Cuban national basketball team

This article looks at the Cuban men's national basketball team . For the women's selection, see Cuban Women's National Basketball Team .

Cuba Cuba
Association	Federación Cubana de Baloncesto
FIBA member since	1937
FIBA world rankings	57
Trainer
World championships
Participation in the finals	4th
Best results	4th place ( 1974 )
Olympic games
Participation in the finals	6th
Best results	. Place ( 1972 )
Continental championships
championship	American Championship
Participation in the finals	10
Best results	5th place ( 1993 , 1995 )
(As of September 13, 2015)

The Cuban men's national basketball team represents Cuba at international basketball matches. In the 1970s it was one of the best national teams within the world association FIBA and won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . Two years later they finished fourth at the 1974 World Championships in Puerto Rico , the only world championship so far held in the Caribbean . Since the 2000s, in contrast to the Cuban women's selection, it fell behind its regional rivals Puerto Rico , Dominican Republic and the US Virgin Islands and has only qualified once for a continental finals of the American basketball championships since 1999 .

Medal winner 1972

Squad of Cuba at the 1972 Olympic Games

player No. Surname birth size info Calls society Guards ( PG , SG ) Rafael Cañizares Poey May 24, 1950 180 Conrado Pérez Armenteros December 21, 1950 181 Miguel Calderón Gómez 10/30/1950 183 Forwards ( SF , PF ) Juan Carlos Domecq Fortuondo 06/10/1950 192 Oscar Varona Varona 07/22/1949 192 Alejandro Urgellé's Guibot 07/02/1951 194 Pedro Chappé García June 16, 1945 195 † May 15th, 2003 Juan Roca Brunet October 27, 1950 196 Franklin Standard Johnson 06/08/1949 197 Center ( C ) José Miguel Álvarez Pozo 11/26/1949 198 Ruperto Herrera Tabio December 06, 1949 198 Tomás Herrera Martínez December 31, 1950 198

Trainer Nat. Surname position Juan Carmelo Ortega Díaz Head coach Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain swell Team homepage League homepage Status: October 3, 2013

Performing in international competitions

World championships

1950 to 1967 - not qualified 1970 - 8th place 1974 - 4th place 1978 - did not qualify 1982 - did not qualify

1986 - 11th place 1990 - did not qualify 1994 - 15th place 1998 to 2014 - not qualified

Olympic games

1948 - 13th place 1952 - 9th place 1956 - did not qualify 1960 - did not qualify 1964 - did not qualify

1968 - 11th place 1972 - . space 1976 - 7th place 1980 - 6th place since 1984 - not qualified

American Championships

1980 - 6th place 1984 - 8th place 1988 - did not qualify 1989 - 7th place 1992 - 8th place 1993 - 5th place 1995 - 5th place 1997 - 6th place 1999 - 10th place 2001 - did not qualify

2003 - did not qualify 2005 - did not qualify 2007 - did not qualify 2009 - did not qualify 2011 - 9th place 2013 - did not qualify 2015 - 10th place

Pan American Games

1951 - . space 1955 - 5th place 1959 - 6th place 1963 - did not qualify 1967 - 4th place 1971 - . space 1975 - 5th place

1979 - 4th place 1983 - 7th place 1987 - did not qualify 1991 - 4th place 1995 - did not qualify 1999 - 7th place since 2003 - not qualified

Central American Championships

1965 - . space 1967 - . space 1969 - . space 1971 - . space 1973 - did not participate

1975 - . space 1977 - did not participate 1981 - did not participate 1985 - . space 1987 - 5th place

1989 - . space 1991 - . space 1993 - . space 1995 - . space 1997 - . space

1999 - . space 2001 - 6th place 2003 - did not participate 2004 - 5th place 2006 - 6th place

2008 - 4th place 2010 - 4th place 2012 - 8th place 2014 - 4th place 2016 - 6th place

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Teams - Cuba (CUB) - Overview of selected teams in Cuba in the FIBA ​​archive ( English )
• Profile: Cuba (CUB) - Federación Cubana de Baloncesto - Profile of the Association on the FIBA ​​website (English)
• Cuban national team 1972 in Munich in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )