Basketball at the 1951 Asian Games

Template:Infobox sports competition event Basketball was one of the six initial disciplines which was held at the 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, India, wherein five Asian teams—Burma, India, Iran, Japan and Philippines—participated. In the matches, round-robin format was employed and on the basis of final points table top three podium places were decided. Philippines team without losing a single match topped the points table and grabbed the gold medal, their first of their basketball supremacy in the Asian Games. (They eventually won the next three editions, until 1962.) Japanese squad finished behind it and won a silver medal, Iranian team with two wins finished third and won a bronze. Host nation India, finished fourth with only single win over Burma, which came last without winning a single match.

Medalists

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Template:FlagIOC2 Francisco Calilan Andres dela Cruz Genaro Fernandez Jose Gochangco Rafael Hechanova Moro Lorenzo Carlos Loyzaga Antonio Martinez Lauro Mumar Ignacio Ramos Meliton Santos Mariano Tolentino

Template:FlagIOC2 Makoto Arai Mitsugu Hachiya Hiroshi Ikeda Junichi Iwao Michio Katayama Fumio Matsuoka Kasaburo Ogura Shuzo Okubo Shigeru Saito Minoru Takahashi Mitsuhide Tsudi

Template:FlagIOC2 Hassan Khaleghpour Kamal Mashhoun Reza Masoumi Kambiz Mokhberi Alireza Oshar Hossein Razi Mashallah Safiyar Hossein Saoudipour Abolfazl Solbi Hossein Soroudi

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Final standing

Rank	Team	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
Template:Gold1	Template:Bk	4	4	0
Template:Silver2	Template:Bk	4	3	1
Template:Bronze3	Template:Bk	4	2	2
4	Template:Bk	4	1	3
5	Template:Bk	4	0	4

References

• Report of the first Asian Games held at New Delhi

External links

• Results