The 1970 FIBA World Championship was the 6th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. It was hosted by Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, Split, Karlovac, Skopje and Ljubljana, from 10 to 24 May 1970. It was the first FIBA World Championship hosted outside of South America.
Competing nations EventDateLocationBerthsQualifiedhost nation11968 Summer Olympics13-25 October 1968 Mexico City1EuroBasket 196927 September–5 October 1969 Caserta/Naples2South American Basketball Championship 196916-26 March 1969 Montevideo2Centrobasket 196929 October-7 November 1969 Havana21969 ABC Championship18-29 November 1969 Bangkok1FIBA Africa Championship 19709-15 March 1970 Cairo 1Wild cards3
Group AGroup BGroup C – advanced automatically to the final round as host
Venues Group A Group B Group C Classification round Final round Sarajevo Karlovac Split Skopje Ljubljana Dvorana Skenderija Sportska Dvorana Mladost Mala dvorana Gripe Sala Gradski Park Hala Tivoli Capacity: 5,500 Capacity: 4,000 Capacity: 3,500 Capacity: 1,400 Capacity: 7,000
Preliminary round Group A
Group B
Group C
Classification round
Final round
Final standings
Rank Team Record 5–1 7–2 7–2 4 5–4 5 6–3 6 4–5 7 2–7 8 6–2 9 4–4 10 3–5 11 4–4 12 1–7 13 0-8
Most Valuable Player Sergei Belov
Team Roster Ratomir Tvrdić, Ljubodrag Simonović, Vinko Jelovac, Trajko Rajković, Aljoša Žorga, Dragan Kapičić, Ivo Daneu, Krešimir Ćosić, Damir Šolman, Nikola Plećaš, Dragutin Čermak, and Petar Skansi. Head coach: Ranko Žeravica.
All-Tournament Team
Krešimir Ćosić (Yugoslavia) Sergei Belov - (MVP) (Soviet Union) Modestas Paulauskas (Soviet Union) Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (Brazil) Kenny Washington (USA)
Top scorers (ppg) Shin Dong-Pa (South Korea) 32.6 Omar Arrestia (Uruguay) 19.7 Pedro Rivas (Panama) 18.8 Davis Peralta (Panama) 18.8 Jiri Zidek Sr. (Czechoslovakia) 18.6 Pedro Chappe Garcia (Cuba) 17.9 Lee In-Pyo (South Korea) 17.8 Krešimir Ćosić (Yugoslavia) 17.3 Luiz Cláudio Menon (Brazil) 16.9 Bob Molinski (Canada) 16.8
References
External links
Obeležili šampionsku titulu od pre 40 godina: Daneu okupio zlatne momke;Blic, 12 December 2010