FIBA World Championship

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The FIBA World Championship (also called the Basketball World Championship) is a world basketball tournament for men's national teams held quadrennially by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).

A parallel event for women's teams, the FIBA World Championship for Women, is also held quadrennially, in the same year as the men's event but in a different country.

The champion team wins the Naismith Trophy, which was first awarded in the 1967 tournament.

The tournament structure is similar but not identical to that of the FIFA World Cup; both of these international competitions have been played in the same year since 1970.

Map of countries' best results

1 Tournaments
2 Successful teams
- 2.1 Per continent
3 References

[edit] Tournaments

From 1950 until 1974, each of the eight final teams would play all seven of the other teams once each and the team with the best record would win the gold medal, the second the silver and the third the bronze. Ties were broken on the basis of the results of games between (among) tied teams.

Starting at the 1978 tournament, the top teams played in a single-elimination tournament to determine the gold medallists. Classification games are held for eliminated teams.

Year	Host Country City of final game	Medallists			Other finalist
Year	Host Country City of final game	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth place
1950	Buenos Aires	Argentina	United States	Chile	Brazil
1954 Details	Rio de Janeiro	United States	Brazil	Philippines	France
1959	Santiago	Brazil	United States	Chile	Formosa
1963	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union	United States
1967	Montevideo	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	Brazil	United States
1970	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	Brazil	Soviet Union	Italy
1974	San Juan	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	United States	Cuba

Year	Country City of final game	Gold medal game			Bronze medal game
Year	Country City of final game	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth place
1978	Manila	Yugoslavia	82-81 (Overtime)	Soviet Union	Brazil	86-85	Italy
1982	Cali	Soviet Union	95-94	United States	Yugoslavia	119-117	Spain
1986	Madrid	United States	87-85	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	117-91	Brazil
1990	Buenos Aires	Yugoslavia	92-75	Soviet Union	United States	107-105	Puerto Rico
1994 Details	Toronto	United States	137-91	Russia	Croatia	78-60	Greece
1998 Details	Athens	Yugoslavia	64-62	Russia	United States	84-61	Greece
2002 Details	Indianapolis	Yugoslavia	84-77 (Overtime)	Argentina	Germany	117-94	New Zealand
2006 Details	Saitama	Spain	70-47	Greece	United States	96-81	Argentina
2010 Details	Istanbul

[edit] Successful teams

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth-place
United States	3 (1954, 1986, 1994)	3 (1950, 1959, 1982)	4 (1974, 1990, 1998, 2006)	2 (1963, 1967)
SFR Yugoslavia#	3 (1970*, 1978, 1990)	3 (1963, 1967, 1974)	2 (1982, 1986)
Soviet Union#	3 (1967, 1974, 1982)	3 (1978, 1986, 1990)	2 (1963, 1970)
Brazil	2 (1959, 1963*)	2 (1954*, 1970)	1 (1978)	2 (1950, 1986)
Serbia FR Yugoslavia	2 (1998, 2002)
Argentina	1 (1950*)	1 (2002)		1 (2006)
Spain	1 (2006)			1 (1982)
Russia		2 (1994, 1998)
Greece		1 (2006)		2 (1994, 1998*)
Chile			2 (1950, 1959*)
Germany			1 (2002)
Croatia			1 (1994)
Philippines			1 (1954)
Italy				2 (1970, 1978)
New Zealand				1 (2002)
Puerto Rico				1 (1990)
Cuba				1 (1974)
Chinese Taipei Formosa				1 (1959)
France				1 (1954)

Notes: * - Hosts; # - Defunct national teams

[edit] Per continent

Continent	Best performance
Europe	9 gold medals by Yugoslavia (5), the USSR (3), and Spain (1)
Americas	6 gold medals by the USA (3), Brazil (2), and Argentina (1)
Asia	Bronze medal by the Philippines
Oceania	Fourth place by New Zealand
Africa	Fifth place by Egypt

[edit] References

International basketball

v • d • e

Asia: FIBA Asia – Asian Championship Africa: FIBA Africa – Africa Championship Americas: FIBA Americas – Americas Championship Oceania: FIBA Oceania – Oceania Championship Europe: FIBA Europe – Eurobasket