FIBA Basketball
URU – Uruguay in the FIBA Americas Championship 2007
FIBA Americas (FIBA Americas Championship 2007) - Uruguay, winner of two bronze medals, played on six straight Olympic’s tournaments, from 1936 until 1964. After that year, they no longer had direct qualification for those games. It took 20 years (1984) for them to be back in those Games, in which they finished in sixth place.
FIBA Americas (FIBA Americas Championship 2007) - Uruguay, winner of two bronze medals, played on six straight Olympic’s tournaments, from 1936 until 1964. After that year, they no longer had direct qualification for those games. It took 20 years (1984) for them to be back in those Games, in which they finished in sixth place.
Their best performance in a FIBA Americas Championship (known then as Pre-Olympics) came in 1984, in Sao Paolo, Brazil. There, Uruguay finished in second place, between Brazil (gold medal) and Canada (bronze). After that tournament, the team leaded by Carlos Peinado, Horacio “Tato” López, and Wilfredo Ruiz, finished in sixth place at the Olympics Games in Los Angeles 1984.
Their record for life goes as follows: 69 games on World Championships and Olympic Games, with 20 wins and 49 loses.
Is this the year for Uruguay to go back again to the Olympics?
Don’t miss the FIBA Americas Championship 2007, in Las Vegas, USA; from August 22 to September 2.
FIBA Americas & Federico Buysan