver and bronze. Even if it was not more than 1 medal.
angrobper14
+1
Level 85
Aug 23, 2024
Odd to think that only 3* countries not named "United States of America" have won a gold medal in basketball.

And of those 3*, only one exists today.

*If we count a Unified team as the last iteration of one of them, mind you.

bridog8456
+1
Level 47
Sep 8, 2024
For the "Soviet Union including Unified Team", 4+4+4 = 12
TMatthias
+1
Level 65
Feb 28, 2025
Canada man... we gotta get our crap together
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