Basketball at The 1936 Summer Olympics - Participating Nations

Participating Nations

For the team rosters see: Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads.

Each country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation.

A total of 199(*) basketball players from 21 nations competed at the Berlin Games:

• Belgium (8 – from a squad of 14)
• Brazil (8 – from a squad of 10)
• Canada (9 – from a squad of 14)
• Chile (7 – from a squad of 11)
• Republic of China (13 – from a squad of 14)
• Czechoslovakia (12 – from a squad of 12)
• Egypt (7 – from a squad of 10)
• Estonia (8 – from a squad of 11)
• France (11 – from a squad of 14)
• Germany (10 – from a squad of 14)
• Italy (13 – from a squad of 14)
• Japan (8 – from a squad of 11)
• Latvia (7 – from a squad of 11)
• Mexico (11 – from a squad of 11)
• Peru (9 – from a squad of 13)
• Philippines (9 – from a squad of 12)
• Poland (10 – from a squad of 14)
• Switzerland (8 – from a squad of 13)
• Turkey (8 – from a squad of 10)
• United States (14)
• Uruguay (9 – from a squad of 13)

Not all reserve players are known.