EuroBasket 1993

EuroBasket 1993

Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Dates	22 June – 4 July
Teams	16
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Germany (1st title)
Runners-up	Russia
Third place	Croatia
Fourth place	Greece
Tournament statistics
MVP	Chris Welp
Top scorer	Sabahudin Bilalović (24.6 points per game)
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The 1993 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1993, was the 28th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It was held in Germany between 22 June and 4 July 1993. Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The cities of Berlin, Karlsruhe and Munich hosted the tournament. Hosts Germany won their first FIBA European title by defeating Russia with a 71–70 score in the final. Germany's Chris Welp was voted the tournament's MVP. This edition of the FIBA EuroBasket tournament also served as qualification for the 1994 FIBA World Championship, giving a berth to the top five teams in the final standings.

Competition	Date	Vacancies	Qualified
Qualified from EuroBasket 1991	24 – 29 June 1991	3	France  Italy  Spain
Qualified through Qualifying Round	1 May 1991 – 18 November 1992	8	Belgium  Bulgaria  Germany  Greece  Israel  Russia  Sweden  Turkey
Qualified through Additional Qualifying Round	30 May – 7 June 1993	5	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  Estonia  Latvia  Slovenia

Location	Picture	City	Arena	Capacity	Status	Round
Berlin		Berlin	Deutschlandhalle	8,500	Opened in 1935	Groups B, D and F
Karlsruhe		Karlsruhe	Europahalle	5,000	Opened in 1983	Groups A, C and E
Munich		München	Olympiahalle	10,800	Opened in 1972	Knockout and qualification rounds

It was first decided that 12 teams would participate in EuroBasket 1993, however, after the Qualifying Round was concluded, FIBA Europe decided to expand it up to 16 teams.

The reason for this were politic changes in Eastern Europe caused by breaks of two big countries, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, which dominated in European basketball in recent decades. Yugoslavia as title holder was excluded from all international sport competitions because of sanctions against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Russia was announced as successor of the Soviet Union and the first time competed as independent country at major tournament. Since other new countries, including silver medalist Croatia and bronze medalist Lithuania from the Olympic tournament at Barcelona 1992, did not compete at the Qualifying Round, FIBA Europe organized additional qualifying tournament in order to enable them participation at championship. The additional tournament was held in Wroclaw a month before Eurobasket.

• The teams were split in four groups of four teams each. The top three teams from each group advance to the second round.
• The 12 teams that qualify to the second round are divided in two groups of six teams each, with one group containing the best three teams from groups A and B, while the other containing the three best teams from groups C and D. Results from the previous round are carried over, but only those against teams that qualified to the second round.
• The four best teams in the second round advance to the knockout quarterfinals. The winners in the semifinals compete for the European Championship, while the losers from the semifinals play a consolation game for the third place.
• The losers in the quarterfinals compete in another bracket to define 5th through 8th place in the final standings.

Qualified for the second round

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

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Spain	3	3	0	254	213	+41	6
Russia	3	1	2	266	263	+3	4	1-1, +14
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	1	2	255	264	−9	4	1-1, -2
Sweden	3	1	2	218	253	−35	4	1-1, -12

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Croatia	3	3	0	317	241	+76	6
France	3	2	1	255	229	+26	5
Turkey	3	1	2	196	252	−56	4
Bulgaria	3	0	3	227	273	−46	3

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Greece	3	2	1	243	214	+29	5	1-0, +19
Latvia	3	2	1	243	244	−1	5	0-1, -19
Italy	3	1	2	244	251	−7	4	1-0, +9
Israel	3	1	2	246	267	−21	4	0-1, -9

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Estonia	3	2	1	255	261	−6	5	1-0, +10
Germany	3	2	1	275	234	+41	5	0-1, -10
Belgium	3	1	2	224	233	−9	4	1-0, +21
Slovenia	3	1	2	198	224	−26	4	0-1, -21

Advanced to the quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
Spain	5	4	1	430	387	+43	9	1-1, +10
Russia	5	4	1	444	371	+73	9	1-1, +6
Greece	5	4	1	414	378	+36	9	1-1, -16
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	1	4	424	468	−44	6	1-1, +3
Italy	5	1	4	355	413	−58	6	1-1, +1
Latvia	5	1	4	398	448	−50	6	1-1, -4

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Croatia	5	5	0	487	375	+112	10
France	5	4	1	384	337	+47	9
Estonia	5	3	2	410	426	−16	8
Germany	5	2	3	392	375	+17	7
Turkey	5	1	4	325	395	−70	6
Belgium	5	0	5	340	430	−90	5

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	1 July – 17:30
	Russia	82
					2 July – 19:00
	Estonia	61
					Russia	84
	1 July – 21:00
					Croatia	76
	Croatia	98
									4 July – 21:00
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78
									Russia	70
	1 July – 15:30
									Germany	71
	France	59
					2 July – 21:00
	Greece	61
					Greece	73
	1 July – 19:00
					Germany	76			Third place
	Spain	77
									3 July – 21:00
	Germany (OT)	79
									Croatia	99
									Greece	59

	Classification round				Fifth place
	2 July – 13:00
	Estonia	99
					3 July – 19:00
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	91
					Estonia	80
	2 July – 15:30
					Spain	119
	France	83
	Spain	95
					Seventh place
					4 July – 18:00
					Bosnia and Herzegovina	75
					France	83

1993 FIBA EuroBasket champions
Germany 1st title

1993 FIBA EuroBasket MVP: Chris Welp ( Germany)

All-Tournament Team[1]
Sergei Bazarevich
Jordi Villacampa
Fanis Christodoulou
Chris Welp (MVP)
Dino Rađa

Qualified for the 1994 FIBA World Championship

Rank	Team	Record
	Germany	6–3
	Russia	6–3
	Croatia	8–1
4	Greece	5–4
5	Spain	7–2
6	Estonia	4–5
7	France	6–3
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2–7
9	Italy	2–4
10	Latvia	2–4
11	Turkey	2–4
12	Belgium	1–5
13	Israel	1–2
14	Slovenia	1–2
15	Sweden	1–2
16	Bulgaria	0–3

			4th
Germany Moritz Kleine-Brockhoff Henrik Rödl Michael Koch Chris Welp Teoman Öztürk Henning Harnisch Gunther Behnke Stephan Baeck Hansi Gnad Kai Nürnberger Jens Kujawa Mike Jackel	Russia Vladimir Gorin Dmitry Shakulin Dmitry Sucharev Maksim Astanin Vitaliy Nosov Sergei Bazarevich Sergei Babkov Mikhail Michajlov Vasily Karasev Andrei Fetisov Sergei Panov Vladislav Kondratov	Croatia Velimir Perasović Alan Gregov Ivica Žurić Vladan Alanović Franjo Arapović Žan Tabak Stojko Vranković Danko Cvjetićanin Arijan Komazec Dino Rađa Emilio Kovačić Veljko Mršić	Greece Giorgos Bosganas Kostas Patavoukas Panagiotis Giannakis Lefteris Kakiousis Giorgos Sigalas Efthimis Bakatsias Nasos Galakteros Christos Tsekos Giannis Papagiannis Panagiotis Fasoulas Nikos Oikonomou Fanis Christodoulou

• 1993 European Championship for Men archive.FIBA.com
• FIBA Archive
• Eurobasket 1993 at FIBAEUROPE.COM