Croatia men's national basketball team
The Croatian national basketball team was founded in 1992. Her biggest success came the Croatian team in the same year at the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. The players won the silver medal of the tournament and had at that time only the professionals of the U.S. Dream Team defeated. Other achievements include two third places at the European Basketball Championship in 1993 and the European Basketball Championship in 1995. Also in the Basketball World Championship 1994 won the Croatian basketball team the bronze medal.
History
The beginnings of basketball on the territory of today's Croatia is connected with the stay of the U.S. American William Weil country. As a representative of the American Christian Youth Association he held in 1924 in Zagreb and established the at that time new sport before. After the Croatian Basketball Federation was formed on 19 December 1948. Before the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, the Croatian Basketball Federation was, until November 17, 1991 Part of gesamtjugoslawischen Basketball Federation. The successes of the former gesamtjugoslawischen national basketball team should be added that while having won a total of 27 medals in international competitions of 60 and 6 of 12 gold medal at the Olympic Games basketball player from Croatia. In eight of the nine successes of the former, gesamtjugoslawischen national basketball team at the European and World Championships were always at least 5 players of Croatian origin mustered in Player Squad. Among the most famous were: Skansi, Solman, Tvrdić, Cosic, Jerkov, Plečaš, Petričević, Gjergja, Nakić, KNEG, Vranković, Perasovic, Kukoč, Rađa, Komazec, tobacco, and Petrović. Furthermore won Croatian club teams such as Jugoplastika Split ( POP 84), today KK Split or Lokomotiva Cibona, Zagreb Cibona important today, European club title. The Croatian Basketball Federation was included in the International Basketball Federation FIBA on 19 January 1992.
Current squad
Achievements
Basketball World Championship
Olympic Summer Games
European Basketball Championships
- 2 Bronze: 1993, 1995
Results in international tournaments
Olympic Summer Games
- Barcelona 1992: Silver Medal
- Atlanta 1996: 7th place
- Sydney 2000: Non- qualified
- Athens 2004: Non- qualified
- Beijing 2008: Quarter-Finals
- London 2012: Non- qualified
Basketball World Championship
- Basketball World Championship 1994: Bronze Medal
- Basketball World Championship 1998: Non- qualified
- Basketball World Championship 2002: Non- qualified
- Basketball World Championship 2006: Non- qualified
- Basketball World Championship 2010: 14th Place
European Basketball Championships
- European Basketball Championships 1993: Bronze Medal
- European Basketball Championships 1995: Bronze Medal
- Eurobasket 1997: 11th Place
- Eurobasket 1999: 11th Place
- Eurobasket 2001: 7th place
- Eurobasket 2003: 11th Place
- Eurobasket 2005: 7th place
- Eurobasket 2007: 6th place
- Eurobasket 2009: 6th place
- Eurobasket 2011: 13th Place
- Eurobasket 2013: 4th place
Well-known former players
- Stojan Vranković
- Dražen Petrović
- Dino Rađa
- Toni Kukoč
- Arijan Komazec