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FIBA.basketball Lipik marks return of 3x3 Challenger season LIPIK (Croatia) - The wait is over. For the first time since October 2019, the 3x3 Challengers are back, beginning action in Lipik, Croatia, May 21-22. Lipik has been a home away from home for 3x3, hosting a Challenger each year since 2016. At 2019s event, Vrbas (now Ub) were crowned champions. While they wont be in this years tournament, their Serbian compatriots are primed to continue the countrys winning ways. Novi Sad, to no surpri...

FIBA.basketball ULE 3x3 heating up heading into Stop 3 ST PETERSBURG (Russia) - After two star-studded stops in Russia, the ULE 3x3 returns this week, April 14-15 in the last event before the finals. At Stop 2, Team NL, coming in hot after their Doha Masters win, took home the title behind an MVP performance from Jessey Voorn. The number 4 seeded team won 4 of their 5 games, including wins against Riga, and finally Novi Sad in a rematch of the Doha Masters 2021 final.   th ranked player in th...

FIBA.basketball No.1 3x3 team Liman are stronger after last seasons heartbreak LIMAN (Serbia) - World number one Liman returned to the site of a nightmare but emerged from the World Tour season opener Doha Masters with their reputation further enhanced. The sensational Serbs were back in Qatar just four months after one of the most heartbreaking losses ever seen on the World Tour. In a classic final against Riga, Liman were up 20-15 and on the brink of a third Masters title in a shortened 2020...

FIBA.basketball 3x3 teams that could win a Masters for the first time in 2021 MIES (Switzerland) - 2020 saw the dominance of Novi Sad end and the emergence of the Liman-Riga two-headed monster. Heading into 2021, it’s a new year with major changes. Players and teams are returning, while the breakup of Novi Sad has shifted the balance up and down the rankings. Lets take a closer look at some of the teams that are ready to make a move and win their first Masters title in 2021. Ub (Team Ranking...

FIBA.basketball Whos next? A look at the 3x3 landscape after Novi Sad NOVI SAD (Serbia) - Since the beginning of the World Tour in 2012, Novi Sad have had unprecedented success. Four World Tour titles and more Masters wins than any other team. Its been a joy watching them take on the worlds best, and time again come up victorious. Now that they have split up, the next generation of 3x3 teams are ready to dominate.  Here are the 5 teams that can step out of Novi Sads shadow and take the mantl...

Judo champion Agbegnenou visits Sidra Medicine  18 Jan 2021 - 10:19 Clarisse Agbegnenou (third right), with CEO of Sidra Medicine, Dr. Barbro Friden, Acting Chief Medical Officer Prof. Ziyad M. Hijazi, and other officials. The Peninsula Doha: Sidra Medicine was honoured to welcome, Clarisse Agbegnenou, a world judo champion and French sportswoman, on a tour of its hospital. Agbegnenou who was in Qatar for the International Judo Federation (IJF) Doha Masters 2021, was at Sidra Medicine as par...

Irans exiled judoka keeps fighting on Reporters notebook: Joining Saeid Mollaei during training offered a glimpse into the struggles of the man who fled his country after he refusing to throw a fight to avoid competing against the Israeli who is now a firm friend Oren Aharoni | Published: 01.17.21 , 15:05 I was at the Doha Masters judo tournament in the Qatari capital when a photo of the event I posted on Instagram received a like from Saeid Mollaei, the former Iranian judoka who had fled hi...

Sports January 14, 2021 KARACHI: Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF) plans to send Olympian judoka Shah Hussain to Budapest, Hungary, in March for three months training during which he will also feature in Olympic qualifying events. “Yes, we have planned to send Shah to Budapest, Hungary, in March for three months training. We chose Hungary because it has the International Judo Federation (IJF) headquarters. It has the best academy where fighters from across the world train,” PJF vice-president...

Games favourite Agbegnenou bags gold medal, hails Qatar  13 Jan 2021 - 9:49 Clarisse Agbegnenou (in white) competes with Nami Nabekura during their womens under 63 final yesterday. PICTURES: IJF Fawad Hussain/ The Peninsula Eyeing the Tokyo Olympic Games, French World No.1 Clarisse Agbegnenou could not have asked for a better start to the new season as she clinched gold medal at the IJF World Judo Masters Doha 2021 that has brought together the best athletes on the planet.  The reigning Eur...

Top judokas eye Olympic berths in Doha  11 Jan 2021 - 9:02 The Peninsula Doha: Since the resumption of the World Judo Tour at Grand Slam Hungary, last October, the judo world had been eagerly waiting for the launch of the new season. With the Doha World Judo Masters which begins today, this has been made possible, thanks to Qatar. The draw for Doha World Judo Masters – the 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualifying event -- took place at the Lusail Multipurpose Hall yesterday. With tight regulations i...