During the 1960s, the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, Greece appeared in most of the EuroBasket competitions, with their best performances being the 8th place in 1965 and the 9th place in both 1979 and 1981. They didn't manage to qualify for the Summer Olympic Games nor to the FIBA World Cup, but they did manage to win two regional gold medals. They won the gold at the 1979 Mediterranean Games, by beating Yugoslavia, by a score of 85–74 in the final, and the 1979 Balkan Championship, by again beating Yugoslavia, by a score of 66–62.