PPC supports basketball in all its forms
With 878 athletes of all ages completed for 2024 3×3 PPC Street Basketball, which was organized by Hellenic Basketball Federation (EEC) and the PPC for the 2nd consecutive year and surpassed last year’s entries by 65%. Starting him off Aprilthe 3×3 PPC Street Basketball traveled to 6 cities her Greecewhere 342 matches were held, and recently closed the season at Katerini beach with the final tournament.
For 2024, the basketball appointment was given to LAmia, Argos, Messolonghi, Larissa, Tripoli and Kateriniwhere the squares were transformed on 3×3 courts open to all, full energy from the PPCand musicsmiles, applause for all participants. A total of 224 teams from Greece and abroad competed for 6,840 minutesin the categories U14 Men, U16 Men, U18 Men, +18 Men, +18 Women.
3×3: from the streets to the Olympics
The 3×3 is the most popular team “street sport” in the world and is played with two opposing teams of three players, in one basketball, in half the court. The winner is the team that leads at the end of ten minutes of play or the team that reaches 21 points first.
Globally, 3×3 was played in stadiums and gyms all over the world. Since the 1990s, 3×3 basketball tournaments and the standardization of its rules have been started, mainly from the USA. In 2010, he appeared for the first time in international competitions at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, where Greece had also taken part. Today FIBA ​​organizes an annual 3×3 World Tour, World and Continental Cups. It became an Olympic sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where the men’s gold medal was won by Latvia and the women’s by the USA.
Greece has 3×3 Men’s, Women’s, U23, U21 and U17 National Teams. 3×3 is constantly rising as can be seen from the response of athletes, associations, the wider sports public, as well as from the rise of the country and our National Teams in the FIBA ​​ranking. This is also certified by the recent qualification of the U23 Women’s National Team to the 3×3 World Cup.
PPC supports basketball in all its forms
PPC, as an integral part of the country’s social fabric, actively supports talent, passion and noble competition. In this context, PPC continues its cooperation with the Hellenic Basketball Federation (EEC) and actively supports basketball in all its forms.
With the aim of developing 3×3 in Greece, PPC and EEC organize, in addition to 3×3 PPC Street Basketballand 3×3 Schools powered by PPC which gives the opportunity to students from all over Greece to get to know the sport that was found “from the streets to the Olympics”, but also to include it spirit of sportsmanship and teamwork in their lives, for physical, mental and social constitutiondevelopment of confidenceof critical thinking, of discipline and cultivating the ability to manage victory and defeat.
Furthermore, PPC, as the gold sponsor of the Pre-Olympic basketball tournament 2024 at SEF, an event of global interest that was hosted again in Greece after 16 yearsorganized in collaboration with the EEC parallel actions inside and outside the field.
End, PPC supports the National Men’s Basketball Team throughout its journey to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as its official sponsor.
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Source: Skai
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