The 12th-ranked Latvian team, consisting of Aleksa Gulbe, Ketija Vihmane, Luīze Šepte and Marta Mishčenko, lost to Turkey (13th) in the first match of the qualification with a score of 8:11. Gulbe had four points, Mishchenko scored three, and Shepte – one.
Turkish women won both games and secured a place in the main tournament.
Later, the Latvians met the Ukrainian team (11th) and lost with the result 12:21. Shepte scored five points, Wichmane four, Mishchenko two and Gulbe – one.
The winners of the qualification group entered the main tournament, where the Lithuanian national team and the Dusseldorf team are already waiting in group C.
In the previous stage, which took place last week in Fribourg, Switzerland, the Latvian women fought from the qualification to the semi-finals. In Pristina, Anete Šteinberga and Marta Leimane do not start from this line-up, instead they are Luize Šepte and Marta Mishčenko.
The Latvian national team will also participate in the next stage in Bordeaux on July 19 and 20.
The FIBA 3×3 World Series calendar includes 22 rounds, as well as the final tournament in Ulaanbaatar. 34 teams have participated in the ten rounds that have already taken place.
In the World Series tournaments, the participants fight for a prize fund of 35,000 US dollars, the six first place winners receive cash bonuses, as well as FIBA rating points, which will be of great importance in distributing tickets to the Paris Olympic Games and Olympic qualification tournaments.
The Latvian women’s national team made its debut in the FIBA World Series in 2022, when different teams competed in tournaments in the French cities of Poitiers (11th place) and Bordeaux (8th place), as well as in the Romanian capital Bucharest (8th place) and the Canadian city of Montreal (10th place). place). Latvia was represented in three tournaments by Paula Strautmane and Paula Mauriņa, in two by Aleksa Gulbe, Anda Kuzmina and Anita Miķelsone, in one by Aija Jurjāne, Paula Pētersone, Ilze Jākobsone and Marta Mishčenko.
2023-07-14 16:20:04
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