Basketball, Men

Competition 1950 World Men Basketball Championships
Venue Buenos Aires ARG
Held 22 October – 4 November 1950
Status Medal
Competitors 119
Countries 10

Two preliminary rounds and two repêchage rounds have been played to determine the six teams for the final phase.

Pos Athlete(s) Country Wins Ties Losses
🥇 Argentina ARG 6 0 0
Pedro Bustos / Leopoldo Contarbio / Hugo del Vecchio / Óscar Furlong / Ricardo González / Vito Liva / Alberto López / Rubén Menini / Omar Monza / Raúl Pérez / Juan Carlos Uder / Roberto Viau
🥈 United States USA 5 0 1
Robert Fisher / Bryce Heffley / Thomas Jaquet / Arthur Kahler / John Langdon / Andrew Metzger / John Parks / James Reese / Donald Slocum / John Stanich / Blake Williams
🥉 Chile CHI 4 0 4
Pedro Araya / Rufino Bernedo / Eduardo Cordero / Víctor Mahaña / Exequiel Figueroa / Juan José Gallo / Emilio Raúl López / Enrique Marmentini / Juan Ostoic / Hernán Ramos / Marcos Sánchez / Mariano Fernández
4 Brazil BRA 3 0 3
Angelim / Alfredo da Motta / Algodão / Ruy de Freitas / Plutão de Macedo / Celso dos Santos / Alexandre Gemignani / Tião / Milton Santos Marques / Thales / Godinho / Paulo Rodrigues Siqueira
5 Egypt EGY 4 0 3
Youssef Abbas / Youssef Abou Ouf / Medhat Bahgat / Armand Catafago / Fouad El-Kheir / Mohamed El-Rashidy / Abdel Rahman Hafez / Medhat Youssef / Hussain Montassir / Wahid Saleh / Mohamed Soliman / Albert Tadros
6 France FRA 2 0 6
Jacques Chalifour / Maurice Desaymonet / Jacques Dessemme / Fernand Guillou / Maurice Marcelot / Robert Marsolat / Robert Monclar / Jean Perniceni / Jacques Perrier / Jean-Pierre Salignon / Jean Swidzinski / André Vacheresse
7 Peru PER 4 0 2
Guillermo Airaldi / Carlos Alegre / Alberto Fernández / Mario Castro / Francisco de Zela / David Descalzo / Virgilio Drago / Eduardo Fiestas / Luis Gardella / Ernesto Ortiz / Rodolfo Salas / Luis Vergara
8 Ecuador ECU 2 0 3
Víctor Andrade / Atilio Ansaldo / Gonzalo Aparicio / Alfredo Arroyabe / Rodolfo Arroyo / José María Díaz-Granados / Raúl Guerrero / Justo Morán / Fortunato Muñoz / Gabriel Peña / Alfonso Quiñónez / Pablo Sandiford
9 Spain ESP 1 0 4
Domingo Bárcenas / Jaume Bassó / Juan Dalmau / Joan Ferrando / Julio Gámez / Ángel González / Arturo Imedio / Eduardo Kucharski / Ángel Lozano / Andrés Oller / Ignacio Pinedo / Álvaro Salvadores
10 Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 5
Mirko Amon / Aleksandar Blašković / Ladislav Demšar / Lajos Engler / Aleksandar Gec / Srđan Kalember / Vilmoš Lóczi / Milenko Novaković / Nebojša Popović / Dušan Radojčić / Milorad Sokolović / Borislav Stanković

Preliminary Round 1

Egypt EGY 43-37 Ecuador ECU
Peru PER 33-27 Yugoslavia YUG

Preliminary Round 2

Brazil BRA 40-33 Peru PER
Egypt EGY 57-56 Spain ESP
France FRA 40-56 Argentina ARG
United States USA 37-33 Chile CHI

Repêchage Round 1

France FRA 48-43 Ecuador ECU
Yugoslavia YUG 24-40 Chile CHI

Repêchage Round 2

France FRA 46-46 (3-0)
After Extra Time
Peru PER
Spain ESP 40-54 Chile CHI

Final

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
1 Argentina ARG 5 0 0 10
2 United States USA 4 0 1 9
3 Chile CHI 2 0 3 7
4 Brazil BRA 2 0 3 7
5 Egypt EGY 2 0 3 7
6 France FRA 0 0 5 5

Matches

Egypt EGY 32-34 United States USA
France FRA 44-48 Chile CHI
Brazil BRA 35-40 Argentina ARG
Egypt EGY 31-28 France FRA
Brazil BRA 42-45 United States USA
Argentina ARG 62-41 Chile CHI
Brazil BRA 38-19 Egypt EGY
France FRA 41-66 Argentina ARG
Egypt EGY 33-68 Argentina ARG
United States USA 44-29 Chile CHI
Brazil BRA 40-51 Chile CHI
France FRA 33-48 United States USA
Brazil BRA 59-27 France FRA
Egypt EGY 43-40 Chile CHI
Argentina ARG 64-50 United States USA

Classification Round

Standings

Pos Team Wins Ties Losses Points
7 Peru PER 3 0 0 6
8 Ecuador ECU 2 0 1 5
9 Spain ESP 1 0 2 4
10 Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 3 2

Matches

Peru PER 43-37 Spain ESP
Ecuador ECU 45-40 Yugoslavia YUG
Peru PER 35-35 (11-8)
After Extra Time
Yugoslavia YUG
Ecuador ECU 54-50 Spain ESP
Peru PER 51-43 Ecuador ECU
Spain ESP 2-0 (wo) Yugoslavia YUG