MIES, Switzerland - There's more than one way to be a part of international basketball action as 2016 showed with three million new fans following FIBA and its competitions on social media.

If fans could not manage to go to games, they were able to watch as many as 1,200 online thanks to FIBA livestreaming on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

The fan engagement has never been as high on FIBA's digital platforms thanks to 116 event websites and 43 social media accounts in a total of 11 different languages (English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Serbia, Italian, Czech, Turkish, Finnish, Hebrew and Romanian).

Check out the numbers that helped FIBA be the most mentioned International Sport Federation in #Rio2016 tweets, the second most followed International Sport Federation and the third most followed International Olympic Organization.

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About FIBA
FIBA (fiba.com) - the world governing body for basketball - is an independent association formed by 213 National Basketball Federations throughout the world. It is recognised as the sole competent authority in basketball by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
 
For further information about FIBA visit fiba.com or follow FIBA on facebook.com/fiba, twitter.com/fiba, instagram.com/fiba and youtube.com/fiba.