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1979 FIBA Under-19 World Championship

{{Infobox FIBA tourney

| continent = World U-19

| year = 1979

| logo =

| size =

| host = Brazil

| host-flagvar = 1968

| dates = 15–25 August

| teams = 12

| federations = 5

| venues = 1

| cities = 1

| champions = United States

| title_number = 1

| mvp =

| ppg_p = {{flagicon|URU}} Horacio López (33.2)

| ppg_t = {{Bku|19|USA}} (104.7)

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20180822192557/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/cid/sid/2891/tid/0/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/index.html 1979 FIBA U19 World Championship]

| prevseason =

| nextseason = 1983

}}

The 1979 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (Portuguese: 1979 Campeonato Mundial FIBA Sub-19) was the maiden edition of the FIBA U19 World Championship. It was held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil from 15 to 25 August 1979.

The United States notched their first-ever world juniors championship by sweeping both the preliminary round and the championship round, winning the Gold Medal against the hosts Brazil in the final day of the tournament, 75–55.{{cite web|url=https://www.usab.com/history/u19-mens/first-fiba-mens-junior-world-championship-1979.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723183146/http://www.usab.com/history/u19-mens/first-fiba-mens-junior-world-championship-1979.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 23, 2015|title=FIRST FIBA MEN'S JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP – 1979|date=10 June 2010|publisher=usab.com|accessdate=29 November 2018}}

Preliminary round

=Group A=

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!width=180|Team

!width=30|Pld

!width=30|W

!width=30|L

!width=30|PF

!width=30|PA

!width=30|PD

!width=30|Pts

bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|align="left"| {{Bku|19|ITA}}

|5

41409388+219
bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|align="left"| {{Bku|19|YUG}}

|5

41419376+439
bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|align="left"| {{Bku|19|BRA|1968}}

|5

32440378+628
align="left"| {{Bku|19|URU}}

|5

23440467−277
align="left"| {{Bku|19|AUS}}

|5

23372398−267
align="left"| {{Bku|19|PHI|1936}}

|5

05444517−735

{{basketballbox |date = 15 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|AUS}} |scoreA = 67

|teamB = {{bku|19|YUG}} |scoreB = 89

|H1 = 32–49 |H2 = 35–40

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223803/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/1/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Patterson 18

|points2 = Čutura 14

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 15 August 1979 |time = 21:10 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 123

|teamB = {{bku|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreB = 80

|H1 = 65–29 |H2 = 58–51

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/2/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|points1 = dos Santos 25

|points2 = Banal 15

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 15 August 1979 |time = 23:00 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URU}} |scoreA = 98

|teamB = {{bku|19|ITA}} |scoreB = 102

|H1 = 46–48 |H2 = 42–40 |OT = 10–14

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/3/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|points1 = López 38

|points2 = {{interlanguage link|Domenico Fantin|lt=Fantin|it|Domenico Fantin}} 21

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 16 August 1979 |time = 20:00 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreA = 71

|teamB = {{bku|19|ITA}} |scoreB = 88

|H1 = 37–51 |H2 = 34–37

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223959/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/4/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Saldaña 31

|points2 = Tonut 16

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 16 August 1979 |time = 21:50 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 71

|teamB = {{bku|19|AUS}} |scoreB = 73

|H1 = 33–34 |H2 = 38–39

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224021/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/5/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Vitoria 15

|points2 = Gaze 16

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 16 August 1979 |time = 23:40 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|YUG}} |scoreA = 89

|teamB = {{bku|19|URU}} |scoreB = 78

|H1 = 33–43 |H2 = 56–35

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224043/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/6/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Radović, Dogan 18

|points2 = López 33

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 17 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URU}} |scoreA = 79

|teamB = {{bku|19|AUS}} |scoreB = 72

|H1 = 46–37 |H2 = 33–35

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224101/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/7/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = López 35

|points2 = Sengstock 21

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 17 August 1979 |time = 20:55 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 85

|teamB = {{bku|19|ITA}} |scoreB = 79

|H1 = 48–37 |H2 = 37–42

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224122/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/8/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = dos Santos 18

|points2 = {{interlanguage link|Domenico Fantin|lt=Fantin|it|Domenico Fantin}} 16

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 17 August 1979 |time = 22:40 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|YUG}} |scoreA = 106

|teamB = {{bku|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreB = 102

|H1 = 48–53 |H2 = 58–49

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224132/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/9/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Grbović 24

|points2 = Saldaña 31

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 18 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|AUS}} |scoreA = 89

|teamB = {{bku|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreB = 83

|H1 = 49–33 |H2 = 40–50

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/10/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|points1 = Pearce 22

|points2 = Cristobal 27

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 18 August 1979 |time = 20:45 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ITA}} |scoreA = 64

|teamB = {{bku|19|YUG}} |scoreB = 63

|H1 = 33–26 |H2 = 31–37

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223843/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/12/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Riva 22

|points2 = Čutura 26

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 18 August 1979 |time = 22:40 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 96

|teamB = {{bku|19|URU}} |scoreB = 74

|H1 = 56–26 |H2 = 40–48

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223833/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/11/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Pedrosa 25

|points2 = López 21

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 19 August 1979 |time = 18:00 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URU}} |scoreA = 111

|teamB = {{bku|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreB = 108

|H1 = 61–53 |H2 = 50–55

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223853/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/13/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = López 39

|points2 = Cristobal 24

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 19 August 1979 |time = 19:45 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|AUS}} |scoreA = 71

|teamB = {{bku|19|ITA}} |scoreB = 76

|H1 = 37–51 |H2 = 34–37

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/15/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|points1 = Gaze 18

|points2 = Riva 23

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 19 August 1979 |time = 21:30 |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 65

|teamB = {{bku|19|YUG}} |scoreB = 72

|H1 = 28–35 |H2 = 37–37

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223904/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/14/grid/A/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = da Silva 18

|points2 = Čutura 24

}}

=Group B=

class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

!width=180|Team

!width=30|Pld

!width=30|W

!width=30|L

!width=30|PF

!width=30|PA

!width=30|PD

!width=30|Pts

bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|align="left"| {{Bku|19|USA}}

|5

50427236+19110
bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|align="left"| {{Bku|19|ARG}}

|5

41472357+1159
bgcolor="#ccffcc"

|align="left"| {{Bku|19|URS}}

|5

32459362+978
align="left"| {{Bku|19|PAN}}

|5

23293332−396
align="left"| {{Bku|19|CAN}}

|5

14390442−526
align="left"| {{Bku|19|EGY|1972}}

|5

05278590−3125

{{basketballbox |date = 15 August 1979 |time = |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|USA}} |scoreA = 2

|teamB = {{bku|19|PAN}} |scoreB = 0

|note = USA won by forfeit after Panama failed to appear

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 15 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ARG}} |scoreA = 150

|teamB = {{bku|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreB = 44

|H1 = 75–12 |H2 = 75–32

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223808/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/1/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Politi 23

|points2 = Nazmi 10

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 15 August 1979 |time = 21:45 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URS}} |scoreA = 117

|teamB = {{bku|19|CAN}} |scoreB = 72

|H1 = 51–29 |H2 = 66–43

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223929/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/2/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Grdzelidze, Nagayama, {{interlanguage link|Sergei Popov (basketball, born 1960)|lt=Popov|ru|Попов, Сергей Владимирович (спортсмен)}} 26

|points2 = Lichti 15

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 16 August 1979 |time = 18:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URS}} |scoreA = 126

|teamB = {{bku|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreB = 60

|H1 = 72–38 |H2 = 54–22

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224004/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/4/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = {{interlanguage link|Sergei Popov (basketball, born 1960)|lt=Popov|ru|Попов, Сергей Владимирович (спортсмен)}} 28

|points2 = Kinoshita 22

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 16 August 1979 |time = 20:10 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|CAN}} |scoreA = 80

|teamB = {{bku|19|PAN}} |scoreB = 81

|H1 = 48–48 |H2 = 32–33

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224026/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/5/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Pasquale 22

|points2 = Grenald, Macias 18

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 16 August 1979 |time = 21:45 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|USA}} |scoreA = 98

|teamB = {{bku|19|ARG}} |scoreB = 61

|H1 = 58–31 |H2 = 40–30

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224046/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/6/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Perkins 13

|points2 = Duffy 12

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 17 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|USA}} |scoreA = 105

|teamB = {{bku|19|CAN}} |scoreB = 59

|H1 = 49–17 |H2 = 56–42

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224106/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/7/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = White 22

|points2 = Fitzgerald 11

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 17 August 1979 |time = 21:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreA = 68

|teamB = {{bku|19|PAN}} |scoreB = 78

|H1 = 24–42 |H2 = 44–36

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224136/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/9/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Elhabash 21

|points2 = Macias 29

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 17 August 1979 |time = 22:45 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ARG}} |scoreA = 74

|teamB = {{bku|19|URS}} |scoreB = 72

|H1 = 36–41 |H2 = 38–31

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714015719/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/8/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Aréjula 20

|points2 = {{interlanguage link|Sergei Popov (basketball, born 1960)|lt=Popov|ru|Попов, Сергей Владимирович (спортсмен)}} 20

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 18 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URS}} |scoreA = 92

|teamB = {{bku|19|PAN}} |scoreB = 62

|H1 = 38–30 |H2 = 54–32

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223828/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/10/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Berezhniy 20

|points2 = Gálvez 17

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 18 August 1979 |time = 21:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|USA}} |scoreA = 128

|teamB = {{bku|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreB = 38

|H1 = 70–18 |H2 = 58–20

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223848/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/12/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Perkins 13

|points2 = Kinoshita 8

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 18 August 1979 |time = 22:45 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ARG}} |scoreA = 97

|teamB = {{bku|19|CAN}} |scoreB = 71

|H1 = 36–41 |H2 = 38–31

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223838/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/11/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Aréjula 22

|points2 = Pasquale 17

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 19 August 1979 |time = 18:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|CAN}} |scoreA = 108

|teamB = {{bku|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreB = 68

|H1 = 56–20 |H2 = 52–48

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223859/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/13/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Lichti 33

|points2 = Kinoshita 21

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 19 August 1979 |time = 19:50 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ARG}} |scoreA = 90

|teamB = {{bku|19|PAN}} |scoreB = 72

|H1 = 47–31 |H2 = 43–41

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223909/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/14/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Maretto 21

|points2 = Gálvez 24

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 19 August 1979 |time = 23:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|USA}} |scoreA = 94

|teamB = {{bku|19|URS}} |scoreB = 78

|H1 = 47–37 |H2 = 47–41

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223919/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/15/grid/B/rid/701/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Floyd 19

|points2 = Grdzelidze 25

}}

Final round

=Classification 7th–12th=

class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

!width=180|Team

!width=30|Pld

!width=30|W

!width=30|L

!width=30|PF

!width=30|PA

!width=40|PD

!width=30|Pts

align="left"| {{Bku|19|CAN}}

|3

30230212+186
align="left"| {{Bku|19|URU}}

|3

21300217+835
align="left"| {{Bku|19|AUS}}

|3

21207185+225
align="left"| {{Bku|19|PHI|1936}}

|3

21286235+515
align="left"| {{Bku|19|PAN}}

|3

03213241−283
align="left"| {{Bku|19|EGY|1972}}

|3

03194340−1463

{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|AUS}} |scoreA = 64

|teamB = {{bku|19|PAN}} |scoreB = 63

|H1 = 30–33 |H2 = 35–40

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223813/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/1/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URU}} |scoreA = 126

|teamB = {{bku|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreB = 67

|H1 = 67–39 |H2 = 59–28

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223934/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/2/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|CAN}} |scoreA = 89

|teamB = {{bku|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreB = 81

|H1 = 42–38 |H2 = 47–43

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/3/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|CAN}} |scoreA = 78

|teamB = {{bku|19|URU}} |scoreB = 76

|H1 = 42–31 |H2 = 36–45

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224010/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/4/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|AUS}} |scoreA = 88

|teamB = {{bku|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreB = 59

|H1 = 42–31 |H2 = 36–45

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224031/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/5/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|PAN}} |scoreA = 78

|teamB = {{bku|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreB = 79

|H1 = 32–28 |H2 = 46–41

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224051/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/6/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|EGY|1972}} |scoreA = 68

|teamB = {{bku|19|PHI|1936}} |scoreB = 126

|H1 = 38–66 |H2 = 30–60

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224112/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/7/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|AUS}} |scoreA = 55

|teamB = {{bku|19|CAN}} |scoreB = 63

|H1 = 31–35 |H2 = 24–28

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224125/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/8/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

{{basketballbox |date = August 1979 |time = |place = Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|URU}} |scoreA = 98

|teamB = {{bku|19|PAN}} |scoreB = 72

|H1 = 47–33 |H2 = 51–39

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224142/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/9/grid/X/rid/702/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

}}

=Championship round=

class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

!width=180|Team

!width=30|Pld

!width=30|W

!width=30|L

!width=30|PF

!width=30|PA

!width=30|PD

!width=30|Pts

align="left"| {{Bku|19|USA}}

|3

30308206+1026
align="left"| {{Bku|19|BRA|1968}}

|3

21205223−185
align="left"| {{Bku|19|ARG}}

|3

21221219+25
align="left"| {{Bku|19|YUG}}

|3

12237257−204
align="left"| {{Bku|19|URS}}

|3

12237243−64
align="left"| {{Bku|19|ITA}}

|3

03226286−603

{{basketballbox |date = 20 August 1979 |time = 20:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ITA}} |scoreA = 77

|teamB = {{bku|19|USA}} |scoreB = 134

|H1 = 35–64 |H2 = 42–70

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223818/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/1/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Fantozzi 15

|points2 = Floyd 23

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 21 August 1979 |time = 20:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ITA}} |scoreA = 79

|teamB = {{bku|19|URS}} |scoreB = 81

|H1 = 38–36 |H2 = 41–45

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223939/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/2/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Costa 16

|points2 = Grdzelidze 22

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 21 August 1979 |time = 23:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|YUG}} |scoreA = 75

|teamB = {{bku|19|ARG}} |scoreB = 77

|H1 = 39–42 |H2 = 36–35

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223954/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/3/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Čutura 18

|points2 = Aréjula 18

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 22 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 74

|teamB = {{bku|19|ARG}} |scoreB = 73

|H1 = 36–33 |H2 = 38–40

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|points1 = da Silva 19

|points2 = Aréjula 21

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 23 August 1979 |time = 19:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|YUG}} |scoreA = 88

|teamB = {{bku|19|URS}} |scoreB = 81

|H1 = 45–53 |H2 = 43–28

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224036/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/5/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Čutura 17

|points2 = Grdzelidze 21

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 24 August 1979 |time = 19:30 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|YUG}} |scoreA = 74

|teamB = {{bku|19|USA}} |scoreB = 99

|H1 = 37–44 |H2 = 37–55

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/6/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|points1 = Čutura 24

|points2 = Worthy 27

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 24 August 1979 |time = 21:15 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 76

|teamB = {{bku|19|URS}} |scoreB = 75

|H1 = 45–39 |H2 = 31–36

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/7/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

|points1 = Malvesi 22

|points2 = {{interlanguage link|Sergei Popov (basketball, born 1960)|lt=Popov|ru|Попов, Сергей Владимирович (спортсмен)}} 27

}}

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{{basketballbox |date = 25 August 1979 |time = 21:00 |place = Presidente Prudente

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|ITA}} |scoreA = 70

|teamB = {{bku|19|ARG}} |scoreB = 71

|H1 = 38–36 |H2 = 32–35

|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714022855/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/8/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]

|points1 = Fantin 21

|points2 = Maretto 18

}}

{{basketballbox |date = 25 August 1979 |time = 22:45 |place = Ginásio de Esportes Antônio Balbino, Salvador

|teamA = {{bku-rt|19|BRA|1968}} |scoreA = 55

|teamB = {{bku|19|USA}} |scoreB = 75

|H1 = 22–41 |H2 = 33–34

|report = [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/9/grid/X/rid/703/sid/2891/_/1979_World_Championship_for_Junior_Men/statistic.html Boxscore]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} [https://www.fiba.basketball/images.fiba.com/Graphic/5/7/F/8/tYklR9Ogsk-6ZQ2YvjllXQ.jpg?v=20221013171733768 Boxscore Image]

|points1 = da Silva 25

|points2 = Floyd 15

|referee = Marcial Paredes Lopes (PER), Artenik Arabadjian (BUL)

}}

Final standings

class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
Rankwidth=170 | TeamRecord
bgcolor=gold

| {{gold1}}

| align=left|{{bku|19|USA}}

| align=center|8–0

bgcolor=silver

| {{silver2}}

| align=left|{{bku|19|BRA|1968}}

| align=center|5–3

bgcolor=Peru

| {{bronze3}}

| align=left|{{bku|19|ARG}}

| align=center|6–2

4th

| align=left|{{bku|19|YUG}}

| align=center|5–3

5th

| align=left|{{bku|19|URS}}

| align=center|4–4

6th

| align=left|{{bku|19|ITA}}

| align=center|4–4

7th

| align=left|{{bku|19|CAN}}

| align=center|4–4

8th

| align=left|{{bku|19|URU}}

| align=center|4–4

9th

| align=left|{{bku|19|AUS}}

| align=center|4–4

10th

| align=left|{{bku|19|PHI|1936}}

| align=center|2–6

11th

| align=left|{{bku|19|PAN}}

| align=center|2–6

12th

| align=left|{{bku|19|EGY|1972}}

| align=center|0–8

Awards

{{winners|bku|19|1979 Under-19 World champions|USA|First}}

References

{{reflist}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004114441/http://www.cbb.com.br/competicoes/Mundialjuvm2007/historico.asp Brazilian History]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090716104316/http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=mu19_results USA history]

{{FIBA Under-19 World Championship}}

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