Stamp of Brazil - 1959 - Colnect 264406 - Brazil World Champion Basketball

The 1959 FIBA World Championship was the 3rd

FIBA World Championship The FIBA Basketball World Cup, also known as the FIBA World Cup of Basketball or simply the FIBA World Cup, between 1950 and 2010 known as the FIBA World Championship, is an international basketball competition contested by the senior men's nat ...

, the international

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world championship for men's teams. It was hosted by

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from 16 to 31 January 1959. Amaury Antônio Pasos was named the MVP. The hosting cities for the competition were

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, Concepción,

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, with the final stages being held at the capital of

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. The final stages were supposed to be held at the newly constructed Metropolitan Indoor Stadium, but because the venue was not finished in time the games were postponed by a year from the original date and moved outdoors to the Estadio Nacional de Chile, configured in a way that the games were seen by a crowd of 16,000.

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: ** First round: Two groups of three teams (A1, B2, C1 and A2, B1, C2) play each other once. ** Second round: Top teams from each group play for eighth, second placers play for tenth, and last placers play for twelfth. * Final round: All top two from preliminary round group play each other once. The team with the best record wins the championship.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Classification round

First round

Group D

Group E

Second round

Twelfth place playoff

Tenth place playoff

Eighth place playoff

Final round

Awards

Final rankings

Top scorers (points per game)

# James T. L. Chen (Formosa) 20.1 # Juan "Pachin" Vicens (Puerto Rico) 19.7 # Wlamir Marques (Brazil) 18.6 # Jerry Vayda (USA) 18 # Lio Jin Ron (Formosa) 16.7 # Dick Welsh (USA) 16.4 #

Viktor Radev Viktor Bonev Radev ( Bulgarian: Виктор Бонев Радев) (November 19, 1936 – August 31, 2014) was a Bulgarian basketball player. He was born in Maritsa Municipality, Bulgaria. He was a 1.96 m (6'5") tall forward. Club career R ...

(Bulgaria) 15.25 # Amaury Pasos (Brazil) 15.22 # Jose Angel Cestero (Puerto Rico) 14.3 # Evelio Droz (Puerto Rico) 13.7

All-Tournament team

* Juan Vicéns * Amaury Pasos - (

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) * Wlamir Marques * Atanas Atanasov *

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References

External links

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FIBA profile

FIBA Basketball World Cup International basketball competitions hosted by Chile

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1959 in Chilean sport