The Juan Escutia Sports Palace hosted the basketball events for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.The Forum in Inglewood, California, hosted the basketball tournament for the 1984 Summer Olympics held in neighboring Los Angeles.
For the Summer Olympics, there are 29 venues that have been or will be used for basketball. The first official venue was outdoors under the auspices of the International Basketball Federation although the game was played indoors.[1] Being played on tennis courts of clay, the final was held in a heavy rain which turned the courts into mud.[2] Since those games, the basketball games have been played indoors.
Games
Venue
Other sports hosted at venues for those games
Capacity
Ref.
1936 Berlin
Tennis Courts
Fencing (épée)
832.
[3]
Tennis Stadium (final)
None
Not listed.
[3]
1948 London
Harringay Arena
Wrestling
Not listed.
[4]
1952 Helsinki
Messuhalli (final)
Boxing, gymnastics, weightlifting, wrestling
5,500
[5]
Tennis Palace
None
1,250
[6]
1956 Melbourne
West Melbourne Stadium
Boxing, gymnastics
7,000
[7]
Royal Exhibition Building (final)
Modern pentathlon (fencing), weightlifting, wrestling
Badminton, gymnastics (rhythmic), modern pentathlon (fencing, shooting), volleyball (indoor)
10,000
[28]
2004 Athens
Helliniko Indoor Arena
Handball (final)
15,000
[29]
Olympic Indoor Hall (final)
Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)
19,250
[30]
2008 Beijing
Wukesong Indoor Stadium
None
18,000
[31]
2012 London
Basketball Arena
Handball (medal round)
12,000
[32]
The O2 Arena[33] (final)
Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)
20,000
[34]
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Carioca Arena 1
None
16,000
[35]
Youth Arena (women's group stage)
Modern pentathlon (fencing)
5,000
[36]
2020 Tokyo
Saitama Super Arena
None
21,000
[37]
Aomi Urban Sports Park (3x3)
Sport climbing
7,100
2024 Paris
Accor Arena (final)
Gymnastics (artistic, trampolining)
15,000
Stade Pierre-Mauroy
Handball (finals)
26,000
Place de la Concorde (3x3)
Breaking, cycling (BMX freestyle), skateboarding
Not listed.
2028 Los Angeles
Crypto.com Arena
None
19,000
Intuit Dome
None
18,000
Los Angeles Convention Center (women's group stage)
Fencing, taekwondo, table tennis
8,000
Santa Monica State Beach or Venice Beach (3x3)
Beach volleyball, skateboarding, surfing
Not listed.
2032 Brisbane
Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre (final)
None
12,000
Sunshine Coast Indoor Sports Centre
None
6,000
South Bank Piazza (3x3)
None
4,500
^1936 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. p. 1074.
^Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Basketball: Men". In The Completed Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 400.
^ ab1936 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 162-3. Accessed 17 October 2010.
^1948 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine pp. 42, 50. Accessed 19 October 2010.
^1952 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine p. 51. Accessed 21 October 2010.
^1952 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine p. 57. Accessed 21 October 2010.
^1956 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine p. 42. Accessed 25 October 2010.
^1956 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine p. 43. Accessed 25 October 2010.
^1960 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. pp. 68, 70, 72. Accessed 28 October 2010.
^1960 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. pp. 60, 62. Accessed 28 October 2010.
^1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 115. Accessed 31 October 2010.
^1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 121-4. Accessed 31 October 2010.
^1968 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. p. 72. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
^1972 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 201-2. Accessed 8 November 2010.
^1976 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 124-9. Accessed 14 November 2010.
^1976 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 138-43. Accessed 14 November 2010.
^1980 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 82-5. Accessed 18 November 2010.
^1980 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 67-71. Accessed 18 November 2010.
^1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 102-4. Accessed 24 November 2010.
^1988 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 164. Accessed 1 December 2010.
^1988 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 2. p. 335. Accessed 2 December 2010.
^1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 276-9. Accessed 6 December 2010.
^1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 540. Accessed 9 December 2010.
^1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 451, 456. Accessed 9 December 2010.
^1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 542. Accessed 9 December 2010.
^1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. p. 451. Accessed 9 December 2010.
^2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 390. Accessed 16 December 2010.
^2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 391. Accessed 16 December 2010.
^2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 273, 349. Accessed 24 December 2010.
^2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 273, 329, 346. Accessed 22 December 2010.
^"Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
^London2012.com profile of the Basketball Arena. Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 December 2010.
^Because of the IOC's rules disallowing corporate sponsorship on venue names, The O2 Arena was renamed North Greenwich Arena during the games.
^London2012.com profile of the North Greenwich Arena. Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 December 2010.
^"OTC - Hall 1", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File(PDF), vol. 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 38–39, archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2013, retrieved December 2, 2009.
^Rio2016.com profile of the Youth Arena. Archived 2016-07-05 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 4 July 2016.
^"Tokyo 2020 set to save $1 billion as venues moved". Insidethegames.biz. February 27, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
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