
The Women’s Basketball Championship in the 2024 Paris Olympics will begin on July 28. Basketball has been a part of the Olympics since 1936, while women’s basketball was introduced to the Olympics in 1976.
Since then, the game has been featured 12 times, and like the men’s team, the USA women’s basketball team is also the most successful in the Olympics with 10 gold medals out of 12 editions. In the following listicle, we will have a look at the last winners of women’s basketball in the Olympics.
Olympics Winners in Women’s Basketball
5. United States - 2004
This was USA’s sixth consecutive gold medal in women’s basketball since their first gold in 1984. They defeated Australia women by 74-63 in the gold medal match of women’s basketball at the 2004 Athens Olympics.