Balkan Basketball Championship
SportBasketball
Founded1959
Inaugural season1959
Ceased1990
No. of teams4 to 6
CountriesBalkans nations

The Balkan Basketball Championship, sometimes referred to as the Balkan Basketball Cup or the Balkan Basketball Games, is the defunct competition that was the men's basketball competition added in 1959 to the Balkan Games that started in 1929. The purpose of the "Balkan Games" was to strengthen the relations between the nations of the Balkans region. The Balkan Games were a collection of athletics competitions added to the event over the years.

History

The first men's basketball competition took place in Bucharest, in 1959. At the time, basketball was considered to be an important activity by the countries that competed in it. The best players from the Balkans region often competed at the tournament. Interest in the championship waned, and it was eventually cancelled. The last basketball tournament was held at Skopje, in 1990.

Results

Year Host City Gold Silver Bronze 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place
1959 Romania Bucharest  Bulgaria  Yugoslavia  Romania  Albania
1960 Bulgaria Sofia  Bulgaria  Yugoslavia  Romania  Turkey  Albania
1961 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Skopje  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Romania  Turkey
1962 Turkey Istanbul  Yugoslavia  Turkey  Bulgaria  Romania  Greece
1963 Greece Athens  Yugoslavia  Greece  Bulgaria  Romania  Turkey
1964 Romania Bucharest[1]  Yugoslavia  Romania  Greece  Bulgaria  Turkey
1965 Albania Tirana  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Turkey  Romania  Albania
1966 Bulgaria Sofia  Yugoslavia  Romania  Greece  Bulgaria  Turkey
1967 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Skopje  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Greece  Romania  Turkey
1968 Turkey İzmir  Yugoslavia  Romania  Turkey  Bulgaria  Greece
1969 Greece Thessaloniki  Yugoslavia  Greece  Romania  Bulgaria  Turkey
1970 Romania Bucharest  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Romania  Greece
1971 Bulgaria Vidin  Bulgaria  Yugoslavia  Turkey  Greece  Romania
1972 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sarajevo  Yugoslavia  Greece  Romania  Bulgaria  Turkey
1973 Turkey Istanbul  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Romania  Turkey  Greece
1974[2] Greece Thessaloniki  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Romania  Greece
1975 Romania Bucharest  Yugoslavia  Romania  Bulgaria  Greece
1976 Bulgaria Burgas  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Greece  Romania
1977 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Skopje  Yugoslavia  Romania  Greece  Bulgaria  Turkey
1978 Turkey Ankara  Yugoslavia  Romania  Bulgaria  Greece  Turkey
1979 Greece Athens  Greece[3][4]  Yugoslavia  Turkey  Romania  Bulgaria
1980 Romania Cluj-Napoca  Yugoslavia  Romania  Greece  Bulgaria  Turkey
1981 Bulgaria Sofia  Turkey  Bulgaria  Greece  Romania  Yugoslavia
1982 Turkey Istanbul  Yugoslavia  Turkey  Bulgaria  Romania  Greece
1983 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Titov Vrbas  Yugoslavia  Greece  Turkey  Bulgaria  Romania
1984 Greece Athens  Bulgaria  Yugoslavia  Greece  Romania
1985 Romania Bucharest  Yugoslavia  Turkey  Greece  Romania  Bulgaria
1986 Bulgaria Sofia  Greece  Bulgaria  Romania  Yugoslavia
1988 Turkey Antalya  Yugoslavia  Bulgaria  Turkey  Greece  Romania
1990 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Skopje  Yugoslavia  Romania  Bulgaria  Greece  Turkey  Albania

Sources

  • Athletic Echo Newspaper 14 September 1979 page 5 (in Greek)

References

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