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image by Zoltan Horvath, 14 November 2013
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The International Basketball Federation, (FIBA from its French name
Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball), is an association of national
organizations which governs international competition in basketball. FIBA
defines the international rules of basketball, specifies the equipment and
facilities required, regulates the transfer of athletes across countries, and
controls the appointment of international referees. A total of 213 national
federations are now members, organized since 1989 into five continental zones or
"commissions".
Zoltan Horvath, 14 November 2013
The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics
(Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 [loc12])
provides recommendations for flag designs. Each
international federation and international
paralympics federation was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS
shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60
x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not
be the official version of each flag, they are certainly what the
international federation and
international paralympics federation believed the flag to be.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012
Last year Ian Sumner made some scans from the flag manual for the London
2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012) which provides
recommendations for flag designs of international sporting federations.
For International Basketball Federation - FIBA: PMS 424 grey, PMS 355 green, PMS
137 yellow, PMS 192 red, PMS 3005 blue and PMS black.
Zoltan Horvath, 14 November 2013
image by Zoltan Horvath, 14 November 2013
image by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, December 2005
There are 208 nations affiliated with the Fédération Internationale de
Basketball, founded in July of 1932 on the 18th. There flag is a white
background with the logo in blue. The flag was adopted on the date of
foundation.
I note that the flag itself claims to be 'FIBA' - I assume this
therefore is a federation of basketball associations?
Sources:
Text: Flags and Logos of International Sports Federations, Associations, and Organizations
Picture: International Olympic Committee
Mason Kaye, 6 March 2004.
Quoted by: Rob Raeside, 6 March 2004.
image by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, December 2005
A black flag with a globe made of various coloured hands and white seams as
on a basketball. Below the letters FIBA in white.
At the opening ceremony of the FIBA under-19 world basketball championships,
being held in Auckland, NZ, was a traditional opening march-past of the 16
nations' flags, starting with the flag of FIBA, the world governing body of
basketball. I obtained a screenshot. The
intriguing thing about this flag, as paraded, is that it seems to be a
vertically hanging flag, at least as far as the lettering and logo are
concerned.
The flag features the logo of FIBA, showing five hands in the
colours of the Olympic rings (but with black replaced by grey) encircling a
basketball, on a black background (this logo is shown at the top of the FIBA
official website at http://www.fiba.com/).
The flag also has (capital, sans-serif) letters FIBA. There is further small
writing along the fly, which looks like it is FIBA's motto "We Are Basketball".
James Dignan, 2 July 2009