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EuroBasket 1991

International basketball event


Summary

International basketball event

FieldValue
tourney_nameEuroBasket 1991
other_titlesCampionato europeo maschile di pallacanestro 1991
imageEuroBasket 1991.png
cityRome
countryItaly
dates24–29 June
num_teams8
venues1
cities1
championYugoslavia
count5
secondItaly
thirdSpain
fourthFrance
fourth-flagvar1974
mvpYUG Toni Kukoč
top_scorerGRE Nikos Galis
(32.6 points per game)
prevseason1989
nextseason1993

| fourth-flagvar = 1974 (32.6 points per game) The 1991 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1991, was the 27th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It was held in Italy between 24 and 29 June 1991. Eight national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The Palazzo dello Sport in Rome was the hosting venue of the tournament. Yugoslavia won its fifth FIBA European title by defeating hosts Italy with an 88–73 score in the final. Yugoslavia's Toni Kukoč was voted the tournament's MVP.

This was the first EuroBasket tournament in which currently active NBA players, that had also already played in an official NBA regular season game were allowed to participate, with Vlade Divac being the only NBA player in the tournament.

Venues

All games were played at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome.

{{Location map+Italyborder =caption =float = centerwidth = 300Italylat_deg=41lat_min=54lon_deg=12lon_min=30position = toplabel=Rome}}Palazzo dello Sport
Capacity: 12,000
Opened in 1960

Qualification

Main article: FIBA EuroBasket 1991 qualification

CompetitionDateVacanciesQualified
Qualified through Qualifying Round9 May 1989 – 5 December 19908

Squads

Main article: EuroBasket 1991 squads

Format

  • The teams were split in two groups of four teams each. The top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals. The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, and the losers figure in a third-place playoff.
  • The third and fourth teams from each group competed in another bracket to define 5th through 8th place in the final standings.

Preliminary round

Qualified for the semifinals

Group A

:Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Championship bracket

|28 June – 18:30||76||97 |28 June – 20:45||93||90 |29 June – 20:45||88||73 |29 June – 18:30||83||101

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Arbitri: Costas Rigas (GRE), Richard Steeves (CAN)

5th to 8th place

|28 June – 14:30||110||83 |28 June – 16:30||85||72 |29 June – 16:30||95||79 |29 June – 14:30||86||90

Awards

1991 FIBA EuroBasket MVP: Toni Kukoč (YUG Yugoslavia)
All-Tournament Team
ITA Nando Gentile
GRE Nikos Galis
YUG Toni Kukoč (MVP)
ESP Antonio Martín Espina
YUG Vlade Divac

Final standings

RankTeamRecord
5–0
4–1
3–2
41–4
53–2
62–3
72–3
80–5
** Zoran Sretenović
Velimir Perasović
Aleksandar Đorđević
Toni Kukoč
Žarko Paspalj
Jure Zdovc
Predrag Danilović
Zoran Jovanović
Vlade Divac
Arijan Komazec
Dino Rađa
Zoran Savić**Alessandro Fantozzi
Ferdinando Gentile
Walter Magnifico
Sandro Dell'Agnello
Andrea Gracis
Roberto Brunamonti
Roberto Premier
Riccardo Pittis
Antonello Riva
Davide Pessina
Ario Costa
Stefano RusconiJordi Villacampa
Mike Hansen
José Miguel Antúnez
Rafael Jofresa
Quique Andreu
Manel Bosch
Pep Cargol
Fernando Arcega
Juan Antonio Orenga
Silvano Bustos
Antonio Martín Espina
Juan Antonio San EpifanioFrédéric Forte
Valéry Demory
Antoine Rigaudeau
Richard Dacoury
Philip Szanyiel
Stéphane Ostrowski
Hugues Occansey
Didier Gadou
Félix Courtinard
Georges Adams
Jim Deines
Jim Bilba

References

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