ANTALYA (Turkiye) – SL Benfica have been one of the feel good teams of the Basketball Champions League over the past two seasons, and they are one step away from making it three straight Regular Season appearances after defeating Rilski Sportist in the Semi-Finals of the Qualification Rounds. It was a dramatic finish to the...
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FIBA Open welcomes all
MIES (Switzerland) – The 7th edition of the FIBA Open took place at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies over the weekend of 4 and 5 September. 140 teams took part in the biggest grassroots 3×3 basketball tournament in Switzerland that hosted players from 2 to 60 years of age. The FIBA Foundation’s...
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St. Vincent’s Vonovier helps coach Switzerland to bronze at FIBA EuroBasket 2024
This story first appeared on athletics.stvincent.edu. LATROBE, PA — Julien Vonovier, a junior majoring in sports management with a minor in data analytics at Saint Vincent College, put his classroom lessons to work this past summer as an assistant coach for Switzerland’s U16 basketball national team. Switzerland finished third in Division B of the International Basketball Federation...
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Swiss take double Paralympic gold in wheelchair marathon as Games close
Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands secured back-to-back women’s wheelchair basketball titles, denying the United States on the final day of competition. China finished top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics since Athens in 2004. They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49...
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Paris 2024 Paralympics: Swiss double in wheelchair marathons, Dutch women retain basketball title
Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands secured back-to-back women’s wheelchair basketball titles, denying the USA on the final day of competition. China finished top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics since Athens in 2004. It had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49 and...
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Swiss double in Paralympic wheelchair marathons, Dutch women retain basketball title
Paris: Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands secured back-to-back women’s wheelchair basketball titles, denying the USA on the final day of competition. China finished top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics since Athens in 2004. They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49...
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Paris Paralympics close with a party after ‘historic summer’
Chief Paris 2024 organiser Tony Estanguet said the Olympics and Paralympics had created a “historic summer” (JULIEN DE ROSA) The Paralympics closed on Sunday with a giant music-fuelled party as chief Paris 2024 organiser Tony Estanguet said the Games and the Olympics had created a “historic summer”. The Paralympic flame and cauldron were extinguished before...
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Deacs Defeat Swiss National Team, 52-41 – Wake Forest University Athletics
ATHENS, Greece – The Wake Forest women’s basketball team is coming home with a perfect 3-0 mark after defeating the Swiss National Team, 52-41, Friday afternoon in Athens, Greece. For the second consecutive game, the Demon Deacons leaned on its strong defense. They set the tone early in the game, limiting the Swiss to...
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Swiss beat Americans Hughes, Cheng in Olympic beach volleyball; German, Swedish men advance to semis
PARIS (AP) — No more American women left in the beach volleyball field at the Paris Games. No more hope of the U.S. women bringing a gold medal back to the sport’s birthplace for the fifth time in six Olympics. Switzerland ousted Americans Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes on Tuesday night, a day after the...
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Bulgaria hold off Switzerland; hosts North Macedonia also make last four
SKOPJE (North Macedonia) – The final four teams are locked in at the 2024 FIBA U18 EuroBasket, Division B after Bulgaria, Austria, Poland and hosts North Macedonia all won their respective Quarter-Finals. The most tense game rounded out Friday’s action as Bulgaria got off to a great start against Switzerland with their 20-point cushion at...
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Russell Jones Jr. is Headed to Switzerland – Western Carolina University
Story Links Cullowhee, N.C. – Former Catamount men’s basketball standout Russell Jones Jr., who completed his senior collegiate season at Western Carolina in 2024, becomes the second player from last year’s team to sign an international contract to play professionally. Jones Jr. signed with Union Neuchatel Basket in the Swiss Basketball...
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Swiss Super League Champions select WSC Sports
Reigning Swiss Super League champions, BSC Young Boys, has become the latest football club to partner with WSC Sports to power, scale, and innovate their digital content strategy and deepen their relationship with fans. The multi-year agreement will see BSC Young Boys benefit from WSC Sports’ AI-powered content solution, enhancing its production capabilities and enabling...