{"id":224978,"date":"2025-06-29T21:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224978\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:34:22","slug":"fiba-3x3-world-cup-2025-spain-and-the-netherlands-crowned-mens-and-womens-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224978\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA 3&#215;3 World Cup 2025: Spain and the Netherlands crowned men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain powered past Switzerland with a 21-17 win for their maiden men\u2019s title at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/3x3-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/3x3-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">x3 basketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/3x3-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> World Cup 2025 in<\/strong> Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sunday (29 June).<\/p>\n<p>The match was a tight affair in the opening salvos before Spain got their noses in front to take a three-point lead (5-2).<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss closed the gap to get within one point, but the Spanish, led by <strong>Diego De Blas<\/strong>, powered back to extend their lead to six.<\/p>\n<p>Spain held off a late charge by Switzerland in the dying minutes of the match as they got within two points (18-16). De Blas contributed 12 points to his team\u2019s score.<\/p>\n<p>Six-time champions Serbia were stopped in their tracks in the semi-finals by a rampant Switzerland. The Swiss team steamrolled the defending champions with a 21-11 rout in the semi-final to march into their maiden final.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia walked away with the bronze medal as a consolation prize as they wiped out a five-point deficit for a 21-16 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain powered past Switzerland with a 21-17 win for their maiden men\u2019s title at the 3&#215;3 basketball World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-224978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114768803485098276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}