WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIPS '1959
Santiago, Chile; January
16-31, 1959
Final
Classification
1. Brazil (5-1)
2. USA (4-2)
3. Chile (2-4)
4. Formosa (China) 2-4
5. Puerto Rico (1-5)
6. Soviet Union (5-1)
7. Bulgaria (2-4)
8. Philippines (4-2)
9. Uruguay (2-4)
10. Argentina (3-3)
11. Egypt (1-5)
12. Canada (3-3)
13. Mexico (0-6)
*FIBA declared the USSR and Bulgaria
ineligible in the final round because of their refusal to play Formosa.
Rosters Champion: Brazil (Edson Bispo dos Santos,Waldemar Blatkauskas,
O.C. de Nobrega, Fernando Perreira de Freitas, Zenny de Azevedo,Carmo
de Souza,Waldyr Geraldo Boccardo, J. Maciel Senra, Wlamir Marques,
Antonio Pasos Amaury, Jatyr Eduardo Schall, P. Vicente Fonseca) 2. USA (Richard Baker, James Coshow, Henry D'Antonio, Robert
Hodges, Robert Jeangerard, Henry McDonald, John Miller, Ronald Olsen,
Virgil Riley, Jerome Vayda, Richard Welsh, Edward White) 3. Chile (Rufino Bernedo, José de la Fuente, Rolando Etchepare,
Orlando Etcheverrigaray, Maximiliano Garafulic, Dante Giannoni, Bruno
Luchsinger, Luis Salvadores, Domingo Sibilla, Orlando Silva, Juan
Guillermo Thompson, Juan Zitko)
