1978 FIBA World Championship

The 1978 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball competition hosted by Philippines from October 1 to 14 , 1978.Rizal Memorial Coliseum at Manila and Araneta Coliseum(Now Smart Araneta Coliseum) at Quezon City, Metro Manila were the venues for the event.

Venues

Competing nations

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Classification round

Semifinal round

Final round

Final ranking

All-Tournament Team

• Krešimir Ćosić (Yugoslavia)
• Dražen Dalipagić (Yugoslavia)
• Dragan Kićanović (Yugoslavia)
• Oscar Schmidt (Brazil)
• Vladimir Tkachenko (USSR)

Top scorers (ppg)

1. Kamil Brabenec (Czechoslovakia) 26.8
2. Zhang Weiping (People's Republic of China) 25.1
3. Choi B.Y. (S.Korea) 21.1
4. Dražen Dalipagić (Yugoslavia) 20
5. Leo Rautins (Canada) 17.9
6. Marcel De Souza (Brazil) 17.7
7. Oscar Schmidt (Brazil) 17.3
8. Dragan Kićanović (Yugoslavia) 16.5
9. Renzo Bariviera (Italy) 16.2
10. Marcos Antonio Leite "Marquinhos" (Brazil) 14.7

References

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