1997 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
1997 EuroBasket Under-16 |
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14th FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship |
Tournament details |
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Host nation |
Belgium |
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Dates |
11–20 July 1997 |
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Teams |
12 (from 1 federations) |
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Champions |
Yugoslavia (6th title) |
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Tournament leaders |
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Official website |
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Official website (archive) |
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The 1997 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (known at that time as 1997 European Championship for Cadets) was the 14th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The cities of Pepinster, Kortrijk and Quaregnon, in Belgium, hosted the tournament. Yugoslavia won the trophy for the sixth time, the first since the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Teams
Qualification
There were two qualifying rounds for this tournament. Twenty-three national teams entered the qualifying round. Fifteen teams advanced to the Challenge Round, where they joined Greece, Macedonia and Italy. The remaining eighteen teams were allocated in three groups of six teams each. The three top teams of each group joined Croatia (title holder), Spain (runner-up) and Belgium (host) in the final tournament.
Preliminary round
The twelve teams were allocated in two groups of six teams each.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
9th–12th playoffs
Championship
5th–8th playoffs
Final standings
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1997 European Championship for Cadets |
Yugoslavia Sixth title |
- Team Roster
Ivan Mičeta, Slobodan Tošić, Ivan Vukadinov, Mladen Šekularac, Andrija Crnogorac, Vladimir Tica, Marko Peković, Vladimir Rončević, Sreten Lakonić, Predrag Stojić, Miljan Pavković, and Petar Jovanović.
Head Coach: Veselin Matić. |
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References
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| Division A | | Tournaments | |
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| Qualification |
- 1971
- 1973
- 1975
- 1977
- 1979
- 1981
- 1983
- 1985
- 1987
- 1989
- 1991
- 1993
- 1995
- 1997
- 1999
- 2001
- 2003
- 2004–2015 not held
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| | Division B | | Tournaments |
- Italy 1971
- Italy 1973
- Greece 1975
- France 1977
- Syria 1979
- Greece 1981
- Germany 1983
- Bulgaria 1985
- Hungary 1987
- Spain 1989
- Greece 1991
- Turkey 1993
- Portugal 1995
- Belgium 1997
- Slovenia 1999
- Latvia 2001
- Spain 2003
- Greece 2004
- Spain 2005
- Spain 2006
- Greece 2007
- Italy 2008
- Lithuania 2009
- Montenegro 2010
- Czech Republic 2011
- Lithuania 2012
- Ukraine 2013
- Latvia 2014
- Bulgaria 2015
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| Note: Under-20/21 tourneys except FIBA Europe's are no longer held. |
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