USA BASKETBALL HISTORY
YEAR-BY-YEAR FINAL STANDINGS
1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 2008 2012
2016
1
USA
*USA
CHN
URS
CHN
^BLR
^CRO
^CHN
2
BUL
*BUL
YUG
YUG
CIS
^CZH
^CZE
^FRA
3
POL
CUB
CAN
CHN
BRA
^LAT
^FRA
^ESP
4
CUB
YUG
HUN
BUL
CZK
^ESP
^TUR
^TUR
5
%FRA
ITA
CUB
CZK
ITA
BRA
CAN
BLR
6
%GBR
HUN
KOR
AUS
CUB
JPN
KOR
7
%ITA
CAN
AUS
POL
JPN
ARG
#ARG
8
%KOR
CZK
CZK
ITA
ANG
KOR
#CUB
9
%MEX
KOR
MAL
10
CHN
MOZ
11
FRA
NZL
12
POL
PUR
LEGEND : ARG-Argentina; AUS-Australia; BEL-Belgium; BLR-Belarus; BRA-Brazil; BUL-Bulgaria; CAN-Canada; CHN-China; CIS-Commonwealth of Independant States/Unified Team; CRO-Croatia; CUB-Cuba; CZE-Czech Republic; CZK-Czechoslovakia; ESP-Spain; FRA-France; GBR-Great Britain; HUN-Hungary; ITA-Italy; JPN-Japan; KOR-South Korea; LAT-Latvia; MAL-Mali; MEX-Mexico; MOZ-Mozambique; NGR-Nigeria; NZL-New Zealand; POL-Poland; PUR-Puerto Rico; SRB-Serbia; SWE-Sweden; TUR-Turkey; URS-Soviet Union; USA-United States of America; YUG-Yugoslavia.
* Tied for first place
% Tied for fifth place
# Tied for seventh place.
^There were no final placings for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. The first four listed won their quarterfinal games to qualify, while the fifth place game was played out between the four quarterfinal losing teams.
DID NOT ADVANCE TO THE QUALIFYING ROUNDS:
• 1980 - Australia, Brazil, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria and Romania. • 1984 - Brazil, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, Great Britain, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Sweden and Zaire. • 1988 - Angola, Brazil, Canada, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Zaire. • 1992 - Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Poland, South Korea and Zaire. • 2008 - Argentina, Fiji, Senegal and Taiwan. • 2012 - Mali, Mozambique, New Zealand and Puerto Rico. • 2016 - Camaroon, New Zealand, Nigeria, Venezuela. NOTE : The United States, because of being either the host country or the defending Olympic/World champions, earned an automatic berth and therefore did not have to qualify for the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.
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