British Basketball has appointed Tom Maher, who steered Australia to two Olympic medals, as their new head coach.

The Australian-born coach has an impressive Olympic CV with women's teams, and none more so than with hosting nations. Having already won bronze at Atlanta 1996 with Australia he then guided them to silver four years later in Sydney, in front of a passionate and patriotic crowd.

At the Athens Games he helped New Zealand to finish eighth, their highest ever finish, before arguably his greatest achievement, of taking the Chinese team from nowhere to fourth in Beijing.