Musketeers strive for medals

The silver heroines of the Plaza de la Concordia, a quartet of players (Sandra Higueravide, Vega Gimeno, Gracia Alonso de Armiño and Juana Camillón) who won an outstanding Olympic medal, the first in Spanish 3×3 basketball, In the group stage they demonstrated that they are one of the greatest forces of this modality: On Thursday morning they mercilessly crushed Azerbaijan (20-12), and in the afternoon they completed the first stage with another deserved victory over the tournament hosts Austria (20-14).

Spain controlled the match against the Azerbaijanis from the start, was not scared and confidently won against a team that, in good spirits, was also the first team they played against in the Olympic tournament. Against the Austrians, they suffered something more. They had to come back with the help of the great Higueravida and they lost Camilion due to injury. The Movistar Estudiantes player was on the court only in the early stages of the match.

After these two victories, Las Mosqueteras will face Ukraine in the quarterfinals on Saturday at 20:15. The semifinals and final will be held on Sunday. The national team is looking for its fifth continental medal: He won gold at Paris 2021 and has three silvers (Amsterdam 2017, Debrecen 2019 and Jerusalem 2023).

This Friday, the men’s team will compete, returning to the European Championships in five years.In 2019, he finished fourth in Debrecen and had unlucky in the draw as they will face Germany (Friday, 13:15) and Serbia (also Friday, 16:50).the great dominant of men’s 3×3 basketball. If it ends up in the top two, the team’s opponent (consisting of Carlos Martinez, Ivan Aurrecoechea, Diego de Blas and Unai Mendicote) will advance to the quarterfinals from the group of the Netherlands (Olympic champion), Austria and Azerbaijan.

Here are the results of the first day:

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GROUP A: France 14-Italy 10

GROUP A: Italy 11-Ukraine 15

GROUP A: France 17-Ukraine 11

GROUP C: Spain 20-Azerbaijan 12

GROUP C: Azerbaijan 7-Austria 21

GROUP C: Spain. 20-Austria 14

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GROUP B: Swiss 21-Lithuania 19

GROUP B: Lithuania 17-Croatia 14

GROUP D: France 22-UK 14

GROUP D: Latvia 20-United Kingdom 21

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