EuroBasket 1993 explained

Tourney Name:EuroBasket 1993
Country:Germany
Dates:22 June – 4 July
Num Teams:16
Venues:3
Cities:3
Champion:Germany
Count:1
Second:Russia
Second-Flagvar:1991
Third:Croatia
Fourth:Greece
Mvp: Chris Welp
Top Scorer: Sabahudin Bilalović
(24.6 points per game)
Prevseason:1991
Nextseason:1995

The 1993 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1993, was the 28th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It was held in Germany between 22 June and 4 July 1993. Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The cities of Berlin, Karlsruhe and Munich hosted the tournament. Hosts Germany won their first FIBA European title by defeating Russia with a 71–70 score in the final. Germany's Chris Welp was voted the tournament's MVP. This edition of the FIBA EuroBasket tournament also served as qualification for the 1994 FIBA World Championship, giving a berth to the top five teams in the final standings.

Qualification

See main article: FIBA EuroBasket 1993 qualification.

Competition Date Vacancies Qualified
24 – 29 June 1991 3

1 May 1991 – 18 November 1992 8






30 May – 7 June 1993 5



Venues

LocationPictureCityArenaCapacityStatusRound
BerlinDeutschlandhalle8,500Opened in 1935Groups B, D and F
KarlsruheEuropahalle5,000Opened in 1983Groups A, C and E
MünchenOlympiahalle10,800Opened in 1972Knockout and qualification rounds

Teams

It was first decided that 12 teams would participate in EuroBasket 1993, however, after the Qualifying Round was concluded, FIBA Europe decided to expand it up to 16 teams.

The reason for this were politic changes in Eastern Europe caused by breaks of two big countries, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, which dominated in European basketball in recent decades. Yugoslavia as title holder was excluded from all international sport competitions because of sanctions against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Russia was announced as successor of the Soviet Union and the first time competed as independent country at major tournament. Since other new countries, including silver medalist Croatia and bronze medalist Lithuania from the Olympic tournament at Barcelona 1992, did not compete at the Qualifying Round, FIBA Europe organized additional qualifying tournament in order to enable them participation at championship. The additional tournament was held in Wroclaw a month before Eurobasket.

Format

Squads

See main article: EuroBasket 1993 squads.

Preliminary round

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Group A

Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Second round

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Group E

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Group F

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Knockout stage

Championship bracket

Final

5th to 8th place

Awards

1993 FIBA EuroBasket MVP: Chris Welp (Germany)

Final standings

width=10px bgcolor="#aaffaa"Qualified for the 1994 FIBA World Championship
RankTeamRecord
6–3
6–3
8–1
45–4
57–2
64–5
76–3
82–7
92–4
102–4
112–4
121–5
131–2
141–2
151–2
160–3

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/eurobasket/eurobasket_e.htm Linguasport.com Tournament Team.