Antwerp win their first-ever FIBA 3x3 World Tour Masters in Debrecen

DEBRECEN (Hungary) - Antwerp (BEL) won their first-ever 3x3 World Tour Masters at the Debrecen Masters on August 28, 2022.

The Belgian squad ended Huishan NE’s four-event winning streak on the World Tour to conquer their first-ever World Tour Masters in Debrecen.

They became the first team out of Belgium to do it

Antwerp defeated the #1 team in the world in the final 22-20 on a Maurice Lacroix buzzer-beater courtesy of Thibaut Vervoort. The 24-year-old topped all scorers in the final with 9 points and was named MVP of the Debrecen Masters.

In the individual contests, Christophe Varidel  (Lausanne Sport, SUI), took home the Task Csoport Shoot-Out Contest, while Polish dunk legend Rafal "Lipek" Lipinski won the Leroy Cafe Dunk Contest. 

FINAL STANDINGS
1. Antwerp (BEL)
2. Ub Huishan NE (SRB)
3. Amsterdam HiPro (NED)
4. Marijampole Mantinga (LTU)
5. Liman Huishan NE (SRB)
6. Princeton (USA)
7. Lausanne Sport (SUI)
8. Fribourg (SUI)
9. Warsaw Lotto (POL)
10. Tartu Alexela (EST)
11. London (GBR)
12. Debrecen (HUN)
13. Los Angeles (USA)
14. Brussels (BEL)


The FIBA 3x3 World Tour will be back next weekend (September 3-4) with the Montreal Masters.

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Exciting, urban and innovative, 3x3 is inspired by several forms of streetball played worldwide and is considered the world’s number one urban team sport. Steered by FIBA, games see two teams of three players face off on a basketball half-court.

It was played successfully for the first time in international competition at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and since then has benefited from the launch of a yearly professional circuit for men and women (World Tour and Women’s Series respectively) and national-team competitions.

3x3 made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

Wilson is the Global Ball Partner. Wilson is also the Apparel Partner, Maurice Lacroix the Official Timekeeper and Chooks-to-Go the Global Partner of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2022.

FIBA 3x3 events are played on Enlio floors with Wilson balls, Schelde backstops, Bodet shot-clocks and the Magic Sky canopy system.

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