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  caption 2006 World Championships logo
  sport Basketball
  founded 1950
  teams 24
  continent International ( FIBA )


The FIBA World Championship (also called the '''Basketball World Championship''') is a world Basketball tournament for men's national teams held quadrennially by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).

A parallel event for women's teams, the FIBA World Championship For Women , is also held quadrennially, in the same year as the men's event but in a different country.

The champion team wins the Naismith Trophy , which was first awarded in the 1967 tournament.

The tournament structure is similar but not identical to that of the FIFA World Cup ; both of these international competitions have been played in the same year since 1970.


RESULTS


Summaries

From 1950 until 1974, each of the eight final teams would play all seven of the other teams once each and the team with the best record would win the gold medal, the second the silver and the third the bronze. Ties were broken on the basis of the results of games between (among) tied teams.

Starting at the 1978 tournament, the top teams played in a single-elimination tournament to determine the gold medallists. Classification games are held for eliminated teams.


Successful national teams

FIBA does not recognize 's records to carry over to Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro and . FIBA World Championships medals' table 1950-2006

  • = ''host''

  • :^ = ''FIBA considers the records of Yugoslavia different from Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenergro and Serbia.''

:‡ = ''includes records of Formosa''
:# = ''defunct national teams''


Performances by continental zones



RECORDS AND STATISTICS


Most Valuable Players



Top cumulative scorers

# Oscar Schmidt - 916
# Andrew Gaze - 599
# Drazen Dalipagic - 568
# Marcel De Souza - 550
# Dragan Kicanovic - 484


Top scoring averages

# Nikos Galis - 33.7
# Shin Dong Pa - 32.6
# Arturo Guerrero - 27.0
# Oscar Schmidt - 26.1
# Manuel Raga - 26.1


Top scorers in a single game

# Hue Jae - 62 vs.
# Nikos Galis - 53 vs.
# Oscar Schmidt - 49 vs.
# Jordi Villacampa - 48 vs.
# Oscar Schmidt - 48 vs.


Most number of tournaments played



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