Torneo de las Americas 1980

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Torneo de las Américas 1980 (Preolympico)
English 1980 Tournament of the Americas
1st American Basketball Championship
Number of nations 7  (of 41 applicants)
FIBA American Champion Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Puerto Rico (1st title)
venue Puerto RicoPuerto Rico San Juan
Opening game April 18, 1980
Endgame April 25, 1980
Games   21st

The Torneo de las Américas 1980 ( English The 1980 Tournament of the Americas ) is the first edition of the American basketball championship and took place from April 18 to 25, 1980 in the Puerto Rican capital San Juan . The tournament, which was held for the first time, was about qualifying the national teams of the continental association FIBA America, which had been founded five years earlier, for the basketball tournament at the 1980 Olympic Games . In retrospect, the tournament was included in the order of the American championships and counted as the continental championship for national teams of the men of FIBA ​​America. Of the seven participating teams in the end, the three medal winners qualified directly for the Olympic Games. The United States' selection automatically qualified as gold medalists at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Tournament and defending champions and did not participate in the qualifying tournament. A week before the start of the Olympic qualification, the United States Olympic Committee decided to boycott the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow . Until the beginning of the Olympic Games in 1980, all medal winners of the Olympic elimination in the continental association FIBA ​​America joined this boycott, so that ultimately Brazil and Cuba were invited to the Olympic tournament as teams of FIBA ​​America .

Attendees

There was a regional qualification according to the sub-zones of the continental association. In addition to the two national teams of the North American subzone and host Puerto Rico, the medal winners of the South American championships were qualified. From the Central American zone, the top-ranked teams in the basketball competition of the Pan American Games in 1979 took part, with the selection of Panama not taking part in the competition, as did the originally already qualified selection of the United States from the North American zone.

North America

Central America & Caribbean

South America

mode

The tournament was held as a round-robin tournament. The three medal winners had a starting place for the basketball tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. With the same number of wins, a direct comparison in the ranking of the placements counted .

Final round

nation Sp S. N P + P- Puerto RicoPuerto Rico CanadaCanada ArgentinaArgentina Brazil 1968Brazil MexicoMexico CubaCuba UruguayUruguay
1. Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico  6th 5 1 651 535 84 : 67 99 : 93 93: 99 134 : 104 113 : 88 128 : 84
2. CanadaCanadaCanada  6th 5 1 544 476 67: 84 89 : 86 98 : 81 102 : 79 77 : 74 111 : 72
3. ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina  6th 4th 2 584 526 93: 99 86: 89 118 : 98 104 : 79 86 : 75 97 : 86
4. Brazil *Brazil 1968Brazil  6th 4th 2 543 557 99 : 93 81: 98 98: 118 92 : 90 78 : 76 95 : 82
5. MexicoMexicoMexico  6th 2 4th 538 589 104: 134 79: 102 79: 104 90: 92 88 : 70 98 : 87
6. Cuba *CubaCuba  6th 1 5 486 523 88: 113 74: 77 75: 86 76: 78 70: 88 103 : 81
7. UruguayUruguayUruguay  6th 0 6th 492 632 84: 128 72: 111 86: 97 82: 95 87: 98 81: 103

* After the boycott of the United States and the medal winners of this qualifying tournament, the teams from Brazil and Cuba moved up as representatives of FIBA ​​America for the Olympic tournament in Moscow.

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