Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 3x3 tournament facts for kids

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Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 3x3 tournament

Tournament details
Host country	France
City	Paris
Dates	30 July – 5 August
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (1st title)
Runners-up	France
Third place	Lithuania
Fourth place	Latvia
Tournament statistics
MVP	Worthy de Jong
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The 2024 Summer Olympics men's 3x3 basketball tournament in Paris, France, began on 30 July and ended on 5 August 2024. All games were played at the Place de la Concorde. It was the second time the 3x3 basketball men's event was held at the Olympic Games.

The Netherlands defeated France 18–17 in a closely contested final to win the gold medal, while France took home the silver in front of a home crowd. In the battle for bronze, Lithuania overcame Latvia, who were the top seed from the pool stage, to secure the third-place finish.

Competition format

The eight teams played a round robin. The teams placed first and second qualified for the semifinals. The teams three to six played a playoff. After that, a knockout system was used. Additionally, the games could be won in two ways: by being the first team to score 21 points or having the highest score through 10 minutes.

Qualification

Eight teams participated in the men's basketball tournament, with each National Olympic Committee (NOC) sending a roster of three players and a substitute. The qualification process consisted of four phases one based in the FIBA ranking list and three olympic qualifiers:

• The first phase gave three quota places to the highest ranked NOCs on the FIBA ranking list of 1 November. However, not more than two NOCs from a continent could qualify in this phase. Also a quota place was guaranteed to the host nation for only one of the 3x3 events which was given to the women's 3x3 tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
• The second phase consisted of the first of three FIBA Universality-driven Olympic tournament where one quota place was awarded to the highest positioned NOC were the seven highest ranked NOCs that have not been qualified yet as well as France (for being the host nation) participated.
• The third phase was an Olympic tournament which awarded one place to the highest positioned team were the highest placed NOC's of each continental tournament and the hosts of both the tournament and the olympics, if not qualified, participated.
• The fourth phase saw the sixteen highest-ranked eligible NOCs based on the FIBA global standings, including the tournament host and host nation France, if not yet qualified, participated in another Olympic qualifier with the top three securing the remaining berths for Paris 2024.

Qualification method	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified team
Host nation	N/A	N/A	0	N/A
FIBA 3x3 World Ranking	1 November 2023	N/A	3	Serbia  United States  China
2024 FIBA Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament 1	12–14 April 2024	Hong Kong	1	Latvia
2024 FIBA Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2	3–5 May 2024	Utsunomiya	1	Netherlands
2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament	16–19 May 2024	Debrecen	3	France  Lithuania  Poland
Total			8

Competition schedule

Rosters

Team	Players
Serbia	Marko Branković	Strahinja Stojačić	Dejan Majstorović	Mihailo Vasić
United States	Jimmer Fredette	Canyon Barry	Kareem Maddox	Dylan Travis
Lithuania	Šarūnas Vingelis	Gintautas Matulis	Aurelijus Pukelis	Evaldas Džiaugys
China	Zhang Ning	Lu Wenbo	Zhao Jiaren	Zhu Yuanbo
Netherlands	Jan Driessen	Dimeo van der Horst	Arvin Slagter	Worthy de Jong
France	Lucas Dussoulier	Timothé Vergiat	Jules Rambaut	Franck Seguela
Latvia	Nauris Miezis	Kārlis Lasmanis	Francis Lācis	Zigmārs Raimo
Poland	Filip Matczak	Michał Sokołowski	Przemysław Zamojski	Adrian Bogucki

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.

Pool

Standings

Results

All times are local (UTC+2).

30 July 2024 18:35 v

Latvia	21–14	Lithuania
Pts: Miezis 9		Pts: Pukelis 8

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Marek Maliszewski (POL), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

30 July 2024 19:05 v

China	16–21	Netherlands
Pts: Zhang 7		Pts: De Jong 9

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Najib Chajiddine (FRA)

30 July 2024 22:05 v

Poland	19–21	France
Pts: Bogucki, Zamojski 6		Pts: Dussoulier 9

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

30 July 2024 22:35 v

Serbia	22–14	United States
Pts: Branković 8		Pts: Maddox 6

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU), Edmond Ho (HKG)

31 July 2024 18:35 v

Latvia	21–12	Netherlands
Pts: Lasmanis 8		Pts: De Jong 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN), Deanna Jackson (USA)

31 July 2024 19:05 v

Serbia	15–21	China
Pts: Majstorović 7		Pts: Zhang 11

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Dorothy Okatch (BOT)

31 July 2024 22:05 v

Lithuania	20–21	France
Pts: Džiaugys, Pukelis 7		Pts: Rambaut 9

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Shi Qirong (CHN)

31 July 2024 22:35 v

United States	17–19	Poland
Pts: Barry, Travis 6		Pts: Bogucki 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Jasmina Juras (SRB), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

1 August 2024 10:05 v

Netherlands	19–21	Serbia
Pts: Van der Horst, De Jong 8		Pts: Branković 9

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN)

1 August 2024 10:35 v

China	8–22	Latvia
Pts: Zhang 6		Pts: Lācis 8

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Deanna Jackson (USA), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

1 August 2024 13:25 v

Lithuania	21–12	Poland
Pts: Džiaugys 10		Pts: Bogucki 6

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Deanna Jackson (USA)

1 August 2024 14:05 v

Netherlands	20–13	France
Pts: van der Horst 8		Pts: Dussoulier 6

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Jasmina Juras (SRB), Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN)

1 August 2024 19:05 v

United States	18–20	Lithuania
Pts: Barry 9		Pts: Pukelis 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Najib Chajiddine (FRA)

1 August 2024 19:35 v

China	17–22	Poland
Pts: Zhang 9		Pts: Zamojski 9

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Najib Chajiddine (FRA), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

1 August 2024 22:35 v

Serbia	19–16	France
Pts: Majstorović 9		Pts: Seguela 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Marek Maliszewski (POL)

1 August 2024 23:05 v

United States	19–21	Latvia
Pts: Barry 10		Pts: Miezis 10

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Najib Chajiddine (FRA), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

2 August 2024 10:05 v

Lithuania	21–16	China
Pts: Džiaugys 9		Pts: Zhao 6

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Marek Maliszewski (POL), Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN)

2 August 2024 10:35 v

Poland	17–21	Netherlands
Pts: Zamojski 8		Pts: three players 6

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Deanna Jackson (USA), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

2 August 2024 13:25 v

Netherlands	19–18	Lithuania
Pts: De Jong 6		Pts: Pukelis 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Deanna Jackson (USA), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

2 August 2024 14:05 v

France	20–22	Latvia
Pts: Seguela 10		Pts: Miezis 10

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN), Marek Maliszewski (POL)

2 August 2024 18:35 v

France	19–21	United States
Pts: Seguela 7		Pts: Barry 16

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Shi Qirong (CHN), Edmond Ho (HKG)

2 August 2024 19:05 v

Latvia	21–14	Serbia
Pts: Lācis, Lasmanis 8		Pts: Majstorović 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

2 August 2024 22:05 v

Serbia	21–12	Poland
Pts: Majstorović 7		Pts: Bogucki 6

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Najib Chajiddine (FRA)

2 August 2024 22:35 v

China	17–21	United States
Pts: Zhao 9		Pts: Barry 14

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Kim Ga-in (KOR), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

4 August 2024 17:30 v

France	21–12	China
Pts: Dussoulier, Rambaut 6		Pts: Zhang 4

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Jasmina Juras (SRB), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

4 August 2024 18:00 v

Poland	16–22	Latvia
Pts: Sokołowski 6		Pts: Miezis 13

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN), Edmond Ho (HKG)

4 August 2024 18:35 v

Lithuania	20–18	Serbia
Pts: Pukelis 10		Pts: Majstorović 10

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU)

4 August 2024 19:05 v

United States	6–21	Netherlands
Pts: three players 2		Pts: De Jong 11

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Edmond Ho (HKG), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Play-in				Semifinals				Gold medal
					5 August
					Latvia	14
	4 August
					France	21
	Serbia	19
									5 August
	France	22
									France	17
									Netherlands (OT)	18
					5 August
					Netherlands	20
	4 August
					Lithuania	9			Bronze medal
	Lithuania	21
									5 August
	Poland	15
									Latvia	18
									Lithuania	21

Play-in

4 August 2024 21:30 v

Lithuania	21–15	Poland
Pts: Džiaugys, Vingelis 9		Pts: Sokołowski 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Jasmina Juras (SRB), Najib Chajiddine (FRA)

4 August 2024 22:05 v

Serbia	19–22	France
Pts: Stojačić 8		Pts: Rambaut 8

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU), Deanna Jackson (USA)

Semifinals

5 August 2024 18:00 v

Netherlands	20–9	Lithuania
Pts: De Jong 8		Pts: Pukelis 4

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Deanna Jackson (USA)

5 August 2024 19:00 v

Latvia	14–21	France
Pts: Lasmanis 11		Pts: Dussoulier 9

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Brigitta Csabai-Kaskötő (HUN), Edmond Ho (HKG)

Bronze medal game

5 August 2024 21:30 v

Latvia	18–21	Lithuania
Pts: Lasmanis 9		Pts: Vingelis 9

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Markos Michaelides (SUI), Deanna Jackson (USA)

Gold medal game

5 August 2024 22:30 v

France	17–18	Netherlands	OT
Pts: Dussoulier, Seguela 5		Pts: De Jong 7

Place de la Concorde, Paris Referees: Vlad Ghizdareanu (ROU), Jasmina Juras (SRB)

Final ranking

Statistics and awards

Points leaders

Rank	Name	Points
1	Kārlis Lasmanis	67
2	Worthy de Jong	65
3	Aurelijus Pukelis	63
4	Nauris Miezis	59
	Canyon Barry

Awards

The awards were announced on 7 August 2024.

All-Star team
Worthy de Jong
Lucas Dussoulier
Aurelijus Pukelis
MVP
Worthy de Jong