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Sonia Ursu, among Top 10 women who ruled 3×3 in 2016

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 sportarena

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…

Dusan Bulut starts 2017 as the FIBA 3×3 World number 1

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 sportarena

Dusan Domovic Bulut (Team Novi Sad Al Wahda and Serbia) starts the year the best 3×3 player in the world, leading the FIBA 3×3 World Rankings with 1,175,400 points. Bulut and his teammates Marko Savic and Marko Zdero are topping the world ranking, followed on the fourth position by Jasmin Hercegovac (Team Ljubljana and Slovenia), the winner of the 2016 FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final in Abu Dhabi. Dejan Majstorovic, who missed part of the 2016 season because of an injury is on fifth position. The Top 10 is completed by…

Bucharest saw some of the best 3×3 teams in 2016

January 30, 2017February 8, 2017 sportarena

Novi Sad Al Wahda, Ljubljana or the Hungarian women national team were among the 3×3 teams highlighted by fiba.com, after their performances in 2016. All of them were present in Bucharest either for Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, or for the 3×3 European Championships. Hungary Women 2016 wins: European Championships For the last 3 years, Dora Medgyessy and her team-mates spent every summer crafting their 3×3 game. All the hard work paid off at the European Championships, where they won gold and produced the most entertaining basketball ever seen in the…

Novi Sad demolishes Ljubljana in Bucharest, both advance to FIBA 3×3 WT

August 17, 2016 sportarena

What was suppose to be another great “El Clasico” of 3×3 basketball ended in a total debacle as Team Novi Sad Al Wahda demolished Team Ljubljana, final score 21-6, in the final of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger. Both teams qualified for FIBA 3×3 World Tour Debrecen.

Favorites took command after the first day at Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger

August 14, 2016 sportarena

Novi Sad Al Wahda (UAE), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and NY Harlem (USA) stayed undefeated after the first day of the Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, eachvof them scoring 42 points in the first two games of the pool phase.

World Tour champs, to play at Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger

August 1, 2016 sportarena

The 2015 FIBA 3×3 World Tour champions, Novi Sad Al Wahda, are among the headliners of the fifth edition of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger that will take place in the iconic University Square, on 13 and 14 of August. The world number one ranked player, Dusan Domovic Bulut and his team are coming back in Bucharest after they won the 2013 edition and finished third in the 2012. Their arch rivals, Team Ljubljana, will join the list of World Tour teams to play in Bucharest and once again there is…

Sport Arena: 3×3 basketball everywhere, for everybody

February 5, 2016 sportarena

Sport Arena was celebrating in 2015 its tenth year of existence as a promoter of 3×3 basketball and it was not better way to show respect for the game than to provide top class competitions for everyone and everywhere. It was by far the busiest year for Sport Arena team with seven competitions organized and a total of 29 tournaments with more than 8000 players involved, on two continents. The spring season saw the Sport Arena debut in United Arab Emirates, where two competitions, Abu Dhabi 3×3 Basketball Tour and…

Lipek: Dunking is not only art, is a tool to get to people

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 sportarena

Jumping straight out of Poznan, one of the oldest cities in Poland and home of 500.000 people, Rafal “Lipek” Lipinski made by himself a name in the dunking world. Crowned in all of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final dunk contests so far and owning for two years in a row the prestigious dunk contest from Quai54, France, plus multiple other contests, Rafal became one of the most successful professional dunkers in the world. Let’s meet this 24 year’s old guy who inspired a lot of people and among them…

Romania, qualified for the 3×3 World Championships in 2016

December 5, 2015February 5, 2016 sportarena

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.

Al Wahda Novi Sad won the 2016 FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final

November 5, 2015February 5, 2016 sportarena

Team Al Wahda Novi Sad from UAE won the fourth edition of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final that took place in Abu Dhabi, on 15-16 October 2015. For two days 3×3 basketball was the heart and soul of Abu Dhabi and the venue built from the scratch in front of Nation Towers attracted more than 5000 people in both days of the competition.