The 1970 FIBA World Championship was the 6th

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world championship for men's teams. It was hosted by

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, Split,

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, from 10 to 24 May 1970.VI World Cup (Ljubljana 1970)
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Competing nations

Venues

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Classification round

Final round

Final rankings

All-Tournament Team

* Krešimir Ćosić (Yugoslavia) * Sergei Belov - ( MVP) (Soviet Union) * Modestas Paulauskas (Soviet Union) *

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(Brazil) * Kenny Washington (U.S.)

Top scorers (ppg)

# Shin Dong-Pa (South Korea) 32.6 # Davis Peralta (Panama) 20 # Jiri Zidek Sr. (Czechoslovakia) 19.3 # Pedro Chappe Garcia (Cuba) 18.5 # Pedro Rivas (Panama) 18.5 # Lee In-Pyo (South Korea) 18 # Omar Arrestia (Uruguay) 17.7 #

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(Brazil) 17.3 # Bob Molinski (Canada) 17.1 # Victor Hernandez (Uruguay) 16.5

References

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