The men's and women's finals of the 3x3 Japanese championship, which was a new event at the Tokyo Olympics, were held, and the Tochigi team for boys and the Gifu team for girls won their first championships.
3x3 is played on a half-sized court of five-player basketball, and one game must be attacked within 10 minutes, and if you have the ball, within 12 seconds, when either team scores 21 points. It ends with.
At the venue set up in the plaza in the building in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, the Japan Championships, in which teams that have won the preliminary rounds in each region compete, have been held since the 26th, and the men's and women's finals were held on the 27th.
Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the tournament was held without spectators, and in the men's final, Tochigi representative "UTSUNOMIYA BREX" and Iwate representative "Solviento" played against each other.
In the match, "UTSUNOMIYA BREX" won the Japan Championship for the first time by winning 21 to 9 without passing the pace to the opponent with a pass turning that made use of speed and an attack that made use of the height under the goal.
On the other hand, in the women's final, Gifu's "BEEFMAN" won the first victory by winning a close match with Tokyo's "TOKYO DIME" 18-14.
Yasuo Iijima of "UTSUNOMIYA BREX", who was selected as the MVP of boys = the best player, said, "I'm really happy because I've never taken the MVP with the best in Japan since I started 3x3. Now I'm teaching basketball to children. I want to do more 3x3, so I'm making a coat locally, but I hope everyone can get excited, not just children. "
On the other hand, Yuka Maeda of "BEEFMAN" who won the women's MVP said, "I think that most teams can not practice satisfactorily in the current situation due to the influence of the new coronavirus, but we also accumulated practice firmly in that. I was happy to win and win the championship. I would like to continue to expand the possibilities of 3x3. "