In the 2023 FIBA three-person basketball Asian Cup held in Singapore a few days ago, the Chinese women’s team won the third place and the Chinese men’s team won the fourth place.
The battle for the women’s team in the third place was between the Chinese team and the Thai team. The Chinese women’s team led by 4:1 after the opening, and then the Thai women’s team chased the score to 8:9. At the critical moment, the Chinese women’s team finally won by 11:9 with the scores of team members Zhang Di and Zhang Jianping. In this game, Zhang Jianping scored the highest 7 points and 9 rebounds. In the previous group match, the Chinese women’s team won both matches and ranked first in the group. In the 1/4 final, the Chinese women’s team defeated the Mongolian women’s team to advance, and lost to the Australian women’s team in the semi-final. The Australian women’s team defeated the New Zealand women’s team in the final and won the championship.
In this competition, the Chinese women’s team sent a lineup of four young players, Zhang Jianping, Zhang Lingge, Chen Yuzhen and Zhang Zhen, hoping to accumulate experience in the competition, enhance the thickness of the echelon of Chinese women’s three-person basketball talents. According to the rules, the three-person basketball world ranking of a country or region is arranged according to the total points of the top 25 players in the country or region. The growth of young players is conducive to improving the overall ranking of Chinese women’s three-person basketball. The higher the ranking, the more favorable it is to compete for the seats in the Paris Olympic Games. This year, FIBA will also host a series of high-level Olympic points race such as the World Cup, Masters and challenge. The Chinese women’s team, currently ranked fifth in the world, has the opportunity to win more Olympic points in the competition. If the Chinese women’s team ranks in the top three in the world before November 1 this year, it will directly qualify for the Paris Olympic Games.
The Chinese men’s team sent the whole main team to participate in the competition. Zhu Shaoyang, Yan Peng, Guo Hanyu and Zhou Yanxu all have rich experience in the three-person basketball game. The Chinese men’s team easily defeated the Kazakhstan men’s team and the Indian men’s team in the group match, and then defeated the Singapore men’s team 21: 14 in the 1/4 final. In the semi-finals, facing the powerful Australian men’s team, the Chinese men’s team lost 17: 18. In the competition for the third place, the Chinese men’s team took the lead at the beginning. After that, it was defeated by the New Zealand men’s team and eventually lost to the opponent at 13:21. The Mongolian men’s team defeated the Australian men’s team in the final and won the championship.
There are 8 seats for each of the three-person Basketball Men’s and women’s events in the Paris Olympic Games. For the Chinese men’s team, it is not easy to get the qualification. Facing the challenge, we can only train hard and prepare for the competition. Preparing for the system this year’s series of points race, the second phase of the three-person basketball national men’s team training is tentatively scheduled to be held in Shanghai Chongming training base and Serbia Novi Sad City in stages from April 3 to June 12. In the list of the 21th National People’s Congress of the new edition of training, many secondary vocational basketball players were selected.
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