Xiamen Net News (our reporter Lian Qian, correspondent Wu Jianghui and Weng Yingying) On November 22, the Xiamen 2024 FISU College Student 3×3 Basketball World Cup opened at the Xiamen campus of Huaqiao University. The event attracted a total of 24 teams from five continents around the world.
In the first game, Huaqiao University played against the American University in Cairo. Photo courtesy of Huaqiao University
This tournament will last for three days. From the 22nd to the 25th, the group stage, quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals and shooting competition will be held. The closing ceremony and award ceremony of the competition will be held on the evening of November 24th. According to the FISU World Cup team selection rules, the qualifying competitions for this event have been held in five continents around the world, with a total of 12 participating teams from each of the five continents in men’s and women’s basketball. The men’s team of Guangdong University of Technology and the women’s team of Yunnan Normal University, which won this year’s Asian University Sports Federation three-on-three basketball championship, automatically qualified for the World Cup. At the same time, our country, as the host, selected the men’s team of Huaqiao University and the women’s team of Tsinghua University to participate.
Hua University students gave a twenty-four seasonal drum performance. Photo courtesy of Huaqiao University
At the opening ceremony held that day, Martin Dalton, Chief Executive Committee of the International University Sports Federation, represented the International University Sports Federation to the organizing committee of this event, the host Huaqiao University, the China Student Sports Federation and important partners of the event. etc. express thanks. He pointed out that the hosting of this event once again demonstrated the ability of university sports to break cultural boundaries and expand global sports development.
Since 2015, Huaqiao University has hosted this event for five consecutive years. Wu Jianping, president of Huaqiao University, said that Huaqiao University will work with relevant parties to provide services as always and strive to make this event a safe, exciting and successful sports event. We look forward to young friends from all over the world showing their style and striving for success on the field, deepening exchanges and harvesting friendships off the field, and appreciating and sharing the vigorous scene of Chinese modernization off the field.
Teng Lianshuai, deputy secretary-general of the Joint Secretariat of the Student Sports Association of the Ministry of Education, hopes that players from all countries will take the competition as an opportunity to surpass themselves, achieve great results, make friends with the ball, deepen exchanges, and contribute their youthful energy to promote mutual learning and peaceful development of world civilizations.
It is reported that the FISU College 3×3 Basketball World Cup was originally called the “World College 3×3 Basketball League”, and the first competition was held in 2015. Since 2016, the International University Sports Federation has been committed to the in-depth development of three-on-three basketball projects, and has established five competition regions in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania around the world, aiming to promote the development of college basketball on a global scale and enhance the The friendship between college athletes from various countries and regions improves the physical health of young people around the world. At present, the FISU College 3×3 Basketball World Cup has become the top three-on-three basketball event in the world, second only to the Olympic Games and the FIBA Masters, officially certified by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). It is deeply favored by college students from all over the world. and participation.
