EuroBasket 1993

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EuroBasket 1993

Basketball-Europameisterschaft 1993
Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Dates	22 June – 4 July
Teams	16
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (1st title)
Runners-up	Russia
Third place	Croatia
Fourth place	Greece
Tournament statistics
MVP	Germany Chris Welp
Top scorer	Bosnia and Herzegovina Sabahudin Bilalović (24.6 points per game)
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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.

Competition	Date	Vacancies	Qualified
Qualified from EuroBasket 1991	24 – 29 June 1991	3	France  Italy  Spain
Qualified through Qualifying Round	1 May 1991 – 18 November 1992	8	Belgium  Bulgaria  Germany  Greece  Israel  Russia  Sweden  Turkey
Qualified through Additional Qualifying Round	30 May – 7 June 1993	5	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  Estonia  Latvia  Slovenia

Location	Picture	City	Arena	Capacity	Status	Round
EuroBasket 1993 is located in Germany Berlin Berlin		Berlin	Deutschlandhalle	8,500	Opened in 1935	Groups B, D and F
EuroBasket 1993 is located in Germany Karlsruhe Karlsruhe		Karlsruhe	Europahalle	5,000	Opened in 1983	Groups A, C and E
EuroBasket 1993 is located in Germany Munich Munich		München	Olympiahalle	10,800	Opened in 1972	Knockout and qualification rounds

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.

• The teams were split in four groups of four teams each. The top three teams from each group advance to the second round.
• The 12 teams that qualify to the second round are divided in two groups of six teams each, with one group containing the best three teams from groups A and B, while the other containing the three best teams from groups C and D. Results from the previous round are carried over, but only those against teams that qualified to the second round.
• The four best teams in the second round advance to the knockout quarterfinals. The winners in the semifinals compete for the European Championship, while the losers from the semifinals play a consolation game for the third place.
• The losers in the quarterfinals compete in another bracket to define 5th through 8th place in the final standings.

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

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Spain	3	3	0	254	213	+41	6
Russia	3	1	2	266	263	+3	4	1-1, +14
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	1	2	255	264	−9	4	1-1, -2
Sweden	3	1	2	218	253	−35	4	1-1, -12

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Croatia	3	3	0	317	241	+76	6
France	3	2	1	255	229	+26	5
Turkey	3	1	2	196	252	−56	4
Bulgaria	3	0	3	227	273	−46	3

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Greece	3	2	1	243	214	+29	5	1-0, +19
Latvia	3	2	1	243	244	−1	5	0-1, -19
Italy	3	1	2	244	251	−7	4	1-0, +9
Israel	3	1	2	246	267	−21	4	0-1, -9

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Estonia	3	2	1	255	261	−6	5	1-0, +10
Germany	3	2	1	275	234	+41	5	0-1, -10
Belgium	3	1	2	224	233	−9	4	1-0, +21
Slovenia	3	1	2	198	224	−26	4	0-1, -21

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Spain	5	4	1	430	387	+43	9	1-1, +10
Russia	5	4	1	444	371	+73	9	1-1, +6
Greece	5	4	1	414	378	+36	9	1-1, -16
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	1	4	424	468	−44	6	1-1, +3
Italy	5	1	4	355	413	−58	6	1-1, +1
Latvia	5	1	4	398	448	−50	6	1-1, -4

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Croatia	5	5	0	487	375	+112	10
France	5	4	1	384	337	+47	9
Estonia	5	3	2	410	426	−16	8
Germany	5	2	3	392	375	+17	7
Turkey	5	1	4	325	395	−70	6
Belgium	5	0	5	340	430	−90	5

1993 FIBA EuroBasket champions
Germany 1st title

All-Tournament Team[1]
Russia Sergei Bazarevich
Spain Jordi Villacampa
Greece Fanis Christodoulou
Germany Chris Welp (MVP)
Croatia Dino Rađa

Rank	Team	Record
1st place, gold medalist(s)	Germany	6–3
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	Russia	6–3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	Croatia	8–1
4	Greece	5–4
5	Spain	7–2
6	Estonia	4–5
7	France	6–3
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–7
9	Italy	2–4
10	Latvia	2–4
11	Turkey	2–4
12	Belgium	1–5
13	Israel	1–2
14	Slovenia	1–2
15	Sweden	1–2
16	Bulgaria	0–3

• 1993 European Championship for Men archive.FIBA.com
• FIBA Archive
• Eurobasket 1993 at FIBAEUROPE.COM

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