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España
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FEB
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3<sup>rd</sup>
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FIBA Europe
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1932
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Pepu Hernández
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''La eñe'', ''la Roja''
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''Gold'': ( 2006 )
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''Silver'': 1984
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Eurobasket
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16
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''Silver'': 1935, 1973, 1983, 1999, 2003<br />''Bronze'': 1991, 2001
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The is the
Basketball side that represents
Spain in international competitions. They are reigning
World Champions .
The Spanish side came in third place at the first
Europe an basketball championship, the
Eurobasket 1935 held by the
International Basketball Federation 's
FIBA Europe continental federation. They defeated
Belgium in the preliminary round and
Czechoslovakia in the semifinals to qualify for the final match against
Latvia . The
Spaniards lost that game 24-18 to finish with the
Silver Medal .
Scores showed which now appear as really low figures in the early times of basketball: new rules which came to increase dynamism such as the
Three-point Shot were still very far to be implemented in 1935.
Spain scored fewer points, 64, than every other team except
Hungary and
Romania , the two last-place teams in the field of ten. However, they also gave up fewer points than any other side except the champion Latvians.
Before the Spanish national team achieving the golden medal in the 2006 FIBA World Championship (see below), their greatest international success had been reaching the final in the
1984 Summer Olympics which took place in
Los Angeles . The other finalist being the U.S.A. national team (led by
Patrick Ewing and featuring a young
Michael Jordan ), which won the final and with it the gold medal. Spain, thus, took the olympic silver medal.
On September 3, 2006,
Spain won the gold medal game at the
2006 FIBA World Championship against
Greece . The game, held in
Saitama ,
Japan , ended with a final score of 70-47. This marks the first time the Spanish national basketball team won the gold medal in the
World Championships .
Pau Gasol was named the tournament MVP, and
Jorge Garbajosa also made the all-tournament team.
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