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EuroBasket 1987
International basketball event
International basketball event
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| tourney_name | EuroBasket 1987 |
| other_titles | Ευρωμπάσκετ 1987 |
| image | EuroBasket 1987.png |
| city | Piraeus |
| country | Greece |
| dates | 3–14 June |
| num_teams | 12 |
| venues | 1 |
| cities | 1 |
| champion | Greece |
| count | 1 |
| second | Soviet Union |
| third | Yugoslavia |
| fourth | Spain |
| games | 46 |
| mvp | GRE Nikos Galis |
| top_scorer | GRE Nikos Galis |
| (37.0 points per game) | |
| prevseason | 1985 |
| nextseason | 1989 |
(37.0 points per game) The 1987 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1987, was the 25th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It was held in Greece between 3 and 14 June 1987. Twelve national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The Peace and Friendship Stadium, located in the Neo Faliron in Piraeus, Attica, was the hosting venue of the tournament. The host, Greece, won its first FIBA European title by defeating the defending champions and heavily favored Soviet Union, with a 103–101 score in a gripping final decided in overtime. Greece's Nikos Galis was voted the tournament's MVP.
Venues
All games were played at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, Attica.
| {{Location map+ | Greece | border = | caption = | float = center | width = 300 | Greece | lat_deg=37 | lat_min=56 | lon_deg=23 | lon_min=40 | position = top | label= Piraeus}} | Peace and Friendship Stadium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity: 17,000 | |||||||||||||
| Opened in 1983 | [[File:Peace and Friendship stadium 02 03 2014.JPG | 300px]] |
Qualification
A total of twelve teams qualified for the tournament. To the top seven teams from the previous tournament, four more teams were granted berths via a qualifying tournament. Greece qualified as hosts of the tournament.
Hosts:
Top seven teams from Eurobasket 1985:
Top four teams from the qualifying stage:
Squads
Main article: EuroBasket 1987 squads
Format
- The teams were split in two groups of six teams each. The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals. The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, and the losers figure in a third-place playoff.
- The losers from the quarterfinals stage compete in a separate bracket to define places 5th through 8th in the final standings.
- The fifth and sixth teams from each group competed in another bracket to define places 9th through 12th in the final standings.
Preliminary round
| Qualified for the semifinals |
|---|
Group A
:Times given below are in Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3).
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Championship bracket
|9 June – 19:30||110||91 |9 June – 21:30||107||77 |10 June – 19:30||78||90 |10 June – 21:30||81||128 |12 June – 19:30||113||96 |12 June – 21:30||81||77 |14 June – 20:00||101||103 |13 June – 21:30||87||98
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third place
Final
5th to 8th place
|11 June – 19:30||91||93 |11 June – 21:30||93||75 |14 June – 18:00||84||87 |13 June – 19:30||92||96
9th to 12th place
|9 June – 17:30||96||93 |10 June – 17:30||87||88 |13 June – 17:30||94||80 |11 June – 17:30||97||87
Awards
| **1987 FIBA EuroBasket MVP**: **Nikos Galis** (GRE **Greece**) |
|---|
| All-Tournament Team |
|---|
| URS Šarūnas Marčiulionis |
| GRE Nikos Galis (MVP) |
| URS Alexander Volkov |
| ESP Andrés Jiménez |
| GRE Panagiotis Fasoulas |
Final standings
| Qualified for the [1988 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament](1988-european-olympic-qualifying-tournament) |
|---|
| Rank | Team | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 6–2 | ||
| 7–1 | ||
| 5–3 | ||
| 4 | 4–4 | |
| 5 | 7–1 | |
| 6 | 4–4 | |
| 7 | 4–4 | |
| 8 | 2–6 | |
| 9 | 3–4 | |
| 10 | 2–5 | |
| 11 | 2–5 | |
| 12 | 0–7 |
| ** Nikos Galis | |
|---|---|
| Nikos Stavropoulos | |
| Panagiotis Giannakis | |
| Argiris Kambouris | |
| Nikos Linardos | |
| Panagiotis Karatzas | |
| Michalis Romanidis | |
| Nikos Filippou | |
| Liveris Andritsos | |
| Panagiotis Fasoulas | |
| Memos Ioannou | |
| Fanis Christodoulou** | Alexander Volkov |
| Heino Enden | |
| Sergei Tarakanov | |
| Valdemaras Chomičius | |
| Sergei Babenko | |
| Valeri Tikhonenko | |
| Valdis Valters | |
| Vladimir Tkachenko | |
| Šarūnas Marčiulionis | |
| Sergejus Jovaiša | |
| Viktor Pankrashkin | |
| Valery Goborov | Dražen Petrović |
| Aleksandar Petrović | |
| Aleksandar Đorđević | |
| Toni Kukoč | |
| Žarko Paspalj | |
| Goran Grbović | |
| Zoran Radović | |
| Stojko Vranković | |
| Ratko Radovanović | |
| Vlade Divac | |
| Dino Rađa | |
| Danko Cvjetićanin | Jordi Villacampa |
| Francisco Zapata | |
| Cándido Sibilio | |
| Josep María Margall | |
| Andrés Jiménez | |
| Fernando Romay | |
| José Antonio Montero | |
| Fernando Arcega | |
| Ignacio Solozábal | |
| Ferrán Martínez | |
| José Ángel Arcega | |
| Juan Antonio San Epifanio |
References
References
- "Eurobasket 1987 in Greece".
- "Latest News | Eurocup".
- "Peace and friendship Stadium | Athens World Company Sports Games 2021".
- "FIBA.basketball".
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