The 1967 FIBA World Championship was the 5th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. It was hosted by Montevideo, Uruguay from 27 May to 11 June 1967.
Venues Group City Arena Capacity Group A Mercedes Gimnasio de Praga – Group B Montevideo Peñarol Palace 10,000 Group C Salto Gimnasio de Salto – Classification round Córdoba Córdoba Sport Club – Final round Montevideo Cilindro Municipal 18,000
Competing nations Group AGroup BGroup C – advanced automatically to the final round as host
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 Group A
Group B
Group C
Classification round
Final round
Awards
Most Valuable Player Ivo Daneu
Final standings Rank Team Record 1 8–1 2 6–3 3 7–2 4 7–2 5 4–5 6 3–6 7 1–5 8 6–2 9 4–4 10 4–4 11 2–6 12 2–6 13 0–8
All-Tournament Team
Radivoj Korać (Yugoslavia) Ivo Daneu - (MVP) (Yugoslavia) Mieczyslaw Lopatka (Poland) Modestas Paulauskas (USSR) Luiz Cláudio Menon (Brazil)
Top scorers (ppg)
Mieczyslaw Lopatka (Poland) 19.7 Bohdan Likszo (Poland) 19.3 Luiz Cláudio Menon (Brazil) 18.6 Ernesto Ghermann (Argentina) 18.3 Gianfranco Lombardi (Italy) 17.5 Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (Brazil) 15.9 Manuel Raga (Mexico) 15.6 Radivoj Korać (Yugoslavia) 14.6 Arturo Guerrero (Mexico) 14.4 Ivo Daneu (Yugoslavia) 14.0
References
External links
1967 World Cup