The 1975 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1975, was the nineteenth
FIBA EuroBasket
EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the E ...
regional
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, held by
FIBA Europe.
Venues
First round
Group A – Split
Group B – Karlovac
Group C – Rijeka
Second round
Places 7 – 12
Places 1 – 6 in Belgrade
Final standings
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Awards
Team rosters
1. Yugoslavia:
Krešimir Ćosić
Krešimir "Krešo" Ćosić (; 26 November 1948 – 25 May 1995) was a Croatian-Yugoslavian professional basketball player and coach. He was a collegiate All-American at Brigham Young University. He revolutionized basketball in Yugoslavia and w ...
,
Dražen Dalipagić
Dražen "Praja" Dalipagić (; born 27 November 1951) is a Serbian former professional basketball player and head coach. He was selected the best athlete of Yugoslavia in the year 1978, and is one of the most decorated athletes in Yugoslavian his ...
,
Mirza Delibašić
Mirza Delibašić (9 January 1954 – 8 December 2001) was a Bosnian professional basketball player and coach.
Delibašić was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. He was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2008, he w ...
,
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 ...
,
Zoran Slavnić
Zoran "Moka" Slavnić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Мока Славнић; born 26 October 1949) is a Serbian retired professional basketball player and coach. He played with Crvena zvezda and with Partizan. One of the best European point guar ...
,
Nikola Plećaš
Nikola Plećaš (born January 10, 1948) is a former Yugoslavian professional basketball player. At a height of 1.88 m (6'2") tall, and a weight of 86 kg (190 lbs.), he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.
He was considered to ...
,
Željko Jerkov
Željko Jerkov (born 6 November 1953, in Pula) is a former Croatian professional basketball player. At a height of 2.08 m (6'10") tall, and a weight of 95 kg (210 lbs.), he played at the center position.
Professional career
Jerkov was a member o ...
,
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 ...
,
Damir Šolman
Damir Šolman (born 7 September 1948) is a Croatian former professional basketball player.
Professional career
Šolman was a FIBA European Selection, in 1974.
National team career
Šolman competed with the senior Yugoslavian national basketball ...
,
Rato Tvrdić
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,
Rajko Žižić
Rajko Žižić (January 22, 1955 – August 7, 2003) was a Yugoslavian professional basketball player. The 6'11", 243-pounder represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics, the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 S ...
,
Dragan Kapičić (Coach:
Mirko Novosel
Mirko Novosel (born 30 June 1938) is a Croatian former professional basketball coach and player.
Novosel coached some of the greatest players in former Yugoslavia and Croatia, such as Croatian Hall of Fame players Krešimir Ćosić and Dražen Pe ...
)
2. Soviet Union:
Sergei Belov
Sergei Alexandrovich Belov (russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Бело́в; 23 January 1944 – 3 October 2013) was a Russian professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the senior Sovi ...
,
Alexander Belov,
Ivan Edeshko,
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov
Alzhan Musurbekuly Zharmukhamedov (alternate spelling: Alzan Zarmuhamedov) ( kk, Әлжан Мүсірбекұлы Жармұхамедов, ''Áljan Músirbekuly Jarmuhamedov''; russian: Алжан Мусурбекович Жармухамедо ...
,
Mikheil Korkia
Mikheil Korkia ( ka, მიხეილ ქორქია) (10 September 1948 – 7 February 2004) was a Georgian-Soviet basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Basketball con ...
,
Aleksander Sidjakin,
Valeri Miloserdov,
Yuri Pavlov,
Aleksander Boloshev,
Aleksander Salnikov,
Vladimir Zhigili,
Aleksander Bolshakov (Coach:
Vladimir Kondrashin
Vladimir Petrovich Kondrashin (; 14 January 1929 in Leningrad, Soviet Union – 23 December 1999 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian professional basketball player and coach. He was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007. ...
)
3. Italy:
Dino Meneghin
Dino Meneghin (, ; born 18 January 1950) is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is widely considered to be the best Italian player ever, as well as one of Europe's all-time greats. A 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall center, Meneghi ...
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Pierluigi Marzorati,
Carlo Recalcati
Carlo Recalcati (born September 11, 1945 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian professional basketball coach, and a former player.
He was the head coach of the senior Italian national basketball team, from 2001 to 2009, and led them to the silver medal ...
,
Renzo Bariviera,
Renato Villalta,
Ivan Bisson,
Lorenzo Carraro,
Fabrizio della Fiori,
Marino Zanatta
Marino Zanatta (born 8 February 1947) is a retired Italian professional basketball player. In 2014, he was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame.
Professional career
Zanatta was a four time EuroLeague champion (1972, 1973, 1975, 19 ...
,
Gianni Bertolotti,
Giulio Iellini,
Vittorio Ferracini (Coach:
Giancarlo Primo
Giancarlo Primo (November 4, 1924, Rome – December 27, 2005, Civita Castellana, Italy) was an Italian professional basketball player and coach. He was a coach of the FIBA European Selection team in 1974, 1975, and 1976. In 2001, he was awarded ...
)
4. Spain:
Juan Antonio Corbalán
Juan Antonio Corbalán Alfocea (born August 3, 1954) is a Spanish retired professional basketball player. The 6 ft. in. (1.84 m) tall. Corbalán was one of the best European point guards of the 1980s. He represented his native country in t ...
,
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 ...
,
Clifford Luyk
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,
Rafael Rullan,
Luis Miguel Santillana,
Manuel Flores,
Carmelo Cabrera,
Cristóbal Rodríguez
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* Cristóbal Cobo (born 1976), Chilean academic
* C ...
,
Jesus Iradier,
Miguel Angel Lopez Abril,
Juan Filba,
Miguel Angel Estrada (Coach:
Antonio Díaz-Miguel
Antonio Díaz-Miguel Sanz (July 6, 1933 – February 21, 2000) was a Spanish professional basketball player and coach. He studied in Madrid, and graduated from the University of Bilbao.
A pioneer in the worldwide promotion of basketball, he w ...
)
References
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Sport in Karlovac
June 1975 sports events in Europe
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