1963 FIBA World Championship


The 1963 FIBA World Championship was the 4th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's teams. The competition was hosted by Brazil.
The Philippines was originally supposed to host the tournament but FIBA revoked hosting rights after the country refused to grant visas to players from communist countries. Brazil being the defending Champion and a previous host, fairly managed to re-host the Championship from May 12 to 25, 1963 and won the 1st back to back title with just six games by seeding the well-rested host team in the final round only.

Background

The Philippines was supposed to host the FIBA World Championship in 1962 but FIBA revoked hosting rights after the government of then President Diosdado Macapagal, refused to grant visas to players and officials of socialists countries including Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
The FIBA World Championship was held in 1963 in Brazil.

Competing nations

Suspension

Group A

Group B

Group C

Classification round

Final round

Awards

Most Valuable Player
Wlamir Marques

Final ranking

All-Tournament Team

  1. Ricardo Duarte 23.1
  2. Aleksander Petrov 17.6
  3. Luis Enrique Grajeda 17.5
  4. Radivoj Korać 16.8
  5. Maxime Dorigo 16.8
  6. Alfredo Tulli 16.1
  7. Alberto Desimone 16
  8. Rafael Valle 15.8
  9. Nemanja Djuric 14.6
  10. Paolo Vittori 14.3