EuroBasket 1953

The 8th European Basketball Championship of Men ( officially: Euro Basket 1953) was from 24 May to 4 June 1953 in Moscow. Host USSR defended his title in 1951, which became the Soviet selection with her now third European gold record for the sole champion. Silver went to Hungary, France won the bronze medal. In addition to the antretenden for political reasons in the European continental competition team from Israel were Egypt and Lebanon to the EM field of participants absence of its own continental championships.

  • 2.1 Group 1
  • 2.2 Group 2
  • 3.1 Place 13 to 16
  • 3.2 places 9 to 12

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was played in four groups of five or even three times four teams. The winner of the match was awarded two points, the loser one point. Stand a game at the end of regulation time draw, so there was extension. In case of equality, the direct comparison decided against each other.

The two first and second position in their group were set for the semi-finals and had 8 place already secure. The remaining teams played in the placement round the 9 EM- space.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Lebanon came not against Israel, and he let the game with 0:2 and 0:2 points baskets lost.

Placement Round I

All teams that had missed in their preliminary round group the top two spots for the next round, played in two groups of the places 9-18. This rank one and two were necessary in order to subsequently participate in the Games at position 9 can. The third and fourth rank of each group entitled to the game participation to 13th place, while the fifth and last placed so that the group 2 automatically finished in 17th place overall.

Group 1

Group 2

Placement Round II

Place 13 to 16

The respective third and fourth placed a group from the placement round I played for EM number 13 was played in KO system via cross against an opponent from the other group.

Places 9-12

The first two parameters in each group from the placement round I played for EM- 9 Played place was a knock- on cross against an opponent from the other group.

Final round

Both first-and second-placed each preliminary round group played in a single group for the European title. This was awarded to the winner of the final round, decided the further order of the EM places 2-8. So was the runner- EM- silver, third-placed European Championship bronze etc..

Egypt came not against Israel, and he let the game with 0:2 and 0:2 points baskets lost.

Full Time

Statistics

  • Number of Games: 80
  • Number of points: 8390
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