1967 FIBA World Championship
| 1967 FIBA World Championship |
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5th FIBA World Championship |
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| Host nation |
Uruguay |
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| Dates |
May 27 – June 11 |
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| Teams |
12 (from ? federations) |
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| Venues |
5 (in 4 host cities) |
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| Champions |
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| MVP |
 Ivo Daneu |
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| Tournament leaders |
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| Official website |
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1967 FIBA World Championship |
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The 1967 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Montevideo, Uruguay from May 27 to June 11, 1967.
Venues
Competing nations
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 1964 Olympic champion, and the host team play each other once. The team with the best record wins the championship.
Preliminary round
| | Qualified for the final round |
| | Qualified for the classification round |
Group A
Group B
Group C
Classification round
Final round
Awards
Final ranking
All-Tournament Team
Top scorers (ppg)
- Bohdan Likszo (Poland) 20
- Mieczyslaw Lopatka (Poland) 19
- Luis Claudio Menon (Brazil) 19
- Ernesto Ghermann (Argentina) 18.2
- Gianfranco Lombardi (Italy) 17.3
- Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (Brazil) 16.5
- Manuel Raga (Mexico) 16.1
- Radivoj Korać (Yugoslavia) 14.8
- Modestas Paulauskas (USSR) 14
- Ivo Daneu (Yugoslavia) 14
References
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| | | | Tournaments | |
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| | Qualification | Per tournament |
- 1950
- 1954
- 1959
- 1963
- 1967
- 1970
- 1974
- 1978
- 1982
- 1986
- 1990
- 1994
- 1998
- 2002
- 2006
- 2010
- 2014
- 2019
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| Per confederation | |
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| | Finals |
- 1950
- 1954
- 1959
- 1963
- 1967
- 1970
- 1974
- 1978
- 1982
- 1986
- 1990
- 1994
- 1998
- 2002
- 2006
- 2010
- 2014
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| | Squads | |
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| From 1950 to 1974, the championship was decided in a round-robin medal round. Since 1978, the medal round has been conducted in a knockout format.
The 1962 championship was cancelled. |
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Uruguay – advanced automatically to the final round as host
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Mexico
Italy
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Argentina
Peru
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Brazil
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Paraguay
