Ubiratan Pereira Maciel

Ubiratan Pereira Maciel
Player information
Nickname	Bira
birthday	January 18, 1944
place of birth	São Paulo , Brazil
date of death	July 17, 2002
Place of death	Brasília , Brazil
size	199 cm
position	center
Clubs as active
Clube Espéria Corinthians Reyer Venezia Trianon Sírio Palmeiras Tênis Clube São Josédos Campos
National team
	Brazil

Ubiratan Pereira Maciel medal table
Basketball (men)
Brazil
Olympic games
bronze	1964 Tokyo	Brazil
World Championship
gold	1963 Brazil	Brazil
silver	1970 Yugoslavia	Brazil
bronze	1967 Uruguay	Brazil
bronze	1978 Philippines	Brazil
Pan American Games
silver	1963 São Paulo	Brazil
bronze	1975 Mexico City	Brazil
bronze	1979 San Juan	Brazil

Ubiratan "Bira" Pereira Maciel (born January 18, 1944 in São Paulo , † July 17, 2002 in Brasília ) was a Brazilian basketball player .

Playing in the center position, he won a total of eleven Brazilian championships between 1963 and 1981 and the Brazilian Cup five times. He became internationally known primarily through his appearances at the Olympic Games and World Championships. He led the Brazilian national basketball team to win the 1963 World Cup and to win the bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics . At the basketball world championship in 1967 , his team won the bronze medal and in 1970 the silver medal. At the basketball world championship in 1978 it was again enough for a bronze medal. At the Pan American Games he was able to win one silver and two bronze medals.

Ubiratan Pereira Maciel was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit at the inaugural ceremony in Toronto in July 1994 and was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2009 . In 2010 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player.

See also

• List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

• Bira in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ubiratan Pereira Maciel ( Memento of February 7, 2012 on the Internet Archive ) on the Confederação Brasileira de Basketball website (In Portuguese).
• Ubiratan Pereira Maciel in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame . On: Hoophall website; Springfield, MA, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (in English).
• Ubiratan Pereira Maciel in the FIBA Hall of Fame . On: FIBA ​​website; Mies, Switzerland, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (in English).

annotation

1. ↑ Note on the Portuguese naming convention: Ubiratan had two family names, Pereira and Maciel. In the Portuguese-speaking area, the last part of the name is used for the short form, salutation and indexing.