Basketball at the 1970 Asian Games

Basketball at the 1970 Asian Games
Venue	Nimibutr Stadium
Date	10–19 December
Nations	12
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Basketball was one of the 13 sports disciplines held in the 1970 Asian Games again in Bangkok, Thailand. South Korea got their first Asian basketball title by outlasting the defending champions Israel in the championship round. The games were held from December 10 to 19, 1970.

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Choi Jong-kyu Kim In-kun Kim Young-il Kwak Hyun-chae Lee In-pyo Park Han Shin Dong-pa Yoo Hi-hyung	Israel Tanhum Cohen-Mintz Ronald Green Hanan Keren Ivan Leshinsky Itamar Marzel Gabi Neumark Mike Schwarz Haim Starkman Gabi Teichner Mark Turenshine	Japan Shigeaki Abe Akira Kodama Satoshi Mori Fumihiko Moroyama Kazufumi Sakai Kenji Soda Atsushi Somatomo Masatomo Taniguchi Kunihiko Yokoyama

Results[]

Preliminary round[]

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Israel	3	3	0	288	181	+107	6
2	Japan	3	2	1	243	185	+58	5
3	Singapore	3	1	2	203	284	−81	4
4	South Vietnam	3	0	3	202	286	−84	3

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Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	South Korea	3	3	0	303	203	+100	6
2	Philippines	3	2	1	280	221	+59	5
3	Iran	3	1	2	264	271	−7	4
4	Hong Kong	3	0	3	174	326	−152	3

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Group C[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	India	3	2	1	218	210	+8	5
2	Republic of China	3	2	1	210	190	+20	5
3	Thailand	3	2	1	201	189	+12	5
4	Malaysia	3	0	3	199	239	−40	3

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Classification 7th–12th[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Iran	5	5	0	476	397	+79	10
2	Thailand	5	4	1	466	430	+36	9
3	Malaysia	5	3	2	419	380	+39	8
4	Singapore	5	2	3	422	432	−10	7
5	South Vietnam	5	1	4	450	531	−81	6
6	Hong Kong	5	0	5	374	437	−63	5

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Final round[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	South Korea	5	4	1	393	320	+73	9
2	Israel	5	4	1	429	373	+56	9
3	Japan	5	3	2	—	—	—	8
4	Republic of China	5	2	3	364	386	−22	7
5	Philippines	5	2	3	381	378	+3	7
6	India	5	0	5	—	—	—	5

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Final standing[]

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	South Korea	8	7	1
	Israel	8	7	1
	Japan	8	5	3
4	Republic of China	8	4	4
5	Philippines	8	4	4
6	India	8	2	6
7	Iran	8	6	2
8	Thailand	8	6	2
9	Malaysia	8	3	5
10	Singapore	8	3	5
11	South Vietnam	8	1	7
12	Hong Kong	8	0	8

References[]

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