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FIBA South America Under-21 Championship for Men

international youth basketball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5425650 ↗
Source-derived summary

The FIBA South America Under-21 Championship for Men is a sporadically held basketball tournament. With the FIBA Americas Under-20 Championship having not been held since 2004 and no plans to hold it in the near future, this tournament's future is in doubt.

1996 FIBA South American Championship for Men "22 and Under"

The tournament was played in Vitória, Brazil, from 10 to 15 June 1996.

Brazil

Argentina

Uruguay

Venezuela

Chile

Ecuador

2000 FIBA South American Championship for Young Men

The tournament was played in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 24 June to 2 July 2000.

Argentina

Brazil

Uruguay

Venezuela

Colombia

Peru

Paraguay

Bolivia

Chile

Ecuador

2004 FIBA U21 South American Championship for Men

The tournament was played in Ancud, Chile, from 14 to 20 June 2004.

Argentina

Brazil

Venezuela

Paraguay

Colombia

Chile

Uruguay

Bolivia

2018 FIBA U21 South American Championship for Men

The tournament was played in Salta, Argentina, from 30 July to 5 August 2018.

Brazil

Argentina

Uruguay

Chile

Peru

Paraguay

2019 FIBA U21 South American Championship for Men

The tournament was played in Tunja, Colombia, from 12 to 18 August 2019.

Editorial summary

“FIBA South America Under-21 Championship for Men” enters the record as international youth basketball tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what FIBA, South and America can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1996, 2000, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around FIBA, South and America.
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“FIBA South America Under-21 Championship for Men” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, FIBA, South and America provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5425650. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1996, 2000 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “FIBA South America Under-21 Championship for Men” 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.