1950 World Basketball Championship

FIBA World Championship 1950
1st basketball world championship
Number of nations	10
World Champion	Argentina (1st title)
venue	Argentina
Opening game	October 22, 1950
Endgame	November 4th 1950
Games	31
Basket points	2565   (∅: 82.74 per game)
Most basket points	Álvaro Salvadores (55 points)
1954 →

The first basketball world championship of men was from 22 October to 4 November 1950 Argentina instead. The tournament was organized by the World Basketball Federation (FIBA). 10 national teams competed against each other.

The Argentine national basketball team became world champions. The national basketball team of the United States was runner-up . Third place went to the team from Chile .

Emergence

The FIBA ​​Congress, which met for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, decided to organize a men's basketball world championship every four years between the Olympics. Argentina agreed to host and so Buenos Aires hosted the first World Cup.

venue

Luna Park in Buenos Aires was chosen as the venue .

Buenos Aires
Luna Park
Capacity: 10,000
Opening: 1932

Attendees

FIBA set the number of participating teams at ten: the three best teams from the 1948 Summer Olympics , the two best teams from Asia, Europe and South America, plus the organizing country, which was automatically qualified. The United States, France and Brazil, together with the organizing country Argentina, qualified for their placements at the Summer Olympics in London two years earlier. Uruguay, which had qualified by winning the South American Championship in 1949, refused to cross the Río de la Plata for political reasons . The Argentine government refused to grant Uruguayan visas to the press. Since Brazil had already qualified via the Summer Olympics, Chile and Peru moved up as third and fourth place finishers in the 1949 South American Basketball Championship . Egypt qualified by winning the European Basketball Championship in 1949 . No Asian team wanted to make the long and expensive trip to Latin America, so FIBA ​​expanded the field to include Ecuador and two other teams from Europe: Spain and Yugoslavia. The teams were set as follows:

Preliminary round (1st phase)	Preliminary round (2nd phase)	Participation withdrawn
Egypt  Ecuador  Yugoslavia  Peru	Argentina  Brazil  Chile  Spain  France  United States	Uruguay

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, the participating nations were divided into two groups. While four teams had to join in the first phase, the remaining six teams were only allowed to start in the second phase. If a game was tied at the end of regular time, there was extra time. The preliminary round matches of the 1st and 2nd phases were played on October 22, 23 and 25, 1950.

1st phase

The winners of the first phase got into the second phase, the losers got into the hopes.

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1. H.	2. H.	Loss	Result
1	10/22/1950	Peru	Yugoslavia	18:16	15:11	-	33:27
2	10/22/1950	Egypt	Ecuador	18:22	25:15	-	43:37

2nd phase

The winners qualified for the final round, the losers had to go to the hope round.

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1. H.	2. H.	Loss	Result
3	October 23, 1950	United States	Chile	20:19	17:14	-	37:33
4th	October 23, 1950	Argentina	France	30:17	26:23	-	56:40
5	10/25/1950	Peru	Brazil	15:16	18:24	-	33:40
6th	10/25/1950	Spain	Egypt	26:23	30:34	-	56:57

Round of hope

The losers in the preliminary round had the opportunity to stay in the tournament by winning the round of hope. The losers in the first phase of the preliminary round had to start in phase 1 of the round of hopes, while the losers in the second round of the preliminary round were only allowed to join in the second phase of the round of hope. The first and second phase of the round of hope games were played on October 24 and 26, 1950.

1st phase

The winners went to the second phase of the hope round, the losers had to go to the classification round.

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1. H.	2. H.	Loss	Result
7th	October 24, 1950	Chile	Yugoslavia	27:11	13:13	-	40:24
8th	October 24, 1950	Ecuador	France	26:30	17:18	-	43:48

2nd phase

The winners qualified for the final round, the losers had to go to the classification round.

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1. H.	2. H.	Loss	Result
9	10/26/1950	Spain	Chile	18:24	22:30	-	40:54
10	10/26/1950	France	Peru	25:22	21:24	3-0	49:46

Classification round

The losers of the round of hope played in the classification round for places 7 to 10. The games of the classification round were played from October 28 to November 4, 1950.

space	team	S.	G	V	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Peru	3	3	0	140: 123	6th	+17
2	Ecuador	3	2	1	142: 141	5	+1
3	Spain	3	1	2	89:97	4th	-8th
4th	Yugoslavia	3	0	3	83:93	2	-10

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1. H.	2. H.	Loss	Result
11	October 28, 1950	Yugoslavia	Ecuador	15:14	25:31	-	40:45
12	October 29, 1950	Spain	Peru	19:20	18:23	-	37:43
13	October 31, 1950	Yugoslavia	Peru	14:24	21:11	4: 4 4: 7	43:46
14th	11/01/1950	Ecuador	Spain	29:25	25:25	-	54:50
15th	03/11/1950	Spain	Yugoslavia			-	2-0
16	04/11/1950	Ecuador	Peru	17:23	26:28	-	43:51

Final round

The winners of the second phase of the preliminary and hope rounds qualified for the final round. In the event of a tie in the final table, the direct comparison of the teams determined the placement. If this did not result in a decision, the basket ratio between the games was decisive. The games of the final round were played from October 27 to November 3, 1950.

space	team	S.	G	V	baskets	Points	Diff.
1	Argentina	5	5	0	300: 200	10	+100
2	United States	5	4th	1	221: 200	9	+21
3	Chile	5	2	3	209: 233	7th	-24
4th	Brazil	5	2	3	214: 182	7th	+32
5	Egypt	5	2	3	158: 208	7th	-50
6th	France	5	0	5	173: 252	5	-79

game	date	Team 1	Team 2	1. H.	2. H.	Loss	Result
17th	October 27, 1950	France	Chile	19:27	25:21	-	44:48
18th	October 27, 1950	Egypt	United States	19:18	13:16	-	32:34
19th	October 29, 1950	Egypt	France	10: 9	21:19	-	31:28
20th	October 29, 1950	Brazil	Argentina	21:22	14:18	-	35:40
21st	10/30/1950	Argentina	Chile	36:17	26:24	-	62:41
22nd	10/30/1950	Brazil	United States	25:26	17:19	-	42:45
23	October 31, 1950	Egypt	Brazil	11:17	8:21	-	19:38
24	October 31, 1950	Argentina	France	38:19	28:22	-	66:41
25th	11/01/1950	Chile	United States	12:29	17:15	-	29:44
26th	11/01/1950	Egypt	Argentina	15:35	18:33	-	33:68
27	11/02/1950	United States	France	26:23	22:10	-	48:33
28	11/02/1950	Chile	Brazil	25:17	26:23	-	51:40
29	03/11/1950	Egypt	Chile	18:19	25:21	-	43:40
30th	03/11/1950	France	Brazil	14:31	13:28	-	27:59
31	03/11/1950	United States	Argentina	24:34	26:30	-	50:64

Bottom line

1. Argentina
2. United States
3. Chile
4. Brazil
5. Egypt
6. France
7. Peru
8. Ecuador
9. Spain
10. Yugoslavia

Award

Player with the most points

The Spaniard Álvaro Salvadores scored the most basket points of the tournament. In a total of four games, Salvadores scored an average of 13.8 points.

Team of the tournament

In addition to the Spaniard Álvaro Salvadores , the American John Stanich , the Chilean Rufino Bernedo and the Argentines Óscar Furlong and Ricardo González were elected to the All-Tournament Team .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} FIBA - World Championships History. (PDF; 191 kB) FIBA.com, p. 3 , accessed on September 25, 2010 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} 1950 World Basketball Championship (schedule and results). Archive.FIBA.com, accessed February 17, 2015 . 

Web links

• FIBA archive entry for the 1950 World Basketball Championship (statistics, match results, team lineups) (English)
• WM-50 on the official FIBA ​​website