Basketball

MIES (Switzerland) – The playing field is now set for the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022, with the completion of the Qualifying Tournaments.The following twelve countries will compete in Sydney, Australia at the Women’s Basketball World Cup:AustraliaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaCanadaChinaFranceJapanKoreaNigeriaRussiaSerbiaUSAThe four FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 Qualifying Tournaments tipped off in Osaka, Washington DC, and Belgrade on February 10, with five days of on-court action and ...

DAKAR (Senegal) – The Basketball Africa League (BAL) today announced the top 12 club teams from 12 African countries that will compete in the 2022 BAL season, which will tip-off March 5 at the Dakar Arena in Dakar, Senegal, and will include stops in Cairo, Egypt and Kigali, Rwanda.  In the season opener, Senegal’s Dakar Universite Club (DUC) will take on ...

FEBRUARY 2, 2022 MIES (Switzerland) – FIBA’s Executive Committee convened by video conference today for their first meeting of 2022. The meeting came on the eve of a busy month with two important world cup qualifying events in February – the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 Qualifying Tournaments and the second window of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 ...

PESHAWAR: Tarkha club named the trophy of district inter club basketball championship. In the final match Tarkha club smashed its opponent Daag Ismail Khel club by 48-37 points. Member Provincial Assembly Somi Falak Niaz and Additional Dupty Commissioner Noor Wali Khan were cheif guest of the mega event who distrebuted cash and trophies among the winner and runner up players. ...

Talking to media, Secretary General of the Federation Sheikh Mazhar Ahmed said that due to Corona virus, there are no sports activities in Pakistan and the government is not organizing training camps. This year Pakistan’s youth baseball teams are participating in the Under-12 and Under-18 Asian Baseball Championships. Due to lack of training of players, the Chairman of the Federation ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has agreed to grant additional time to the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) to finish verifying the eligibility of all 4.0 and 4.5 sport class players set to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Since January 2020, when the IPC declared the IWBF non-compliant with the 2015 IPC Athlete Classification Code, the global governing ...

Syed Fakhar Ali Shah, President Pakistan Federation Baseball, while talking to media said that baseball is becoming one of the most popular sports in Pakistan. Baseball is being played at school, college and university level in Pakistan. Pakistan’s youth teams of various age categories are regularly participating in international competitions, including U-12, U-15 and U-18 teams. In the Under-15 Asian ...

33rd National Games-Army wins 33rd National Games Quaid-e-Azam trophy, KP take fairplay trophy By Ijaz Ahmad PESHAWAR, Nov 16 : Pakistan Army clinched the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for the 24th times when its secured 7909 points with 150 gold medals, 134 silver and 96 bronze medals and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa awarded fairplay trophy of the 33rd National Games which concluded after a colourful ...

MIES (Switzerland) – The FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by NIKE has been updated after the conclusion of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, with USA maintaining their top-ranked status but the newly-crowned World Cup champions Spain closing in the gap. There was significant movement at the top end of the ranking, with Australia (673.6) climbing to third place and ...

Spain beat Argentina 95-75 to win the Basketball World Cup in Beijing, their first title for 13 years. The Spaniards scored 14 of the first 16 points and never lost their lead to the 2004 Olympic champions. Phoenix Suns point guard and tournament MVP Ricky Rubio managed 20 points and three assists, while NBA champion and Toronto Raptors’ Marc Gasol ...