The 1982 FIBA World Championship was the 9th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. The tournament was hosted by Colombia from 15 to 28 August 1982.
Qualification Defending World Champions Host country, advances outright to the semifinal round Americas (6)Europe (4)FIBA Asia (1)Africa (1)Oceania (1)
Venues Group AHISTORIA DEL BALONCESTO DEL NORTE DE SANTANDER Group B Group C Classification round Final round Bogotá Medellín Bucaramanga Cúcuta Cali Coliseo Cubierto El Campín Coliseo Iván de Bedout Coliseo Vicente Díaz Romero Coliseo Toto Hernández Coliseo El Pueblo Capacity: 14,000 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 18,000
Competing nations Group AGroup BGroup C – advanced automatically to the semifinal round as host
Preliminary round Group A
Group B
Group C
Classification round
Semifinal round
Final round
Third place playoff
Final
Final standings Rank Team Record 1 8–1 2 7–2 3 7–2 4 6–3 5 4–4 6 3–5 7 0–6 8 4–3 9 4–3 10 4–3 11 2–5 12 1–6 13 0–7
Awards
Most Valuable Player Doc Rivers
All-Tournament Team
Doc Rivers (USA) Dragan Kićanović (Yugoslavia) Juan Antonio San Epifanio (Spain) Vladimir Tkachenko (USSR) Anatoli Myshkin (USSR)
Top 10 scorers (points per game) Rolando Frazer (Panama) 24.4 Ian Davies (Australia) 23.4 Wilfredo Ruiz (Uruguay) 23.4 Dié Drisa (Côte d'Ivoire) 21.6 Dragan Kićanović (Yugoslavia) 21.1 Oscar Schmidt (Brazil) 21.0 Stanislav Kropilak (Czechoslovakia) 19.3 Juan Antonio San Epifanio (Spain) 18.1 Gustav Hraska (Czechoslovakia) 18.0 Jay Triano (Canada) 17.9 Player Leaders Sort by: POSITIONS:All POINTS PER GAME : ALL ROUNDS.
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