Preliminary Round (Group B), 1959 FIBA World Cup
January 17, 1959 · Temuco, Chile
Preliminary Round (Group B), 1959 FIBA World Cup: Soviet Union 73–64 Brazil, at Temuco, Chile on January 17, 1959.
UniversoBasquet.com dates this game "January 12", which predates the tournament's own January 16 start and duplicates landofbasketball.com's January 17 entry for the same pairing/score — treated as a transcription typo on that source, January 17 used here. City is single-sourced (basquetplus.com's tournament retrospective, matching this site's existing published account of the five host cities) rather than independently confirmed across multiple sources, unlike this game's date/teams/score, which are cross-checked against two independent results archives.
Top performers
| Soviet Union — top performers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player | PTS | REB | AST |
| Viktor Zubkov | 7 | - | - |
| Brazil — top performers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player | PTS | REB | AST |
| Wlamir Marques | 16 | - | - |
| Amaury Pasos | 8 | - | - |
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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