The 1960 European Women's Basketball Championship was the 7th regional championship held by FIBA Europe for women. The competition was held in Sofia, Bulgaria and took place June 3–11, 1960. The Soviet Union won the gold medal, while hosts Bulgaria received the silver. Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal.
Preliminary round The teams where divided into two groups. The first three from each group would go to the Final Round. The remaining teams went to the Classification Round to determine the 7th–10th spots.
Group A RankTeamWLPtsDiff 1 4 0 8 +153 2 3 1 7 −6 3 2 2 6 −14 4 1 3 5 −48 5 0 4 4 −85
Group B RankTeamWLPtsDiff 1 4 0 8 +91 2 3 1 7 +76 3 2 2 6 −11 4 1 3 5 −41 5 0 4 4 −115
Classification round
RankTeamWLPtsDiff 1 3 0 6 +29 2 2 1 5 +3 3 1 2 4 +1 4 0 3 3 −33
The results from the following matches were carried over to this round:
Italy vs. Netherlands Hungary vs. Belgium
Final round
RankTeamWLPtsDiff 1 5 0 10 +112 2 4 1 9 +44 3 3 2 8 +73 4 2 3 7 −69 5 1 4 6 -66 6 0 5 5 −94
The results from the following matches carried over to this round:
Soviet Union vs. Yugoslavia Soviet Union vs. Romania Czechoslovakia vs. Bulgaria Czechoslovakia vs. Poland Poland vs. Bulgaria Yugoslavia vs. Romania
Final standings Rank Team Record 1 7–0 2 6–1 3 5–2 4 4–3 5 3–4 6 2–5 7 3–3 8 2–4 9 1–5 10 0–6
External links FIBA Archive