The 1999 Tournament of the Americas, later known as the FIBA Americas Championship and the FIBA AmeriCup (also known as Las Americas Tournament for Men, the FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Tournament, or Panamerican Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men), was a
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
championship hosted by
Puerto Rico
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, from July 14 to July 25, 1999. The games were played in
San Juan, at the
Roberto Clemente Coliseum
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General info ...
. This
FIBA AmeriCup
The FIBA AmeriCup (previously known as the FIBA Americas Championship) is the Americas Basketball Championship that takes place every four years between national teams of the Western Hemisphere continents.
Since FIBA organised the entire West ...
was to earn the two berths allocated to the Americas for the
2000 Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
, in
Sydney,
Australia. The
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
won the tournament, the country's fourth AmeriCup championship.
Qualification
Eight teams qualified during the qualification tournaments held in their respective zones in 1999; two teams (USA and Canada) qualified automatically since they are the only members of the North America zone.
* North America: ,
*
Caribbean and Central America:, , ,
* South America: , , ,
The draw split the tournament into two groups:
Group A
Group B
Format
* The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals.
* Results and standings among teams within the same group are carried over.
* The top four teams at the quarterfinals advance to the semifinals (1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3).
* The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final and were granted berths in the
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
tournament in
Sydney. The losers figure in a third-place playoff.
Squads
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Quarterfinal group
The top four teams in both Group A and Group B advanced to the quarterfinal group. Then each team played the four from the other group once to complete a full round robin. Records from the preliminary groups carried over.
Knockout stage
Awards
Final standings
References
External links
FIBA Americas 1999 - Men Basketball Latinbasket.com.
FIBA.com.
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FIBA AmeriCup
1999 in Puerto Rican sports
International basketball competitions hosted by Puerto Rico
1999–2000 in North American basketball
1999–2000 in South American basketball
July 1999 sports events in North America