EuroBasket Women 1960 explained

Gender:	women
Continent:	Europe
Year:	1960
Host:	Bulgaria
Host-Flagvar:	1946
Dates:	June 3–11
Teams:	10
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Champions:	Soviet Union
Champions-Flagvar:	1955
Title Number:	5
Website:	Official website (archive)
Prevseason:	1958
Nextseason:	1962

The 1960 European Women's Basketball Championship was the 7th regional championship held by FIBA Europe for women. The competition was held in Sofia, Bulgaria and took place June 3–11, 1960. The Soviet Union won the gold medal, while hosts Bulgaria received the silver. Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal.

Preliminary round

The teams where divided into two groups. The first three from each group would go to the Final Round. The remaining teams went to the Classification Round to determine the 7th–10th spots.

Group A

width=20	Rank	width=220	Team	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts	width=25	Diff
1		4	0	8	+153
2		3	1	7	−6
3		2	2	6	−14
4		1	3	5	−48
5		0	4	4	−85

Group B

width=20	Rank	width=220	Team	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts	width=25	Diff
1		4	0	8	+91
2		3	1	7	+76
3		2	2	6	−11
4		1	3	5	−41
5		0	4	4	−115

Classification round

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1		3	0	6	+29
2		2	1	5	+3
3		1	2	4	+1
4		0	3	3	−33

The results from the following matches were carried over to this round:

• Italy vs. Netherlands
• Hungary vs. Belgium

Final round

width=20	Rank	width=220	Team	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	Pts	width=25	Diff
1		5	0	10	+112
2		4	1	9	+44
3		3	2	8	+73
4		2	3	7	−69
5		1	4	6	-66
6		0	5	5	−94

The results from the following matches carried over to this round:

• Soviet Union vs. Yugoslavia
• Soviet Union vs. Romania
• Czechoslovakia vs. Bulgaria
• Czechoslovakia vs. Poland
• Poland vs. Bulgaria
• Yugoslavia vs. Romania

Final standings

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

External links

• FIBA Archive