FIBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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The 'FIBA World Championship' (also called the 'Basketball World Championship') is a world basketball tournament for men's national teams held quadrennially by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).
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.

Contents

Results

Summaries

Successful national teams

Performances by continental zones

Records and statistics

Most Valuable Players

Top cumulative scorers

Top scoring averages

Top scorers in a single game

Most number of tournaments played

References

Results

Summaries

From 1950 until 1974, each of the eight final teams would play all seven of the other teams once each and the team with the best record would win the gold medal, the second the silver and the third the bronze. Ties were broken on the basis of the results of games between (among) tied teams.
Starting at the 1978 tournament, the top teams played in a single-elimination tournament to determine the gold medallists. Classification games are held for eliminated teams.

Year	Host		Gold medal game				Bronze medal game
			Gold	Score	Silver		Bronze	Score	Fourth place
1950 ''Details''	Argentina (Buenos Aires)		''	No playoffs				No playoffs
1954 ''Details''	Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)		''	No playoffs				No playoffs
1959 ''Details''	Chile (Santiago)		''	No playoffs				No playoffs
1963 ''Details''	Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)		''	No playoffs				No playoffs
1967 ''Details''	Uruguay (Montevideo)		''	No playoffs				No playoffs
1970 ''Details''	Yugoslavia (Ljubljana)		''	No playoffs				No playoffs
1974 ''Details''	Puerto Rico		''	No playoffs				No playoffs
1978 ''Details''	Philippines (Manila)		''	'82–81' Overtime				'86–85'
1982 ''Details''	Colombia		''	'95–94'				'119–117'
1986 ''Details''	Spain		''	'87–85'				'117–91'
1990 ''Details''	Argentina		''	'92–75'				'107–105'
1994 ''Details	Canada		''	'137–91'				'78–60'
1998 ''Details	Greece (Athens)		''	'64–62'				'84–61'
2002 ''Details	USA (Indianapolis)		''	'84–77' Overtime				'117–94'
2006 ''Details	Japan		''	'70–47'				'96–81'
2010 ''Details	Turkey

Successful national teams

FIBA does not recognize 's records to carry over to Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro and .^[1]

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth-place
	3 (1954, 1986, 1994)	3 (1950, 1959, 1982)	4 (1974, 1990, 1998, 2006)	2 (1963, 1967)
#	3 (1970 ★ , 1978, 1990)	3 (1963, 1967, 1974)	2 (1982, 1986)
#	3 (1967, 1974, 1982)	3 (1978, 1986, 1990)	2 (1963, 1970)
	2 (1959, 1963 ★ )	2 (1954 ★ , 1970)	1 (1978)	2 (1950, 1986)
^	2 (1998, 2002)
	1 (1950 ★ )	1 (2002)		1 (2006)
	1 (2006)			1 (1982)
		2 (1994, 1998)
		1 (2006)		2 (1994, 1998 ★ )
			2 (1950, 1959 ★ )
			1 (2002)
			1 (1994)
			1 (1954)
				2 (1970, 1978)
				1 (2002)
				1 (1990)
				1 (1974)
‡				1 (1959)
				1 (1954)

:
★ = ''host''
:^ = ''FIBA considers the records of Yugoslavia different from Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenergro and Serbia.''
:‡ = ''includes records of Formosa''
:# = ''defunct national teams''

Performances by continental zones

Continent	Best performance
Europe	9 gold medals, won by Yugoslavia (5), the USSR (3), and Spain (1)
Americas	6 gold medals, won by USA (3), Brazil (2), and Argentina (1)
Asia	Bronze medal (Philippines)
Oceania	Fourth place (New Zealand)
Africa	Fifth place (Egypt)

Records and statistics

Most Valuable Players

Year	Name
1994	Shaquille O'Neal
1998	Dejan Bodiroga
2002	Dirk Nowitzki
2006	Pau Gasol

Top cumulative scorers

# Oscar Schmidt - 916
# Andrew Gaze - 599
# Drazen Dalipagic - 568
# Marcel De Souza - 550
# Dragan Kicanovic - 484

Top scoring averages

# Nikos Galis - 33.7
# Shin Dong Pa - 32.6
# Arturo Guerrero - 27.0
# Oscar Schmidt - 26.1
# Manuel Raga - 26.1

Top scorers in a single game

# Hue Jae - 62 vs.
# Nikos Galis - 53 vs.
# Oscar Schmidt - 49 vs.
# Jordi Villacampa - 48 vs.
# Oscar Schmidt - 48 vs.

Most number of tournaments played

★ 5 tournaments:

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★ Maciel Ubiratan (41 games)

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★ Phil Smyth (39 games)

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★ Marcel De Souza (38 games)

★ 4 tournaments:

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★ Ray Borner (39 games)

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★ Wlamir Marques (36 games)

References

★ FIBA World Championship History (PDF)

★ Men's World Championship Team History