1963 FIBA World Championship
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The 1963 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball
competition hosted by Rio de Janeiro
, Brazil
from May 11 to 23 , 1963.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
competition hosted by Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, 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...
from May 11 to 23 , 1963.
Competing nations
| Group A | Group B | Group C |
|---|---|---|
| - advanced automatically to the final round as host | ||
Preliminary round
| Qualified for the final round | |
| Qualified for the classification round |
Group A
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 222 | 177 | ||
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 200 | 181 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 195 | 214 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 158 | 203 | ||
Group B
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 262 | 208 | ||
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 234 | 212 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 198 | 231 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 181 | 224 | ||
Group C
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 256 | 202 | ||
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 258 | 242 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 240 | 260 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 3 | 206 | 256 | ||
Classification round
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD | | First Tiebreaker Classification for Tied Teams | |Second Tiebreaker Goal Average for Tied Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 4 | 1 | 449 | 414 | ||||
| 8 | 3 | 2 | 389 | 364 | 1-1 | 1.07 | ||
| 8 | 3 | 2 | 376 | 372 | 1-1 | 1.01 | ||
| 8 | 3 | 2 | 365 | 375 | ||||
| 1-1 | 0.92 | |||||||
| 7 | 2 | 3 | 362 | 367 | ||||
| 5 | 0 | 5 | 377 | 426 | ||||
Final round
| Team | Pts. | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 6 | 0 | 485 | 411 | +74 | |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | 473 | 424 | +49 | |
| 10 | 4 | 2 | 426 | 399 | +27 | |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | 498 | 433 | +65 | |
| 8 | 2 | 4 | 369 | 438 | -69 | |
| 7 | 1 | 5 | 366 | 426 | -60 | |
| 6 | 0 | 6 | 407 | 492 | -85 |
Final ranking
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All-Tournament Team
- Amaury PasosAmaury PasosAmaury 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...
(Brazil) - Wlamir MarquesWlamir MarquesWlamir Marques is a retired Brazilian basketball player.On club level, he played for São Vicente, XV de Piracicaba, Corinthians, Tênis Clube Campinas...
(Brazil) - Aleksander Petrov (USSR)
- Don KojisDon KojisDonald R. Kojis was a professional basketball player who attended Marquette University and was drafted by the Chicago Packers in the 2nd round of the 1961 NBA Draft...
(USA) - Maxime Dorigo (France)
Top scorers (ppg)
- Ricardo Duarte (Peru) 20.3
- Aleksander Petrov (USSR) 17.6
- Luis Enrique Grajeda (Mexico) 17.5
- Radivoj KoraćRadivoj KoracRadivoj Korać , sometimes also Radivoje, was a successful Serbian basketball player from Yugoslavia....
(Yugoslavia) 16.8 - Maxime Dorigo (France) 16.8
- Alfredo Tulli (Argentina) 16.1
- Alberto Desimone (Argentina) 16
- Rafael ValleRafael ValleRafael Valle González was a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. In the 1950s and 1960s, he played with the "Cangrejeros de Santurce" and the "Santos de San Juan" teams in the National Basketball League in Puerto Rico.During that time, he was also a member of the Puerto Rican national...
(Puerto Rico) 15.8 - Nemanja Djuric (Yugoslavia) 14.6
- Paolo Vittori (Italy) 14.3