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The 2007 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2007, was the 35th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics, giving a berth to the champion and runner-up teams (or to the third-placed team in case Spain should reach the final).
1.1 Greece. 1.2 Israel. 1.3 Russia. 1.4 ... The following is the list of squads for each of the 16 teams competing in the FIBA EuroBasket 2007, held in Spain between ...
A total of seven teams qualified for the tournament. Hosts Spain plus the eight European teams that participated in the 2006 FIBA World Championship (France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey) qualified directly.
At the EuroBasket 2007, the defending European champions advanced to the semi-finals where they faced the hosts and reigning World champions Spain, in a rematch of the final one year prior. Greece came close to take revenge but eventually lost 82–77, and played in the bronze medal game where they succumbed to Lithuania .
FIBA EuroBasket 2007 Division B; L. Lithuania at EuroBasket 2007; Q. FIBA EuroBasket 2007 qualification This page was last edited on 24 September 2019, at 06:13 ...
Giannakis was, along with Nikos Galis, Panagiotis Fasoulas, and Fanis Christodoulou, one of the four main stars of the legendary late 1980s Greece men's national basketball team that put Greece on the world basketball map. He was Greece's team captain, when they won the gold medal at the EuroBasket of 1987, and were the silver-medalists at the ...
2007 saw a shock winner, with Russia taking their first EuroBasket title since the dissolution of the Soviet Union with a one-point victory over heavily favored Spanish hosts in Madrid. However, the next tournaments were dominated by Spain who finally gained their maiden European title in 2009 and then won 3 of 5 next editions.
The EuroBasket 2007 Final was the championship game of the EuroBasket 2007 tournament. The game was played on 16 September 2007 at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Russia won their first title after the Soviet Union dissolution by defeating Spain 60–59.