- FIBA World Championship records
List of records attained in the
FIBA World Championship .General performances
Performances of host countries
From 1959 to 1982, the host qualified directly to the final round, thus bypassing the preliminary round (group stages). As a result, the host's final rank would no worse than the number of teams in the final round (between six to eight); however from 1986 the host was made to compete in the preliminary round.
However, the success rate of hosts winning the tournament is rather low (20%, 3 of 15), as compared to the
FIFA World Cup 's success rate of 32% (6 of 19); furthermore, no host has won the championship since Yugoslavia won in 1970, and the closest was on 1998 when Greece was eliminated in the semifinals.Top scorer by tournament (total)
* 1950 flagicon|CHI
Rufino Bernedo 86
* 1954 flagicon|URUOscar Moglia 168
* 1959 flagicon|USAJerry Vayda 162
* 1963 flagicon|PERRicardo Duarte 163
* 1967 flagicon|POLBohdan Likszo 180
* 1970 flagicon|KORShin Dong-pa 261
* 1974 flagicon|ESPWayne Brabender 207
* 1978 flagicon|TCHKamil Brabenec 188
* 1982 flagicon|YUGDragan Kicanovic 190
* 1986 flagicon|GRENikos Galis 337
* 1990 flagicon|BRAOscar Schmidt 284
* 1994 flagicon|AUSAndrew Gaze 191
* 1998 flagicon|ESPAlberto Herreros 161
* 2002 flagicon|GERDirk Nowitzki 216
* 2006 flagicon|GERDirk Nowitzki 209Top scorer by tournament (average)
* 1950 flagicon|ESP
Alvaro Salvadores 13.7
* 1954 flagicon|URUOscar Moglia 18.6
* 1959 flagicon|ROCJames Chen 20.1
* 1963 flagicon|PERRicardo Duarte 20.3
* 1967 flagicon|POLBohdan Likszo 20
* 1970 flagicon|KORShin Dong-pa 32.6
* 1974 flagicon|MEXArturo Guerrero 27
* 1978 flagicon|TCHKamil Brabenec 26.8
* 1982 flagicon|URUWilfredo Ruiz 24
* 1986 flagicon|GRENikos Galis 33.7
* 1990 flagicon|BRAOscar Schmidt 35.5
* 1994 flagicon|AUSAndrew Gaze 23.8
* 1998 flagicon|ESPAlberto Herreros 17.8
* 2002 flagicon|GERDirk Nowitzki 24
* 2006 flagicon|CHNYao Ming 25.3Top cumulative scorers
#
Oscar Schmidt - 916
#Andrew Gaze - 599
#Drazen Dalipagic - 568
#Marcel De Souza - 550
#Dragan Kicanovic - 484Top scoring averages
# Nikos Galis - 33.7
#Shin Dong-pa - 32.6
#Arturo Guerrero - 27.0
#Oscar Schmidt - 26.1
#Manuel Raga - 26.1Top scorers in a single game
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Hur Jae - 62 vs. bk-rt|Egypt in 1990.
# Nikos Galis - 53 vs. bk-rt|Panama in 1986.
#Oscar Schmidt - 49 vs. bk-rt|Cuba in 1986.
# Nikos Galis - 48 vs. bk-rt|China in 1986.
#Jordi Villacampa - 48 vs. bk-rt|Venezuela in 1990.
#Oscar Schmidt - 48 vs. bk-rt|Australia in 1990.Most number of tournaments played
*5 tournaments:
**flagicon|BRAUbiratan Pereira Maciel (41 games)
**flagicon|AUSPhil Smyth (39 games)
**flagicon|BRAMarcel De Souza (38 games)
*4 tournaments:
**flagicon|AUSRay Borner (39 games)
**flagicon|BRAWlamir Marques (36 games)Top medalists
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