Basketball
- Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A):
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- Lost to Canada (76-104)
- Lost to Mexico (90-108)
- Lost to Cuba (56-97)
- Lost to Soviet Union (69-123)
- Lost to Australia (79-117)
- Classification Match:
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- 9th/11th place: Lost to Puerto Rico (91-111) → 11th place
- Team Roster
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- Shigeaki Abe
- Nobuo Chigusa
- Satoshi Mori
- Shoji Yuki
- Yutaka Fujimoto
- Hirofumi Numata
- Kiyohide Kuwata
- Koji Yamamoto
- Shigeto Shimizu
- Fumio Saito
- Norihiko Kitahara
- Hideki Hamaguchi
- Head Coach: Masahiko Yoshida.
- Women's Team Competition
- Team Roster
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- Kimiko Hashimoto
- Kazuko Kadoya
- Kimi Wakitashiro
- Mieko Fukui
- Miyako Otsuka
- Miho Matsuoka
- Kazuyo Hayashida
- Teruko Miyamoto
- Keiko Namai
- Reiko Aonuma
- Sachiyo Yamamoto
- Misako Satake
- Head Coach: Masatoshi Ozaki
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)