FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship
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The FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship is the name commonly used to refer to the American
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championships for players under 18 years that take place every two years among national teams of the continent. Before the 2006 edition the championship was played by under-19 teams.
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The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
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championships for players under 18 years that take place every two years among national teams of the continent. Before the 2006 edition the championship was played by under-19 teams.
Men's Americas Basketball Championship
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | 4th Place |
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| 1990 |  MontevideoMontevideo Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento... |
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| 1994 |  Santa Rosa and General PicoGeneral Pico General Pico is a city located in the north-east of La Pampa Province, Argentina. It has a surface of . Is located at above sea level and inside the region of the Pampa Húmeda Llana... |
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| 1998 |  Puerto PlataSan Felipe de Puerto Plata San Felipe de Puerto Plata, often referred to as simply Puerto Plata, is the capital of the Dominican province Puerto Plata.The city is famous for resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, located east of San Felipe de Puerto Plata. There are a total of 100,000 hotel beds in the city.The only... |
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| 2002 |  Isla MargaritaIsla Margarita Margarita Island is the largest island of the state of Nueva Esparta in Venezuela, situated in the Caribbean Sea, off the northeastern coast of the country. The state also contains two other smaller islands: Coche and Cubagua. The capital city of Nueva Esparta is La Asunción, located in a river... |
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| 2006 |  San Antonio |
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| 2008 | Formosa Formosa, Argentina Formosa is the capital city of the Argentine province of Formosa, on the banks of the Paraguay River, about from Buenos Aires, on National Route 11. It has a population of about 210,000 as per the .... |
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| 2010 | San Antonio |
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Participation Details
| Team | 1990 |
1994 |
1998 |
2002 |
2006 |
2008 |
2010 |
Total |
| 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 7 | |
| - | - | - | - | 7th | 8th | - | 2 | |
| 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 6th | 3rd | - | 2nd | 6 | |
| 9th | 7th | 6th | 7th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 7 | |
| 10th | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| 6th | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| - | 6th | 5th | 5th | - | - | 3 | ||
| - | 9th | 8th | 8th | 8th | 7th | 8th | 6 | |
| 7th | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| 5th | 3rd | - | 1st | 5th | 4th | 6th | 6 | |
| 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 7 | |
| 4th | 9th | - | - | 6th | 6th | 5th | 5 | |
| 8th | 4th | 4th | 2nd | - | 5th | - | 5 | |
| - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | 7th | 1 |