The 1959 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1959, was the eleventh
FIBA EuroBasket
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regional
basketball
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championship, held by FIBA Europe. The tournament, which was hosted by
Turkey
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, began on 21 May 1959 and concluded with the final on 31 May 1959. Seventeen national teams affiliated with the
International Basketball Federation
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Soviet Union
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France
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the bronze.
Results
First round
In the preliminary round, the 17 teams were split up into four groups. One of the groups had five teams, with the other three having four each. The top two teams in each group advanced to the final round, while the other nine teams were relegated to classification play.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Classification round 1
The first classification round was played in three round-robin groups. The first place from each group advanced to the second round to define the 9th–11th places, the second from each group, the 12th–14th and the remaining teams, the 14–17th places in the final standings.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Classification round 2
Group 1 (9th–11th Place)
Group 2 (12th–14th Place)
Group 3 (15th–17th Place)
Semi-Final round
The Semi-Final round consisted of two round-robin groups, where the top two from each one advanced to the Final Round to decide the first four places in the final standings, and the remaining teams, the 5th–8th places.
Group 1
Group 2
Final round
*Two groups of four teams determined the 1st–8th places. Results from matches between teams that shared a group in Semi-Final round were carried over to this round (i.e. Soviet Union vs. Hungary, France vs. Czechoslovakia, etc.).
Group 1 (1st–4th Place)
Group 2 (5th–8th Place)
Final standings
Team rosters
1. Soviet Union:
Jānis Krūmiņš
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Gennadi Volnov
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Maigonis Valdmanis
Maigonis Valdmanis (September 8, 1933 – October 30, 1999) was a Soviet and Latvian basketball player and coach. He was born in Riga.
He played for Rīgas ASK and won three Euroleague titles (1958, 1959, 1960) and four Soviet national league c ...
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Valdis Muižnieks
Valdis Muižnieks (February 22, 1935 – November 29, 2013) was a Latvian basketball player.
Muižnieks was born in Riga. He played for Rīgas ASK and won 3 Euroleague titles (1958, 1959, 1960) and 4 Soviet national championships (1955, 1956 ...
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Viktor Zubkov
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Arkady Bochkarov
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Yuri Korneev
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Guram Minashvili
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The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpi ...
Vladimir Torban
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Mikhail Studenetski
Mikhail Vladimirovich Studenetsky (russian: Михаил Владимирович Студенецкий; 6 March 1934 – 1 March 2021) was a Soviet basketball player.
Biography
Studenetsky was a point guard of the Soviet team between 1954 and ...
Jiří Baumruk
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Club career
Baumruk spent his club career playing with Slavia Prague (1952–1953), and namely with Sparta Prague (1950–1951, 1954–196 ...
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František Konvička
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Miroslav Škeřík
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Club playing ca ...
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Jaroslav Šíp
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Boris Lukášik
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Henri Grange
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Maxime Dorigo
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Philippe Baillet
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1940 births
2015 deaths
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Olympic baske ...
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Christian Baltzer
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Jean-Claude Lefebvre
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Bernard Mayeur
Bernard Eugène Mayeur (23 February 1938 – 11 January 2004) was a French basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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Henri Villecourt
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(Coach:
Robert Busnel
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4. Hungary:
János Greminger
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Tibor Zsíros
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A native of Budapest
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Tibor Czinkán
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János Páder
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9. Yugoslavia:
Miodrag Nikolić
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Marjan Kandus
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Slobodan Gordić
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Milutin Minja
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Ivo Daneu
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Nemanja Đurić
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Radivoj Korać
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Radovan Radović
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Radović playe ...
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Boris Kristančič
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He spent most of his career at the AŠK Olimpija i ...
(Coach:
Aleksandar Nikolić
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1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...