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Strahinja Stojačičs Photo: Dirk Waem / Belgium
Lithuanian basketball players won second place in the World Cup in Antwerp on Sunday. The Lithuanian national team, which was sown with the second number in the tournament, in the fight for the gold prizes with the result 16:21, gave way to Serbia, which was already the main contender for the championship title before the competition. Both Lithuanian and Serbian basketball players finished the group without losing.
🎊🇷🇸SERBIA WIN THEIR FIFTH #3x3WC AT CRELAN FIBA 3 × 3 WORLD CUP 2022🇷🇸🎊 @KSSrbije pic.twitter.com/HJZXtUYfNl
— FIBA3x3 (@FIBA3x3) June 26, 2022
Serbia defeated the Latvian national team in the quarterfinals with 22:17, but beat Belgium in the semi-finals with 17:12. Meanwhile, the Lithuanians stopped the USA in the quarterfinals, winning with 21:11, but in the semi-finals with 18:17 they were superior to France. France won Belgium 18:17 in the bronze medal match.
In the women’s competition, French basketball players with 16:13 were superior to Canada, but the bronze medal was won by the Chinese national team, which destroyed the Lithuanian women in the decisive match with 21:11.
SILVER FOR CANADA 🇨🇦🥈
France wins gold for the first time ever at the 2022 FIBA 3×3 Basketball World Cup 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/3QuPy629uP
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) June 26, 2022
It has already been reported that the Latvian national team, which included Agnis Čavars, Kārlis Pauls Lasmanis, Nauris Miezis and Artūrs Strēlnieks, was sown with the third number and failed in the fierce fight against the Serbs in the quarterfinals.
World Cup tournaments have been taking place since 2012. So far, Latvians have started the World Cup most successfully in 2019, when they won the second place. The Dutch team has won silver medals twice, while the Polish team won bronze in 2019. In 2012, Krūmiņš, Kristaps Kanbergs, Lauris Mizis and Ervīns Jonāts won one of the five games in the group tournament, taking the 18th place in the final table. In 2018, Čavars, Krūmiņš, Lasmanis and Miezis won all four games in the group tournament, but lost to the Polish national team in the quarterfinals with 15:21 and took the fifth place in the end.
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