The Greatest Basketball Athlete at the Olympic Games
Who is the greatest Basketball athlete of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each male and female Basketball athlete from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance.
The best all-time performing basketball athlete at the Olympic Games is US female player Teresa Edwards who won 4 golds and one bronze medal between 1984 and 2000. The only male basketballer to make the top list was American Carmelo Anthony who won three gold and a bronze betweem 2004 and 2016. See the table below to see how other athletes ranked.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Basketball Players
Here are the top ranked athletes from the sport of Basketball for performances at all Olympiads, using the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt).
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Basketball at the Olympic Games
| rank | name | country | gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | total medals |
rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teresa Edwards | USA | F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | Lisa Leslie | USA | F | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24 |
| 3 | Carmelo Anthony | USA | M | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 19 |
| =4 | Sue Bird | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =4 | Tamika Catchings | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =4 | Dawn Staley | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =4 | Sheryl Swoopes | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =4 | Katie Smith | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =4 | Diana Taurasi | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
Related Pages
- list of the best athlete from each Olympic sport
- The greatest ever Olympic athlete
- about Olympic Medal Ranking Systems
- medal tables from all Olympic Games