# Basketball at the 2010 Asian Games

Basketball was one of the 42 sports at the 16th Asian Games 2010 at Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The event was held at the 13,000 seat Guangzhou International Sports Arena, Huangpu Gymnasium, Guangti Gymnasium, Ying Dong Gymnasium and Sports and Entertainment Centre.
China defeated Korea in both of the tournament's gold medal games; Iran won the men's bronze medal defeating Japan, and Japan defeated Chinese Taipei to win the bronze medal in the women's tournament.

## Schedule

| Q | Qualification | P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 13th Sat | 14th Sun | 15th Mon | 16th Tue | 17th Wed | 18th Thu | 19th Fri | 20th Sat | 21st Sun | 22nd Mon | 23rd Tue | 24th Wed | 25th Thu | 26th Fri |
| Men | Q | Q | Q | P | P | | P | | P | P | | ¼ | ½ | F |
| Women | | | | | | P | | P | | P | | ½ | F | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | China Ding Jinhui Liu Wei Zhang Qingpeng Wang Shipeng Zhu Fangyu Sun Yue Zhang Zhaoxu Zhang Bo Tang Zhengdong Li Xiaoxu Wang Zhizhi Zhou Peng | South Korea Park Chan-hee Lee Jung-suk Yang Dong-geun Kim Joo-sung Ha Seung-jin Lee Kyu-sup Cho Sung-min Yang Hee-jong Ham Ji-hoon Kim Sung-chul Lee Seung-jun Oh Se-keun | Iran Amir Amini Aren Davoudi Javad Davari Mehdi Kamrani Saeid Davarpanah Oshin Sahakian Hamed Afagh Hamed Sohrabnejad Ali Jamshidi Asghar Kardoust Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Ali Doraghi |
| Women details | China Zhang Hanlan Bian Lan Ding Yuan Zhang Wei Miao Lijie Guan Xin Zhang Fan Ma Zengyu Chen Xiaoli Gao Song Liu Dan Chen Nan | South Korea Kim Bo-mi Kim Ji-yoon Jung Sun-hwa Lee Mi-sun Lee Kyung-eun Kang A-jeong Beon Yeon-ha Park Jung-eun Ha Eun-joo Kim Dan-bi Kim Kwe-ryong Sin Jung-ja | Japan Yoko Nagi Maki Takada Yuka Mamiya Ai Mitani Ayumi Suzuki Hiromi Suwa Saori Fujiyoshi Yoshie Sakurada Asami Yoshida Yuko Oga Reika Takahashi Sachiko Ishikawa |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2006 Asian Games.

### Men

* Best 8 teams from the basketball competition of the 2006 Asian Games that are participating in 2010 directly entered the second round.
* The Philippines, which has made it to the latter stages of every Asian Games basketball tournament from 1951 to 2002, was originally drawn with Saudi Arabia but Saudi Arabia withdrew. Kuwait, which was originally drawn with Hong Kong and North Korea, was re-drawn with the Philippines to balance the number of teams in each group.

### Women
## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | China | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| | South Korea | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| | Iran | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| 4 | Japan | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | Qatar | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | Philippines | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| 7 | Jordan | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | North Korea | 9 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Mongolia | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Uzbekistan | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 12 | India | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 13 | Turkmenistan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Afghanistan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Athletes from Kuwait | 1 | 0 | 1 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | China | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| | South Korea | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| | Japan | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Thailand | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | Maldives | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | India | 3 | 0 | 3 |