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1967 FIBA World Championship

1967 edition of the FIBA World Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	FIBA World Championship
year	1967
other_titles	FIBA Campeonato Mundial de Baloncesto de 1967
country	Uruguay
dates	27 May – 11 June
opened	Óscar Diego Gestido
num_teams	13
confederations	3
venues	5
cities	4
champion	Soviet Union
champion-flagvar	1955
count	1
second	Yugoslavia
third	Brazil
third-flagvar	1960
fourth	United States
fourth-flagvar	1960
games	54
mvp	YUG Ivo Daneu
top_scorer	POL Mieczysław Łopatka
(19.7 points per game)
prevseason	[1963](1963-fiba-world-championship)
nextseason	[1970](1970-fiba-world-championship)

| champion-flagvar = 1955 | third-flagvar = 1960 | fourth-flagvar = 1960 (19.7 points per game) The 1967 FIBA World Championship was the 5th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. It was hosted by Montevideo, Uruguay from 27 May to 11 June 1967.

Venues

Group	City	Arena	Capacity
Group A	Mercedes	1=[GAME DETAILS](https://web.archive.org/web/20111015175812/http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/mundial/1967_MONTEVIDEO_gd.htm)}}	–
Group B	Montevideo	Peñarol Palace	10,000
Group C	Salto	Gimnasio de Salto	–
Classification round	Córdoba	Córdoba Sport Club	–
Final round	Montevideo	Cilindro Municipal	18,000

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: All bottom two teams from preliminary round group play each other once. The team with the best record is ranked eighth; the worst is ranked 13th.
Final round: All top two teams from preliminary round group, the 1964 Olympic champion, and the host team play each other once. The team with the best record wins the championship.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Classification round

Final round

Awards

Most Valuable Player
Yugoslavia Ivo Daneu

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	8–1
	6–3
	7–2
	7–2
	4–5
	3–6
	1–5
	6–2
	4–4
	4–4
	2–6
	2–6
	0–8

All-Tournament Team

Main article: FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team

Radivoj Korać (Yugoslavia)
Ivo Daneu - (MVP) (Yugoslavia)
Mieczyslaw Lopatka (Poland)
Modestas Paulauskas (USSR)
Luiz Cláudio Menon (Brazil)

Top scorers (ppg)

Mieczyslaw Lopatka (Poland) 19.7
Bohdan Likszo (Poland) 19.3
Luiz Cláudio Menon (Brazil) 18.6
Ernesto Ghermann (Argentina) 18.3
Gianfranco Lombardi (Italy) 17.5
Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (Brazil) 15.9
Manuel Raga (Mexico) 15.6
Radivoj Korać (Yugoslavia) 14.6
Arturo Guerrero (Mexico) 14.4
Ivo Daneu (Yugoslavia) 14.0

References

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