The 1963 FIBA World Championship was the 4th

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, the international

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world championship for men's teams. The competition was hosted by

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. The Philippines was originally supposed to host the tournament but FIBA revoked hosting rights after the country refused to grant visas to players from communist countries.

being the defending Champion and a previous host, fairly managed to re-host the Championship from 12 to 25 May 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.

Background

The Philippines was supposed to host the FIBA World Championship in 1962 but FIBA revoked hosting rights after the government of then President

Diosdado Macapagal Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr. (; September 28, 1910 – April 21, 1997) was a Filipino lawyer, poet and politician who served as the ninth president of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth vice president, serving from 19 ...

, refused to grant visas to players and officials of socialists countries including Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. The FIBA World Championship was held in 1963 in Brazil.

Competing nations

Suspension

* FIBA suspended the original host country

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after Philippine President

refused to allow players from Yugoslavia and other communist countries to enter the host country.

being the defending Champion and a previous host, fairly managed to re-host the Championship. Later, the Philippines, despite being the Asian champion, was forced to play in a pre-Olympic tournament in order to qualify in the

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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 1960 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

Final rankings

All-Tournament Team

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(Brazil) *

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- (

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) (Brazil) * Aleksander Petrov (USSR) *

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(USA) *

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(France)

Top scorers (ppg)

# Ricardo Duarte (Peru) 23.1 # Aleksander Petrov (USSR) 17.6 # Luis Enrique Grajeda (Mexico) 17.5 #

Radivoj Korać Radivoj Korać ( sr-cyrl, Радивој Кораћ; 5 November 1938 – 2 June 1969) was a Serbian and Yugoslav professional basketball player. He represented the Yugoslavia national basketball team internationally. Korać is well-known f ...

(Yugoslavia) 16.8 #

(France) 16.8 #

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(Argentina) 16.1 # Alberto Desimone (Argentina) 16 # Rafael Valle (Puerto Rico) 15.8 # Nemanja Djuric (Yugoslavia) 14.6 #

Paolo Vittori Paolo Vittori (born 31 May 1938) is a retired Italian professional basketball player and coach. In 2006, he was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame. Professional career Vittori was a member of the FIBA European Selection, in 196 ...

(Italy) 14.3

References

External links

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