USA Basketball at the FIBA World Championships - Summary
This page includes basic information about the United States National Team performances at the Summer FIBA World Championships.
Here you have the basic information about the USA Basketball team performances at the FIBA World Championships since Argentina 1950, the first edition of this international World Cup.
The US never saw this championship with the same eyes it is considered worldwide, to the point that the NBA champions are called "World Champions". But for the international basketball world this tournament is almost at the same level of the basketball competition of the Olympic Games and is here where the real "World Champion" is crowned.
Despite that, the United States Basketball team has always been one of the World Championship contenders with 12 medals in 19 editions of the tournament. Five of those medals were Gold and the only other National Team with that number is the now disappeared Yugoslavia (although technically the first Yurgoslavia won 3 and FR of Yugoslavia -- later called Serbia and Montenegro-- won the other 2) (see complete medal list).
Year by year Basketball World Cup Champions:
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| Year / Host Country | World Champion | Second | Third |
| 2023 Indonesia | Germany | Serbia | Canada |
| 2019 China | Spain | Argentina | France |
| 2014 Spain |  USA |
Serbia | France |
| 2010 Turkey | USA |
Turkey | Lithuania |
| 2006 Japan | Spain | Greece | USA |
| 2002 USA | FR of Yugoslavia | Argentina | Germany |
| 1998 Greece | FR of Yugoslavia | Russia | USA |
| 1994 Canada | USA |
Russia | Croatia |
| 1990 Argentina | Yugoslavia | USSR | USA |
| 1986 Spain | USA |
USSR | Yugoslavia |
| 1982 Colombia | USSR | USA |
Yugoslavia |
| 1978 Philippines | Yugoslavia | USSR | Brazil |
| 1974 Puerto Rico | USSR | Yugoslavia | USA |
| 1970 Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia | Brazil | USSR |
| 1967 Uruguay | USSR | Brazil | Yugoslavia |
| 1963 Brazil | Brazil | Yugoslavia | USSR |
| 1959 Chile | Brazil | USA |
Chile |
| 1954 Brazil | USA |
Brazil | Philippines |
| 1950 Argentina | Argentina | USA |
Chile |
| USA Basketball World Championships Medals Summary | |||
| Total Medals | Golden Medals | Silver Medals | Bronze Medals |
Usa Basketball    12 Medals |
5 2014 2010 1994 1986 1954 |
3 1982 1959 1950 |
4 2006 1998 1990 1974 |
Related:
FIBA World Championships.
2006 USA Basketball roster for the World Championship