1970 FIBA World Championship

The 1970 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Yugoslavia at Sarajevo, Split ,Karlovac, Skopje and Ljubljana, (now Slovenia) from May 10 to 24, 1970.

Competing nations

Group A	Group B	Group C
Australia Cuba Czechoslovakia United States	Brazil Canada Italy South Korea	Panama Soviet Union United Arab Republic Uruguay
Yugoslavia - advanced automatically to the final round as host

Venues

Group	City	Arena	Capacity
Group A	Sarajevo	Dvorana Skenderija	8,000
Group B	Split	-	-
Group C	Karlovac	-	-
Classification Round	Skopje	-	-
Final round	Ljubljana	Hala Tivoli	14,000

Preliminary round

	Qualified for the final round
	Qualified for the classification round

Group A

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
United States	6	3	0	272	201	+71
Czechoslovakia	5	2	1	262	249	+13
Cuba	4	1	2	205	209	-4
Australia	3	0	3	185	265	-80

Group B

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Brazil	6	3	0	288	229	+59
Italy	5	2	1	254	229	+25
South Korea	4	1	2	240	247	-7
Canada	3	0	3	216	293	-77

Group C

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD
Soviet Union	6	3	0	302	161	+141
Uruguay	5	2	1	222	221	+1
Panama	4	1	2	236	266	-30
United Arab Rep.	3	0	3	206	318	-112

Classification round

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD	First Tiebreaker Classification for Tied Teams	Second Tiebreaker Goal Average for Tied Teams
Cuba	10	5	0	455	336	+119
Panama	8	3	2	425	408	+17	1W-1L	1.006
Canada	8	3	2	409	412	-3	1W-1L	1.000
South Korea	8	3	2	427	397	+30	1W-1L	0.994
Australia	6	1	4	394	433	-39
United Arab Rep.	5	0	5	367	491	-124

Final round

Team	Pts.	W	L	PF	PA	PD	First Tiebreaker Classification for Tied Teams
Yugoslavia	11	5	1	445	397	+48
Brazil	10	4	2	416	421	-5	66-64
Soviet Union	10	4	2	478	386	+92	64-66
Italy	9	3	3	411	403	+8	66-64
United States	9	3	3	431	376	+55	64-66
Czechoslovakia	8	2	4	440	509	-69
Uruguay	6	0	6	342	471	-129

Final ranking

Rank	Team
1	Yugoslavia
2	Brazil
3	USSR
4	Italy
5	United States
6	Czechoslovakia
7	Uruguay
8	Cuba
9	Panama
10	Canada
11	South Korea
12	Australia
13	United Arab Republic

All-Tournament Team

• Krešimir Ćosić (Yugoslavia)
• Sergei Belov (USSR)
• Modestas Paulauskas (USSR)
• Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (Brazil)
• Kenny Washington (USA)

Top scorers (ppg)

1. Shin Dong-pa (S.Korea) 32.6
2. Davis Peralta (Panama) 20
3. Jiri Zidek Sr. (Czechoslovakia) 19.3
4. Pedro Chappe Garcia (Cuba) 18.5
5. Pedro Rivas (Panama) 18.5
6. Lee In-pyo (S.Korea) 18
7. Omar Arrestia (Uruguay) 17.7
8. Luis Claudio Menon (Brazil) 17.3
9. Bob Molinski (Canada) 17.1
10. Victor Hernandez (Uruguay) 16.5