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The 1950 FIBA World Championship (also called the 1st World Basketball Championship - 1950) was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament.All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires.
Preliminary rounds
Brackets
First phase
Egypt and Peru advance to the second preliminary phase.
Ecuador and Yugoslavia advance to the first repass round.
Second phase
Argentina, Brazil, Egypt and USA advance to the final round.
Chile and France advance advance to the first repass round
Peru and Spain advance to the second repass round.
Repass rounds
Bracket
First phase
Chile and France advance to the second phase.
Ecuador and Yugoslavia are relegated to the classification round.
Second phase
Chile and France advance to the final round.
Peru and Spain are relegated to the classification round.
Final rankings
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Team rosters
1.Argentina: Oscar Furlong, Ricardo Gonzalez (basketball), Pedro Bustos, Leopoldo Contarbio, Hugo del Vecchio, Vito Liva, Alberto Lopez, Ruben Menini, Omar Monza, Raul Perez Varela, Juan Carlos Uder, Roberto Viau
2.USA: John Stanich, Bob Fisher, Bryce Heffley, Tom Jaquet, Dan Kahler, John Langdon, Les Metzger, John Leonard Parks, Jimmy Reese, Don Slocum, Blake Williams
3.Chile: Rufino Bernedo, Pedro Araya, Eduardo Cordero, Mariano Fernandez, Exequiel Figueroa, Juan Jose Gallo, Raul Lopez, Luis Enrique Marmentini, Juan Ostoic, Hernan Ramos, Marcos Sanchez, Victor Mahana
4.Brazil: Zenny de Azevedo "Algodao", Ruy de Freitas, Alfredo da Motta, Paulo Rodrigues Siqueira "Montanha", Helio Marques Pereira "Godinho", Celso dos Santos, Plutao de Macedo, Sebastiao Amorim Gimenez "Tiao", Thales Monteiro, Alexandre Gemignani, Milton Santos Marques "Miltinho", Angelo Bonfietti "Angelim"
All-Tournament Team
Oscar Furlong (Argentina)
John Stanich (USA)
Rufino Bernedo (Chile)
Alvaro Salvadores (Spain)
Ricardo Gonzalez (Argentina)
Top scorers
Alvaro Salvadores (Spain) 13.7
Fortunato Munoz (Ecuador) 13.2
Alfredo Arroyave (Ecuador) 11.4
Oscar Furlong (Argentina) 11.1
Rufino Bernedo (Chile) 10.7
Ricardo Gonzalez (Argentina) 10.6
Eduardo Fiestas (Peru) 8.6
Alberto Fernandez (Peru) 8.1
Victor Mahana (Chile) 7.8
Jacques Perrier (France) 6.2
References
Results
Much of the information came from [[:es:Campeonato mundial de baloncesto de 1950|the Spanish Wikipedia version]] of this article.
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