“3×3 Madona” with Mika Kalniņš, Ivars Ikstens, Jurģis Eglītis and Zigmārs Raimo won in all seven games.
The strongest resistance was shown by the RSU team, which the Madonians won in the first (12: 9) and last fight in the final – 18:13.
RSU won its other battles, finishing second to Edgars Lācis, Albert Putan, Ginter Ansim Blumberg and Riihards Ginter.
In the semi-final “3×3 Madona” beat LU with 19:15, but RSU defeated “Mārupe” (22:18).
In the women’s tournament in the final match, the Latvian national team – Baiba Eglīte, Kristīna Petermane, Liene Stalidzāne and Rūta Stiprā – defeated the Latvian 3×3 basketball U-18 team with 21: 9, in the ranks of which Pauls Mauriņš, Juta Harčenko, Kristiāna Kulačkovska and Pauls Cirša played.
Eglīte, Petermane and Stalīdzāne won the bronze medal of last year’s European Cup.
The Latvian 3×3 Basketball League tournament series will take place from July to May. Six selection stages are planned in Ventspils, Saldus, Rēzekne, Liepāja, Ogre and Jelgava, as well as eight stages of the main tournament and the final stage in the shopping center “Akropole”.
The final tournament will feature the title of Latvian champion, a paid trip to an international FIBA 3×3 tournament and a technical funding prize that the team will be able to use for international trips. During the final tournament, the best long-range performer and the most skillful player will be determined.
In June, LBS informed that it had developed a 3×3 basketball development plan “Paris 2024”, the aim of which is to provide Latvian basketball players with growth opportunities and succession, promoting the achievement of the highest places in international competitions and winning Olympic medals.
A number of projects will be implemented under Paris 2024. One of them – the creation of a professional 3×3 basketball league – started already this summer. The tasks of “Top Gun” are to promote players’ involvement in 3×3 basketball tournaments, competition and mass, to facilitate the preparation of national team candidates and to ensure the selection of national team players, as well as to ensure the accumulation of FIBA 3X3 rating points during the winter.
The participants of the tournament will be team players of municipal professional sports education institutions, sports clubs founded by legal entities, associations and general education institutions who have reached the age of 18, coaches, official representatives, referees, as well as 3×3 basketball administration.
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