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1995 FIBA Oceania Championship

international basketball competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ636504 ↗
Source-derived summary

The FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 1995 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The tournament was held in Sydney. Australia won its 12th Oceania Championship to qualify for the Olympics.

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Final standings

Australia qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where FIBA, Oceania and Championship can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as international basketball competition. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q636504. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “1995 FIBA Oceania Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.