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Category | Contributor Date of Birth | 18.06.1932 Country | Switzerland
Highlights
FIBA was founded on 18th June 1932 in Geneve by 8 national basketball federations. On that same date the first by-laws of the International Basketball Federation and a unified set of playing rules were approved. The founding document was signed by the following representatives of the 8 national federations:
Attilio PONISIO (Argentina)
Simeon MAVROSKOUFIS (Greece)
Count Giorgio ASINARI DI SAN MARZANO (Italy)
Joseph SHADEIKO (Latvia)
Henry BRANDT (Portugal)
D.D. TEICA (Romania)
Léon BOUFFARD (Switzerland)
Ladilslav KAPUCIAN (Czechoslovakia)