1963 FIBA World Championship

1963 FIBA World Championship
4th FIBA World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation Brazil
Dates May 12–25
Teams 13 (from 3 federations)
Champions  Brazil (2nd title)
Tournament leaders
PlayersTeams
Points Peru Ricardo Duarte (23.1)  United States (83.8)
< 1959
1967 >

The 1963 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Brazil. The Philippines was originally supposed to host the tournament with games planned to be held at the 30,000 seat Big Dome in Manila but was revoked of hosting rights after Diosdado Macapagal refused to allow players from Yugoslavia and other communist countries to enter the country. Brazil being the defending Champion and a previous host, fairly manage to re-host the Championship from May 12 to 25, 1963 and won the 1st back to back title with just six (6) games by seeding the well rested host team in the final round only.

Competing nations

Event Date Location Berths Qualified
Original Host nation 0  Philippines
1959 FIBA World Championship/Host nation 16–31 January 1959 Chile Chile 1  Brazil
1960 Summer Olympics 26 August–10 September 1960 Italy Rome 1  United States
EuroBasket 1961 29 April–8 May 1961 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Beograd 3  Soviet Union
 Yugoslavia
 France
South American Basketball Championship 1961 20–30 April 1961 Brazil Rio de Janeiro 3  Peru
 Uruguay
 Argentina
Wild cards 5  Canada
 Mexico
 Puerto Rico
 Italy
 Japan

Suspension

Competition format

Preliminary round

Qualified for the final round

Group A

Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
 Soviet Union 3 3 0 222 177+45 6
 France 3 2 1 200 181+19 5
 Uruguay 3 1 2 195 214−19 4
 Canada 3 0 3 158 203−45 3

Group B

Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
 Yugoslavia 3 3 0 262 208+54 6
 Puerto Rico 3 2 1 234 212+22 5
 Japan 3 1 2 198 231−33 4
 Peru 3 0 3 181 224−43 3
12 May
Yugoslavia  84–67  Peru

Group C

Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
 United States 3 3 0 256 202+54 6
 Italy 3 2 1 258 242+16 5
 Mexico 3 1 2 240 260−20 4
 Argentina 3 0 3 206 256−50 3
12 May
United States  88–74  Mexico
13 May
Argentina  51–81  United States
14 May
United States  87–77  Italy

Classification round

Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
 Argentina 5 4 1 449 414+35 9
 Mexico 5 3 2 389 364+25 8
 Uruguay 5 3 2 376 372+4 8
 Canada 5 3 2 365 375−10 8
 Peru 5 2 3 362 367−5 7
 Japan 5 0 5 377 426−49 5
16 May
Argentina  88–86  Mexico
16 May
Peru  66–59  Canada
22 May
Mexico  87–73  Canada
23 May
Japan  74–78  Canada

Final round

Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
 Brazil 6 6 0 485 411+74 12
 Yugoslavia 6 5 1 472 424+48 11
 Soviet Union 6 4 2 426 399+27 10
 United States 6 3 3 498 433+65 9
 France 6 2 4 369 438−69 8
 Puerto Rico 6 1 5 366 426−60 7
 Italy 6 0 6 407 492−85 6
16 May
United States  73–75  Yugoslavia
17 May
United States  81–61  France
18 May
United States  74–75  Soviet Union
22 May
Puerto Rico  64–88  United States
23 May
Italy  73–101  United States
25 May
Brazil  85–81  United States

Awards

 1963 World Championship Winner 

Brazil
Second title

Final ranking

Rank Team Record
1  Brazil 6–0
2  Yugoslavia 8–1
3  Soviet Union 7–2
4  United States 6–3
5  France 4–5
6  Puerto Rico 3–6
7  Italy 2–7
8  Argentina 4–4
9  Mexico 4–4
10  Uruguay 4–4
11  Canada 3–5
12  Peru 2–6
13  Japan 1–7
=  Philippines Suspended

All-Tournament Team

Top scorers (ppg)

  1. Ricardo Duarte (Peru) 20.3
  2. Aleksander Petrov (USSR) 17.6
  3. Luis Enrique Grajeda (Mexico) 17.5
  4. Radivoj Korać (Yugoslavia) 16.8
  5. Maxime Dorigo (France) 16.8
  6. Alfredo Tulli (Argentina) 16.1
  7. Alberto Desimone (Argentina) 16
  8. Rafael Valle (Puerto Rico) 15.8
  9. Nemanja Djuric (Yugoslavia) 14.6
  10. Paolo Vittori (Italy) 14.3

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