1963 FIBA World Championship |
4th FIBA World Championship |
Tournament details |
Host nation |
Brazil |
Dates |
May 12–25 |
Teams |
13 |
Champions |
23x15px Brazil (2nd title) |
Tournament leaders |
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The 1963 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Brazil. The Philippines was originally supposed to host the tournament with games planned to be held at the 30,000 seat Big Dome in Manila but was revoked of hosting rights after Diosdado Macapagal refused to allow players from Yugoslavia and other communist countries to enter the country. Brazil being the defending Champion and a previous host, fairly manage to re-host the Championship from May 11 to 23, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro and won the 1st back to back title with just six (6) games by seeding the well rested host team in the final round only.
Competing nations
Suspension
- FIBA suspended the original host country Philippines after Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal refused to allow players from Yugoslavia and other communist countries to enter the host country. Brazil being the defending Champion and a previous host, fairly manage to re-host the Championship. Later, the Philippines, despite being the Asian champion, was forced to play in a pre-Olympic tournament in order to qualify in the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Competition format
- Preliminary round: Three groups of four teams play each other once; top two teams progress to the final round, bottom two teams relegated to classification round.
- Classification round: All bottom two teams from preliminary round group play each other once. The team with the best record is ranked eighth; the worst is ranked 13th.
- Final round: All top two teams from preliminary round group, the 1960 Olympic champion, and the host team play each other once. The team with the best record wins the championship.
Preliminary round
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Qualified for the final round |
Group A
Group B
Group C
Classification round
Team |
Pld |
W |
L |
PF |
PA |
PD |
Pts |
Argentina |
5 |
4 |
1 |
449 |
414 |
+35 |
9 |
Mexico |
5 |
3 |
2 |
389 |
364 |
+25 |
8 |
Uruguay |
5 |
3 |
2 |
376 |
372 |
+4 |
8 |
Canada |
5 |
3 |
2 |
365 |
375 |
−10 |
8 |
Peru |
5 |
2 |
3 |
362 |
367 |
−5 |
7 |
Japan |
5 |
0 |
5 |
377 |
426 |
−49 |
5 |
Final round
Awards
Final ranking
All-Tournament Team
Top scorers (ppg)
- Ricardo Duarte (Peru) 20.3
- Aleksander Petrov (USSR) 17.6
- Luis Enrique Grajeda (Mexico) 17.5
- Radivoj Korać (Yugoslavia) 16.8
- Maxime Dorigo (France) 16.8
- Alfredo Tulli (Argentina) 16.1
- Alberto Desimone (Argentina) 16
- Rafael Valle (Puerto Rico) 15.8
- Nemanja Djuric (Yugoslavia) 14.6
- Paolo Vittori (Italy) 14.3
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Tournaments |
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Qualification |
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Finals |
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Squads |
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Final draw |
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Host bids |
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