Tournament details | |
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Arena | SEF Piraeus, Athens, Greece |
Dates | June 8–10 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Greece (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Lithuania |
Third place | Italy |
Fourth place | France |
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In addition to the host Greece, national team also took out the national teams France and Italy part. The team completed the field of participants Lithuania only a few weeks later with the Olympic Games in Barcelona won the bronze medal. The competition is played under FIBA rules as a round-robin tournament. The stars of the 1992 Acropolis tournament included the Greek Panagiotis Giannakis also Artūras Karnišovas, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis as well Arvydas Sabonis from Lithuania. [1]
Greece | |
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Neo Faliro, Piraeus, Greece | |
SEF Capacity: 11,640 [2] | |
Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
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Greece | 3 | 3 | 0 | 223 | 203 | +20 | 6 |
Lithuania | 3 | 2 | 1 | 306 | 255 | +51 | 5 |
Italy | 3 | 1 | 2 | 248 | 272 | −24 | 4 |
France | 3 | 0 | 3 | 216 | 263 | −47 | 3 |
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