EuroBasket 1993


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.

Qualification

Venues

Teams

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.

Format

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

Group E

Group F

Knockout stage

Championship bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Third place

Final

5th to 8th place

Awards

All-Tournament Team
Sergei Bazarevich
Jordi Villacampa
Fanis Christodoulou
Chris Welp
Dino Rađja

Final standings

Qualified for the 1994 FIBA World Championship

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4th

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

Vladimir Gorin
Dmitry Shakulin
Dmitry Sucharev
Maksim Astanin
Vitaliy Nosov
Sergei Bazarevich
Sergei Babkov
Mikhail Michajlov
Vasily Karasev
Andrei Fetisov
Sergei Panov
Vladislav Kondratov

Velimir Perasović
Alan Gregov
Ivica Žurić
Vladan Alanović
Franjo Arapović
Žan Tabak
Stojko Vranković
Danko Cvjetićanin
Arijan Komazec
Dino Rađa
Emilio Kovačić
Veljko Mršić

Giorgos Bosganas
Kostas Patavoukas
Panagiotis Giannakis
Lefteris Kakiousis
Giorgos Sigalas
Efthimis Bakatsias
Nasos Galakteros
Christos Tsekos
Giannis Papagiannis
Panagiotis Fasoulas
Nikos Oikonomou
Fanis Christodoulou