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1978 FIBA World Championship

1978 edition of the FIBA World Championship

Field	Value
tourney_name	FIBA World Championship
year	1978
image	1978 World Basketball Championship logo.png
city	Manila
Quezon City
country	Philippines
dates	October 1–14
opened	Ferdinand Marcos
num_teams	14
confederations	5
venues	Rizal Memorial Coliseum
Araneta Coliseum
champion	Yugoslavia
count	2
second	Soviet Union
second-flagvar	1955
third	Brazil
third-flagvar	1968
fourth	Italy
games	59
mvp	YUG Dražen Dalipagić
top_scorer	TCH Kamil Brabenec
(26.9 points per game)
prevseason	[1974](1974-fiba-world-championship)
nextseason	[1982](1982-fiba-world-championship)

Quezon City Araneta Coliseum | second-flagvar = 1955 | third-flagvar = 1968 (26.9 points per game) The 1978 FIBA World Championship was the 8th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. The tournament was hosted by the Philippines from October 1 to 14, 1978 in Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila and Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City (both cities in Metro Manila).

It was the first FIBA World Championship (now called the FIBA Basketball World Cup) held in Asia.

Host selection

On July 11, 1974 at the FIBA Congress held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Philippines was unanimously chosen as host after Argentina and Spain withdrew their bids.

Venues

Metro Manila	Philippines	Manila	Quezon City	Metro Manila
last1=Velasco	first1=Santiago	title=VIII World Championship (Manila 1978) Game Details	url=http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/mundial/1978_MANILA_gd.htm	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727120538/http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/mundial/1978_MANILA_gd.htm	url-status=usurped	archive-date=July 27, 2009	access-date=18 January 2016	website=LinguaSport.com}}
Capacity: 8,000	Araneta Coliseum
Capacity: 25,000*	{{location map+	Metro Manila	width=150	float=right	caption=	places=
[[File:RMSCjf9773 12.JPG	150px]]	[[File:Araneta Coliseum 1960s.jpg	150px]]

(*) Temporarily reduced to 10,000 for the finals due to safety reasons.

Competing nations

Group A	Group B	Group C	Semifinal round

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Classification round

Semifinal round

Final round

Seventh place playoff

Fifth place playoff

Third place playoff

Final

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	10–0
	6–2
	8–2
	6–4
	6–4
	4–6
	4–6
	0–8
	5–2
	4–3
	2–5
	2–5
	1–6
	1–6

Awards

Most Valuable Player
Yugoslavia Dražen Dalipagić

All-Tournament Team

Main article: FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team

Yugoslavia Krešimir Ćosić
Yugoslavia Dražen Dalipagić
Yugoslavia Dragan Kićanović
Brazil Oscar Schmidt
USSR Vladimir Tkachenko

Top scorers (ppg)

Kamil Brabenec (Czechoslovakia) 26.9
Zhang Weiping (People's Republic of China) 25.1
Choi Bu-Young (Korea) 21.1
Dražen Dalipagić (Yugoslavia) 20
Oscar Schmidt (Brazil) 19.0
Leo Rautins (Canada) 17.9
Marcel De Souza (Brazil) 17.7
Dragan Kićanović (Yugoslavia) 16.5
Renzo Bariviera (Italy) 16.2
Marcos Antonio Leite "Marquinhos" (Brazil) 14.7

References

(26 August 2023). "No ball toss for President Marcos at FIBA World Cup". The Philippine Star.
(12 July 1974). "Manila Chosen Site Of World Basketball Meet". The Virgin Islands Daily News.
"VIII World Championship (Manila 1978) Game Details".
"Manila 1978". linguasport.com.

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