Both Romania’s 3×3 National Teams, men and women, will take part in the 3×3 Europe Cup Qualifiers during this summer. The 2017 tournaments will be hosted again by Andorra and France, while the 3×3 Europe Cup will take place in Netherlands, between 7th and 9th of July.
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The Romanian 3×3 star Sonia Ursu was among the top 10 women who ruled 3×3 basketball in 2016, according to fiba.com, who highlighted some of the best players in the world. The world number 52 in FIBA 3×3 World Ranking for women, Sonia was a silver medalist of the 3×3 European Championships in Bucharest, with the Romanian National Team, together with Gabriela Marginean, Anca Sipos and Andra Haas. “Don’t let the arty Instagram account distract you, Ursu means bear in Romanian and when Ursu steps on the court, she’s all…
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Romania will be present in three out of four 3×3 World Championships that will be organized in 2016. Three national teams qualified for their respective age and gender categories thanks to the country position in the FIBA 3×3 Federation Ranking and the results from the past editions.
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The center court flooded with people right after the final buzzer of the 3×3 European Championships Men’s Final as Romania had just written history in conquering the first ever title in the competition with a 19-16 win over Slovenia. More than 1,000 fans around the center court and many more outside at the giant TV screen watched as the atmosphere reached its peak in a tremendously intense and close final game. With technical fouls being handed out to both teams, it was a put-back by Bogdan Popescu that gave the hosts the decisive lead, 17-16 in the…
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Romania’s men and Russia’s women were crowned inaugural 3×3 basketball European champions as both sides recorded victories over Slovenia in the finals at University Square in Bucharest. In the men’s competition, the hosts delighted the more than 1,000 fans in attendance by squeezing past their determined opponents 19-16 in the decider. Both sides traded baskets throughout, but as the clocked ticked down Bogdan Popescu stepped up to be the local hero as he landed a crucial basket to give Romania a decisive lead which they managed to hold on to.…
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Both men and women’s Romanian national teams showed they will be a force to be reckoned with in Moscow at the upcoming FIBA 3×3 World Championships on 5-8 June, after winning the first stage of the Sport Arena Streetball quest on 16-18 May. 157 teams gathered in Bucharest, the Mecca of 3×3, to kick off the 10-year anniversary season of the Sport Arena Streetball Quest. The event featured a lot of familiar faces as a generation of players has grown up with the event and gone from the U14, to…
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Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball, main 3×3 basketball championship from Romania, started last weekend in Bucharest, with over 170 teams and more than 700 players ready to take off from the streets to the Olympics. It was a stormy start of the ninth season, with the windy and rainy weather playing hide-and-seek with the organizers, but in the end basketball was the big winner and everybody celebrated the return of the 3×3 basketball in their lives, after almost seven months. The four Sport Arena Courts, from University of Politehnica Bucharest were…
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Bucharest, the Capital City of Romania, will candidate for the organization of the 2016 World University Championship 3×3 Basketball. The official announcement was made by Claudia Georgescu, director of the School and University Sport Federation (FISU member), during Sport Arena Streetball Awards, a ceremony that ended officially the 2012 Romanian 3×3 basketball season. Sport Arena Streetball, who developed in the last eight years in one of the best 3×3 basketball competitions from all over the world, is ready to make the next step, a natural one, and will co-organize this…
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Sport Arena UPB cruised in Istanbul over the team from Kragujevac, 21-5, in the groups of FIBA 3×3 World Tour Master and increase their chances to advance to the quarter finals of the competition. The four players reunited in Istanbul for the team Kragujevac, represented Serbia in the World University Games earlier this summer and won the world title in the final against Romanian university national team. This is the second huge victory for Romanian 3×3 basketball after the Romanian national team won against USA Basketball at the FIBA 3×3…
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The Romanian 3×3 basketball national team finished in the last sixteen at the first ever 3×3 World Championship, held in Athens between 23-26 August 2012, beating USA Basketball on their way to the knock-out round. The success against USA is an historic one for the Romanian Basketball and the game was just amazing, with Angel Santana nailing a three pointer with 3 seconds to go, for a 15-14 victory. Santana&Co played after just two hours another crucial game, against Russia, and they failed to advance to the quarter finals, even…
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