The 1961 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1961, was the twelfth FIBA EuroBasket regional

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championship, held by

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. Nineteen national teams affiliated with the

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(FIBA) entered the competition. The tournament was hosted by

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, and was held at the Belgrade City Fair.

First round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Second round

Group 1

Group 2

Classification Round

Group 1

Group 2

13th-16th place classification playoffs

17th-19th place classification playoffs

Final round

Medals Round

5th-8th place playoffs

9th-12th place playoffs

Final standings

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Team rosters

1. Soviet Union: Jānis Krūmiņš, Gennadi Volnov,

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, Maigonis Valdmanis, Viktor Zubkov, Armenak Alachachian, Yuri Korneev, Vladimir Ugrekhelidze, Aleksander Petrov,

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, Viacheslav Novikov,

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(Coach: Stepan Spandaryan) 2. Yugoslavia: Radivoj Korać, Ivo Daneu, Slobodan Gordić, Radovan Radović,

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, Vital Eiselt,

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, Marjan Kandus, Miha Lokar, Miodrag Nikolić, Zvonko Petričević,

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(Coach:

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) 3. Bulgaria: Viktor Radev, Mincho Dimov, Ljubomir Panov, Georgi Panov, Atanas Atanasov, Ilija Mirchev, Petko Lazarov,

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, Khristo Tsvetkov, Khristo Donev, Radko Zlatev,

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(Coach:

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) 4. France:

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, Christian Baltzer, Bernard Mayeur,

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, Lucien Sedat,

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, Michel House,

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, Andre Goisbault,

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, Andre Souvre (Coach: André Buffière)

References

External links

EuroBasket 1961 archive.fiba.com
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