Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Basketball World Cup (523)

Description

Host cities:

Basketball World Cup (known as World Championship up to 2010)

1950 Buenos Aires (ARG) 22 October-3 November 1950
1954 Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 23 October-5 November 1954
1959 Antofagasta, Concepción, Temuco, Valparaíso, and Santiago (CHI) 16-31 January 1959
1963 Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (BRA) 12-25 May 1963
1967 Mercedes, Montevideo, and Salto (URU) [Classification round held in Córdoba (ARG)] 27 May-11 June 1967
1970 Karlovac, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Skopje, and Split (YUG) 10-24 May 1970
1974 Caguas, Ponce, and San Juan (PUR) 3-14 July 1974
1978 Manila and Quezon City (PHI) 1-14 October 1978
1982 Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cúcuta, and Medellín (COL) 15-28 August 1982
1986 Barcelona, Ferrol, Madrid, Málaga, Oviedo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and Zaragoza (ESP) 5-20 July 1986
1990 Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario, Salta, Santa Fe, and Villa Ballester (ARG) 8-20 August 1990
1994 Hamilton and Toronto (CAN) 4-14 August 1994
1998 Athina (Athens) and Peiraias (Piraeus) (GRE) 29 July-9 August 1998
2002 Indianapolis (USA) 29 August-8 September 2002
2006 Hamamatsu, Hiroshima, Saitama, Sapporo, and Sendai (JPN) 19 August-3 September 2006
2010 Ankara, İzmir, İstanbul, and Kayseri (TUR) 28 August-12 September 2010
2014 Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid, and Sevilla (ESP) 30 August-14 September 2014
2019 Beijing, Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, and Wuhan (CHN) 31 August-15 September 2019

Women’s Basketball World Cup (known as World Championship for Women up to 2014)

1953 Santiago (CHI) 7-22 March 1953
1957 Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 13-26 October 1957
1959 Moskva (Moscow) (URS) 10-18 October 1959
1964 Lima (PER) 18 April-5 May 1964
1967 Brno (TCH) 15-22 April 1967
1971 Brasilia, Niterói, Recife, and São Paulo (BRA) 15-29 May 1971
1975 Bogotá, Bucaramanga, and Cali (COL) 23 September-4 October 1975
1979 Seoul (KOR) 29 April-13 May 1979
1983 Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (BRA) 24 July-6 August 1983
1986 Minsk, Moskva (Moscow), and Vilnius (URS) 8-17 August 1986
1990 Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, and Kuala Lumpur (MAS) 12-22 July 1990
1994 Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston, and Sydney (AUS) 2-12 June 1994
1998 Berlin, Bremen, Dessau, Karlsruhe, Münster, Rotenburg an der Fulda, and Wuppertal (GER) 26 May-7 June 1998
2002 Changshu, Changzhou, Huaian, Nanjing, Suzhou, Taicang, Wuzhong, Zhangjiagang, and Zhenjiang (CHN) 14-25 September 2002
2006 Barueri and São Paulo (BRA) 12-23 September 2006
2010 Brno, Karlovy Vary, and Ostrava (CZE) 23 September-3 October 2010
2014 Ankara and İstanbul (TUR) 27 September-5 October 2014
2018 San Cristóbal de La Laguna and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ESP) 22-30 September 2018

Athlete	Nation(s)	Sport(s)	Role(s)	Era	Notes
Pons Saldaña	PHI	BKB	Olympics	1952	0–0–1 1954 BRA bronze
Aleksandr Salnikov	URS UKR	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	1–0–0 1974 PUR gold
Luis Salvadores	CHI	BKB	Olympics	1956	0–0–1 1959 CHI bronze
Marcos Sánchez	CHI	BKB	Olympics	1948	0–0–1 1950 ARG bronze
Pepe Sánchez	ARG	BKB	Olympics	2004	0–1–0 2002 USA silver
José Aparecido dos Santos	BRA	BKB	Olympics	1968—1972	0–1–0 1970 YUG silver
Misako Satake	JPN	BKB	Olympics	1976	0–1–0 1975 COL silver
Zoran Savić	SRB SCG	BKB	Olympics	1996	1–0–0 1990 ARG gold
Galina Savitskaya	BLR URS	BKB	Olympics	1988	1–0–0 1983 BRA gold
Vlado Šćepanović	MNE SCG	BKB	Olympics	2000—2004	1–0–0 1998 GRE gold (competed for FR Yugoslavia)
Oscar Schmidt	BRA	BKB	Olympics	1980—1996	0–0–1 1978 PHI bronze
Sofoklis Schortsanitis	GRE	BKB	Olympics	2008	0–1–0 2006 JPN silver
Luis Scola	ARG	BKB	Olympics / Other	2004—2020	0–2–0 2002 USA silver; 2019 CHN silver
Hugo Ariel Sconochini	ARG	BKB	Olympics	2004	0–1–0 2002 USA silver
Jenni Screen	AUS	BKB	Olympics	2008—2012	1–0–0 2006 BRA gold
Renaldas Seibutis	LTU	BKB	Olympics	2012—2016	0–0–1 2010 TUR bronze
Yury Selikhov	RUS URS EUN	BKB	Olympics / Coach	1968—1992	1–0–0 1967 URU gold
Uļjana Semjonova	LAT URS	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	3–0–0 1971 BRA gold; 1975 COL gold; 1983 BRA gold
Sérgio Macarrão	BRA	BKB	Olympics	1964—1968	0–1–1 1967 URU bronze; 1970 YUG silver
Tatyana Shchogoleva	RUS	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	0–2–0 2002 CHN silver; 2006 BRA silver
Nadezhda Shuvayeva-Olkhova	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	2–0–0 1975 COL gold (competed as Nadezhda Shuvayeva); 1983 BRA gold
Orlando Silva	CHI	BKB	Olympics	1952—1956	0–0–1 1959 CHI bronze
Edvar Simões	BRA	BKB	Olympics / Non-starter	1964—1972	0–1–1 1967 URU bronze; 1970 YUG silver
Ljubodrag Simonović	SRB YUG	BKB	Olympics	1972	1–0–0 1970 YUG gold
Marko Simonović	SRB	BKB	Olympics	2016	0–1–0 2014 ESP silver
Petar Skansi	CRO YUG	BKB	Olympics / Coach	1968—1996	1–1–0 1967 URU silver; 1970 YUG gold
Branko Skroče	CRO YUG	BKB	Olympics	1980	1–0–0 1978 PHI gold
Zoran Slavnić	SRB YUG	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	1–1–0 1974 PUR silver; 1978 PHI gold
Bev Smith	CAN	BKB	Olympics / Coach	1984—2000	0–0–2 1979 KOR bronze; 1986 URS bronze
Charles D. Smith	USA	BKB	Olympics	1988	1–0–0 1986 ESP gold
Katie Smith	USA	BKB	Olympics	2000—2008	2–0–1 1998 GER gold; 2002 CHN gold; 2006 BRA bronze
Steve Smith	USA	BKB	Olympics	2000	1–0–0 1994 CAN gold
Belinda Snell	AUS	BKB	Olympics	2004—2012	1–0–1 2006 BRA gold; 2014 TUR bronze
Tiit Sokk	EST URS	BKB	Olympics	1988	0–2–0 1986 ESP silver; 1990 ARG silver
Damir Šolman	CRO YUG	BKB	Olympics	1968—1976	1–1–0 1970 YUG gold; 1974 PUR silver
Song Xiaobo	CHN	BKB	Olympics	1984	0–0–1 1983 BRA bronze
Vasilis Spanoulis	GRE	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	0–1–0 2006 JPN silver
Rachael Sporn	AUS	BKB	Olympics	1996—2004	0–0–1 1998 GER bronze
Dawn Staley	USA	BKB	Olympics / Coach / Other	1996—2020	2–0–1 1994 AUS bronze; 1998 GER gold; 2002 CHN gold
Mariya Stepanova	RUS	BKB	Olympics	1996—2008	0–2–0 1998 GER silver; 2006 BRA silver
Breanna Stewart	USA	BKB	Olympics	2016—2020	2–0–0 2014 TUR gold; 2018 ESP gold
Vladimir Štimac	SRB	BKB	Olympics	2016	0–1–0 2014 ESP silver
Peja Stojaković	SRB SCG	BKB	Olympics	2000	1–0–0 2002 USA gold (competed for FR Yugoslavia)
Succar	BRA	BKB	Olympics	1960—1968	1–0–1 1963 BRA gold; 1967 URU bronze
Edita Šujanová	CZE	BKB	Olympics	2008	0–1–0 2010 CZE silver
Dmitry Sukharev	TJK EUN	BKB	Olympics	1992	0–1–0 1990 ARG silver (competed for the Soviet Union)
Olga Sukharnova	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	2–0–0 1975 COL gold; 1983 BRA gold
Laura Summerton-Hodges	AUS	BKB	Olympics	2004—2016	1–0–2 2002 CHN bronze (competed as Laura Summerton); 2006 BRA gold (competed as Laura Summerton); 2014 TUR bronze (competed as Laura Hodges)
Irina Sumnikova	RUS URS EUN	BKB	Olympics	1988—2000	0–1–0 1986 URS silver (competed as Irina Sviridenko for the Soviet Union)
Sylvia Sweeney	CAN	BKB	Olympics	1976—1984	0–0–1 1979 KOR bronze
Sheryl Swoopes	USA	BKB	Olympics	1996—2004	1–0–2 1994 AUS bronze; 2002 CHN gold; 2006 BRA bronze
Stephanie Talbot	AUS	BKB	Olympics	2016—2020	0–2–0 2018 ESP silver
Sergey Tarakanov	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1980—1988	1–1–0 1982 COL gold; 1986 ESP silver
Diana Taurasi	USA	BKB	Olympics	2004—2020	3–0–1 2006 BRA bronze; 2010 CZE gold; 2014 TUR gold; 2018 ESP gold
Penny Taylor	AUS	BKB	Olympics	2004—2016	1–0–2 2002 CHN bronze; 2006 BRA gold; 2014 TUR bronze
Miloš Teodosić	SRB	BKB	Olympics	2016	0–1–0 2014 ESP silver
Thales	BRA	BKB	Olympics	1952	0–1–0 1954 BRA silver
Misty Thomas	CAN	BKB	Olympics	1984	0–0–1 1986 URS bronze
Klay Thompson	USA	BKB	Olympics	2016	1–0–0 2014 ESP gold
Tina Thompson	USA	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	1–0–1 1998 GER gold; 2006 BRA bronze
Valery Tikhonenko	KAZ URS EUN	BKB	Olympics	1988—1992	0–2–0 1986 ESP silver (competed for the Soviet Union); 1998 GRE silver (competed for Russia)
Kim Tillie	FRA	BKB	Olympics	2016	0–0–1 2014 ESP bronze
Michele Timms	AUS	BKB	Olympics	1988—2000	0–0–1 1998 GER bronze
Vladimir Tkachenko	URS	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	1–2–0 1978 PHI silver; 1982 COL gold; 1986 ESP silver
Mariano Tolentino	PHI	BKB	Olympics	1952—1956	0–0–1 1954 BRA bronze
Marianna Tolo	AUS	BKB	Olympics	2016—2020	0–0–1 2014 TUR bronze
Dejan Tomašević	SRB SCG	BKB	Olympics	1996—2004	2–0–0 1998 GRE gold (competed for FR Yugoslavia); 2002 USA gold (competed for FR Yugoslavia)
Priit Tomson	EST URS	BKB	Olympics	1968	2–0–1 1967 URU gold; 1970 YUG bronze; 1974 PUR gold
Milenko Topić	SRB SCG	BKB	Olympics	1996	1–0–0 1998 GRE gold (competed for FR Yugoslavia)
Yelena Tornikidu	EUN UZB	BKB	Olympics	1992	0–1–0 1986 URS silver (competed for the Soviet Union)
Alba Torrens	ESP	BKB	Olympics	2008—2020	0–1–2 2010 CZE bronze; 2014 TUR silver; 2018 ESP bronze
Aleksandr Travin	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1964	1–0–1 1963 BRA bronze; 1967 URU gold
Kostas Tsartsaris	GRE	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	0–1–0 2006 JPN silver
Jeff Turner	USA	BKB	Olympics	1984	0–1–0 1982 COL silver
Rato Tvrdić	CRO YUG	BKB	Olympics	1972	1–2–0 1967 URU silver; 1970 YUG gold; 1974 PUR silver
Juan Carlos Uder	ARG	BKB	Olympics	1948—1952	1–0–0 1950 ARG gold
Vladimer Ugrekhelidze	GEO URS	BKB	Olympics	1960	0–0–1 1963 BRA bronze
Amaya Valdemoro	ESP	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	0–0–1 2010 CZE bronze
Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	GRE	BKB	Olympics	2008	0–1–0 2006 JPN silver
Hugo del Vecchio	ARG	BKB	Olympics	1952	1–0–0 1950 ARG gold
Ivana Večeřová	CZE	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	0–1–0 2010 CZE silver
Jana Veselá	CZE	BKB	Olympics	2004—2012	0–1–0 2010 CZE silver
Roberto Viau	ARG	BKB	Olympics	1952	1–0–0 1950 ARG gold
Olga Vigil	CUB	BKB	Olympics	1992—1996	0–0–1 1990 MAS bronze
Eleonora Vild	SRB YUG	BKB	Olympics	1988	0–1–0 1990 MAS silver
Eva Vítečková	CZE	BKB	Olympics	2004—2012	0–1–0 2010 CZE silver
Nataliya Vodopyanova	RUS	BKB	Olympics	2004—2012	0–1–0 2006 BRA silver
Aleksandr Volkov	URS UKR EUN	BKB	Olympics	1988—1992	0–2–0 1986 ESP silver (competed for the Soviet Union); 1990 ARG silver (competed for the Soviet Union)
Gennady Volnov	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1960—1972	1–0–1 1963 BRA bronze; 1967 URU gold
Josip Vranković	CRO	BKB	Olympics	1996	0–0–1 1994 CAN bronze
Stojko Vranković	CRO YUG	BKB	Olympics	1988—1996	0–0–2 1986 ESP bronze, 1994 CAN bronze
Vlasta Vrbková	CZE TCH	BKB	Olympics	1976	0–0–1 1975 COL bronze
Dwyane Wade, Jr.	USA	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	0–0–1 2006 JPN bronze
Kimi Wakitashiro	JPN	BKB	Olympics	1976	0–1–0 1975 COL silver
Wang Fang	CHN	BKB	Olympics	1992	0–1–0 1994 AUS silver
Teresa Weatherspoon	USA	BKB	Olympics	1988—1992	1–0–0 1986 URS gold
Russell Westbrook	USA	BKB	Olympics	2012	1–0–0 2010 TUR gold
Lindsay Whalen	USA	BKB	Olympics	2012—2016	2–0–0 2010 CZE gold; 2014 TUR gold
Jenny Whittle	AUS	BKB	Olympics	1996—2000	1–0–2 1998 GER bronze; 2002 CHN bronze; 2006 BRA gold
Natalie Williams	USA	BKB	Olympics	2000	2–0–0 1998 GER gold; 2002 CHN gold
Rubén Wolkowyski	ARG	BKB	Olympics	1996—2004	0–1–0 2002 USA silver
Kara Wolters	USA	BKB	Olympics	2000	1–0–1 1994 AUS bronze; 1998 GER gold
Lynette Woodard	USA	BKB	Olympics	1984	1–1–0 1983 BRA silver; 1990 MAS gold
Marta Xargay	ESP	BKB	Olympics	2016	0–1–1 2014 TUR silver; 2018 ESP bronze
Xiu Lijuan	CHN	BKB	Olympics	1984	0–0–1 1983 BRA bronze
Olga Yakovleva	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1988	0–1–0 1986 URS silver
Sachiyo Yamamoto	JPN	BKB	Olympics	1976	0–1–0 1975 COL silver
Ivan Yedeshko	BLR URS	BKB	Olympics	1972—1976	1–1–0 1974 PUR gold; 1978 PHI silver
Stanislav Yeryomin	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics / Coach	1980—2000	1–1–0 1978 PHI silver; 1982 COL gold
Tatyana Zakharova-Nadyrova	URS UKR	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	1–0–0 1975 COL gold (competed as Tatyana Zakharova)
Nadezhda Zakharova	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1976	2–0–0 1971 BRA gold; 1975 COL gold
Nataliya Zasulskaya	RUS URS EUN	BKB	Olympics	1988—2000	0–1–0 1998 GER silver (competed for Russia)
Jure Zdovc	SLO YUG	BKB	Olympics	1988	1–0–0 1990 ARG gold
Zhang Hui	CHN	BKB	Olympics	1984	0–0–1 1983 BRA bronze
Zhang Yueqin	CHN	BKB	Olympics	1984	0–0–1 1983 BRA bronze
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1972—1976	0–1–1 1970 YUG bronze; 1978 PHI silver
Zheng Dongmei	CHN	BKB	Olympics	1992—1996	0–1–0 1994 AUS silver
Zheng Haixia	CHN	BKB	Olympics	1984—1996	0–1–1 1983 BRA bronze; 1994 AUS silver
Vladimir Zhigily	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1976—1980	1–1–0 1974 PUR gold; 1978 PHI silver
Nikos Zisis	GRE	BKB	Olympics	2004—2008	0–1–0 2006 JPN silver
Rajko Žižić	MNE YUG	BKB	Olympics	1976—1984	1–0–1 1978 PHI gold; 1982 COL bronze
Aljoša Žorga	SLO YUG	BKB	Olympics	1968	1–0–0 1970 YUG gold
Viktor Zubkov	RUS URS	BKB	Olympics	1956—1960	0–0–1 1963 BRA bronze