The World Championship will be organized the fourth time in Europe after 12 years since it was organized first time in 1950. Turkey will have the proud and excitement of hosting the biggest and most prestigious basketball event in 2010. The World Championship will be in the citites : ISTANBUL , ANKARA , KAYSERI and IZMIR on 28 Aug to 12 Sep 2010 The basketball fans travelling to our country to be a part of the World Championship will be watching the basketball stars live as well as they will blend with the basketball fans who will gather around from other countries. Our guests will taste all the gorgeousness of basketball and have the opportunity to experience the famous natural beauties and historical wonders in place at the same time.
The Local Organizing Committee is fully aware of this huge responsibility as giving its complete efforts to the preparations of this biggest and most important sport event which will ever be hosted in Turkey. The works and plans are continuing 7/24 basis to reach the target of hosting the Championship worthy of Turkey and Turkish public’s reputation for this amazing organization which will be hosted in 4 cities where 80 games will be played and followed from all around the world.
Draw of the 2010 FIBA World Championship
Once all 24 teams for the 2010 FIBA World Championship are known, FIBA and the Local Organizing Committee will conduct a draw to determine the composition of the 4 groups of six teams each.
These four groups will play round-robin within their groups during the Preliminary Round of the World Championship.
The draw for the 2010 FIBA World Championship will take place in Istanbul on 15th December 2009. The following teams have been qualified as per date:
Turkey (host) and US.A. (Olympic Champion) as well as Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Greece, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Tunisia.”
For other details you can look FIBA.com and turkey2010.fiba.com
The draw was held at the the Ciragan Palace on Tuesday, 15th December and Here are draw results for the groups:
Group A (Kayseri): Serbia, Argentina, Australia, Jordan, Germany, Angola
Group B (Istanbul): Croatia, Brazil, Tunisia, Slovenia, Iran, USA
Group C (Ankara): China, Turkey, Russia, Puerto Rico, Ivory Coast, Greece
Group D (Izmir): Lithuania, Lebanon, France, Spain, Canada, New Zealand
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