FIBA Basketball

    Dunk and Shoot-Out contests start today

    On Saturday, one of the most awaited events of the FIBA 3x3 World Championship gets underway: the Dunk contest. Twelve players are set to take part in the qualification round, with get begins at 21:00 local time (CET +1) on court one, with the four best moving on to the Semi-Final round. 1 Ribal Bichara, Lebanon 2 Myles Eduard Hesson, England 3 ...

    On Saturday, one of the most awaited events of the FIBA 3x3 World Championship gets underway: the Dunk contest.

    Twelve players are set to take part in the qualification round, with get begins at 21:00 local time (CET +1) on court one, with the four best moving on to the Semi-Final round.

    1 Ribal Bichara, Lebanon
    2 Myles Eduard Hesson, England
    3 Meredis Houmounou, France
    4 Georgios Bogris, Greece
    5 Eric Santos, Guam
    6 Ira Brown, USA
    7 Vlaicu Catalin, Romania
    8 Ilya Syrovatko, Russia
    9 Georgi Bojanov, Bulgaria
    10 Gurur    Baybora, Turkey
    11 Carlos Junior, Brazil
    12 Deivi Añanguren Madriz, Venezuela

    The qualification round of the (mixed) Shoot-Out contest also takes place today, with 59 players from all 32 participating countries taking part.

    The qualification round for the Shoot-Out contest begins at 20:40 local time and will be played on courts 1 and 2.

    A detailed explanation of the rules and system of competition is available here.