Wlamir Marques (born on July 16, 1937 in São Vicente

São Vicente, São Paulo

São Vicente is a coastal city of southern São Paulo, Brazil. Its estimated population in 2006 was 329,370 inhabitants.It was the first Portuguese permanent settlement in the Americas and the first capital of the Captaincy of São Vicente, now the state of São Paulo...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

) is a retired Brazilian basketball player.

On club level, he played for São Vicente, XV de Piracicaba, Corinthians, Tênis Clube Campinas. He won the Brazilian league in 1975 with Tênis Clube Campinas.

Marques is considered one of the best Brazilian basketball players of all time and one of the best players in the world in the sixties (except USA). Alongside fellow countrymen Amaury Pasos

Amaury Pasos

Amaury Antônio Passos is a retired Brazilian basketball player of Argentine origin.On club level he played for Clube de Regatas Tietê , C.R. Sírio and Corinthians...

, Algodão

Algodão

Zenny de Azevedo was a Brazilian basketball player, who competed for his native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1948. Nicknamed Algodão, he won the bronze medal in 1948 and 1960 with the Brazilian basketball team. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.-External links:...

 and Rosa Branca, he led the best basketball generation Brazil ever had.

He played for the Brazilian national team

Brazil national basketball team

The Brazilian National Basketball Team represents Brazil in FIBA's basketball competitions.-Men's team:First drafted in 1922, the men's team has won two World Championships , three bronze Olympic medals , four Americas Championships and five Pan American Games .-Olympic Games:-FIBA...

, winning the 1959 World Championship

1959 FIBA World Championship

The 1959 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Chile from January 16 to 31 , 1959. Amaury Antônio Pasos was named the MVP....

 and 1963 World Championship

1963 FIBA World Championship

The 1963 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from May 11 to 23 , 1963.- Competing nations :- Preliminary round :-Group A:-Group B:-Group C:-Classification round:...

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He also won silver medal in the 1954 World Championship

1954 FIBA World Championship

The 1954 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October 22 to November 5, 1954...

 and 1970 World Championship

1970 FIBA World Championship

The 1970 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Yugoslavia at Sarajevo, Split, Karlovac, Skopje and Ljubljana, from May 10 to 24 , 1970...

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He won bronze medal in the 1960 Olympics

Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics was the fifth appearance of the sport in Olympic competition. 16 nations were admitted into the Olympic tournament, with many others being eliminated in a pre-Olympic tournament held earlier in the year from 13 to 20 August 1960 at the Sports Palace at Bologna...

 and 1964 Olympics

Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Basketball contests at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from October 11 to October 23. The United States defeated the Soviet Union to win their sixth straight gold medal at this event, while Brazil earned the bronze against Puerto...

, silver medal in the 1963 Pan American Games

1963 Pan American Games

The 4th Pan American Games were held from April 20 to May 5, 1963 in São Paulo, Brazil.- Medal count :To sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the icon next to the column title.Note...

 and bronze medal in the 1955 Pan American Games

1955 Pan American Games

The 2nd Pan American Games opened on March 12, 1955 in the University Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico, in front of a capacity crowd of 100,000 spectators....

 and 1959 Pan American Games

1959 Pan American Games

The 3rd Pan American Games opened on August 27, 1959 in sunny 90°F heat before 40,000 people in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The first Pan American Games held in North America, they were originally scheduled for Cleveland, Ohio, but the U.S. Congress’s decision to cut $5,000,000 in federal...

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Wlamir Marques and Kresimir Cosic

Krešimir Cosic

Krešimir Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player who represented Yugoslavia internationally, a member of FIBA Hall of Fame and Basketball Hall of Fame...

 are the top medalists in FIBA World Championship

FIBA World Championship

The FIBA World Championship is an international basketball competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation , the sport's global governing body...

s with 2 gold and 2 silver medals.

Today, he comments Basketball games by ESPN Brasil and is an active personality in the called "Brazilian Basketball Reborn" as an important voice in TV and internet channels.

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