1959 FIBA World Championship

1959 edition of the FIBA World Championship FIBA World Championship 1959 FIBA Campeonato Mundial de Baloncesto de 1959 Chile 16–31 January Jorge Alessandri 13 5 5 Brazil 1889 1 United States 1912 Chile ROC Formosa 48 BRA 1889 Amaury Pasos TWN James T. L. Chen (20.1 points per game) 1954 1963 thumb|Brazilian stamp marking the team's victory The 1959 FIBA World Championship was the 3rd FIBA World Championship—the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. It was hosted by Chile from 16 to 31 January 1959. Amaury Antônio Pasos was named the MVP. The hosting cities for the competition were Antofagasta, Concepción, Temuco, Valparaíso, with the final stages held at the capital of Santiago. The final games were supposed to be conducted at the newly constructed Metropolitan Indoor Stadium, but because the venue was not finished in time, competition was postponed by a year from the original date. Organizers moved outdoors to the Estadio Nacional de Chile, where the events were watched at by a crowd of at least 16,000. Competing nations Group AGroup BGroup CARG EGY 1958 United Arab Rep. ROC Formosa USA 1912BRA 1889 CAN 1957 MEX 1934 Soviet Union 1955BUL 1948 PHI 1936 PUR 1952 URUCHI – advanced automatically to the final round as host Competition format Preliminary round: Three groups of four teams play each other once; top two teams progress to the final round, bottom two teams relegated to classification round. Classification round: First round: Two groups of three teams (A1, B2, C1 and A2, B1, C2) play each other once. Second round: Top teams from each group play for eighth, second placers play for tenth, and last placers play for twelfth. Final round: All top two from preliminary round group play each other once. The team with the best record wins the championship. Preliminary round Group A main WL complete FIBA archive points A, B, C, D USA 1912 3 0 271 204 ROC Formosa 2 1 207 209 ARG 1 2 197 202 UAR 0 3 179 239 RD2 RD2 CR2 CR2 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored. Q green1 Final round red1 Classification round#eee 16 January USA 1912 87 ARG 73 Concepción, Chile 48-27 39-46 #eee 16 January ROC Formosa 71 EGY 1958 United Arab Rep. 69 Concepción, Chile 39-38 32-31 17 January ARG 65 EGY 1958 United Arab Rep. 52 Concepción, Chile 36-32 29-20 17 January USA 1912 81 ROC Formosa 73 Concepción, Chile 35-38 46-35 #eee 18 January ARG 59 ROC Formosa 63 Concepción, Chile 33-31 26-32 #eee 18 January EGY 1958 United Arab Rep. 58 USA 1912 103 Concepción, Chile 49-23 54-35 Group B main WL complete FIBA archive points A, B, C, D BRA 1889 2 1 211 175 Head-to-head record: Brazil 1–1 (1.06 GAvg), Soviet Union 1–1 (1.00 GAvg), Canada 1–1 (0.94 GAvg) URS 1955 2 1 229 199 A CAN 1957 2 1 169 174 A MEX 1934 0 3 173 234 RD2 RD2 CR2 CR2 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored. Q green1 Final round red1 Classification round #eee 16 January CAN 1957 52 BRA 1889 69 Temuco, Chile 24-30 28-39 #eee 16 January URS 1955 102 MEX 1934 72 Temuco, Chile 48-42 54-30 17 January CAN 1957 54 MEX 1934 51 Temuco, Chile 26-19 28-32 17 January URS 1955 73 BRA 1889 64 Temuco, Chile 39-36 34-28 #eee 18 January CAN 1957 63 URS 1955 54 Temuco, Chile 32-23 31-31 #eee 18 January MEX 1934 50 BRA 1889 78 Temuco, Chile 20-50 30-28 Group C main WL complete FIBA archive points A, B, C, D BUL 1948 3 0 217 174 PUR 1952 2 1 209 194 PHI 1936 1 2 192 220 URU 0 3 181 211 RD2 RD2 CR2 CR2 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored. Q green1 Final round red1 Classification round #eee 16 January PHI 1936 68 URU 59 Antofagasta, Chile 36-31 32-28 #eee 16 January BUL 1948 67 PUR 1952 55 Antofagasta, Chile 37-16 30-39 17 January URU 64 PUR 1952 78 Antofagasta, Chile 37-40 27-38 17 January BUL 1948 85 PHI 1936 61 Antofagasta, Chile 36-21 49-40 #eee 18 January PUR 1952 76 PHI 1936 63 Antofagasta, Chile 39-32 37-31 #eee 18 January BUL 1948 65 URU 58 Antofagasta, Chile 31-28 34-30 Classification round First round Group D main WL complete FIBA archive points A, B, C PHI 1936 2 0 145 130 UAR 1 1 136 135 CAN 1957 0 2 134 150 8P 10P 12P 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored. Q red3 Eighth place playoff red2 Tenth place playoff red1 Twelfth place playoff 21 January #eee PHI 1936 66 EGY 1958 United Arab Rep. 65 Valparaíso, Chile 25-29 41-36 22 January CAN 1957 69 EGY 1958 United Arab Rep. 71 Valparaíso, Chile 40-28 29-43 23 January #eee CAN 1957 65 PHI 1936 79 Valparaíso, Chile 33-31 32-48 Group E main WL complete FIBA archive points A, B, C URU 2 0 105 95 ARG 1 1 123 117 MEX 1934 0 2 113 129 8P 10P 12P 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored. Q red3 Eighth place playoff red2 Tenth place playoff red1 Twelfth place playoff 21 January #eee ARG 48 URU 51 Valparaíso, Chile 19-22 29-29 22 January MEX 1934 47 URU 54 Valparaíso, Chile 20-25 27-29 23 January #eee ARG 75 MEX 1934 66 Valparaíso, Chile 34-34 41-32 Second round Twelfth place playoff 25 January #eee CAN 1957 64 MEX 1934 56 Valparaíso, Chile 33-25 31-31 Tenth place playoff 25 January #eee EGY 1958 United Arab Rep. 59 ARG 61 Valparaíso, Chile 29-32 30-29 Eighth place playoff 25 January #eee PHI 1936 78 URU 70 Valparaíso, Chile 47-36 31-34 Final round main WL complete FIBA archive points A, B, C, D, E, F, G BRA 1889 5 1 472 382 C USA 1912 4 2 370 378 CHI 2 4 393 444 H Head-to-head record: Chile 1–0 Formosa ROC Formosa 2 4 315 350 C PUR 1952 1 5 397 471 URS 1955 5 1 365 264 -1 FIBA demoted the Soviet Union and Bulgaria to the bottom two places after they refused to play against Formosa, forfeiting the game, due to political reasons. BUL 1948 2 4 315 338 -1 F gold silver bronze 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored. gold silver #cc9966 #eee 20 January Santiago CHI 86 TAI Formosa 85 15-14 35-27 36-44 21 January Santiago PUR 1952 55 URS 1955 84 26-58 29-26 #eee 21 January Santiago BUL 1948 58 USA 1912 63 27-26 31-37 22 January Santiago BRA 1889 94 TAI Formosa 76 56-35 38-41 #eee 22 January Santiago CHI 83 PUR 1952 71 46-31 37-40 23 January Santiago BRA 1889 62 BUL 1948 53 30-28 32-25 #eee 23 January Santiago USA 1912 54 PUR 1952 53 25-32 29-21 24 January Santiago BRA 1889 63 URS 1955 66 31-30 32-36 #eee 24 January Santiago BUL 1948 76 CHI 71 37-33 39-38 26 January Santiago TAI Formosa 69 USA 1912 85 32-33 37-52 #eee 26 January Santiago BUL 1948 58 URS 1955 78 18-35 40-43 27 January Santiago TAI Formosa 81 PUR 1952 85 34-42 47-43 #eee 27 January Santiago CHI 49 URS 1955 75 28-35 21-40 28 January Santiago BRA 1889 99 PUR 1952 71 45-29 54-42 #eee 28 January Santiago USA 1912 37 URS 1955 62 14-25 23-37 29 January Santiago BUL 1948 70 PUR 1952 62 35-25 35-37 #eee 29 January Santiago CHI 55 USA 1912 64 30 January Santiago TAI Formosa 2 URS 1955 0 #eee 30 January Santiago BRA 1889 81 USA 1912 67 40-37 41-30 31 January Santiago BUL 1948 0 TAI Formosa 2 #eee 31 January Santiago BRA 1889 73 CHI 49 37-21 36-28 Awards bk 1959 World Championship winner Brazil First 1889 Most Valuable PlayerBrazil Amaury Pasos Final standings Rank Team Record 1 BRA 1889 7–2 2 USA 1912 7–2 3 CHI 2–4 4 ROC Formosa 4–5 5 PUR 1952 3–6 6 URS 1955 7–2 7 BUL 1948 5–4 8 PHI 1936 4–2 9 URU 2–4 10 ARG 3–3 11 EGY 1958 United Arab Republic 1–5 12 CAN 1957 3–3 13 MEX 1934 0–6 Top scorers (points per game) James T. L. Chen (Formosa) 20.1 Juan "Pachin" Vicens (Puerto Rico) 19.7 Wlamir Marques (Brazil) 18.6 Jerry Vayda (USA) 18 Lio Jin Ron (Formosa) 16.7 Dick Welsh (USA) 16.4 Viktor Radev (Bulgaria) 15.25 Amaury Pasos (Brazil) 15.22 Jose Angel Cestero (Puerto Rico) 14.3 Evelio Droz (Puerto Rico) 13.7 All-Tournament team FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team PUR Juan Vicéns BRA 1889 Amaury Pasos (MVP) BRA 1889 Wlamir Marques BUL 1948 Atanas Atanasov USSR Jānis Krūmiņš http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/mundial/1959_SANTIAGO.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104910/http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/mundial/1959_SANTIAGO.htm usurped April 2, 2015 World Championship 1959 References External links https://www.fiba.com FIBA official website FIBA WC 1959 https://www.eurobasket.com/world-cup/basketball.aspx EuroBasket.com FIBA Basketball World Cup Page FIBA profile Todor66 profile The-Sports profile Linguasport profile Category:FIBA Basketball World Cup Category:International basketball competitions hosted by Chile World Championship Category:1959 in Chilean sport