World Military Basketball Championship is a championship annually held in the beginning of summer between men serving in the military from around the world. This year's championship is held in Klaipėda

Klaipeda

Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Nemunas River where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County....

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Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

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Preliminary round

Ten nations participated in this event in Taikos 61 Sports Center in Klaipėda, Lithuania. The arrival of the teams occurred on June 6, 2009. The nations were divided into two groups of five. In the preliminary round, nations would battle each other once for a total of 4 games. Then, the top two teams would qualify to the finals (1st-4th place), and the next two teams would qualify to relegation round (5th-8th place). Teams will depart on June 15, 2009.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Lithuania	4	4	0	352	245	+107
2.	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	4	3	1	302	305	– 3
3.	Latvia Latvia Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...	4	2	2	298	283	+15
4.	Italy	4	1	3	221	270	–49
5.	Cyprus Cyprus Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...	4	0	4	222	292	–70

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Greece	4	3	1	333	291	+42
2.	United States	4	2	2	355	332	+23
3.	China	4	2	2	316	347	–31
4.	Germany	4	2	2	339	340	– 1
5.	South Korea South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	4	1	3	341	362	–21

Finals

5th - 8th place

Standings

1.   Greece
2.   Lithuania
3.   United States
4.   Kazakhstan
5.   Germany
6.   China
7.   Latvia
8.   Italy
9.   South Korea
10.   Cyprus

Source: Delfi News.

External links

• WMBC Main Page