Basketball World Championship 2006 Summary

Information related with the Basketball World Championship 2006 including all the scores, top scorers, statistics, champion and more.

FIBA Basketball World Championship Japan 2006

Host Country:
Japan 2006 Basketball World Championships Logo
Japan 2006
Champion:
Basketball World Championship 2006 Trophy
Logo Spain
Spain Flag
Spain

World Championship 2006:
Summary and Information - Rosters - Jerseys

First Round:
Full Schedule
Group A - Group B - Group C - Group D

Final Round:
Fixture and All the Scores

Statistics:
Final Standings
Leaders: Points - Assists - Rebounds - Steals

World Cup Summary
General Information Comments

National Teams: 24
Stadiums:
5
Games:
80
Points Scored:

12,518 (78.28 per team, per game)
Top scorer:

Yao Ming (25.3 ppg)
Largest win:
Spain 104 - 55 Japan (49 pts)
Highest scoring games:
USA 111 - 100 Puerto Rico (211 pts.)
USA 121 - 90 China (211 pts.)
Germany 108 - 103 Angola (211 pts.)
Games with fewest points:

France 64 - 53 Nigeria (117 pts.)
New Zealand 60 - 57 (117 pts.)
Spain 70 - 47 Greece (Final, 117 pts.)
Tournament MVP:

Pau Gasol (Spain)
All-Tournament Team:

  • Theodoros Papaloukas (Greece)
  • Manu Ginobili (Argentina)
  • Carmelo Anthony (USA)
  • Jorge Garbajosa (Spain)
  • Pau Gasol (Spain)

Beating all the odds, Spain National Team got the Gold Medal in Japan 2006. Based mainly on their excellent team defense, the Spanish team had a great tournament and survived a thrilling semi-final game with one of the top candidates, Argentina. With its top star Pau Gasol out because of a broken bone on his foot with 3 minutes left, Spain defense blocked all Manu Ginobili's paths to the hoop. Argentina needed only two points to win but Manu sent the ball outside and Nocioni missed the potentially game winning three-pointer. It was 75-74.

Despite the absence of Gasol, Spain didn't give Greece a chance in the final game. Spanish defense hold the Greeks to 47 points to win the first medal of their history.

Playing for the Bronze just one day after the semifinals, the United States, who had been demolished by Greece the day before, showed that physically they have no match. Argentina stayed in the game for about 10 minutes but had no response to their tiredness after that. What was supposed to be the final game between the top candidates was just an almost meaningless game between two disappointed opponents that would rather be somewhere else. It was 96-81 for USA.

Japan 2006 Groups
Group A Group B Group C Group D

Argentina
France
Lebanon
Nigeria
Serbia & Montenegro
Venezuela

Schedule and results

Angola
Germany
Japan
New Zealand
Panama
Spain

Schedule and results

Australia
Brazil
Greece
Lithuania
Qatar
Turkey

Schedule and results

China
Italy
Puerto Rico
Senegal
Slovenia
USA

Schedule and results

National Teams Qualified, by Continent

Europe: France - Germany - Greece - Italy - Lithuania - Serbia and Montenegro - Slovenia - Spain - Turkey
America: Argentina - Brazil - Panama - Puerto Rico - United States - Venezuela
Africa: Angola - Nigeria - Senegal
Asia: China - Japan - Lebanon - Qatar
Oceania: Australia - New Zealand