EuroBasket 1979

FIBA EuroBasket 1979
21st FIBA European Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Italy
Dates	9–19 June
Teams	12 (from 33 federations)
Venues	4 (in 4 host cities)
Champions	Soviet Union (12th title)
MVP	Miki Berkovich
Tournament leaders
Players Teams Points Mieczysław Młynarski (26.6)  Spain (93.5)
Official website
EuroBasket 1979 (archive)
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The 1979 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1979, was the 21st FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. Twelve national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation entered the competition. The competition was hosted by Italy. Mestre, Siena, Gorizia and Turin were the venues of the event.

Venues

Mestre	Siena	Gorizia	Turin
PalaTaliercio Capacity 4 000	PalaScalvo Capacity 5 000	PalaGrappate Capacity 5 500	PalaRuffini Capacity 10 000

Results

First round

In the preliminary round, the 12 teams were split up into three groups of four teams each. The top two teams in each group advanced to the Final Round, while the bottom two were sent to the classification round to play for 7th to 12th Places

Group A – Mestre

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	238	204	+34	6
Italy	3	2	1	235	202	+33	5
Greece	3	1	2	211	223	−12	4
Belgium	3	0	3	213	268	−55	3

Group B – Siena

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Spain	3	3	0	291	254	+37	6
Soviet Union	3	2	1	286	256	+30	5
Netherlands	3	1	2	254	279	−25	4
Bulgaria	3	0	3	234	276	−42	3

Group C – Gorizia

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Israel	3	2	1	246	246	0	5
Yugoslavia	3	2	1	258	237	+21	5
Poland	3	1	2	258	264	−6	4
France	3	1	2	233	248	−15	4

Classification Round – Turin

In the Classification Round played the teams that finish 3rd and 4th in their Preliminary round Groups. Those teams played for the 7th to 12th Places.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
7	Poland	5	4	1	435	405	+30	9
8	France	5	4	1	423	401	+22	9
9	Greece	5	3	2	418	381	+37	8
10	Netherlands	5	3	2	438	404	+34	8
11	Bulgaria	5	1	4	436	450	−14	6
12	Belgium	5	0	5	433	542	−109	5

Final Round – Turin

The Teams that finish their Preliminary round Groups in the 1st and 2nd places advanced to the Final Round. The first and second in this group will go to the final while the third and fourth places will go to a 3rd place match.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Soviet Union	5	4	1	439	399	+40	9
2	Israel	5	3	2	408	435	−27	8
3	Yugoslavia	5	3	2	453	432	+21	8
4	Czechoslovakia	5	2	3	419	430	−11	7
5	Italy	5	2	3	403	417	−14	7
6	Spain	5	1	4	465	474	−9	6

Finals

3rd Place Match

 Yugoslavia 99
 Czechoslovakia 92

Final

19 June 1979
 Soviet Union 98
 Israel 76

1979 FIBA European Champions
Soviet Union Twelfth title

Final standings

Place	Team
1.	Soviet Union
2.	Israel
3.	Yugoslavia
4.	Czechoslovakia
5.	Italy
6.	Spain
7.	Poland
8.	France
9.	Greece
10.	Netherlands
11.	Bulgaria
12.	Belgium

Awards

1979 FIBA European Championship MVP: Miki Berkovich ( Israel)

All-Tournament Team[1]
Sergei Belov
Dragan Kićanović
Miki Berkovich (MVP)
Krešimir Ćosić
Vladimir Tkachenko

Team rosters

1. Soviet Union: Sergei Belov (c), Anatoly Myshkin, Vladimir Tkachenko, Ivan Edeshko, Aleksander Belostenny, Stanislav Eremin, Valdemaras Chomičius, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Sergei Tarakanov, Vladimir Zhigili, Aleksander Salnikov, Andrei Lopatov (Coach: Alexander Gomelsky)

2. Israel: Mickey Berkowitz, Lou Silver, Motti Aroesti, Yehoshua "Shuki" Schwartz, Eric Menkin, Steve Kaplan, Boaz Yanai, Avigdor Moskowitz, Barry Leibowitz (c), Pinhas Hozez, Uri Ben-Ari, Shai Sharf (Coach: Ralph Klein)

3. Yugoslavia: Krešimir Ćosić, Mirza Delibašić, Dražen Dalipagić, Dragan Kićanović, Zoran Slavnić, Žarko Varajić, Željko Jerkov, Rajko Žižić, Peter Vilfan, Mihovil Nakić, Ratko Radovanović, Duje Krstulović (Coach: Petar Skansi)

4. Czechoslovakia: Kamil Brabenec, Zdenek Kos, Stanislav Kropilak, Jiri Pospisil, Vojtech Petr, Vlastimil Klimes, Vlastimil Havlik, Jaroslav Skala, Zdenek Dousa, Peter Rajniak, Gustav Hraska, Zdenek Bohm (Coach: Pavel Petera)

References