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.
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[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 | ||||
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Gold | Silver | Bronze | Fourth place | ||||
1950 | Argentina |
United States |
Chile |
Brazil |
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1954 Details |
United States |
Brazil |
Philippines |
France |
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1959 | Brazil |
United States |
Chile |
Formosa |
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1963 | Brazil |
Yugoslavia |
Soviet Union |
United States |
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1967 | Soviet Union |
Yugoslavia |
Brazil |
United States |
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1970 | Yugoslavia |
Brazil |
Soviet Union |
Italy |
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1974 | Soviet Union |
Yugoslavia |
United States |
Cuba |
Year | Country City of final game |
Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||||
1978 | Yugoslavia |
82-81 (Overtime) |
Soviet Union |
Brazil |
86-85 | Italy |
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1982 | Soviet Union |
95-94 | United States |
Yugoslavia |
119-117 | Spain |
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1986 | United States |
87-85 | Soviet Union |
Yugoslavia |
117-91 | Brazil |
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1990 | Yugoslavia |
92-75 | Soviet Union |
United States |
107-105 | Puerto Rico |
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1994 Details |
United States |
137-91 | Russia |
Croatia |
78-60 | Greece |
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1998 Details |
Yugoslavia |
64-62 | Russia |
United States |
84-61 | Greece |
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2002 Details |
Yugoslavia |
84-77 (Overtime) |
Argentina |
Germany |
117-94 | New Zealand |
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2006 Details |
Spain |
70-47 |
Greece |
United States |
96-81 | Argentina |
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2010 Details |
[edit] Successful teams
Team | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Fourth-place |
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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 |
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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
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