The 1974 FIBA World Championship was the 7th
FIBA World Championship
The FIBA Basketball World Cup, also known as the FIBA World Cup of Basketball or simply the FIBA World Cup, between 1950 and 2010 known as the FIBA World Championship, is an international basketball competition contested by the senior men's nat ...
, the international
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
world championship for men's teams. It was hosted by
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...
from July 3 to 14, 1974. The tournament was won by the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
.
Venues
Competing nations
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Classification round
Final round
Awards
Final rankings
All-Tournament Team
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Alexander Belov
Alexander Alexandrovich Belov, commonly known as Sasha Belov (November 9, 1951 – October 3, 1978), was a Soviet basketball player. During his playing career, he played at the center position. Belov is most remembered for scoring the game- ...
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Vinko Jelovac
Vinko Jelovac (alternate spelling: Vinto Jelovac) (born 18 November 1948 in Pazin, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia) is a former Slovenian-Croatian professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 2.08 m (6'10") tall, and a weight of 95 kg (210 lbs ...
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Wayne Brabender
Wayne Donald Brabender Cole (born October 16, 1945) is an American-born Spanish retired professional basketball player and coach. He acquired Spanish citizenship in 1968, relinquishing his U.S. citizenship to qualify for the Spanish national t ...
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Alejandro Urgelles
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Alexander Salnikov
Aleksandr Petrovych Salnikov ( uk, Олександр Петрович Сальников; 3 July 1949 – 17 November 2017) was a Ukrainian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics
Events Ja ...
Top scorers (ppg)
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Arturo Guerrero
Arturo Guerrero Moreno (born 30 August 1948) is a Mexican former basketball player and coach. With Mexico's senior national team, he played at two Summer Olympic Games (1968 and 1976). Due to his shooting ability, he was nicknamed "Mano Santa ...
(Mexico) 27.0
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Manuel Raga
Manuel "Manolo" Raga Navarro (born March 14, 1944) is a Mexican former professional basketball player. During his playing career, he was nicknamed, "The Flying Mexican", due to his nationality and his one of a kind 43 inch standing (no step) vert ...
(Mexico) 26.1
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Eddie Palubinskas (Australia) 24.8
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Wayne Brabender
Wayne Donald Brabender Cole (born October 16, 1945) is an American-born Spanish retired professional basketball player and coach. He acquired Spanish citizenship in 1968, relinquishing his U.S. citizenship to qualify for the Spanish national t ...
(Spain) 23.0
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Ernesto Gehrmann (Argentina) 22.3
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Luther Burden (United States) 20.2
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John Lucas (United States) 20.2
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Dragan Kićanović
Dragan Kićanović ( sr, Драган Кићановић; born 17 August 1953) is a Serbian and Yugoslav retired professional basketball player.
A 1.92m (6 ft 3 in) tall shooting guard, Kićanović played in the 1970s and 1980s, and is cons ...
(Yugoslavia) 19.8
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Alejandro Urgelles (Cuba) 19.3
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William Adornado (Philippines) 18.0
References
External links
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1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
1974 in basketball
1974 in Puerto Rican sports
International basketball competitions hosted by Puerto Rico