The 1985 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1985, was the 24th
FIBA EuroBasket regional
basketball
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championship, held by
FIBA Europe
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. It took place from 5 to 16 June 1985 in
West Germany
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. The
Soviet Union
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defeated
Czechoslovakia
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in the final to win their fourteenth and final 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 1983:
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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 four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals. The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, and the losers figure in a third-place playoff.
*The losers from the quarterfinals stage compete in a separate bracket to define places 5th through 8th in the final standings.
*The fifth and sixth teams from each group competed in another bracket to define places 9th through 12th in the final standings.
Preliminary round
Group A
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Group B
Knockout stage
Championship bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third place
Final
5th to 8th place
9th to 12th place
Awards
Final standings
References
External links
1985 European Championship for Menarchive.FIBA.com.
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1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...
1984–85 in European basketball
International basketball competitions hosted by West Germany
1985 in West German sport
June 1985 sports events in Europe