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1943 South American Basketball Championship

Field	Value
continent	South America
year	1943
host	Peru
dates	3-17 May
teams	6
venues	1
cities	1
champions	Argentina
title_number	5
prevseason	1942
nextseason	1945

The 1943 South American Basketball Championship was the 11th edition of regional tournament. It was held in Lima, Peru and won by the Argentina national basketball team. 6 teams, including Bolivia in their first appearance, competed despite the World War that was currently under way.

Final rankings

Results

Preliminary round

Each team played the other five teams once, for a total of five games played by each team and 15 overall in the preliminary round. Placing in the top four qualified a team to move on to the final round.

Rank	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1	10	5	0	205	134	+71
2	9	4	1	223	117	+106
3	8	3	2	222	166	+56
4	7	2	3	204	154	+50
5	6	1	4	121	292	-171
6	5	0	5	137	249	-112

Paraguay	41 - 32	Bolivia

Final round

The top four teams advanced to the final round, where they played each of the other three once. Only the results from this round were used to determine final placing for the top four.

Rank	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1	6	3	0	106	79	+27
2	5	2	1	102	82	+20
3	4	1	2	90	84	+6
4	3	0	3	77	130	-53

Peru	44 - 23	Chile

Argentina line-up: Candido Arrua (Santa Fe), Jose Alberto Beltran (Capital Federal), Carlos Jensen Buhl (Capital Federal), Julio Carrasco (Santa Fe), Gustavo Chazarreta (Stgo del Estero), Mario Jimenez (Stgo del Estero), Rafael Lledo (Stgo del Estero), Italo Malvicini (Santa Fe), Marcelino Ojeda (Corrientes), Hector Romagnolo (Capital Federal), Carlos Sanchez (Stgo del Estero), Oscar Serena (Santa Fe). Coach: Saul Ramirez Manfredi.

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