European basketball championship 2003

Eurobasket 2003
33. Basketball Championship of Men
Number of nations	16  (of 40 applicants)
European champion	Lithuania (3rd title)
venue	Sweden
Opening game	September 5, 2003
Endgame	September 14, 2003
Games	40
Basket points	6210   (∅: 155.25 per game)
Most basket points	Šarūnas Jasikevičius Lithuania
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The 2003 men's basketball championship , or Eurobasket 2003 for short , took place from September 5 to 14, 2003 in Sweden . It was the 33rd European Championships. The winner of the tournament and thus gold medalist was Lithuania . Spain took the silver medal and Italy won bronze. Germany missed qualifying for the quarter-finals and ended up in 9th place.

The European Basketball Championship is a biennial basketball competition between European national teams that is organized by Munich- based FIBA Europe , the European Basketball Association.

qualification

→ Main article : Qualifying for the 2003 European Basketball Championship

A total of 16 teams took part in the tournament, which qualified for the tournament in different ways:

• Sweden automatically qualified as hosts.
• Yugoslavia was also automatically qualified as the defending champion.
• 14 participants were determined over three qualifying rounds.

Venues

The preliminary round matches took place in the four cities of Luleå (A), Norrköping (B), Södertälje (C) and Borås (D) , depending on the group . From the quarterfinals onwards, the games were played in the Globe Arena in Stockholm .

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round four teams played against each other in four groups. The winner of a game received two points, the loser one point. If a game was tied at the end of regular time, there was extra time.

Group A - Luleå

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
A1	09/05/2003	Slovenia	Italy	77:67	18:14	18:20	21:18	20:15	-
A2	09/05/2003	France	Bosnia and Herzegovina	98:76	29:22	18:22	27:15	24:17	-
A3	09/06/2003	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Slovenia	62:73	23:24	12:13	19:11	08:25	-
A4	09/06/2003	Italy	France	52:85	18:21	09:18	14:22	11:24	-
A5	07.09.2003	Slovenia	France	82:88	24:19	18:21	22:20	18:28	-
A6	07.09.2003	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Italy	72:80	23:23	20:18	12:20	17:19	-

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points	baskets	Diff	qualified for
1	France	3	3	0	6th	271: 217	+61	Quarter finals
2	Slovenia	3	2	1	5	232: 217	+15	Elimination Round
3	Italy	3	1	2	4th	199: 234	−35
4th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	0	3	3	210: 251	−41

Group B - Norrköping

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
B1	09/05/2003	Lithuania	Latvia	92:91	14:23	20:17	24:18	23:23	11:10
B2	09/05/2003	Germany	Israel	86:81	23:15	22:23	19:13	22:30	-
B3	09/06/2003	Israel	Lithuania	62:94	19:23	06:17	18:28	19:26	-
B4	09/06/2003	Latvia	Germany	86:94	14:27	27:21	21:22	24:24	-
B5	07.09.2003	Lithuania	Germany	93:71	22:19	24:14	30:20	17:18	-
B6	07.09.2003	Israel	Latvia	91:75	29:14	23:18	20:21	19:22	-

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points	baskets	Diff	qualified for
1	Lithuania	3	3	0	6th	279: 224	+55	Quarter finals
2	Germany	3	2	1	5	251: 260	- 09	Elimination Round
3	Israel	3	1	2	4th	234: 255	−21
4th	Latvia	3	0	3	3	252: 277	−25

Group C - Södertälje

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
C1	09/05/2003	Serbia and Montenegro	Russia	80:95	25:25	20:22	17:22	18:26	-
C2	09/05/2003	Spain	Sweden	99:52	19:14	25:10	17:12	38:16	-
C3	09/06/2003	Sweden	Serbia and Montenegro	68:78	17:29	19:11	13:13	19:25	-
C4	09/06/2003	Russia	Spain	77:89	18:31	23:20	11:17	25:21	-
C5	07.09.2003	Serbia and Montenegro	Spain	67:75	23:14	15:18	14:19	15:24	-
C6	07.09.2003	Sweden	Russia	71:92	27:29	15:16	12:25	17:22	-

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points	baskets	Diff	qualified for
1	Spain	3	3	0	6th	263: 196	+67	Quarter finals
2	Russia	3	2	1	5	264: 240	+24	Elimination Round
3	Serbia and Montenegro	3	1	2	4th	225: 238	−13
4th	Sweden	3	0	3	3	191: 269	−78

Group D - Borås

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
D1	09/05/2003	Greece	Croatia	77:76	22:26	16:21	16:14	23:15	-
D2	09/05/2003	Ukraine	Turkey	69:77	23:18	19:14	10:22	17:23	-
D3	09/06/2003	Turkey	Greece	70:75	26:16	10:25	23:13	11:21	-
D4	09/06/2003	Croatia	Ukraine	93:71	15:15	27:18	26:14	25:24	-
D5	07.09.2003	Greece	Ukraine	79:73	09:22	10:17	35:16	25:18	-
D6	07.09.2003	Turkey	Croatia	75:72	18:21	17:17	21:12	19:22	-

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points	baskets	Diff	qualified for
1	Greece	3	3	0	6th	231: 219	+12	Quarter finals
2	Turkey	3	2	1	5	222: 216	+ 06	Elimination Round
3	Croatia	3	1	2	4th	241: 223	+18
4th	Ukraine	3	0	3	3	213: 249	−36

Final rounds

mode

After the preliminary round, the first team in each group qualified directly for the quarter-finals. The second placed in each group had to play with a third placed from another group for a place in the quarter finals. Then both the winners of the quarter-finals met in the semifinals, as well as the losers in the "small semifinals". The winners of the semi-finals met in the final, the losers in the game for 3rd place. The winners of the "small semifinals" played for 5th place, the losers for 7th place.

Elimination Round

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
25th	09/08/2003	Slovenia	Israel	76:78	28:16	15:21	10:23	23:18	-
26th	09/08/2003	Germany	Italy	84:86	28:19	23:25	13:22	20:20	-
27	09/08/2003	Russia	Croatia	81:77	15:21	19:20	24:20	23:16	-
28	09/08/2003	Turkey	Serbia and Montenegro	76:80	19:15	19:19	14:19	24:27	-

Tournament tree

All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST)

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	29-10.09.2003 - 6:00 p.m.
	France	76
					35 - 13.09.2003 - 14:00
	Russia	69
					France	70
	30 - 10.09.2003 - 9:00 p.m.
					Lithuania	74
	Lithuania	98
									40 - 09/14/2003 - 8:00 p.m.
	Serbia and Montenegro	82
									Lithuania	93
	31 - 09/11/2003 - 6:00 p.m.
									Spain	84
	Spain	78
					36 - 13.09.2003 - 17:00
	Israel	64
					Spain	81			Game for third place
	32 - 09/11/2003 - 9:00 p.m.
					Italy	79
	Greece	59							France	67
	Italy	62							Italy	69
									39 - 14.09.2003 - 17:00

Places 5 to 8

	Small semifinals				Finals 5th-8th space
	33 - 09/12/2003 - 6:00 p.m.
	Russia	77
	Serbia and Montenegro	86
					38 - 09/14/2003 - 13:30
					Serbia and Montenegro	64
					Greece	72
					7th and 8th place
	34 - 09/12/2003 - 9:00 p.m.				37 - 09/14/2003 - 11:00
	Israel	56			Russia	82
	Greece	63			Israel	89

Quarter finals

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
29	09/10/2003	France	Russia	76:69	21:18	21:21	21:14	13:16	-
30th	09/10/2003	Lithuania	Serbia and Montenegro	98:82	30:19	27:24	23:23	18:16	-
31	09/11/2003	Spain	Israel	78:64	28:22	16:14	14:15	20:13	-
32	09/11/2003	Greece	Italy	59:62	16:17	20:15	11:17	12:13	-

Small semifinals

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
33	09/12/2003	Russia	Serbia and Montenegro	77:86	18:29	22:19	18:19	19:19	-
34	09/12/2003	Israel	Greece	56:63	10:17	12:19	17:15	17:12	-

Semifinals

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
35	09/13/2003	France	Lithuania	70:74	16:20	21:25	23:13	10:16	-
36	09/13/2003	Spain	Italy	81:79	20:19	18:25	24:16	19:19	-

Game for 7th place

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
37	09/14/2003	Russia	Israel	82:89	18:16	18:20	21:22	25:31	-

Play for 5th place

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
38	09/14/2003	Serbia and Montenegro	Greece	64:72	13:21	12:16	15:20	24:15	-

3rd place match

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
39	09/14/2003	France	Italy	67:69	13:24	14:15	20:14	20:16	-

final

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	Result	1. V.	2. V.	3. V.	4. V.	Loss
37	09/14/2003	Lithuania	Spain	93:84	20:19	20:12	22:17	31:36	-

Final score

rank	team	Siege: Niederl.	Basket ratio
1	Lithuania	6-0	1.1826
2	Spain	5: 1	1.1713
3	Italy	4: 3	0.9429
4th	France	4: 2	1.1469
5	Greece	5: 1	1.0598
6th	Serbia and Montenegro	3: 4	0.9572
7th	Israel	3: 4	0.9404
8th	Russia	3: 4	1.0088
Eliminated in the Elimination Round
9	Slovenia	2: 2	1.0441
9	Turkey	2: 2	1.0068
9	Germany	2: 2	0.9682
9	Croatia	1: 3	1.0460
Eliminated after the preliminary round
13	Latvia	0: 3	0.9097
13	Ukraine	0: 3	0.8554
13	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0: 3	0.8366
13	Sweden	0: 3	0.7100

Honors

The Lithuanian Šarūnas Jasikevičius was voted the best player of the tournament ( MVP ) . In a total of six games, Jasikevicius averaged 14 points, 3 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 0 blocks per game. He had a hit rate of 38.7% (29 of 75) from the field and 76.5% (13 of 17) from the free throw line.

In addition to Jasikevicius, his teammate Saulius Štombergas , the French Tony Parker , the Russian Andrei Kirilenko and Spain's Pau Gasol were elected to the All-Tournament Team .

statistics

All in all

• 40 games
• 6,210 points
• 2,467 rebounds (of which 717 offensive and 1750 defensive)
• 933 assists
• 1,939 fouls
• 1,127 lost balls
• 488 steals
• 205 blocked throws

Most of the points

player	nationality	Points
Pau Gasol	Spain	155
Andrei Kirilenko	Russia	139
Tony Parker	France	108
Juan Carlos Navarro	Spain	97
Arvydas Macijauskas	Lithuania	95

Most points per game

player	nationality	Points
Pau Gasol	Spain	25.8
Andrei Kirilenko	Russia	23.2
Dirk Nowitzki	Germany	22.5
Mehmet Okur	Turkey	18.8
Peja Stojaković	Serbia-Monten.	18.8
Tony Parker	France	18.8

Most rebounds per game

player	nationality	Points
Mirsad Türkcan	Turkey	9.3
Ademola Okulaja	Germany	8.3
Pau Gasol	Spain	7.5
Predrag Drobnjak	Serbia-Monten.	6.9
Andrei Kirilenko	Russia	6.8
Mehmet Okur	Turkey	6.8
Nikola Prkačin	Croatia	6.8

Most assists per game

player	nationality	Points
Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Lithuania	8.2
Marko Jarić	Serbia-Monten.	4.0
Damir Mulaomerović	Croatia	4.0
Meir Tapiro	Israel	3.4
Tony Parker	France	3.2
Mithat Demirel	Germany	3.0

Qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics

This tournament served as a qualifying tournament for the 2004 Summer Olympics . Greece was already qualified as hosts, as was Serbia and Montenegro as world champions in 2002 (back then as Yugoslavia ). The three free places for Europe were secured by the medal winners of the European Championship: Lithuania , Spain and Italy .

The German team

The German team consisted of Stephen Arigbabu , Mithat Demirel , Patrick Femerling , Stefano Garris , Steffen Hamann , Jörg Lütcke , Robert Maras , Dirk Nowitzki , Misan Nikagbatse , Ademola Okulaja , Marko Pesic and Sven Schultze ; Henrik Dettmann was the coach .

Web links

• FIBA Europe Infos (Engl.)