List of every gold medal winner in men’s basketball at the Olympics

Men’s 5×5 basketball at the Olympics has been an event long dominated by Team USA.
The Americans have won 17 of the 21 Olympic gold medals in 5×5 basketball since the event made its debut at the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a medal sport. Team USA has won gold in the past five Olympic games and eight of the last nine.
The only Olympic Games in which Team USA did not medal in men’s 5×5 basketball was in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when the U.S. boycotted the Games over the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.
Here’s a list of the every single medal awarded in men’s 5×5 basketball at the Olympics:
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*Team USA boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics