Fiba Mens Basketball World Cup

The tournament was hosted in china and was rescheduled from 2018 to 2019 becoming the first since 1967 that did not occur in the same year as the fifa world cup which was held the previous year.

Fiba mens basketball world cup. The tournament was hosted by japan and held from august 19 to september 3 2006. The debut of the tournament then named as the fiba 3x3 world championship was held in august 2012 in athens greece. It is considered the flagship event of fiba. The tournament was hosted by canada from august 4 to august 14 1994.

The 2002 fiba world championship was the 14th edition of the competition now known as the fiba basketball world cup the international world championship for mens basketball teams. Fiba organises the most famous and prestigious international basketball competitions including the fiba basketball world cup the fiba world championship for women and the fiba 3x3 world tour. It was co organised by the international basketball federation fiba japan basketball association jabba and the 2006 organizing committee. Spain recapture fiba basketball world cup title in china.

The tournament was held at skydome and maple leaf gardens in toronto as well as at copps coliseum in hamilton. It was considered as prestigious a competition as the olympic basketball tournament. Biggest ever fiba world cup reaches record breaking three billion people. The 1994 fiba world championship was the 12th fiba world championship the international basketball world championship for mens teams.

The fiba womens basketball world cup also known as the basketball world cup for women or simply the fiba womens world cup is an international basketball tournament for womens national teams held quadrennially. It was created by the international basketball federation fiba. Its inaugural game was in 1953 in chile three years after the first mens world championship. The website features live and on demand videos basketball news over 7000 players profile.

Rudy fernandez marc gasol join pantheon of greats to have won two world titles. The 2019 fiba basketball world cup was the 18th tournament of the fiba basketball world cup for mens national basketball teams. For the first time since 1986 the world championship was contested by 24 nations eight more than in 2002. The tournament held by the international basketball federation in indianapolis indiana united states from august 29 to september 8 2002.

The current champions are united states in the mens division and china in the womens division. The fiba 3x3 world cup is a 3x3 basketball tournament for national teams organized by the international basketball federation fiba. The tournament was hosted by turkey. It was co organized by the international basketball federation fiba turkish basketball federation and the 2010 organizing committee.