FIBA World Championship - Simple English Wikipedia

# FIBA World Championship

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

## [edit] Tournaments

Year | Host Country/City |  | Gold medal game |  | Bronze medal game
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place
1950 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Finished 1st in Final group | United States | Chile | Finished 3rd in Final group | Brazil
1954 Details | Rio de Janeiro | United States | Finished 1st in Final group | Brazil | Philippines | Finished 3rd in Final group | France
1959 | Santiago | Brazil | Finished 1st in Final group | United States | Chile | Finished 3rd in Final group | Formosa
1963 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Finished 1st in Final group | Yugoslavia | Soviet Union | Finished 3rd in Final group | United States
1967 | Montevideo | Soviet Union | Finished 1st in Final group | Yugoslavia | Brazil | Finished 3rd in Final group | United States
1970 | Ljubljana | Yugoslavia | Finished 1st in Final group | Brazil | Soviet Union | Finished 3rd in Final group | Italy
1974 | San Juan | Soviet Union | Finished tied for 1st in Final group, won via points difference | Yugoslavia | United States | Finished tied for 1st in Final group, lost via points difference | Cuba
1978 | Manila | Yugoslavia | 82-81 (OT) | Soviet Union | Brazil | 86-85 | Italy
1982 | Cali | Soviet Union | 95-94 | United States | Yugoslavia | 119-117 | Spain
1986 | Madrid | United States | 87-85 | Soviet Union | Yugoslavia | 117-91 | Brazil
1990 | Buenos Aires | Yugoslavia | 92-75 | Soviet Union | United States | 107-105 | Puerto Rico
1994 Details | Toronto | United States | 137-91 | Russia | Croatia | 78-60 | Greece
1998 Details | Athens | Yugoslavia | 64-62 | Russia | United States | 84-61 | Greece
2002 Details | Indianapolis | Yugoslavia | 84-77 (OT) | Argentina | Germany | 117-94 | New Zealand
2006 Details | Japan | Spain | 70-47 | Greece | United States | 96-81 | Argentina
2010 Details | Turkey |  |  |  |  |  |

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