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1959 FIBA World Championship

1959 edition of the FIBA World Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	FIBA World Championship
year	1959
other_titles	FIBA Campeonato Mundial de Baloncesto de 1959
country	Chile
dates	16–31 January
opened	Jorge Alessandri
num_teams	13
venues	5
cities	5
champion	Brazil
champion-flagvar	1889
count	1
second	United States
second-flagvar	1912
third	Chile
fourth_other
games	48
mvp	BRA Amaury Pasos
top_scorer	TWN James T. L. Chen
(20.1 points per game)
prevseason	[1954](1954-fiba-world-championship)
nextseason	[1963](1963-fiba-world-championship)

| champion-flagvar = 1889 | second-flagvar = 1912 (20.1 points per game) 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 A	Group B	Group C
– 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

Group B

Group C

Classification round

First round

Group D

Group E

Second round

Twelfth place playoff

Tenth place playoff

Eighth place playoff

Final round

Awards

Most Valuable Player
Brazil Amaury Pasos

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	7–2
	7–2
	2–4
	4–5
	3–6
	7–2
	5–4
	4–2
	2–4
	3–3
	1–5
	3–3
	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

Main article: FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team

PUR Juan Vicéns
BRA Amaury Pasos (MVP)
BRA Wlamir Marques
BUL Atanas Atanasov
USSR Jānis Krūmiņš

References

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