FIBA World Championship
The FIBA World Championship is a world
basketball tournament for men's national teams held quadrennially by the
International Basketball Federation .
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.
Encyclopedia
The
FIBA World Championship is a world
basketball tournament for men's national teams held quadrennially by the
International Basketball Federation .
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.
Tournaments
The tournament format from 1950 up to 1974 was that the eight final teams would figure in a Final group in which every team will play each other once, with the team with the best standing winning the gold, second the silver and the third, the bronze. Ties are broken by basis of results of games among tied teams.
Starting at the 1978 tournament, the top teams featured in a single-eliminaion tournament to determine the gold medallists. Classification games are held for eliminated teams.
Successful teams
| Team | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Fourth-place |
|---|
| 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| USA | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1 | | 1 |
| Spain | 1 | | | 1 |
| | 2 | | |
| Greece | | 1 | | 2 |
| | | 2 | |
| | | 1 | |
| Croatia | | | 1 | |
| Philippines | | | 1 | |
| | | | 2 |
| | | | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | | | | 1 |
> | | | | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| | | | 1 |
|
- * - Defunct national teams
Per continent
| Continent | Best performance |
|---|
| Europe | 9 gold medals by Yugoslavia , the USSR , and Spain |
| Americas | 6 gold medals by the USA , Brazil , and Argentina |
| Asia | Bronze medal by the Philippines |
| Africa | Fifth place by Egypt |
| Oceania | Fourth place by New Zealand |
See also
- Netball World Championships
References
External links
