Basketball
Switzerland in the 3×3 World Cup semi-finals
The Swiss victory over Latvia on Saturday allows them to challenge Serbia, a double title holder.
The Friborg player Natan Jurkovitz (illustration photo).
KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott
The Swiss team Gentlemen is a success of a medal in the 3×3 World Cup! Winning 21-15 of Latvia on Saturday in the quarter-final, she will challenge Serbia, double title holder, in the semi-finals on Sunday (from 12 noon Swiss time) in Ulan-Bator.
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Winners of their hen in front of the Netherlands, which aligned three Olympic champions from Paris 2024, the two Jonathan (Dubas and Kazadi) and the brothers Jurkovitz (Natan and Thomas) created a new surprise by released Latvia. They scored the last 8 points of the match.
The Swiss chances seemed minimal at the end of the end when a 4-point action by Karlis Lasmanis, one of the two Olympic champions of Tokyo 2021 aligned by Latvia in Mongolia, allowed the Balts to take the advantage 15-13. Switzerland had just taken a partial 6-1.
The “Money Time”
But the Swiss quartet has mastered its subject in the “Money Time”. Thomas Jurkovitz put his team back on the right rails by succeeding in his third basket awarded 1’41 from the “buzzer” (16-15). And his older brother concluded the work with a 2/2 at the launch-franc then an improbable basket at 2 points armed 20”8 from the end.
Switzerland appears for the first time in the last square of a 3×3 World Cup. The Helvetians will therefore define Serbia in the semi-finals, which evolves with three double reigning world champions (Marko Brankovic, Dejan Majstorovic and the world No. 1 Strahinja Stojacic). The final is scheduled for Sunday at 2:25 p.m., the bronze match from 1:25 p.m.
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