|1950 FIBA World Championship
|1st FIBA World Championship
||October 22 – November 3
||1 (in 1 host city)
|| Argentina (1st title)
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. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50.
FIBA determined the requirements to qualify for the World Championship as follows: the three best teams in the previous Summer Olympic Games, the two best teams from South America, Europe and Asia, plus the organising Country. France, Brazil and the United States were granted a place each, following their performances in the 1948 Summer Olympics held at London. Uruguay and Chile qualified as the top two teams in the 1949 South American Championship, and Egypt, with the first place at Eurobasket 1949. Since no Asian teams were present due to travel difficulties, invitations were extended to Ecuador, Yugoslavia and Spain. Uruguay withdrew from the tournament as well, for political reasons. Peru went in its stead.
- Egypt and Peru advance to the second preliminary phase.
- Ecuador and Yugoslavia advance to the first repass round.
- 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.
- Chile and France advance to the second phase.
- Ecuador and Yugoslavia are relegated to the classification round.
- Chile and France advance to the final round.
- Peru and Spain are relegated to the classification round.
1.Argentina: Oscar Furlong, Ricardo González (basketball), Pedro Bustos, Leopoldo Contarbio, Hugo del Vecchio, Vito Liva, Alberto Lopez, Ruben Menini, Omar Monza, Raul Perez Varela, Juan Carlos Uder, Roberto Viau (Coach: Jorge Hugo Canavesi – Casimiro Gonzalez Trilla)
2.USA: John Stanich, Bob Fisher, Bryce Heffley, Tom Jaquet, Dan Kahler, John Langdon, Les Metzger, J. L. Parks, Jimmy Reese, Don Slocum, Blake Williams (Coach: Gordon Carpenter)
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 (Coach: Kenneth Davidson)
4.Brazil: Zenny de Azevedo "Algodão", 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" (Coach: Moacyr Brondi Daiuto)
- Álvaro Salvadores (Spain) 13.7
- Fortunato Muñoz (Ecuador) 13.2
- Alfredo Arroyave (Ecuador) 11.4
- Oscar Furlong (Argentina) 11.1
- Rufino Bernedo (Chile) 10.7
- Ricardo González (Argentina) 10.6
- Eduardo Fiestas (Peru) 8.6
- Alberto Fernández (Peru) 8.1
- Víctor Mahana (Chile) 7.8
- Jacques Perrier (France) 6.2