Riga World Champion in Basketball 3×3

Dirija’s second season captain Mai Al-Khilabi crowned the Latvian Riga team with the title of the 3×3 Basketball World Championship, which ended yesterday in historic Dirija as part of Dirija’s activities. Season 2022, in the presence of a large audience of visitors and tri-basketball fans from the kingdom and beyond. The Riga team won the championship title, organized by the Ministry of Sports in cooperation with the Saudi Basketball Federation and under the control of the International Basketball Federation FIBA, after defeating the Serbian team Yobe (21-19) in the final match; He won first prize with $40,000 and second place received $30,000, in addition to the tournament’s best player prize, which was won by Riga team player Carles Lasmanes. The top 14 teams in international play competed in the three-way Basketball World Tour in Diria, which features a large number of the world’s top game stars as the Kingdom was represented by Jeddah and Riyadh, along with the Riga team from Latvia, the Belgian team Antop, the Serbian Yubi and The American Omaha and St. Louis Ballislav, Austrian Wien, Dutch Utrecht, Japanese team Okayama, as well as Lusail DAS and Doha QSC teams from Qatar. The tournament, which was held for two days as part of the events of the Diria Season in the second edition, included a package of various entertainment and artistic activities accompanying it in the Diria Sports Village and FIBA ​​3×3 Village, and provided an opportunity for tournament visitors from the kingdom and beyond to enjoy the excitement and competition during the matches, in addition to different experiences, as well as a special atmosphere created by events, games, interactive activities and many surprises.