Moore. “We have a lot of hard workers on our team, and we played together. Unfortunately, we came up a little short and empty handed. This was a very good learning experience for our team and our guys that we can bring home for the rest of the 3x3 and teach the rest of the country how the game is played on a world stage. Hopefully we can do better next time.”
The USA women
advanced to the World Championship final after handing Belgium its first loss of the competi- tion, 18-14, in the semifinals. While the Americans led from nearly start to finish, the game was tied at 13-all with just over a minute to play before the USA put together a 5-1 run to close out the win.
In the champi-
onship contest, the Americans trailed 1-0 in the first minute before outscoring host Russia 7-2 to lead 8-3 with 4:33 remaining. Russia called a time- out but it had no change in the momen- tum as the USA’s lead never diminished.
“It just keeps
getting sweeter and sweeter,” said Burdick, who collect- ed her fourth international gold medal. “Every gold medal has its own moments and special experiences. But it is more intimate, I would say, with this group. There are just three on the court at a time and four of us together, one coach – we are a close-knit group. I’m just grateful
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The action on the court at the 2014 FIBA 3x3 World Championship in Moscow, Russia, was fast and furious. Caught in action are USA 3x3 World Championship Team members (clockwise from top left) Tiffany Mitchell, Demetrius Miller, Sara Hammond and Mack Darrow,
for the opportunity.” In the women’s bronze medal game,
Belgium narrowly defeated Czech Republic 14-12. In the men’s semifinals competition,
Serbia downed Russia 19-11 and Qatar nipped Lithuania 14-13 to advance to the
gold medal game. Qatar proved too much for Serbia in the gold medal game and earned
an 18-13 win. Russia earned the bronze medal with a 19-18 win against Lithuania. In addition to the
men’s and women’s 3x3 World tourna- ments, the 2014 3x3 World Championship program also includ- ed a skills contest for women, a dunk con- test for men, men’s and women’s shoot- out contests and men’s and women’s free throw pursuits. Loyd, who
qualified for the finals of the skills contest with the fastest time, fin- ished tied for a
bronze medal with Fleur Devillers from France. The skills contest gold medal went to Valentina Baldelli from Italy and the silver to Hind Abdelkader of Belgium. USA men’s team
member Miller won a bronze medal in the dunk contest, while Tunisia’s Firas Lahyani won the event and Yan Pengfie of China took silver. “It meant the
world to get a bronze medal,” Miller said. “It’s great to be able to represent my
country and be able to medal, and be able to give something back to the USA. “It was fun. I put down a couple of
nice dunks, and that is all that matters,” the 6-foot-1 Miller said of the contest. “I went out there and gave all I could. I missed the finals by one point.”
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