2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Free practice
Muller led a Chevrolet 1–2 in the second practice session on a drying track. Menu was second and Monteiro was the fastest SEAT driver. Michel Nykjær survived an off to go sixth fastest as the best Rookie Challenge driver.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Qualifying
Augusto Farfus took his second pole position of the season in qualifying, beating Chevrolet's Huff by a tenth of a second. All of the SR-Sport, RML Chevrolet and BMW Team RBM cars made it through to Q2, as well as the Zengő-Dension Team car of Norbert Michelisz. Monteiro damaged his front right wheel at the end of Q1 and was unable to take part in Q2, he therefore lined up tenth.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Qualifying
With rain starting to fall, the remaining cars went out to set a time straight away. Huff, Tarquini and Gené required a second lap to set a competitive time. By the third lap, the rain was heavier and caught out Huff who spun and collided with team mate Menu. Tarquini lost control and hit a wall while Michelisz cut across the grass. The rain induced incidents brought out the red flags with three minutes remaining. The session was not restarted, so Priaulx put his BMW in third in the manufacturer's home race and Menu was fourth. Michelisz was fifth and Tarquini was sixth while Tom Coronel, Muller and Gené completed the top nine ahead of Monteiro.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Warm-Up
Chevrolet finished 1–2–3 in the foggy conditions of Sunday morning's warm–up session with Huff leading Menu and Muller. Priaulx stopped out on track while D'Aste damaged the rear of his BMW in a separate incident.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race One
Farfus started from pole position but ran wide at turn one after clashing with Huff who had been tapped by Menu. Farfus dropped down to fourth as Huff took the lead followed by Menu and Coronel. Tarquini was caught up the first corner contact and was forced to retire with damage to his SEAT León 2.0 TDI. Further back, Fredy Barth collided with Jordi Gené while Andrei Romanov and Taniguchi did likewise.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race One
Huff was later given a drive–through penalty for his part in the clash with Farfus, he failed to serve his penalty within the required three laps and was black–flagged. Farfus had passed Coronel and was closing in on new race leader Menu but couldn't catch him before the finish, finishing second with Muller finishing third. Coronel was fourth, Monteiro was fifth and Priaulx was sixth having started third. Michelisz finished eight to claim pole position for race two and Kristian Poulsen was independent winner.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany, Report, Race Two
Starting from third on the grid, Priaulx passed pole sitter Michelisz to take the lead of the race at the first corner. Monteiro bumped off both Nykjær and Michelisz and later served a drive–through penalty. Monteiro's penalty promoted Farfus into second and Muller into third. Towards the end of the race, Menu and Michelisz had been running seventh and eighth but were being caught by Huff, Tarquini and Gené. Huff tapped Michelisz wide at turn one and the Zengő driver dropped to eleventh and out of the points behind the advancing trio. Huff went on to catch Menu at the end of the race as the BMW Team RBM pair finished 1–2 on home turf with Muller the final podium finished and Poulsen repeated his Independents' Trophy victory from race one.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy
The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC Yokohama Race of Italy) was the third round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Italy. It was held at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, in Monza, Italy on 23 May 2010. The two races were won by Andy Priaulx for BMW Team RBM and Yvan Muller for Chevrolet RML.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Background
After the second round of the season in Morocco, defending champion Gabriele Tarquini was leading the drivers' standings by seven points over Yvan Muller. Franz Engstler was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Background
Kristian Poulsen returned to the championship with his self–run Poulsen Motorsport team. He last raced with Liqui Moly Team Engstler at the 2009 Guia Race of Macau. Meanwhile Scuderia Proteam Motorsport added a third BMW 320si to their team for Italian driver Fabio Fabiani. Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden joined the grid for the Italian round, running a Chevrolet Cruze LT for TC 2000 Championship driver Leonel Pernía who became the first Argentine to race in the World Touring Car Championship.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Testing and free practice
BMW Team RBM driver Augusto Farfus was the fastest driver in Friday's test session, beating the Chevrolet of Muller and the SEAT of Tom Coronel. Championship leader Tarquini was fourth and Pernía was thirteenth on his first run in a Super 2000 car. Priaulx suffered a brake disk failure at the end of the pit straight and nearly collided with Alain Menu while Fredy Barth, Sergio Hernández and Mehdi Bennani all saw reduced running due to technical issues.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Testing and free practice
Tarquini topped the times in the first practice session on Saturday morning, two–tenths of a second ahead of Priaulx. Jordi Gené was third and Robert Huff was the fastest Chevrolet in fourth. Andrei Romanov required an engine change and as a result incurred a ten–place grid penalty for race one.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Testing and free practice
Chevrolet were fastest in the final practice session with Huff beating the BMW of Priaulx by less than a tenth of a second. Morning pace setter Tarquini was third while Huff's teammates Menu and Muller were fourth and fifth respectively.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Qualifying
Tarquini was fastest in Q1 for SR-Sport, ahead of the Chevrolet pairing of Huff and Muller. In Q2 the diesel-powered SEATs followed each other round the circuit to use teamwork and slipstreaming to get good times. However, Tarquini ran wide at the second Lesmo with Barth also following him into the dirt. This ruined their laptimes, resulting in the BMWs and Chevrolets locking out the first two rows of the grid, with Augusto Farfus on pole position ahead of Huff, Priaulx, Menu and Muller. Gené was the first SEAT in 6th, with Tarquini in 7th.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Warm-Up
Priaulx topped the Sunday morning warm–up session with pole sitter and teammate Farfus fourth. Pernía and Hernández had problems meaning they couldn't set competitive lap times.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race One
Huff moved past polesitter Farfus at the start of Race One. Tarquini, meanwhile, moved from seventh to second in the run to the first chicane. Behind, many drivers cut across the grass at the chicane, while Kristian Poulsen and Darryl O'Young collided, both limping back to the pits to retire. Tarquini passed Huff at the start of the second lap and the pair began to stretch the gap back to third-placed Priaulx. However, on the final lap, Tarquini suffered a front-left puncture on the run down to the Ascari chicane.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race One
As Huff moved out to pass him, he also suffered a front-left puncture. The pair limped down the following straight, with Priaulx and the following pack closing them down. However, the leading pair could not be passed initially, with yellow flags out at the beginning of the Parabolica after Leonel Pernía had slid into the gravel on the previous lap. Once the green flags were shown, Priaulx and Farfus passed the slowing Tarquini and then Huff, to take a dramatic one-two finish for BMW. Behind, Michel Nykjær had also suffered a puncture.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race One
Huff limped past the line to finish third, ahead of Muller, Coronel and Barth. Tarquini and Nykjær finished seventh and eighth, ahead of Tiago Monteiro and Bennani. Bennani however was given a 30-second penalty after the race for cutting the first chicane on the opening lap, handing tenth place and a first Independents' Trophy victory to Harry Vaulkhard.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race Two
Nykjær made a good start from pole position in Race Two, while Muller moved up from fifth to second before the first chicane. Tarquini regained second from Muller and briefly took the lead of the race from Nykjær. Tarquini was then awarded a drive-through penalty for creeping forward on the grid before the lights had gone out. Bennani was also given a penalty having made a much more obvious jump start. Before Tarquini could serve his penalty though, he was re-passed by Nykjær at the first chicane.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy, Report, Race Two
The Dane led the race until the last lap when he suffered a puncture, pulling off the track and retiring at the second chicane. This handed Muller the victory, ahead of Coronel, Huff, Farfus and Priaulx. Having served his drive-through penalty, Tarquini returned to the pits to retire on the following lap.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan
The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC Kenwood Race of Japan) was the tenth round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the third running of the FIA WTCC Race of Japan. It was held at the Okayama International Circuit near Mimasaka, Japan on 31 October 2010. The first race was won by Robert Huff of Chevrolet RML and race two was won by Colin Turkington of Team Aviva-COFCO.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan
The final results were not released until two weeks later due to an appeal by Chevrolet RML against the use of sequential gearboxes by BMW Team RBM. An FIA investigation found the use of the gearboxes to be illegal and both of the factory BMW drivers were stripped of all points earned at the event, meaning Augusto Farfus was stripped of his race two victory and the win was handed to Turkington. The decision also resulted in Yvan Muller of Chevrolet RML securing his second world drivers' championship, his first with Chevrolet.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Background
After the Race of Spain, Muller was leading the drivers' championship with now only Andy Priaulx, Gabriele Tarquini and Huff able to beat him to the title. Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Background
SEAT León Eurocup driver Michaël Rossi made his World Touring Car Championship debut with SR-Sport, replacing regular driver Jordi Gené for event. Liqui Moly Team Engstler added a third car for local driver Yoshihiro Ito, joining Franz Engstler and Andrei Romanov. Wiechers-Sport expanded to two cars to run Masataka Yanagida in addition to full-time driver Mehdi Bennani. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport added Japanese racer Nobuteru Taniguchi and Taiwanese driver Kevin Chen. Turkington and West Surrey Racing returned to the championship, now racing under the Team Aviva–COFCO banner for the final two rounds of the season. Volvo Olsbergs Green Racing returned for their second event of the year with Swedish Touring Car Championship runner–up Robert Dahlgren behind the wheel. Macanese driver Henry Ho joined the grid with the Ho Kun Chei / Sports & You Asia team.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Testing and free practice
Huff and Muller led a Chevrolet 1–2 in the test session on Friday with Alain Menu in fourth separated from his teammates by the BMW of Andy Priaulx. bamboo-engineering's Darryl O'Young in eighth was the fastest independent with returnee Dahlgren in ninth.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Testing and free practice
Farfus topped the first free practice session on Saturday, half a second ahead of Dahlren's Volvo. Menu was the leading Chevrolet in third with Huff fourth and Norbert Michelisz the fastest SEAT in fifth. Kristian Poulsen was the leading independent runner.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Testing and free practice
SR–Sport driver Tom Coronel was fastest in free practice two with Huff second and Tiago Monteiro third. Engstler was the top independent driver.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Qualifying
Priaulx headed a BMW 1–2 in qualifying with RBM teammate Farfus starting alongside him on the front row. Turkington had set the pace in the first part of qualifying, beating the factory BMW pairing. All the championship contenders made it through to Q2 in addition to Turkington, Farfus, Michelisz, Engstler and debutant Rossi. Dahlgren was among those to drop out in Q1, while the Wiechers–Sport drivers had their times removed for accessing data from their car in parc ferme at the end of the session.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Qualifying
At the end of Q2, Priaulx and Farfus had locked out the front row for BMW Team RBM with Huff the next of the title challengers in third. Turkington ended up fourth on his return to the WTCC ahead of Michelisz and Tarquini. Championship leader Muller was eighth while Rossi and Engstler rounded out the top ten.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Warm-Up
Menu was the fastest driver in Sunday morning's warm–up session with Monteiro second and Coronel third, pole sitter Priaulx was fourteenth. Dahlgren was unable to take part as he required an engine change, incurring a ten–place grid drop for race one.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race One
The race started behind the safety car due to the severe wet conditions, Priaulx led away when the race was started on lap three. Huff passed Farfus immediately to take second place. Monteiro and Engstler slipped off the track at the first corner. Fredy Barth and Poulsen clashed further around the lap, Poulsen spun and took Stefano D'Aste with him. Huff and he eventually passed Priaulx on lap five. Muller was climbing up from eight on grid and made his way up to third place by the end of the race.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race One
Farfus had dropped down to fourth and was engaged in a close battle with Tarquini, who on lap six slid into the gravel trap at Williams and returned to the track in eighth place with only minor damage. At the end of the race, Huff was first with Priaulx second and Muller third. Yukinori Taniguchi was the Yokohama Trophy winner in eleventh.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race One
The results of the successful appeal by Chevrolet to the FIA over the use of sequential gearboxes by the BMW Team RBM drivers meant Priaulx and Farfus were later disqualified. This promoted the bamboo–engineering drivers into the points with Yukinori Tanaguchi ending up ninth and O'Young tenth. Michelisz was promoted to third to take the first podium finish of his WTCC career.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race Two
Michel Nykjær started on pole position for race two and led until lap nine when he slid off the track. Tarquini took over the lead of the race but went straight on at the Hobbs turn two laps later and retired, putting him out of championship contention. Farfus then assumed the lead of the race. His teammate Priaulx had spun into retirement after three laps, Yokohama Trophy leader Hernández did likewise after eleven laps. At the end of the race, Farfus took the win with Turkington holding off Muller to second. Nykjær ended up seventh while O'Young in tenth was the independents' winner.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan, Report, Race Two
After Chevrolet's appeal over the use of sequential gearboxes was taken into account and the BMW Team RBM drivers had been disqualified, Farfus lost the win and the victory was handed to Turkington, his first in the WTCC. Muller moved up to second and secured the drivers' championship title while Huff took the final podium position.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco
The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco was the second round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the second running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco. It was held at the Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakech, Morocco on 2 May 2010. The two races were won by Gabriele Tarquini for SR-Sport and Andy Priaulx for BMW Team RBM, but both races were heavily affected by safety car periods.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Background
After the first round in Brazil, Chevrolet driver Yvan Muller was tied at the top of the drivers' standings with SR-Sport's Tarquini. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport's Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Background
Swiss team Maurer Motorsport joined the grid for Morocco, running a pair of Chevrolet Lacettis for local drivers Ismaïl Sbaï and Youssaf El Marnissi.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Testing and free practice
Zengõ-Dension Team driver Norbert Michelisz was fastest in Friday's test session, with SR-Sport driver Tom Coronel second Chevrolet's Robert Huff third. The session was red flagged when Sbaï put his Lacetti into the wall, while Maurer Motorsport teammate El Marnissi stopped with technical problems. Chevrolet factory driver Alain Menu also crashed during the session on the dusty track, hitting a wall and causing considerable damage to his car.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Testing and free practice
Tarquini topped the first practice session on Saturday morning, ahead of BMW driver Priaulx and SR-Sport teammate Tiago Monteiro. Franz Engstler was the fastest independent driver. Wiechers-Sport's local driver Mehdi Bennani crashed at turn four on his first flying lap.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Testing and free practice
Tarquini stayed on top in free practice two with Friday pace setter Michelisz second and Chevrolet driver Muller third. Having crashed in the morning session, Bennani was the fastest independent by setting the twelfth fastest time.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Qualifying
Yvan Muller was the early pacesetter in Q1, before Chevrolet teammate Menu crashed into the wall on the exit of Turn 14, bringing out the red flags. When the session was restarted, SR-Sport driver Tarquini moved to the top of the timesheets, before being demoted by Zengő–Dension Team's Michelisz. However, the Hungarian crashed at Turn 3 after setting his fastest lap, bringing out the red flag again, this time ending the session early. BMW Team RBM drivers Augusto Farfus and Priaulx dropped out of the top ten just before the session was stopped.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Qualifying
Q2 was halted after five minutes due to oil on the track at Turn 2 left by Engstler after the independent BMW driver had hit the wall. After the green flag, Tarquini set a quick time to move into P1. The session was stopped once again when Michel Nykjær crashed at Turn 10. The session did not restart, giving Tarquini pole position ahead of Huff, Jordi Gené, Monteiro, Muller, Nykjær and Coronel. Fredy Barth started eighth, ahead of Engstler and Michelisz. El Marnissi did not participate in qualifying or the races for personal reasons.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Warm-Up
SR-Sport filled the top three places in Sunday morning warm–up with Coronel setting the fastest time. The highest placed BMW of Farfus was fourth and the quickest Chevrolet of Huff was seventh.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race One
It took three attempts at the rolling start for the first race, where all drivers must be lined-up in a two-by-two order before the race director allows the race to start. Once they finally got underway, pole sitter Tarquini led the field through the first chicane. Fellow SEAT driver Nykjær ran wide as he was battling for third position with the SEAT of Gené, resulting in both drivers dropping down the field. The main beneficiary of this was Fredy Barth who moved up from eighth to third in the opening lap.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race One
The Swiss driver made a move on second-placed Huff on the second lap, nudging the Chevrolet driver into a slide, which he did well to control and keep his position. Monteiro took advantage to take third from Barth. Further back, Priaulx passed Menu for eighth position and pole position for the second race.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race One
The safety car was deployed halfway through the race after Andrei Romanov crashed his Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si at Turn 15, and Moroccan local Ismaïl Sbaï appeared to spin his car on his own oil. The marshals struggled to remove the stricken car of Romanov from the circuit and so the safety car remained out for the next ten minutes, until the end of the race, allowing Tarquini to lead Huff and Monteiro to victory. Barth, Tom Coronel, Yvan Muller, Norbert Michelisz, Priaulx, Menu and Augusto Farfus rounded out the top 10.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race Two
Pole sitter Priaulx made a good start to Race 2, but drama unfolded behind as fellow front-row starter Michelisz stalled his car. As other cars moved to avoid him, Huff and Barth made contact once again, this time causing Huff to spin into the pit wall. Tarquini also got caught up with the spinning Huff, but got away with minor bodywork damage. Darryl O'Young swerved to avoid Huff's stricken Chevrolet and hit Bamboo Engineering teammate Harry Vaulkhard and then Scuderia Proteam Motorsport driver Hernández. Vaulkhard and Hernández joined Huff in retiring, while O'Young was able to retreat to the pits and rejoin the race after repairing the damage. The safety car was called into action and stayed out until lap seven of 13.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race Two
After the restart, Menu attempted to pass Farfus around the outside of Turn 4, but the pair tangled and both veered into the wall on the outside. Farfus limped back to retire in the pits, but the safety car was deployed again to remove the stranded Chevrolet of Menu and clear up the debris from the accident.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco, Report, Race Two
The safety car returned to the pits with just one lap of racing to go, with Priaulx fighting hard to keep Muller behind him, resulting in Priaulx brushing the wall at Turn 4. He held on though to win from Muller, Coronel, Monteiro, Barth and Tarquini. Local hero Bennani dropped from seventh to ninth on the final lap, finishing behind Nykjær and Gené. Michelisz recovered from his stall at the start to finish tenth.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal
The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal was the fifth round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season. It was the fourth running of the Race of Portugal, and the first time the series had visited the circuit. The race was held at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve near Portimão in Portugal on 4 July 2010. The two races were won by Tiago Monteiro and Gabriele Tarquini of SR-Sport.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Background
Coming into the round, Chevrolet RML driver Yvan Muller was the leading the drivers' championship by 19 points. Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy by 16 points over Stefano D'Aste.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Background
eBay Motors joined the grid with driver Colin Turkington for the first of three races, it marked Turkington's first race since he claimed the 2009 British Touring Car Championship drivers' title.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Testing and free practice
Andy Priaulx set the fastest time in Friday's test session, with Chevrolet driver Robert Huff less than a tenth behind. Augusto Farfus was third, in the second BMW Team RBM car.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Testing and free practice
SEAT driver Jordi Gené was fastest in the first practice session on Saturday morning, Muller was the fastest Chevrolet driver in fifth and Priaulx was the fastest BMW in seventh. Turkington was the top Yokohama Trophy driver in ninth.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Testing and free practice
Farfus was quickest in the final practice session ahead of the leading SR-Sport car of Tom Coronel. Fourth placed Huff was the fastest Chevrolet driver while Turkington in tenth was once again the fastest independent driver.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Qualifying
At the start of Q1, Tiago Monteiro and Priaulx collided at Turn 12, both cars having to return to the pits to repair the damage. Upon returning to the track, Monteiro set the fastest time in the session. Reigning British Touring Car Champion Colin Turkington made it through to Q2 as the quickest Independent runner on his season debut. SEAT drivers Michel Nykjær, Fredy Barth and Tom Coronel were the biggest names not to make it through to Q2, in 11th, 14th and 15th places.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Qualifying
In Q2, all ten of the drivers waited until there were four minutes remaining of the ten-minute session before setting their first flying lap times. Monteiro was fastest again, 0.053 seconds ahead of Muller, Farfus, Tarquini and Huff.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Warm-Up
Priaulx was fastest in the Sunday morning warm–up session while pole sitter Monteiro was sixth.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race One
Monteiro led comfortably away from pole position in the opening laps, as Muller and Tarquini fought for second place behind him. Further back, Priaulx slid off the road at the final turn as he battled with Barth. Having suffered a puncture and damaged bodywork, Priaulx spent much of the race in the pits repairing the damage. As Nykjær and Norbert Michelisz were fighting over seventh place, they forced each other wide, allowing Alain Menu and Coronel to pass them.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race One
Huff had been running fourth early on having passed Farfus, but went off the road, running over the gravel trap and into the wall. He was able to rejoin, but finished the race a lap down in 18th place. Gené stopped out on track while running in sixth position. Having dropped back early on from his tenth-place starting position, Turkington was fighting with Barth behind, when the two made contact, putting Turkington into a spin, this gave Hernández the Independents' lead. As the race reached its conclusion, Monteiro came under pressure for the lead from Muller, Tarquini and Farfus. However he managed to keep them at bay to record a popular and emotional home victory. Having fended off Coronel, Menu finished fifth, with Michelisz and Barth finishing seventh and eighth. Hernández took the Independent victory ahead of Darryl O'Young in ninth overall.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race Two
Barth made a slow start away from pole position at the start of race two, dropping to eighth by the end of the first lap. Fellow front-row-starter Michelisz took the lead from Barth. Behind, Menu passed Coronel for second place, while Tarquini moved into fourth before passing Coronel for third. Further back, Turkington fell to the back of the pack after a spin, while fellow Independent BMW driver Kristian Poulsen retired having had a spin of his own.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race Two
On the second lap Barth lost five more places, while up front Menu began pushing Michelisz for the lead. Menu made his move at the beginning of lap four, with Tarquini also following him through before taking the lead from Menu. Michelisz meanwhile dropped out with a water pressure problem. Muller passed Coronel for third before passing his Chevrolet teammate Menu for second place.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race Two
On lap eight, Huff passed Monteiro and Coronel, before the BMW pair of Priaulx and Farfus also passed the two SEAT drivers. Two laps before the finish, Gené stopped once again due to a puncture. On the final lap, Huff passed Chevrolet teammate Menu for third position. Tarquini held on to take the victory ahead of Muller, Huff, Menu, Priaulx and Farfus. Coronel was seventh, ahead of Monteiro and Barth. O'Young took the final point in tenth and his first win in the Independents' Trophy. He had to hold off Turkington, who had recovered well from his early spin to pass Vaulkhard for 11th on the final lap.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal, Report, Race Two
After the race, Huff was given a 30-second penalty for an incident with Farfus, dropping him from third place to 15th. He was also given a reprimand for another incident with Farfus in the first race.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain
The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC DHL Race of Spain) was the ninth round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Spain. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo near Valencia, Spain on 19 September 2010. The two races were won by SR-Sport drivers Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Background
Coming into the final European round of the season, Chevrolet RML driver Yvan Muller was leading the drivers' championship and Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Background
Marc Carol joined the field in a SEAT Customers Technology run SEAT León 2.0 TFSI. Carol had last raced in the World Touring Car Championship at the 2005 FIA WTCC Race of Spain. Fabio Fabiani didn't return after the Race of Germany.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Free practice
BMW Team RBM's Augusto Farfus was fastest in the opening practice session on Saturday morning, beating the lead Chevrolet of Alain Menu. Gabriele Tarquini was the leading SEAT in fifth while Carol was the quickest independent driver on his return to the WTCC.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Free practice
SR–Sport's Tom Coronel set the pace in the final practice session, edging out Menu by a tenth of a second. Kristian Poulsen was both the leading independent and BMW driver in seventh.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Qualifying
Tarquini took pole position in qualifying for the first race on Sunday, beating the Chevrolet of Robert Huff. Fredy Barth had been the fastest driver in the first element of qualifying, beating the works Chevrolet drivers. Norbert Michelisz suffered an engine failure during Q1, finishing thirteenth while Franz Engstler ended his session in the gravel after setting a time good enough for fourteenth. Andy Priaulx narrowly made it through to Q2, finishing the session tenth at the expense of Michel Nykjær.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Qualifying
Tarquini set his pole time early on while later fast laps from Huff and Muller saw them finish second and third ahead of Menu who was hampered with gearbox problems. Tiago Monteiro and Coronel, who would take a ten place grid penalty for an unscheduled engine change. Jordi Gené, Barth and the works BMW pair of Priaulx and Farfus completed the top ten.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Warm-Up
Michelisz led Sunday morning's warm–up session with pole sitter Tarquini half a second behind.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Race One
Tarquini led away from pole position while further down, Priaulx moved up from ninth to sixth. Muller easily got ahead of Huff to take second place in opening laps while Barth and Farfus were battling over who would start on the front row for race two. Menu had dropped down the order to claim the reversed grid pole as Barth repeatedly tapped Farfus' rear bumper. The BMW eventually went wide, giving sevenths place to Barth. At the front, Tarquini took the win with Muller second and Huff third. Gené was fourth, Priaulx finished fifth and Monteiro was sixth. Poulsen was twelfth and won the independents' class.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Spain, Report, Race Two
Menu started on pole position and was followed by Barth, the two were then passed up each side by Monteiro on the outside and Priaulx on the inside. Priaulx and Menu then collided, allowing Monteiro to assume the lead and Barth took second place. Priaulx attempted another move on Menu at turn three but the Chevrolet took the normal line through the corner, the pair collided and Menu spun. Priaulx was delayed but Muller took the opportunity to pass both of them and take third, he then took second from Barth when the Swiss SEAT driver slowed with a puncture. Priaulx was left to battle with Tarquini for third, with Tarquini coming out on top. At the end of the race, Monteiro took the win with Muller second and Tarquini third. Poulsen was the Yokohama Trophy winner.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK
The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC Marriott Race of UK) was the sixth round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of UK. It was held at Brands Hatch in Kent, England on 18 July 2010. The two races were won by Yvan Muller of Chevrolet RML and Andy Priaulx of BMW Team RBM.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Background
After the Race of Portugal, Chevrolet driver Muller was leading the drivers' championship while Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Background
Chevrolet RML ran an additional Chevrolet Cruze for triple Stock Car Brasil champion Cacá Bueno. Liqui Moly Team Engstler replaced regular driver Andrei Romanov with SEAT León Eurocup driver Tim Coronel. British Touring Car Championship regular Tom Boardman returned to the WTCC in a SUNRED Engineering run SEAT León TFSI. Volvo Olsbergs Green Racing joined the grid for the first of two events with their Scandinavian Touring Car Cup driver Robert Dahlgren.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Free practice
Robert Huff topped the opening practice session of his home event on Saturday morning, the Chevrolet driver beating the BMW pairing of Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus. Gabriele Tarquini was the fastest SEAT driver in fourth. Colin Turkington was seventh in his eBay Motors run BMW, Boardman was thirteenth in his SUNRED SEAT and Harry Vaulkhard was the slowest of the local drivers, 22nd in his bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Lacetti. The session was interrupted when Michel Nykjær beached his car in the gravel trap at Paddock Hill bend.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Free practice
Turkington led the final practice session, running three–tenths quicker than Alain Menu's Chevrolet. Wiechers-Sport driver Mehdi Bennani was black flagged for repeatedly exceeding the track limits.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Qualifying
With guest driver Dahlgren running inside the top ten during the practice sessions and Q1 in his nationally-homologated Volvo C30, the stewards decided to allow the fastest 11 drivers through into Q2, rather than the usual ten. In the end, Dahlgren could only managed 12th in Q1, allowing 11th-placed Tom Coronel through to Q2. Muller was quickest in Q1, ahead of Chevrolet teammates Huff and Menu.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Qualifying
Muller took pole position in Q2, with Huff and Menu second and third once again. Independent racer Turkington was fourth quickest, ahead of Tarquini and Priaulx.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Warm-Up
Turkington was quickest in the Sunday morning warm–up session, with Priaulx and Farfus behind completing a BMW 1–2–3. Pole sitter Muller was seventh behind the independent BMW of Kristian Poulsen.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race One
Muller lead his Chevrolet teammates Huff and Menu away from the start of the first race. Tarquini moved ahead of Turkington for fourth, while Priaulx, who had to start 16th after an engine change, moved up to 12th. On lap four, Turkington regained fourth from Tarquini at the Druids hairpin. At the same time, Priaulx and teammate Farfus moved up to ninth and tenth past Fredy Barth, before passing eighth placed Norbert Michelisz. Farfus passed Tiago Monteiro for seventh, but Priaulx could not find a way through.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race One
Nearer the front, Menu was defending hard from Turkington, allowing Muller and Huff to escape ahead. Bueno pulled off in the fourth Chevrolet with an engine fire, bringing out the safety car. After the restart, Priaulx made a robust move on Monteiro for eighth and pole position for Race Two. On the penultimate lap Turkington got past Menu, who then dropped back on the final lap to seventh to get himself a front row start for Race Two.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race One
Muller took the chequered flag ahead of Huff and Turkington. Tarquni and Tom Coronel finished fourth and fifth, ahead of Farfus, Menu and Priaulx.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race Two
Farfus made a good start to Race Two from third on the grid to take the lead ahead of Priaulx and Menu. Further down, Barth and Poulsen made contact off the grid, putting Poulsen into the wall on the outside and giving Barth a slow puncture. At the end of the first lap, Boardman made contact with Monteiro, putting Monteiro out of the race. On lap three, Priaulx passed Farfus for the lead at Druids, with Menu attempting to follow him past the Brazilian. However, they made contact, putting Farfus into a spin and damaging Menu's steering. Turkington took advantage to move up to second behind Priaulx, with Tarquini, Coronel, Huff and Muller following.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race Two
Later on, Bennani hit Franz Engstler into a spin as the pair were fighting over tenth place. Muller passed Chevrolet teammate Huff for fifth. Farfus passed Boardman for ninth, before Boardman ran wide and retired from the race. Meanwhile, Bennani pushed Darryl O'Young into the gravel at Druids, bringing out the safety car. Farfus took eighth from Nykjær in the closing laps.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of UK, Report, Race Two
Priaulx crossed the line to take the victory ahead of Turkington and Tarquini. Coronel finished fourth ahead of Muller, Huff, Michelisz and Farfus.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic
The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC Monroe Race of the Czech Republic) was the seventh round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the fifth running of the Race of the Czech Republic. It was held at the Masaryk Circuit near Brno, Czech Republic on 1 August 2010. The two races were won by Robert Huff of Chevrolet RML and Andy Priaulx of BMW Team RBM.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Background
Coming into the round, Yvan Muller was leading the drivers' championship and Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Background
After missing the previous round at Brands Hatch for personal reason, Andrei Romanov returned to Liqui Moly Team Engstler. Fabio Fabiani returned to Scuderia Proteam Motorsport having last raced for the team at the Race of Italy.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Background
Changes were made to the Independents' Trophy after the Race of UK. As well as the usual independents' points systems, additional points are awarded  for each point scored in the main drivers' championship. After Colin Turkington's success at Brands Hatch, the number of additional points was limited to twelve to prevent a repeat of this.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Free practice
Chevrolet's Alain Menu set the pace in free practice one with SR-Sport's Gabriele Tarquini second and BMW driver Turkington third. Yokohama Trophy leader Hernández was tenth while overall championship leader Muller was sixteenth.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Free practice
Turkington led free practice two, nearly half a second quicker than Muller. The session was brought to an early close when Tiago Monteiro beached his SEAT León TDI in a gravel trap.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Qualifying
Huff claimed his first pole position of the season in qualifying, lining up alongside Tarquini on the front row. Huff had been quickest in Q1, the surprise drop–outs from the first segment being the works BMW of Priaulx and SR–Sport driver Monteiro. Their efforts were spoilt by a red flag brought out by Fabiani who had beached his car in a gravel trap, the stoppage meant neither driver was able to set a time fast enough to progress through to the top ten shoot–out.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Qualifying
After Q2, Huff and Tarquini shared the front row with Turkington and Farfus behind. Huff's team mate Menu was fifth alongside Norbert Michelisz and Tom Coronel shared the fourth row with the third factory Chevrolet car of Muller. Jordi Gené and Michel Nykjær completed the top ten.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Qualifying
After lining up third in qualifying, Turkington was stripped of independent status and would now only be eligible for the main championship.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Warm-Up
Priaulx was quickest in the warm–up prior to the first race on Sunday morning. The fastest independent driver was Darryl O'Young in sixth while pole sitter Huff was eighth.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Race One
Huff depended from Tarquini at the rolling start and kept his lead into the first corner, escaping a first lap crash which caught out several of their rivals. Gené and Coronel retired while Priaulx, Kristian Poulsen and Fredy Barth continued with minor damage. The safety car was brought out while the wreckage was cleared, and on the restart Turkington and Michelisz clashed with the eBay Motors driver losing control and taking out championship leader Muller. Turkington continued while Michelisz retired and Muller returned to the pits for repairs.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Race One
By now the front four of Huff, Tarquini, Menu and Augusto Farfus had broken away from the rest of the field led by Turkington although Priaulx eventually passed him on the last lap to finish fifth. Huff took the win with Tarquini second and Menu third. Poulsen was the independent winner by finishing eighth after a 30–second penalty was given to O'Young for causing a collision.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of the Czech Republic, Report, Race Two
O'Young started on pole position for race two although he was passed at the start by Priaulx from fourth on the grid. Turkington had leapt up from third to first at the start and at the end of the first lap Turkington lead Priaulx. Priaulx passed Turkington on the second lap while Tarquini, Menu and Huff closed in. On lap four Tarquini overshot the corner and dropped to fourth place behind Menu. Tarquini stopped two laps from the end with an injector failure, promoting Huff into fourth place. Priaulx took the win ahead of Turkington with Menu completing the podium for the second race in a row. O'Young was the independent winner while Muller finished twelfth, scoring no points over the course of the weekend.


2010 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup
The 2010 FIBA Africa Basketball Club Championship (25th edition), was an international basketball tournament  held in Cotonou, Benin from 10 December to 19 December 2010. The tournament, organized by FIBA Africa, and hosted by ASO Modele, was contested by 11 clubs split into 2 groups, the top four of which qualifying for the knock-out stage, quarter, semi-finals and final.


2010 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup
The tournament was won by Primeiro de Agosto from Angola, thus retaining the title.


2010 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, Draw
ASB Mazembe AS Salé Condor de Yaoundé Primeiro de Agosto Royal Hoopers


2010 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, Draw
Al Ahly ASO Modele Inter Club Brazzaville Kano Pillars Manga BB Maxaquene


2010 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, Final standings
Primeiro de Agosto rosterAdilson Baza, Adolfo Quimbamba, Carlos Almeida, Felizardo Ambrósio, Filipe Abraão, Hélder Ortet, Hermenegildo Santos, Joaquim Gomes, Karlton Mims, Mário Correia, Miguel Lutonda, Vladimir Ricardino Coach: Luís Magalhães


2010 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship
The 2010 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship for Men (alternatively the Afrobasket U18) was the 17th FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship for Men, organized by FIBA Africa and played under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body and the African zone thereof. The tournament was held from October 8–17 in Rwanda and won by Egypt.


2010 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship
The tournament qualified both the winner and the runner-up for the 2011 Under-19 World Cup.


2010 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship for Women
The 2010 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship for Women was the 11th FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship for Women, played under the rules of FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, and the FIBA Africa thereof. The tournament was hosted by Egypt and ran from July 29 to August 6.


2010 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship for Women
Egypt defeated Nigeria 63–62 in the final to win their first title, with both teams securing a spot at the 2011 FIBA U18 Women's World Cup.


2010 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup
The 2010 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup (16th edition), was an international basketball tournament  held in Bizerte, Tunisia, from November 19 to 27, 2010. The tournament, organized by FIBA Africa, and hosted by CSF Bizerte, was contested by 10 clubs split into 2 groups, the first four of which qualifying for the knock-out stage and the last four playing the consolation places.


2010 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup, Draw
Abidjan Basket Club Desportivo de Maputo First Bank INJS Saint-Louis Basket Club


2010 FIBA Africa Women's Clubs Champions Cup, Final standings
Interclube rosterAstrida Vicente, Catarina Camufal, Danielle Green, Felizarda Jorge, Irene Guerreiro, Nadir Manuel, Ngiendula Filipe, Sónia Guadalupe, Coach: Apolinário Paquete


2010 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
The FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2010 was the 21st staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament was held in Doha, Qatar in the hall of Al-Rayyan Sports Club Gharafa between May 22, 2010 and May 30, involving 10 teams and distributed to two groups as follows:


2010 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup
2010 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup was the 3rd FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup. The basketball tournament of FIBA Asia was held in Beirut, Lebanon from 7 August to 15 August 2010, in Ghazir Club Court involving 10 national teams from Asia.


2010 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup
The 3rd FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup was the first FIBA Asia event to be hosted in Lebanon for national teams. The 3rd FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup was the qualifying event for the 26th FIBA Asia Championship in 2011, to be hosted in Wuhan, Hubei, China, which in turn will be the qualifying event for 2012 London Olympics. The winner of the 3rd FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup automatically qualified for the FIBA Asia Championship in 2011. The top five teams at the 3rd FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup earned additional berths for their respective FIBA Asia sub zones.


2010 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup, Qualification
According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had one place, and the hosts (Lebanon) and Asian champion (Iran) were automatically qualified. The other three places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship.


2010 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup, Qualification
*  Jordan, was given a wild card entry into the championship.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship
The FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship 2010 is the 2010 edition of the FIBA Asia's youth championship for basketball. The games were held at Sana'a, Yemen between 22 September and 1 October 2010. The top 3 teams qualified for the FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2011 in Latvia.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship, Qualification
According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Yemen) and holders (Iran) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2008 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women
FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women 2010 is FIBA Asia's basketball championship for females under 18 years old. The games were held at Surat Thani, Thailand.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women
The championship is divided into "Level I" and "Level II".


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women, Qualifying round
Winners are promoted to Level I for the 2012 championships.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship qualification
The 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship qualification was held in late 2009 and early 2010 with the Persian Gulf region, West Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Middle Asia (Central Asia and South Asia) each conducting tournaments.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship qualification, East Asia
All the others withdrew, so  China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea qualified automatically.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship qualification, Gulf
The Gulf U-17 Basketball Championship is the qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship. it also serves as a regional championship. The two best teams qualifies for 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship qualification, Middle Asia – SAARC
The 2010 Middle Asia – SAARC qualifying tournament was held from August 12 to 14, 2010 in Bangalore, India. The two best teams qualifies for 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship qualification, Southeast Asia
The 2010 SEABA Under-18 Championship is the qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship; it also serves as a regional championship involving Southeast Asian basketball teams. It was held on June 5 to June 9, 2010 at Yangon, Myanmar. The top two finishers qualifies to the 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.


2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship qualification, West Asia
The 2010 WABA Under-18 Championship is the qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship. It also serves as a regional championship involving West Asian basketball teams. the four best teams excluding Yemen qualifies for 2010 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship. The tournament was held from April 19 to April 24, 2010 in Beirut, Lebanon.


2010 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women
The 2010 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women was the second edition of the FIBA Europe SuperCup Women. It was held on 18 October 2010 at the Maroussi Arena in Marousi, Greece.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship was the 24th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. 16 teams featured the competition, held in Montenegro from August 5–15. Spain was the defending champion. This year's edition was won by Croatia


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Group stages, Preliminary Round
In this round, the sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three qualified for the Qualifying Round. The last team of each group played for the 13th–16th place in the Classification Games.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Group stages, Qualifying Round
The twelve teams remaining were allocated in two groups of six teams each. The four top teams advanced to the quarterfinals. The last two teams of each group played for the 9th–12th place.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Group stages, Classification Round
The last teams of each group in the Preliminary Round will compete in this Classification Round. The four teams will play in one group. The last two teams will be relegated to Division B for the next season.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Final standings
Mislav Brzoja, Martin Junaković, Karlo Lebo, Ivan Jukić, Dino Šamanić, Dario Šarić, Dominik Mavra, Antonio Črnjević, Tomislav Radoš, Nikola Urli, Daniel Zovko, Filip BundovićHead Coach: Dražen Brajković


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division B
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division B was an international basketball competition held in Estonia in 2010.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship Division C
The 2010 FIBA U16 European Championship Division C was held in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, from 26 to 31 July 2010. Eight teams participated in the competition.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women was the 22nd edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women. 16 teams featured the competition, held in Greece from August 12–22. Spain was the defending champion.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women, Group stages, Preliminary Round
In this round, the sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three qualified for the Qualifying Round. The last team of each group played for the 13th–16th place in the Classification Games.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women, Group stages, Qualifying Round
The twelve teams remaining were allocated in two groups of six teams each. The four top teams advanced to the quarterfinals. The last two teams of each group played for the 9th–12th place.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women, Group stages, Classification Round
The last teams of each group in the Preliminary Round will compete in this Classification Round. The four teams will play in one group. The last two teams will be relegated to Division B for the next season.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B was the 7th edition of the Division B of the European basketball championship for women's national under-16 teams. It was played in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, from 12 to 22 August 2010. Hungary women's national under-16 basketball team won the tournament.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B, First round
In the first round, the teams were drawn into four groups of four. The first three teams from each group will advance to the second round (Groups E and F) and the last teams will advance to the 13th–16th place classification (Group G).


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division B, Second round
In the second round, the teams play in two groups of six. The first four teams from each group will advance to the Quarterfinals and the other teams will advance to the 9th–12th place playoffs.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division C
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women Division C was the 6th edition of the Division C of the FIBA U16 Women's European Championship, the third tier of the European women's under-16 basketball championship. It was played in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, from 26 to 31 July 2010. Scotland women's national under-16 basketball team won the tournament.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was the 27th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. 16 teams featured the competition, held in Lithuania from July 22 to August 1. Serbia was the defending champion. Lithuania won the title after beating Russia in the final.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, Group stages, Preliminary Round
In this round, the sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three qualified for the Qualifying Round. The last team of each group played for the 13th–16th place in the Classification Games.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, Group stages, Qualifying Round
The twelve teams remaining were allocated in two groups of six teams each. The four top teams advanced to the quarterfinals. The last two teams of each group played for the 9th–12th place.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, Group stages, Classification Round
The last teams of each group in the Preliminary Round competed in this Classification Round. The four teams played in one group. The last two teams were relegated to Division B for the next season.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B was an international basketball  competition held in Israel in 2010.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women was the 27th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women. 16 teams featured the competition, held in Slovakia from July 25–August 8. Spain was the current title holder. Italy won this year's edition.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women, Group stages, Preliminary Round
In this round, the sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three qualified for the Qualifying Round. The last team of each group played for the 13th–16th place in the Classification Games.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women, Group stages, Qualifying Round
The twelve teams remaining were allocated in two groups of six teams each. The four top teams advanced to the quarterfinals. The last two teams of each group played for the 9th–12th place.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women, Group stages, Classification Round
The last teams of each group in the Preliminary Round will compete in this Classification Round. The four teams will play in one group. The last two teams will be relegated to Division B for the next season.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship was the 13th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. The cities of Zadar, Crikvenica and Makarska, in Croatia, hosted the tournament. France won their first title.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
Netherlands and the Czech Republic were relegated to Division B.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, Preliminary round
The sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, Qualifying round
The twelve teams were allocated in two groups of six teams each. The results of the games between the teams from the same group in the Preliminary Round were taken into account for the ranking in this round.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women was the 9th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women. 16 teams featured the competition, held in Liepāja and Grobiņa, in Latvia, from July 15–25. France was the current title holder. Russia won the title against Spain.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women, Group stages, Preliminary Round
In this round, the sixteen teams were allocated in four groups of four teams each. The top three will qualify for the Qualifying Round. The last team of each group will play for the 13th–16th place in the Classification Games.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women, Group stages, Qualifying Round
The twelve teams remaining will be allocated in two groups of six teams each. The four top teams will advance to the quarterfinals. The last two teams of each group will play for the 9th–12th place.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women, Group stages, Classification Round
The last team of each group in the Preliminary Round will compete in this Classification Round. The four teams will play in one group. The last two teams will be relegated to Division B for the next championship.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women Division B
The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women Division B was the sixth edition of the Division B of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-20 teams. It was held in Kavadarci, Republic of Macedonia, from 16 to 25 July 2010. Great Britain women's national under-20 basketball team won the tournament.


2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women Division B, First round
In the first round, the teams were drawn into two groups of five. The first four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals, the last teams will play for the 9th place.


2010 FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup
The 2010 FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup, or 2010 FIBA Mini World Cup, officially called Dongfeng Yueda KIA Stanković Continental Cup 2010, was the 6th annual FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup tournament. It was held in Liuzhou, China, from July 28 to August 1.


2010 FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup, Game results
All 4 teams played a round-robin tournament first. The top 2 teams advanced to final while the other 2 teams fought for the 3rd place.


2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship
The 2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship(German: FIBA U17-Weltmeisterschaft 2010) was an international basketball competition held in Hamburg, Germany, from July 2–11, 2010. It was the first edition of the FIBA Under-17 World Cup. The United States won the title against Poland.


2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women
The 2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women (French: Championnat du monde FIBA des moins de 17 ans 2010) was an international basketball competition, held in Toulouse and Rodez, France from July 16–25, 2010. It was the first edition of the Women's Under-17 World Championships.


2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship squads
Players' ages as of the tournament's opening day (2 July 2010).


2010 FIBA World Championship
The 2010 FIBA World Championship was the 16th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship contested by the men's national teams. The tournament ran from August 28 to September 12, 2010. It was co-organized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Turkish Basketball Federation and the 2010 Organizing Committee. It was considered as prestigious a competition as the Olympic Basketball Tournament. The tournament was hosted by Turkey.


2010 FIBA World Championship
For the third time (after the 1986 and 2006 tournaments), the World Championship had 24 competing nations. As a result, the group stage games were played in four cities, and the knockout round was hosted by Istanbul.


2010 FIBA World Championship
The United States won the tournament for their fourth time after going undefeated in the Opening Round and beating host Turkey in the final.


2010 FIBA World Championship
The draw for the Championship took place on December 15, 2009 in Istanbul. Teams were drawn into four preliminary round groups of six teams each. Teams first played a round-robin schedule, with the top sixteen teams advancing to the knockout stage.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Bid
Three bids from six countries – France, Turkey, and a joint bid from former Yugoslav republics Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia – made their final presentation during the FIBA's 20-member Central Board in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on December 5, 2004. Previously, Australia and New Zealand, Italy, Russia and Puerto Rico announced their intention to bid from the tournament, but withdrew their bids prior to the votes. France won the first round of voting, but Turkey eventually won the right to host after the joint bidders were knocked out in the first round.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Bid
The tournament was the first time that Turkey has hosted the event and marked the first World Championship held in Europe since the 1998 FIBA World Championship was held in Greece.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Venues
Below is a list of the venues which hosted games during the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Each preliminary round group was hosted in a single arena in Kayseri (Group A), Istanbul (Group B), Ankara (Group C), and İzmir (Group D). The knockout phase then moved to Istanbul's Sinan Erdem Dome. Ankara Arena, completed in 2010, and Kadir Has Arena, completed in 2008, were built for the championships, while the other three arenas underwent renovations for the event.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Qualifying
Turkey automatically qualified as the host country, and the United States also received an automatic berth for winning the 2008 Olympic Men's Basketball Tournament.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Qualifying
Most other teams secured their places in continental qualifying tournaments (three from Africa, three from Asia, two from Oceania, four from the Americas, and six from Europe). FIBA invited four "wild card" teams to fill out the twenty-four team field.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Qualifying, Wild cards
The four wild cards were determined by FIBA through criteria. For example, a team must have played in the Zone's qualification tournament to receive recommendation. Also, in order for every team to have an opportunity for a wild card, a maximum of three teams from any Zone can be allotted a wild card entry. Once these requirements are satisfied, FIBA then looks at other important factors. Those include popularity of basketball within the country, success of the team, and government support for the team's National Federation. As of 2009, FIBA now requires that wild card candidates pay a late registration fee to be considered.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Qualifying, Wild cards
Fourteen teams paid the 500,000 € fee to apply for one of the four wild card spots. FIBA then whittled down the teams to eight semifinalists – Cameroon, Germany, Great Britain, Korea, Lebanon, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Russia. On Saturday, December 12, FIBA awarded Germany, Lebanon, Lithuania and Russia the four wild cards.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Qualifying, List of qualified teams
The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament (FIBA World Ranking at start of tournament in parentheses):


2010 FIBA World Championship, Group Draw
The draw held on December 15 divided the qualified teams into four groups of six, groups A, B, C, and D, as listed for the preliminary round. Aside from the fact that those teams in the same line would not be in the same preliminary round groups, there were no other restrictions on how teams may be drawn.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Squads
At the start of tournament, all 24 participating countries had 12 players on their rosters. Final squads for the tournament were due on August 26, two days before the start of competition.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Squads
Angola and the United States were the only teams made up of entirely domestic players (Jordan and Russia each had 11 domestic players). Slovenia was the only team composed entirely of individuals playing outside the domestic league. The Canada squad also consisted entirely of individuals playing outside the country, but at that time Canada had no professional league operating exclusively in the country (a minor professional league was scheduled to begin play in 2011). The National Basketball Association, based in the U.S., has a Canadian team, and several minor leagues operate on both sides of the U.S.—Canada border. Four Canadian squad members played in U.S.-based competitions—two with U.S.-based NBA teams, and two for Gonzaga University's team. Forty-one NBA players were selected to compete in the tournament, the most of any league.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Preparation matches, Acropolis Tournament
Greece and Serbia both began the tournament shorthanded when each had two players suspended for their roles in a brawl at the World Championship tuneup Acropolis Tournament, held in mid-August. The two teams engaged in a chaotic brawl with 2:40 left when Greece's Antonis Fotsis threatened Serbia's Miloš Teodosić after Teodosić committed a foul. The fight spilled off the floor and into the locker room tunnel; the game was thus terminated with final score the score at the time of the interruption (74–73 for Greece). Serbian center Nenad Krstić was arrested and held overnight for throwing a chair in the brawl.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Preparation matches, Acropolis Tournament
For their roles in the melee, Krstić was suspended for the first three games of the tournament, while Teodosić, and Greece's Fotsis and Sofoklis Schortsanitis were suspended for the first two games. Both Greek coach Jonas Kazlauskas and Serbian coach Dušan Ivković criticized FIBA for waiting until less than 48 hours before the tournament – over a week after the brawl – to announce the suspensions, citing the unfairness of playing shorthanded for the first games. Greece eventually won their first two games in spite of the suspensions, while Serbia won two of their first three games.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Preliminary round
The top four finishers in each of the four preliminary round groups advanced to the sixteen team, single-elimination knockout stage, where Group A teams would meet Group B teams and Group C would meet Group D. European teams proved the most successful in the first round, as nine of the ten teams advanced to the knockout stage (only Germany did not progress). Both Oceanian teams qualified for the next round, as did three of the five FIBA Americas teams. The three African and four Asian teams struggled, with only Angola and China reaching the knockout stage after each finished fourth place in their group.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Preliminary round
There were few surprises in the early round; each team that advanced to the knockout stage was ranked in the top 20 of the FIBA World Ranking at the time of the tournament. Defending champions Spain struggled early, losing two of their first three games before recovering to finish second in Group D. Argentina and the United States, the two top teams in the FIBA rankings, both cruised to the knockout phase, as the United States went 5–0 and Argentina went 4–1, with their only loss coming to Number 5 ranked Serbia.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Preliminary round, Tie-breaking procedure
At the end of the preliminary round, any ties will be broken by the following criteria, ordered from the one that will be applied first to the last:


2010 FIBA World Championship, Referees
On August 18, 2010, FIBA named the forty referees that officiated at the tournament. Below are the referees, along with the first round group that each was assigned to:


2010 FIBA World Championship, Broadcasting, Rights
FIBA announced that the championship will be shown in 183 countries, beating the record set be the 2006 championship which was 132. Countries that aired the championship for the first time were India and the United Kingdom, while Canada covered the event for the first time since hosting the 1994 FIBA World Championship.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Broadcasting, TV ratings
According to FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann, the TV ratings for the 2010 championship exceeded the 2006 FIBA World Championship's and the FIBA EuroBasket 2009 numbers, with an expected audience of 800 million people in 200 countries, while 30 million people visited the official website.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Broadcasting, TV ratings
The preliminary round game between China and Greece was watched by around 65 million Chinese.


2010 FIBA World Championship, Broadcasting, TV ratings
The U.S. TV ratings for the Final between the U.S. and Turkey, on the other hand, was watched by less than 900,000 viewers in American cable network ESPN, worse than the average audience of the broadcast of the 2009-10 NBA season, but double than the airing of the first game of the 2010 WNBA Finals on its sister terrestrial network ABC which was aired on the same timeslot.


2010 FIBA World Championship Final
The 2010 FIBA World Championship Final was a basketball game between the men's national teams of Turkey and the United States that took place on September 12, 2010, at Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, to determine the winner of the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The US team won the world title after defeating Turkey 81–64.


2010 FIBA World Championship Final
This was the first match-up in any major international competition between the United States and Turkey. The last time the two teams faced each other in a match was at an exhibition game before the 2008 Summer Olympics. At that meeting, the U.S. won 114–82.


2010 FIBA World Championship Final, Route to the final
Both teams qualified to the tournament automatically, the U.S. by winning the gold medal at the Olympics in Beijing, and Turkey as hosts. Historically, the teams were polar opposites. America had 16 Summer Olympics medals and 10 FIBA World Cup medals, while Turkey's only previous international medal of any kind was a silver at the EuroBasket 2001. The US brought the top scoring offense into the final, averaging 94.3 points and 18.5 assists per game.


2010 FIBA World Championship Final, Route to the final
Nevertheless, Turkey's vaunted 2–1–2 zone made it the top defensive team (64 points per game) in the tournament heading into the final, and a commentator on NBA.com wrote that the European crowd would "be the most hostile crowd most of these [U.S.] players, with the exception of maybe Chauncey Billups and Lamar Odom, have ever seen."


2010 FIBA World Championship Final, Route to the final
The U.S. had an easier route to the final, winning all of their games in runaway fashion, with the sole exception of their preliminary round game against Brazil. Turkey, on the other hand, had close games against Puerto Rico in the preliminary round, and against Serbia in the semifinals, in which Kerem Tunçeri scored the go-ahead basket, with less than a second left, after picking up Hedo Türkoğlu's fumble, to give Turkey the 83–82 win. Both teams were undefeated going into the final.


2010 FIBA World Championship Final, Match details
The game was close for the first half — Turkey even led at one point during the first quarter — but the American athleticism was too much for the Turks, and the U.S. was able to pull away on easy baskets.


2010 FIBA World Championship Final, Match details
Kevin Durant was the game's leading scorer, with 28 points, including seven three-point field goals. Durant scored 20 of his points in the first half. Lamar Odom came up big when it mattered most, scoring all fifteen of his points in the second half, and grabbing eleven rebounds overall. Hedo Türkoğlu was Turkey's leading scorer with 16 points, despite suffering a knee injury during the first half. Ersan İlyasova had seven points and eleven rebounds.


2010 FIBA World Championship Final, Match details
With the win, Mike Krzyzewski became the first U.S. national basketball head coach to win an Olympic Gold Medal and a FIBA World Cup. The U.S. also clinched an automatic berth in the 2012 Summer Olympics.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A
Group A of the 2010 FIBA World Championship took place between August 28 September 2, 2010. The group played all of their games at Kadir Has Arena in Kayseri, Turkey.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A
The group was composed of Angola, Argentina, Australia, Germany, Jordan and Serbia. Jordan was playing in its first ever FIBA World Championship after finishing third at the FIBA Asia Championship 2009. Before the tournament, their average FIBA World Ranking was 12.2; excluding Jordan, the lowest in the rankings at 38th, it was 7.2. Based on the rankings, it was the most competitive group. Other than Jordan, all five teams were ranked in the top twelve in the FIBA World Ranking; it was the only group to have more than three such teams.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A
The four teams with the best records – Serbia, Argentina, Australia, and Angola – advanced to the knockout stage. Each of the four teams reached the knockout stage for the second consecutive World Championship. Germany was eliminated in 17th place with a 2–3 record while Jordan was sent home without a victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 28
Day 1 of play in Group A saw all three favorites win in drastically different fashions. In the first game of the day, Australia surprisingly struggled and narrowly held on for a 76–75 victory over the 38th-ranked Jordan. Jordan – which was not able to play any warmup games as a result of a FIBA-imposed eight-month suspension – led by as many as 11 points and found themselves ahead 75–70 with 1:10 to go in the game. However, Australia closed the game on a 6–0 run and Jordan's Rasheim Wright missed a layup in the closing seconds to give the Aussies a one points victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 28
In the second game of the day, Serbia entered short-handed following the suspension of Nenad Krstić (3 games) and Miloš Teodosić for their role in a brawl with Greece in an exhibition game. Despite the suspensions, Serbia never trailed in dominating African champions Angola, 94–44. All ten Serbian players that played in the game scored, while only one Angolan player, Olimpio Cipriano, reached double figures.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 28
The final game of the day saw FIBA Number One ranked Argentina severely tested by Germany. The Germans tied the game in the final two minutes after trailing by as many as 13 points early in the fourth quarter. Down one in the final minute, Germany had a chance to take a lead, but Argentine veteran Hernán Jasen stole the ball from Germany's Demond Greene; Carlos Delfino then made three free throws in the last ten seconds as the Argentines held on for a 78–74 victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 29
In the first game of Day 2, Angola rebounded from its opening day 50-point trouncing at the hands of Serbia to beat Jordan 79–65. Tournament debutants Jordan entered the fourth quarter with a lead for the second day in a row. The Angolans quickly erased the lead with a 10–0 run to start the fourth quarter and eventually outscored the Jordanians 33–18 in the quarter for the 14-point victory. Miguel Lutonda, the oldest player in the tournament at age 38, scored sixteen points for Angola in the victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 29
In the second game of the day, Germany stunned Serbia in a thrilling double overtime victory. Neither team led by more than six points at any point during the see-saw battle. Serbia's Aleksandar Rašić hit a three-pointer with eleven seconds left to send the game into overtime tied at 69. After a rather uneventful first overtime, the Germans took a five-point lead with one minute left in the second overtime when Jan-Hendrik Jagla hit a three-pointer. Serbia pulled back within one, but Milenko Tepić missed a shot in the closing seconds and the young German team held on for the one-point victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 29
Finally, game three saw another thriller as Argentina barely stayed undefeated with a 74–72 victory over Australia. Australia led by as many as seven points in the fourth quarter before the top-ranked Argentines fought back for a late lead. Down four in the closing seconds, Australia's Joe Ingles hit a long two-pointer and Hernán Jasen threw away the ensuing inbounds pass for the Argentines. Adam Gibson then had a wide-open three-pointer for the Aussies off the inbounds pass, but his shot rimmed out at the buzzer, giving the Argentines the two-point victory. Luis Scola scored a game-high 31 points for the Argentines.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 30
After three exciting games on Day 2, Day 3 was a relative letdown, as all three games were blowouts. In the day's first game, Serbia put a quick end to Jordan's hopes of a third consecutive tight game, jumping out to a 33–20 first quarter lead en route to a 43-point victory. For the second time in three games, every Serbian player who suited up for the game scored. Guard Miloš Teodosić returned from suspension to score seven points and dish out seven assists, while forwards Duško Savanović and Marko Kešelj each scored 21 points for the Serbians.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 30
In Game 2, unlike Serbia, Germany came out flat the day after their double overtime upset victory in a 35-point defeat at the hands of the Aussies. Australia won in dominating fashion after their previous two games came down to the final buzzer. Patrick Mills took advantage of the tired Germans, scoring 16 points and dishing out seven assists in 24 minutes of action.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, August 30
In the final game of the day, Argentina finally had a dominant performance, beating Angola 91–70 to stay undefeated. Trailing by 13 at the half, Angola used a third quarter push to pull back within five before Argentina outscored the Angolans 27–11 in the fourth quarter. Luis Scola scored a game-high 32 points and grabbed 8 rebounds in the victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 1
After an off day, Group A returned to action on September 1. In the day's first game, Serbia beat Australia 94–79, finally playing at full-strength after center Nenad Krstić returned from suspension. After trailing for most of the game, Australia pulled within three with 2:07 left before Serbia closed the game on a 13–1 run. Krstić scored 14 points and had 10 rebounds in his return from suspension.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 1
Australia's loss meant that Germany needed to beat Angola in the day's second game to have any chance of qualifying for the Round of 16 (Angola still would have had an outside chance with a loss). In a back-and-forth game, Angola took a 92-88 overtime victory to send them and Australia to the knockout stage and send Germany home early. After leading much of the game, Angola found themselves down by 10 with less than four minutes to play in the game.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 1
Olimpio Cipriano hit two free throws with 16 seconds left to cap off a 14–4 run to close regulation for the Angolans. Germany never led in overtime as Angola reached the knockout phase for the second consecutive tournament. Cipriano scored 30 points in the victory while Joaquim Gomes added 16 points and 14 rebounds. Jan-Hendrik Jagla scored 23 points in the losing effort for the Germans.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 1
In game three, Luis Scola scored 30 points for Argentina – his third straight game with at least 30 points – in an 88–79 victory over Jordan. Argentina led by as many as twenty points before Jordan pulled back within five in the fourth quarter. Rasheim Wright scored 22 points to lead Jordan.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 2
Angola's victory over Germany on Day 4 meant that the final day of group play was for positioning – Argentina and Serbia would play for first place, Australia and Angola for third place, and Germany and Jordan for fifth place.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 2
Angola raced out to an early seven point first-quarter lead before Australia took over in a 21-point victory. With both teams already assured of a knockout round spot, both teams gave significant playing time to bench players; Patrick Mills was the only player in double figures, scoring 11 for the Aussies.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 2
Serbia took first place in the group with a narrow 84–82 victory over previously unbeaten Argentina. Serbia's Duško Savanović hit a three-pointer with 18 seconds left to break a 77–77 tie and Aleksandar Rašić hit four free throws in the closing seconds to seal the victory. Luis Scola again led Argentina with 32 points, becoming Argentina's all-time leading scorer at the World Championships in the process.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group A, September 2
Germany and Jordan met in the group's final game. Both teams had already been eliminated, and it showed as Jordan's coach Mário Palma commented that both teams played "without spirit." Germany prevailed in a 91–73 victory, sending the Jordanians home without a victory in their first appearance at the World Championships.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B
Group B of the 2010 FIBA World Championship commenced on August 28 and ended on September 2. The group played all of its games at Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B
The group was composed of Brazil, Croatia, Iran, Slovenia, Tunisia and the United States. Their average FIBA World Ranking at the start of the tournament was 19; excluding Tunisia, the lowest in the rankings, it was 14.4. Tunisia, which finished third at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009, and the Asian champion Iran, both made their tournament debuts, while Croatia returned for the first time since 1994. The four teams with the best records in group play – USA, Slovenia, Brazil, and Croatia – advanced to the knockout stage.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 28
Group B began play on August 28 with three consecutive blowouts. Slovenia scored the first seven points of the game and never trailed in an 80–56 victory over Tunisia. Goran Dragić scored 16 points and dished out eight assists for Slovenia in the victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 28
In the second game of the day, the United States handled Croatia in a 28-point victory. The Croatians hung with the United States for the first quarter before the Americans outscored them 26–6 in the second quarter. Eric Gordon scored 16 points to lead the Americans; all twelve players scored, including five in double figures for the United States.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 28
Asian champions Iran made their World Championship debut in the final game of the day against Brazil. The Iranians never seriously mounted a challenge in a 16-point loss. Four players scored in double digits for the Brazilians, led by Leandro Barbosa's 21.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 29
Day 2 in Group B play featured another three straight blowouts. In the first game, the United States jumped out to a 10–2 lead and never looked back in a 22-point victory over Slovenia. After Slovenia had cut the lead to five late in the first half, the Americans went on a 31–9 run stretching into the third quarter to blow the game open. Kevin Durant led the United States with 22 points, while five Americans reached double figures for the second consecutive game.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 29
Croatia rebounded from a Day One loss to the United States by beating winless Iran 75–54. The Croatians opened up a 22-point first half lead and were never seriously challenged, despite Hamed Haddadi's game-high 27 points and 9 rebounds. Roko Ukić and Bojan Bogdanović each had 13 points for Croatia in the victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 29
Brazil remained undefeated by beating Tunisia 80–65 in the day's final game. Leandro Barbosa scored 21 points – 16 in the first quarter alone – and grabbed 6 rebounds while Tiago Splitter added 16 points.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 30
Day 3 of Group B action finally brought three competitive games. The two former Yugoslav republics faced off in the day's first game in a rematch of the Eurobasket 2009 quarterfinal. Like the Eurobasket quarterfinal, Slovenia again prevailed, this time with a 91–84 victory over the Croatians. Slovenia quickly erased a five-point halftime deficit, taking the lead for good on Miha Zupan's three-pointer with 6:33 remaining in the game. Poor free-throw shooting proved to be Croatia's undoing, as they shot only 15 of 26 from the foul line. Uroš Slokar and Jaka Lakovič each scored 15 points for the Slovenians, while Roko Ukić scored a game-high 20 points for Croatia in the losing effort.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 30
Tournament debutants Iran and Tunisia faced off in the second game of the day, each looking for their first ever World Championship victory. The Iranians came away with the victory after Hamed Haddadi turned in another strong performance (23 points, 13 rebounds). Iran opened up a 24-point second half lead as Tunisia struggled to shoot the ball, scoring only 36 points in the first three quarters. The Tunisians used a furious 21–2 run to pull to within three with five minutes left before Iran pulled away for the victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 30
Unbeaten Brazil and United States met in the day's final game in a match that would determine the group winner, in all likelihood. Brazil was again without the services of Anderson Varejão, who rested with a sprained right ankle after expecting to be ready for the game. Brazil led for much of the first three quarters in a tight game before Derrick Rose made a shot that gave the USA a 52–50 lead that they would not relinquish until the fourth quarter.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, August 30
After Brazil tied the game in the fourth, Lamar Odom's dunk with 7:13 left that gave the Americans a 64–62 lead that they would not relinquish. Brazil had two chances to send the game to overtime in the final seconds, but Marcelo Huertas missed two free throws and Leandro Barbosa's shot clanged off the rim as time expired. Kevin Durant led the Americans with 27 points and 10 rebounds as most of the Americans struggled in their first real challenge of the tournament.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, September 1
Group B was back in action on September 1 following a rest day. In the first game of the day, Tunisia continued to struggle as Croatia jumped out to a 20-point halftime lead en route to an 84–64 victory. Bojan Bogdanović led the Croatians with 19 points while Makrem Ben Romdhane was the only Tunisian in double figures, with a game-high 23 points. The victory, coupled with Iran's loss, clinched a spot in the knockout round for Croatia. Tunisia, meanwhile, was eliminated with the loss.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, September 1
The Americans clinched first place in the group with an 88–51 victory over Iran in the day's second game. Iran provided some resistance for the lethargic Americans, trailing by single digits for much of the first half before being outscored by 23 in the second half. Kevin Love led the Americans with 13 points in only 11 minutes of action, while Hamed Haddadi again led the Iranians with 19 points.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, September 1
In the battle for second place in the group, Slovenia beat Brazil 80–77 despite Anderson Varejão making his tournament debut for the Brazilians. Primož Brezec hit his first seven shots to help Slovenia take a 14-point halftime lead. Brazil cut the lead to two with 4 minutes remaining but could come no closer as Slovenia clinched second place in the group. Slovenia's loss also eliminated Iran from contention, sending Croatia and Brazil to the knockout round.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, September 2
There was little to play for on Day 5 of Group B play, as only Brazil and Croatia had positions to play for. The United States sleepwalked to a six-point halftime lead before taking over in the second half in a 92–57 victory over Tunisia. Eric Gordon scored 21 points as the United States finished group play undefeated for the second consecutive World Championship. Tunisia ended their first World Championship appearance without a win.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, September 2
In the day's second game, Slovenia held off a late charge by Iran in a 65–60 victory. Hamed Haddadi scored 15 points to conclude a strong tournament for the Iranian team.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group B, September 2
The only game of the day with implication in the standings had little drama as Brazil rebounded from two straight losses dominated Croatia in a 92–74 victory. With the victory, Brazil clinched third place in the group to set up a quarterfinal match with rivals and Group A runner-up Argentina.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C
Group C of the 2010 FIBA World Championship commenced play on August 28 and ended September 2, 2010. The group played all of their games at Ankara Arena, Ankara, Turkey.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C
The group was composed of China, Côte d'Ivoire, Greece, Puerto Rico, wild card Russia and host country Turkey. Prior to the tournament, their average FIBA World Ranking was 16.3; excluding Côte d'Ivoire, the lowest in the rankings, it was 11.6.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C
The four teams with the best records – Turkey, Russia, Greece, and China – advanced to the knockout stage. Puerto Rico and Côte d'Ivoire tied with China at 1–4 overall, but were eliminated with the second tiebreaker (goal average). China was the only one of four Asian teams to qualify for the knockout stage.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 28
Group C action commenced on August 28. In the first game, Greece pulled away late to beat China 89–81. Sun Yue's three-pointer had put China within two, 81–79, with 3:14 left, but the Chinese were able to come no closer as Greece pulled away in the final minutes. Nikolaos Zisis and Ioannis Bourousis each scored 21 for the short-handed Greeks, which were without the services of Antonis Fotsis and Sofoklis Schortsanitis because of their two-game suspension for their roles in an exhibition match brawl against Serbia. Yi Jianlian scored a game-high 26 points in the loss for the Chinese.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 28
Wild-cards Russia beat Puerto Rico in the day's second game. The game went back-and-forth for most of the game before the Russians used an 11–0 run to take the lead for good with 4:44 left. Sergei Monia scored 16 points for the Russians, although coach David Blatt particularly praised Anton Ponkrashov, who had a hard-fought double-double (10 points, 11 assists). The Dallas Mavericks' José Juan Barea scored a game-high 25 points for the Puerto Ricans.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 28
In the nightcap, host Turkey cruised to an 86–47 victory over Côte d'Ivoire. Overmatched Côte d'Ivoire, making its first appearance in the World Championship since 1986, fell behind 14–0 to start the game and never mounted a challenge against the hosts. Eleven of Turkey's twelve players scored in the victory, led by Ömer Onan's 18.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 29
On day 2, China grabbed its first victory of the tournament, beating Côte d'Ivoire 83–73. After China opened up an eight-point halftime lead, the Ivorians hung close for most of the second half but could never close the gap below seven points. Yi Jianlian scored 26 points to lead the Chinese team, while Wang Shipeng added 25 more points. Mouloukou Diabate scored 20 points, grabbed seven rebounds, and dished out three assists for Côte d'Ivoire.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 29
In game two, Puerto Rico lost a second straight tight game, falling to Greece 83–80. The game was back-and-forth once again for the Puerto Ricans, before Greece took the lead for good on two Vassilis Spanoulis free throws with 2:38 left. Spanouilis scored a game-high 28 points for the Greeks, including a key 8-for-8 free throw shooting in the last three minutes of the game.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 29
In the final game of the day, host Turkey again impressed, beating Russia 65–56 in a game that was not as close as the final score indicated. Turkey held Russia to a mere seven points in the second quarter to take an eleven-point halftime lead; the Russians could not cut the lead below seven points at any point in the second half. Russia struggled against Turkey's defense, shooting a meager 32 percent (17 for 53) from the field for the game.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 31
After a rest day, Group C returned to action on August 31. In a surprisingly close game, Russia barely escaped Côte d'Ivoire 72–66. The Ivorians pulled within two with forty seconds to play but could not come any closer as Russia won its second game of the tournament. Côte d'Ivoire dropped to 0–3 for the tournament. New York Knicks signee Timofey Mozgov scored 19 points to pace the Russians.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 31
Puerto Rico finally got its first win of the tournament by beating China 84–76. It was a third straight tight game for the Puerto Ricans, as China hung close for most of the game. Sun Yue hit a three-pointer in the fourth quarter to cut Puerto Rico's lead to 67–64, but China could come no closer in the eight-point loss. Ángel Daniel Vassallo scored 22 points in 29 minutes of action to lead Puerto Rico to the victory.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, August 31
Ankara Arena was filled to capacity long before tip-off as Turkey and Greece renewed their traditional rivalry in the final game of the night. Greece was back at full strength as Sofoklis Schortsanitis and Antonis Fotsis returned to action for the Greeks following their two-game suspensions. In the end, Turkey proved too much for the Greeks, using a 24–12 third quarter to stretch a two-point halftime lead to 14. Schortsanitis was a non-factor in his return, seeing only 13 minutes of action because of foul trouble, and the Greeks were unable to contain Turkey's big men as Ersan İlyasova, Ömer Aşık, and Semih Erden scored a combined 48 points.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, September 1
Heading into day 4 of group play, Russia, Greece, and Turkey each had a chance to clinch a knockout round spot with a win. All three teams took advantage, starting with Russia's 89–80 victory over China. The game featured 18 lead changes and 10 ties before Russia used a late 12–0 run to turn a 75–75 tie into an 87–75 lead with two minutes to go. Sasha Kaun scored 16 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as Russia qualified for the knockout phase just four years after failing to qualify for the 2006 FIBA World Championship.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, September 1
Greece rebounded from its first loss of the tournament to steamroll Côte d'Ivoire 97–60 and qualify for the knockout phase. The Ivorians jumped out to a surprising 7–0 lead before Greece closed the first half on a 47–12 run to end any hope of an upset. All twelve players scored for Greece, led by Nick Calathes' 15 points.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, September 1
The day's previous results meant that Turkey already qualified for the knockout phase; a win over Puerto Rico, however, would clinch first place in the group. Turkey did just that, narrowly defeating the Puerto Ricans 79–77 after trailing entering the fourth quarter. The hosts used an early fourth quarter run to open up a 12-point lead late in the game before Puerto Rico crawled back within one after Ángel Daniel Vassallo – who had a game-high 19 points – hit three late three-pointers. Turkey's Kerem Tunçeri hit one of two free throws with six seconds left and Vassallo's desperation three missed as Turkey hung on to win.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, September 2
In the final day of group play, two of the three games still held some meaning for the quarterfinals. Greece and Russia met to determine the second-placed team. Depending on the outcome of the match between Puerto Rico and Côte d'Ivoire, any of the three bottom teams (including China) could advance. Puerto Rico would advance with a win, and if Puerto Rico lost and China upset Turkey, then China would advance. If both Puerto Rico and China lost, all three teams would be tied at 1–4 overall and 1–1 against each other, meaning the team with the best goal average would advance to the quarterfinals.


2010 FIBA World Championship Group C, September 2
In the first game, FIBA 40th-ranked Côte d'Ivoire stunned 10th-ranked Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico fell behind by as many as 13 in the second quarter but came back to lead briefly in the fourth, before finally losing to Côte d'Ivoire 88–79. With Côte d'Ivoire leading, both teams traded baskets in a back-and-forth final minute in a frantic attempt to win the goal average tiebreaker.