SAndra Ygueravide has been placed at the head of the world ranking prepared by FIBA of 3×3 basketball players, which was updated last Thursday. The Spanish base commands that classification with 110,279 points. Also in the Top 10 are her teammates Aitana Cuevas (fourth, with 96,408), Marta Canella (sixth, with 89,137) and Vega Gimeno (ninth, with 75,439).
The ranking is calculated based on the nine best results in FIBA-supported events played in the last 12 months. The number of points a player earns in an event depends on the importance of the event in the competition network, the team’s results, and the player’s individual score and statistical performance. Despite failing to qualify for the Tokyo Games, the Spanish women are in the high places.
Ygueravide, 36 years old and 1.72 meters, has found in 3×3 basketball an incentive to prolong a career in which he has accumulated extensive experience in the Women’s League playing in the defunct Ros Casares, Perfumeras Avenida, Estudiantes, el Hondarribia and the also disappeared CREF Hello !. In addition, he has played in France, Russia, Turkey and Hungary.
“The 3×3 has given me life. It gave me a new life to enjoy basketball at a time when I was blocked with the 5×5. Every year, every summer that we are together has many good things. You enjoy and then it gives you freshness for the next season “, assures the Valencian player, who is at the top of a specialty that grows every year and who has had her first Olympic experience in Tokyo.
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