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17/03/2006
Press Release no. 10: FIBA appoints World Championship Referees GENEVA (FIBA World Championship) - FIBA, the International Basketball Federation based in Geneva, Switzerland, has announced today the appointment of the referees for the FIBA World Championships 2006 in Japan and Brazil. All games of the FIBA World Championships 2006 will be officiated with 3 referees. Japan 2006 40 FIBA referees coming from all 5 continents will officiate the 80 games of the FIBA World Championship 2006 from 19 August - 3 September 2006 in Japan. Referees Group A (in Sendai): Mr. Michael AYLEN, AUS Mr. Recep ANKARALI, TUR Mr. Abdellilah CHLIF, MAR Mr. Hak Mo CHUNG, KOR Mr. Virginijus DOVIDAVICIUS, LTU Mr. Fabio FACCHINI, ITA Mr. Carl JUNGEBRAND, FIN Mr. Terry Matthew MOORE, USA Mr. Carlos Renato DOS SANTOS, BRA Mr. Alvaro Dario TRIAS IGLESIAS, URU Referees Group B (in Hiroshima): Mr. Abreu MUHIMUA JOAO, MOZ Mr. Ilija BELOSEVIC, SCG Mr. Jose Anibal CARRION, PUR Mr. Alejandro César CHITI, ARG Mr. Rabah NOUJAIM, LIB Mr. Lazaros VOREADIS, GRE Mr. Borys RYZHYK, UKR Mr. Petr SUDEK, SVK Mr. Eddie VIATOR, FRA Mr. Maogong YANG, CHN Referees Group C (in Hamamatsu): Mr. Juan ARTEAGA, ESP Mr. Pablo Alberto ESTEVEZ, ARG Mr. Mike Amir HOMSY, CAN Mr. Guerrino CEREBUCH, ITA Mr. Reynaldo Antonio MERCEDES SANCHEZ, DOM Mr. Yosuke MIYATAKE, JPN Mr. Dubravko MUHVIC, CRO Mr. Sasa PUKL, SLO Mr. Eddie Fernanzo RUSH, USA Mr. Jorge VAZQUEZ, PUR Referees Group D (in Sapporo): Mr. Shmuel BACHAR, ISR Mr. Romualdas BRAZAUSKAS, LTU Mr. Scott Jason BUTLER, AUS Mr. Daniel Alfredo DELGADO CASADIEGO, VEN Mr. Yuji HIRAHARA, JPN Mr. Milivoje JOVCIC, SCG Mr. Cristiano Jesus MARANHO, BRA Mr. Jose MARTIN, ESP Mr. Domingos Francisco SIMAO, ANG Mr. Nikolaos ZAVLANOS, GRE Brazil 2006 25 FIBA referees coming from 5 continents will officiate the 62 games of the FIBA Womens World Championship 2006 from 12 - 23 September 2006 in Brazil. The list of referees includes a record nine female referees, which represents 36% of the overall referee contingent for the tournament. This is almost double the number of female referees used at the 2004 Olympic Basketball Tournaments in Athens. FIBA Sports Director Lubomir Kotleba sees the improved quality of female referees as the main reason for that, "The officiating quality of female referees is constantly improving and these are more and more up to the standards of top FIBA events. This is a consequence of our Zones and National Federations paying more attention to the formation and training of female referees, but also to the fact that more and more women are interested in a referee's career." Referees Mrs. Karolina ANDERSSON, FIN Mr. Heros AVANESSIAN, IRI Mr. Gabriel Chiel BAUM SPALTER, URU Ms. Susan Elaine BLAUCH, USA Mr. Matej BOLTAUZER, SLO Ms. Elena CHERNOVA, RUS Mr. Antonio CONDE, ESP Mrs. Nadine Renée CROWLEY, CAN Ms. Fatima Aparecida DA SILVA, BRA Mr. Ivo DOLINEK, CZE Mrs. Nancy ETHIER, CAN Mr. Vitalis Odhiambo GODE, KEN Mr. Kok Yew HO, MAS Ms. Chantal JULIEN, FRA Mr. Philippe LEEMANN, SUI Mr. Oscar LEFWERTH, SWE Mr. Vaughan Charles MAYBERRY, AUS Mr. Sergio de Jesus PACHECO, BRA Mrs. Ling PENG, CHN Mr. Kestutis PILIPAUSKAS, LTU Mr. Diego Hernan ROUGIER, ARG Mrs. Gabriela SCHAER ARAYA, CRC Mr. Roberto Omar SMITH, ARG Mr. Moussa Ismaila TOURE, MLI Mr. Gens Vadayattu VARGHESE, IND
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Sat Mar 18, 2006, 04:52pm
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I'm very glad to see Jose Carrion on this list. He did the finals just a couple years ago, I believe.
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Sat Mar 18, 2006, 06:58pm
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I noticed that except for the refs from the USA, they all spelled their names in metric.
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