EuroBasket 1985
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Venues

City Arena Round/Group Capacity
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

Europahalle
Europahalle
Europahalle is an indoor sporting arena located in Karlsruhe, Germany.The capacity of the arena is 9,000 people.The venue has featured a number of world record performances in athletics, including a jump of 2.07 m in the high jump by Heike Henkel in 1992, when the Europahalle hosted the German...

Groups A 9,000
Leverkusen
Leverkusen
Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf....

Wilhelm Dopatka Halle
Wilhelm Dopatka Halle
Wilhelm Dopatka Halle is an indoor sporting arena located in Leverkusen, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 3,500 people. It was home to the Bayer Giants Leverkusen basketball team.- References :...

Groups B 5,000
Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

Schleyerhalle Qualification and finals 15,500

Group A - Karlsruhe

70-83
118-103
83-99
100-85
99-97
89-110
94-106
94-97
105-97
110-97
106-94
92-99
102-93
109-83
122-99

Pos. Team Matches Wins Loses Results Points Diff.
1. 5 4 1 514:464 8 +50
2. 5 4 1 537:483 8 +54
3. 5 4 1 496:465 8 +31
4. 5 1 4 479:531 2 -52
5. 5 1 4 452:488 2 -36
6. 5 1 4 457:504 2 -47

Group A - Leverkusen

82-80
104-79
72-78
94-79
92-93
90-103
101-83
82-61
80-86
68-84
54-88
76-112
66-104
73-70
92-89

Pos. Team Matches Wins Loses Results Points Diff.
1. 5 4 1 459:391 8 +68
2. 5 4 1 445:420 8 +25
3. 5 3 2 396:385 6 +11
4. 5 2 3 428:425 4 +3
5. 5 1 4 430:434 2 -4
6. 5 1 4 400:503 2 -103

Places 9 - 12 in Stuttgart

Team 1 Team 2 Res.
86-91
90-87

1/4 finals

Team 1 Team 2 Res.
98-83
71-97
104-86
91-102

Places 5 - 8 in Stuttgart

Team 1 Team 2 Res.
98-84
90-90 aet. 107-105

Places 1 - 4 in Stuttgart

Team 1 Team 2 Res.
95-98
96-112

Finals in Stuttgart

Placement Team 1 Team 2 Res.
11th place 102-100
9th place 90-89
7th place 105-86
5th place 100-81
3rd place 102-90
Final 120-89

Final rankings



Eurobasket 1985 MVP: Arvydas Sabonis
Arvydas Sabonis
Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...

(  Soviet Union)

All-Tournament Team

Valdis Valters
Valdis Valters
Valdis Valters is a retired Latvian basketball player.A point guard for the USSR, he is regarded as one of the greatest to have played the game in Europe in the 1980s....

 Dražen Petrović
Dražen Petrovic
Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989...

 Detlef Schrempf
Detlef Schrempf
Detlef Schrempf is a retired German NBA basketball player.-High school and college career:...

 Fernando Martín
Fernando Martín Espina
Fernando Martín Espina is considered one of the best Spanish basketball players ever....

 Arvydas Sabonis
Arvydas Sabonis
Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...


Team rosters

1.Soviet Union: Arvydas Sabonis
Arvydas Sabonis
Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...

, Valdis Valters
Valdis Valters
Valdis Valters is a retired Latvian basketball player.A point guard for the USSR, he is regarded as one of the greatest to have played the game in Europe in the 1980s....

, Alexander Volkov
Alexander Volkov (basketball)
Alexander Anatolevich "Sasha" Volkov is a retired Ukrainian professional basketball player. At 6'10" , he played the forward position.Volkov won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics as a member of the Soviet Union national basketball team...

, Vladimir Tkachenko
Vladimir Tkachenko
Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko is a retired Ukrainian professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Olympics Basketball medals and three FIBA World Championship medals with the Soviet Union national basketball team in a career that lasted 16 years. He was named both the Euroscar and the Mr...

, Valeri Tikhonenko, Aleksander Belostenny, Sergėjus Jovaiša
Sergejus Jovaiša
Sergėjus Jovaiša ) Sergėjus Jovaiša ) Sergėjus Jovaiša ) (born December 17, 1954 in Anykščiai, Lithuania is a former basketball player from Lithuania, who won the bronze medal with the Lithuania national basketball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In 1980 he was a member of the...

, Sergei Tarakanov
Sergei Tarakanov
Sergey Nikolayevich Tarakanov is a Russian retired basketball player. He played for Spartak Leningrad , CSKA Moscow , German team Ludwisburg Stuttgart BC , and Belgian team St. Louis Liège .Tarakanov was a member of the Soviet national team from 1979 to 1990...

, Rimas Kurtinaitis
Rimas Kurtinaitis
Rimas Kurtinaitis is a basketball trainer, head coach of the VEF Riga, retired Soviet and Lithuanian basketball player who was a member of the USSR and Lithuanian national basketball teams. He played as a shooting guard and is the only non-NBA player to participate in the NBA All-Star Three Point...

, Valdemaras Chomičius
Valdemaras Chomicius
Valdemaras Chomičius is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball team. Assistant coach on the Lithuanian national team...

, Heino Enden
Heino Enden
Heino Enden is a retired Estonian professional basketball player who played mostly at the power forward position....

, Andrei Lopatov (Coach: Vladimir Obukhov)

2.Czechoslovakia: Kamil Brabenec
Kamil Brabenec
Kamil Brabenec is a Czech professional ice hockey player who currently plays with HKm Zvolen in the Slovak Extraliga. Brabenec previously played with HC Kometa Brno in the Czech Extraliga....

, Stanislav Kropilak, Jiri Okac, Otto Maticky, Jaroslav Skala, Juraj Zuffa, Vlastimil Havlik, Peter Rajniak, Zdenek Bohm, Igor Vraniak, Vladimir Vyoral, Leos Krejci (Coach: Pavel Petera)

3.Italy: Walter Magnifico
Walter Magnifico
Walter Magnifico is a former Italian basketball player. A 2.09 m Power Forward/Center, he spent most of his career in Scavolini Pesaro, thus becoming one of the club's emblems. While in Pesaro he led his team to a Saporta Cup in 1983, two Italian championship titles in 1988 and 1990 as well as two...

, Pierluigi Marzorati
Pierluigi Marzorati
Pierluigi Marzorati is an Italian former basketball player who won the silver medal with Italy at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the title in the 1983 European Championship, plus three bronze medals at the 1971, 1975 and 1985 European Championships.Marzorati eventually played 278 matches for...

, Roberto Brunamonti
Roberto Brunamonti
Roberto Brunamonti is a retired Italian basketball player, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, four national championships , one Italian Cup in 1984 and one Italian Supercup in 1995...

, Roberto Premier
Roberto Premier
Roberto Premier is an Italian former basketball player. He is 1.96 m tall. He played at small forward position.He played for Gorizia Pallacanestro , Olimpia Milano , Pallacanestro Virtus Roma...

, Romeo Sacchetti
Romeo Sacchetti
Romeo Sacchetti is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow...

, Ario Costa, Renato Villalta
Renato Villalta
Renato Villalta is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...

, Augusto Binelli
Augusto Binelli
Augusto Binelli is a retired Italian basketball player. He is 2.13 m tall and he played at center position.Binelli played for Virtus Bologna from 1980 to 2000 and won 5 Italian championships , 4 Italian cups , 1 euroleague title and 1 Raimundo Saporta European Cup...

, Enrico Gilardi
Enrico Gilardi
Enrico Gilardi is a former basketball player from Italy.Gilardi was born in Rome. He won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He also won a Euroleague championship in 1983 with Virtus Roma.He ended his career in 1991 at Filodoro Napoli.- External links :*...

, Giuseppe Bosa, Renzo Vecchiato
Renzo Vecchiato
Renzo Vecchiato is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...

, Giampiero Savio (Coach: Sandro Gamba
Sandro Gamba
Alessandro Gamba , better known as Sandro Gamba, is an Italian basketball coach and former professional basketball player....

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4.Spain: Juan Antonio San Epifanio
Juan Antonio San Epifanio
Juan Antonio San Epifanio Ruiz is a retired Spanish basketball player, considered one of the greatest small forwards ever to play in Europe...

, Jordi Villacampa
Jordi Villacampa
Jordi Villacampa Amorós is a retired basketball player of Joventut Badalona and the present chairman of the club....

, Fernando Martín
Fernando Martín
Fernando Martín may refer to:*Fernando Martín Álvarez , Spanish entrepreneur, former chairman of Martinsa-Fadesa and president of Real Madrid C.F.*Fernando Martín Carreras , Spanish football player...

, Candido "Chicho" Sibilio, Andrés Jiménez, Fernando Romay
Fernando Romay
Fernando Manuel Romay Pereiro is a retired basketball player from Spain, who represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980. At his second Olympic appearance he won the silver medal with the Spain national basketball team...

, Joaquim Costa
Joaquim Costa
For the Spanish basketball player, see Joaquim Costa PuigJoaquim Costa was a Portuguese rock and roll performer. He was a pioneer in bringing rock and roll to Portugal and is regarded as a cult phenomenon....

, Josep Maria Margall
Josep Maria Margall
Josep Maria Margall Tauler is a retired basketball player. He played 187 times for the Spain national team.-Awards:*Copa del Rey : 1975-76*Liga Nacional : 1977-78...

, José Luis Llorente
José Luis Llorente
José Luis Llorente Gento is a retired basketball player. He played 112 matches for the Spain national team.-Clubs:* 1979-83: Real Madrid* 1983-85: Cajamadrid* 1985-87: CB Zaragoza* 1987-92: Real Madrid...

, Vicente Gil, Juan Domingo de la Cruz, Juan Manuel López Iturriaga (Coach: Antonio Díaz-Miguel
Antonio Diaz-Miguel
Antonio Díaz-Miguel was a Spanish pro basketball coach. He studied in Madrid and graduated from the University of Bilbao....

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