Hangzhou Asian Games three-person basketball originated from

Three-person basketball in Hangzhou Asian Games originated from street basketball.

1992 the first world three-person basketball tournament was held in Frankfurt, Germany, and the three-person basketball tournament officially went global. On 20 18 Asian Games in Jakarta, three-person basketball entered the Asian Games for the first time. At the 32nd Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020, three-person basketball became an official event.

The three-person basketball game is played in the half of the five-person basketball game, with three people in each team. Its rules and technical and tactical coordination are similar to the five-a-side basketball game. The main differences between three-person basketball and five-person basketball are as follows: the duration of the game is usually 10 minutes; You can't shoot and dribble directly from the tee.

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Three-person basketball is a competitive activity created by children and has been popularized and developed all over the world. The earliest three-person basketball game can be traced back to 1965, which was a 3x3 outdoor basketball game held by Holcomb Locke at 145 Stadium in Harlem, new york. During this period, sports meetings are generally organized by non-governmental organizations.

In 1960s, all provincial capitals and some prefecture-level cities in China began to play half-court basketball, which was China's initial attempt at three-person basketball, but there was no uniform competition standard at that time. 1974, three-person basketball first appeared as an official competition in the popular basketball festival held in Zhou Luo, Michigan, USA.

In the 1990s, three-person basketball began to go global, including the World Three-person Basketball Championship in Europe, the Adidas Street Basketball Challenge in the Philippines and the subsequent World Championships.