The 1967 FIBA World Championship was the 5th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. It was hosted by Montevideo, Uruguay from 27 May to 11 June 1967.
Venues
Competing nations
Competition format
- Preliminary round: Three groups of four teams play each other once; top two teams progress to the final round, bottom two teams relegated to classification round.
- Classification round: All bottom two teams from preliminary round group play each other once. The team with the best record is ranked eighth; the worst is ranked 13th.
- Final round: All top two teams from preliminary round group, the 1964 Olympic champion, and the host team play each other once. The team with the best record wins the championship.
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Classification round
Final round
Awards
Final standings
All-Tournament Team
Top scorers (ppg)
- Mieczyslaw Lopatka (Poland) 19.7
- Bohdan Likszo (Poland) 19.3
- Luiz Cláudio Menon (Brazil) 18.6
- Ernesto Ghermann (Argentina) 18.3
- Gianfranco Lombardi (Italy) 17.5
- Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (Brazil) 15.9
- Manuel Raga (Mexico) 15.6
- Radivoj KoraÃÂ (Yugoslavia) 14.6
- Arturo Guerrero (Mexico) 14.4
- Ivo Daneu (Yugoslavia) 14.0
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