The 1983 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1983, was the 23rd
FIBA EuroBasket
EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the E ...
regional
basketball
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championship, held by
FIBA Europe
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. It took place from 26 May to 4 June 1983 in
France
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.
Italy
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defeated
Spain
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in the final to win their first title.
Venues
Qualification
A total of twelve teams qualified for the tournament. To the top eight teams from the
previous tournament, four more teams were granted berths via a qualifying tournament.
*Top eight teams from
Eurobasket 1981:
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*Top four teams from the qualifying stage:
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Squads
Format
*The teams were split in two groups of six teams each. The top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals (A1 vs. B2, A2 vs. B1). The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, and the losers figure in a third-place playoff.
*The third and fourth teams from each group competed in the same manner in a separate bracket to define places 5th through 8th in the final standings. The same was done with the last two teams from each group to define 9th through 12th place.
Preliminary round
Group A
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As standard time (year-round)
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Group B
Knockout stage
Classification rounds
9th to 12th place
5th to 8th place
Championship bracket
Awards
Final standings
References
External links
1983 European Championship for Menarchive.FIBA.com
* LinguaSport.com
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