1963 FIBA World Championship

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The 1963 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from May 11 to 23, 1963.

Contents 1 Competing nations 2 Preliminary round 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 2.3 Group C 3 Classification round 4 Final round 5 Final ranking 6 All-Tournament Team 7 Top scorers (ppg)

[edit] Competing nations

Group A	Group B	Group C
Canada  France  Soviet Union  Uruguay	Japan  Peru  Puerto Rico  Yugoslavia	Argentina  Italy  Mexico  USA
Brazil - advanced automatically to the final round as host

[edit] Preliminary round

	Qualified for the final round
	Qualified for the classification round

[edit] Group A

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

France

64 – 54

Uruguay

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Soviet Union

58 – 45

Canada

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Canada

56 – 66

Uruguay

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

France

57 – 70

Soviet Union

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Canada

57 – 79

France

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Uruguay

75 – 94

Soviet Union

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Yugoslavia	6	3	0	262	208	+54
Puerto Rico	5	2	1	234	212	+22
Japan	4	1	2	198	231	-33
Peru	3	0	3	181	224	-43

Yugoslavia

84 – 67

Peru

Curitiba, Brazil

Puerto Rico

86 – 45

Japan

Curitiba, Brazil

Puerto Rico

70 – 64

Peru

Curitiba, Brazil

Japan

63 – 95

Yugoslavia

Curitiba, Brazil

Peru

50 – 70

Japan

Curitiba, Brazil

Puerto Rico

78 – 83

Yugoslavia

Curitiba, Brazil

[edit] Group C

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
USA	6	3	0	256	202	+54
Italy	5	2	1	258	242	+16
Mexico	4	1	2	240	260	-20
Argentina	3	0	3	206	256	-50

USA

88 – 74

Mexico

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Italy

91 – 73

Argentina

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Mexico

82 – 90

Italy

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Argentina

51 – 81

USA

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Mexico

84 – 82

Argentina

Sao Paulo, Brazil

USA

87 – 77

Italy

Sao Paulo, Brazil

[edit] Classification round

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD	First Tiebreaker Classification for Tied Teams	Second Tiebreaker Goal Average for Tied Teams
Argentina	9	4	1	449	414	+35
Mexico	8	3	2	389	364	+25	1-1	1.07
Uruguay	8	3	2	376	372	+4	1-1	1.01
Canada	8	3	2	365	375	-10	1-1	0.92
Peru	7	2	3	362	367	-5
Japan	5	0	5	377	426	-49

[edit] Final round

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Brazil	12	6	0	485	411	+74
Yugoslavia	11	5	1	473	424	+49
Soviet Union	10	4	2	426	399	+27
USA	9	3	3	498	433	+65
France	8	2	4	369	438	-69
Puerto Rico	7	1	5	366	426	-60
Italy	6	0	6	407	492	-85

[edit] Final ranking

Rank	Team
1	Brazil
2	Yugoslavia
3	USSR
4	United States
5	France
6	Puerto Rico
7	Italy
8	Argentina
9	Mexico
10	Uruguay
11	Canada
12	Peru
13	Japan

[edit] All-Tournament Team

• Amaury Pasos (Brazil)
• Wlamir Marques (Brazil)
• Aleksander Petrov (USSR)
• Don Kojis (USA)
• Maxime Dorigo (France)

[edit] Top scorers (ppg)

1. Ricardo Duarte (Peru) 20.3
2. Aleksander Petrov (USSR) 17.6
3. Luis Enrique Grajeda (Mexico) 17.5
4. Radivoj Korac (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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