The 1935 European Basketball Championship, commonly called Eurobasket 1935, was the first Eurobasket

Eurobasket

The EuroBasket, also referred to as the FIBA European Basketball Championship, is the main basketball competition contested biennially by the men's national teams governed by FIBA Europe, the European zone within the International Basketball Federation. The championship was first held in 1935 and...

 regional championship held by FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe

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 as well as a test event preceding the first Olympic basketball tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics

1936 Summer Olympics

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. Ten national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation

International Basketball Federation

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 (FIBA) took part in the competition. The event was hosted by Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and held in Geneva

Geneva

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 in May, 1935.

Final rankings

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
		3	3	0	98	49	+49
		3	2	1	64	58	+6
		3	2	1	65	65	0
4		4	2	2	111	79	+32
5		4	3	1	165	103	+62
6		3	1	2	76	85	-9
7		4	2	2	121	101	+20
8		4	1	3	78	125	-47
9		3	1	2	55	85	-30
10		3	0	3	49	132	-83

Preliminary round

Before the tournament began, a qualification game was played between Spain

Spain national basketball team

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 and Portugal

Portugal national basketball team

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. The game was held in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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 and refereed by Spanish coach Mariano Manent. Spain won, 33-12.

First round

The preliminary round was single-elimination, with losers moving to the classification round. Three of the five winners moved immediately to the semi-finals, while two (Italy and Switzerland) played each other in a sixth preliminary game, with the winner moving on and the loser going to classification.

Bold = game winner; Italic = advanced to final

	25 - 17
	46 - 12	Hungary Hungary national basketball team The Hungarian national basketball team is the basketball team that represents Hungary in international competitions.-Medals:*Eurobasket 1946 - Bronze medal*Eurobasket 1953 - Silver medal*Eurobasket 1955 - Champions-Eurobasket 1935:...
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia national basketball team The Czechoslovakian national basketball team was the basketball side that represented Czechoslovakia in international competitions. After the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia set up their own national teams.- Medals :...	23 - 21	France France national basketball team The French national basketball team is the national basketball team representing France. It is administrated by the Fédération Française de Basket-Ball . The team has been competitive, but has yet to win a major international tournament...
Italy Italy national basketball team The Italian national basketball team is the national basketball team representing Italy. It is administrated by the Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro ....	42 - 23	Bulgaria
Switzerland Switzerland national basketball team The Swiss national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Switzerland in international competitions. They are usually seen as a minor team. Switzerland entered five times EuroBasket, having their best result as 4 th place at the first edition, in 1935...	42 - 9	Romania Romania national basketball team The Romanian national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Romania in international competitions. Romania has 17 appearances for the EuroBasket competition and reached two time the 5th place, but never managed to qualify for the Basketball World Championship...
Switzerland	27 - 17	Italy

Classification round

The classification round served to place the six teams eliminated in the preliminary round into places 5 through 10.

Bold = game winner

Classification 5-10: winner to classification 5-8, loser to classification 9/10.

Bulgaria	22 - 19	Hungary
France	66 - 23	Romania

Classification 9/10: winner receives 9th place, loser receives 10th place

Hungary

24 - 17

Romania

Classification 5-8: winner to classification 5/6, loser to classification 7/8

France	29 - 27	Italy
Belgium	29 - 11	Bulgaria

Classification 7/8: winner receives 7th place, loser receives 8th place

Italy

35 - 22

Bulgaria

Classification 5/6: winner receives 5th place, loser receives 6th place

France

49 - 30

Belgium

Semifinals

The semifinals pitted the four winners of the preliminary round against each other. Winners advanced to the final, with the losers playing in a match for 3rd and 4th place.

Bold = game winner

Latvia	28 - 19	Switzerland
Spain	21 - 17	Czechoslovakia

Finals

No medals were awarded in the first few Eurobasket tournaments.

Bold = game winner

3rd/4th game:

Czechoslovakia

25 - 23

Switzerland

Championship game:

Latvia

24 - 18

Spain

May 5, 1935

Team rosters

1.Latvia: Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Eduards Andersons, Aleksejs Anufrijevs, Mārtiņš Grundmanis, Herberts Gulbins, Jānis Lidmanis

Janis Lidmanis

Jānis Lidmanis was a Latvian footballer and basketballer. In 1930s he was the captain of Latvia national football team for which he made 55 appearances and scored 2 goals....

, Džems Raudziņš, Visvaldis Melderis, Hudins (Coach: Valdemārs Baumanis)

2.Spain: Rafael Martin, Emilio Alonso, Pedro Alonso, Juan Carbonell, Armando Maunier, Fernando Muscat, Cayetano Ortega, Rafael Ruano(Coach: Mariano Manent)

3.Czechoslovakia: Jiří Ctyroky, Jan Fertek, Josef Franc

Josef Franc

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, Josef Klima, Josef Moc

Josef Moc

Josef Moc was a Czech basketball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1936 Summer Olympics....

, František Picek, Vaclav Voves

4.Switzerland: R.Karlen, J.Pollet, R.Lambercy, M.Wuilleumier, J.Pare, Mottier, Radle, Sidler

External links

• FIBA Europe Eurobasket 1935
• FIBA Europe article on 1930's Eurobaskets
• Eurobasket.com 1935 EChampionship