1982 FIBA World Championship

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The 1982 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Colombia from April 15 to 28, 1982.

Contents 1 Competing nations 2 Preliminary round 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 2.3 Group C 3 Classification round 4 Final round 5 Finals 6 Final ranking 7 All-Tournament Team 8 Top scorers (ppg)

[edit] Competing nations

Group A	Group B	Group C
China  Panama  Spain  USA	Australia  Brazil  Côte d'Ivoire  Soviet Union	Canada  Czechoslovakia  Uruguay  Yugoslavia
Colombia - advanced automatically to the semifinal round as host

[edit] Preliminary round

	Qualified for the final round
	Qualified for the classification round

[edit] Group A

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Spain	6	3	0	305	262	+43
USA	5	2	1	295	261	+34
Panama	4	1	2	285	280	+5
China	3	0	3	243	325	-82

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Soviet Union	6	3	0	336	241	+95
Australia	5	2	1	224	240	-16
Brazil	4	1	2	267	253	+14
Côte d'Ivoire	3	0	3	218	311	-93

[edit] Group C

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Yugoslavia	6	3	0	290	235	+55
Canada	5	2	1	269	265	+5
Czechoslovakia	4	1	2	290	289	+1
Uruguay	3	0	3	239	299	-60

[edit] Classification round

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD	First Tiebreaker Classification for Tied Teams	Second Tiebreaker Goal Average for Tied Teams
Brazil	9	4	1	474	415	+59	1W-1L	1.017
Panama	9	4	1	503	424	+79	1W-1L	0.994
Czechoslovakia	9	4	1	499	449	+50	1W-1L	0.989
Uruguay	7	2	3	404	440	-36
China	6	1	4	406	474	-68
Côte d'Ivoire	5	0	5	416	500	-68

[edit] Final round

	Qualified for the gold medal game
	Qualified for the bronze medal game

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD	First Tiebreaker Classification for Tied Teams
USA	11	5	1	567	521	+46	99-93
Soviet Union	11	5	1	663	514	+149	93-99
Yugoslavia	10	4	2	573	535	+38	108-91
Spain	10	4	2	612	564	+48	91-108
Australia	8	2	4	489	563	-74
Canada	7	1	5	495	519	-24
Colombia	6	0	6	473	656	-183

[edit] Finals

July 28

3rd place

Yugoslavia

119 – 117

Spain

Colombia

July 28

Final

Soviet Union

95 – 94

USA

Colombia

[edit] Final ranking

Rank	Team
1	USSR
2	United States
3	Yugoslavia
4	Spain
5	Australia
6	Canada
7	Colombia
8	Brazil
9	Panama
10	Czechoslovakia
11	Uruguay
12	China
13	Côte d'Ivoire

[edit] All-Tournament Team

• Doc Rivers (USA)
• Dragan Kicanovic (Yugoslavia)
• Juan Antonio San Epifanio (Spain)
• Vladimir Tkachenko (USSR)
• Anatoli Myshkin (USSR)

[edit] Top scorers (ppg)

1. Wilfredo Ruiz (Uruguay) 24
2. Rolando Frazer (Panama) 23.7
3. Ian Davies (Australia) 23.3
4. Die Drissa (Côte d'Ivoire) 21.4
5. Dragan Kicanovic (Yugoslavia) 21.1
6. Jay Triano (Canada) 18.5
7. Chicho Sibilio (Spain) 17.8
8. Juan Antonio San Epifanio (Spain) 17.7
9. Doc Rivers (USA) 17
10. Drazen Dalipagic (Yugoslavia) 16.6

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