Review of previous champions of the Basketball World Cup: The United States has won 5 championships and China's best quarterfinals The Philippines has become the light of Asia
Beijing time on August 22, 3 days before the opening of the 2023 Basketball World Cup, this article brings a review of the previous champions of the Basketball World Cup (formerly known as the Basketball World Championship), in the past 18 World Cups, a total of 6 teams have won the championship, of which the United States men's basketball team and the Yugoslav men's basketball team tied for the most 5 championships, the United States men's basketball team is expected to hit the 6th championship this year and thus occupy the first place in history, Asian teams only the Philippine men's basketball team won the third place in 1954 and appeared on the podium once, The best record in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team was to advance to the quarterfinals in 1994.
Review of previous champions of the Basketball World Cup, as follows:
1st: 1950 champion Argentina
2nd: 1954 Champion USA
3rd: 1959 Champion Brazil
4th: 1963 Champion Brazil
Fifth: 1967 champion USSR
6th: 1970 Champion Yugoslavia
VII: 1974 champion USSR
VIII: 1978 Champion Yugoslavia
IX: 1982 Champion USSR
10th: 1986 Champion USA
11th: 1990 Champion Yugoslavia
Twelfth: 1994 Champion USA
13th: 1998 Champion Yugoslavia
14th: 2002 Champion Yugoslavia
15th: 2006 Champion Spain
16th: 2010 Champion USA
17th: 2014 Champion USA
18th: 2019 champion Spain
Only 6 teams have ever won the World Cup
In the past 18 basketball World Cups, a total of 6 teams have won the championship, and the specific number of victories is as follows:
1. The U.S. men's basketball team Yugoslav men's basketball team is tied for first place with 5 championships
2. The Soviet Union men's basketball team won 3 championships
3. The Spanish men's basketball team and the Brazilian men's basketball team tied for third place with two championships
4. Argentina men's basketball team 1 championship
The U.S. men's basketball team won its sixth championship and topped the first place in history
The U.S. men's basketball team and the Yugoslav men's basketball team both won five championships, tied for first place in history. The U.S. men's basketball team won five championships in 1954, 1986, 1994, 2010 and 2014, while the Yugoslav men's basketball team won five championships in 1970, 1978, 1990, 1998 and 2002. Since Yugoslavia has disintegrated, the US men's basketball team will monopolize the number of championships in history as long as it wins another championship in the future.
The Philippine men's basketball team became the only podium team in Asia
In the past 18 basketball World Cups, Asian teams have only once finished in the top three on the podium, that is, in 1954, the Philippine men's basketball team finished third, and the champions and runners-up were the United States men's basketball team and the Brazilian men's basketball team. This year, the Philippine men's basketball team, as the host team, will become the strongest opponent of the Chinese men's basketball team to compete for the Paris Olympic spot.
The best record in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team advanced to the quarterfinals
The Chinese men's basketball team began to participate in the 8th session in 1978, and finally finished 11th in the first competition under the leadership of Qian Chenghai, while Zhang Weiping averaged 25.1 points per game to become the scoring champion and was selected for the best team.
The best achievement of the Chinese men's basketball team in the past tournament was the promotion of Jiang Xingquan to the quarterfinals in 1994, which was known as the "golden generation" with Hu Weidong, Gong Xiaobin and Zheng Wu. This year, the Chinese men's basketball team will once again participate in the basketball World Cup, with the goal of becoming the best team in Asia and thus going straight to the Paris Olympics.
(Text/Drunken Lying Float)