The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) 3×3 Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament (UOQT) will take place in Budapest from April 24 to 26, it has been announced.
The event will be organised by the Hungarian Basketball Federation (MKOSZ) and award the last ticket per gender to the 3×3 basketball tournament at the Olympic Game in Tokyo.
Only countries who have not been represented in either the men’s or women’s basketball tournaments in the past two editions of the Olympic Games are eligible.
The highest-ranked countries who have not yet qualified for Tokyo 2020 will go to Hungary.
All six teams in both genders, except Hungary’s men, will also compete at the OQT in India in March.
The five other men’s teams are LATVIA, MONGOLIA, THE NETHERLANDS, POLAND and Slovenia, while the six women’s sides are CHINESE TAIPEI, HUNGARY, IRAN, ITALY, JAPAN and THE NETHERLANDS.
In case one or several of them qualify to the Olympics during that first OQT, a wait list has been determined with the three potential replacements in both genders.
BELGIUM, ROMANIA and Ukraine feature on the men’s wait list, while ESTONIA, GERMANY and UKRAINE make up the women’s wait list.
Hungary has staged multiple FIBA 3×3 events since 2015, including the Europe Cup, the Under-18 World Cup and the World Tour in Debrecen.
The discipline of 3×3 basketball will make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, where eight-team tournaments will be held for men and women.
