Women's Basketball World Cup: Chinese women's basketball team won the runner-up US women's basketball team achieved four consecutive championships

　　China News Agency, Beijing, October 1st. On the afternoon of October 1st, Beijing time, the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup had a final matchup. The Chinese women's basketball team lost to the US team 61:83 and won the World Cup again after 28 years. The runner-up tied its best record in the history of the World Series.

The U.S. women's basketball team, which has won four consecutive championships, has become the 11th World Cup champion.

　　Before this campaign, the U.S. women's basketball team, which had achieved seven consecutive Olympic championships and three consecutive World Cup (World Championships) championships, was far ahead in the world rankings and was a well-deserved "Big Mac" in the world's women's basketball team.

In the previous world competitions, the Chinese and American basketball teams have faced each other more than 10 times, but the Chinese team has not won a single one.

Among them, in the 2018 World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team lost by 12 points, which is also the smallest difference between the two teams.

　　The overall strength of the Chinese women's basketball team is less than the general.

Its top scorer, Li Meng, missed the semi-final the day before due to a high fever, and continued to miss the final due to illness, which also brought greater difficulties to the Chinese team in this campaign.

　　At the beginning of the game, although the Chinese women's basketball team took the lead with 6:4, the overall strength of the US team quickly overtook the score. After ending the first quarter with an 18:13 lead, the second quarter extended the lead to 10 points (43 points). :33).

　　In the second half, the US team opened the score with strong defense and high offensive efficiency, leading by 21 points with 68:47 in the third quarter.

In the last quarter, the U.S. team once extended its lead to 29 points, but the Chinese team, which did not give up, was still chasing it tenaciously, and finally lost to the U.S. team by 22 points (61:83) and won the runner-up.

　　Although the Chinese women's basketball team failed, it still brought countless surprises and touches to Chinese fans on this National Day.

　　The Chinese women's basketball team won silver medals in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1994 World Championships (the predecessor of the World Cup).

But from 1994 to before this World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team has never been on the podium of the World Series.

　　In this World Cup, young Chinese girls continue to create highlights that belong to the Chinese women's basketball team.

In addition to losing to the US team by 14 points in the group stage, the Chinese team won the other four games.

In the quarter-finals, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist France and reached the World Cup semi-finals again after a lapse of 28 years; in the semi-finals, the host Australia, ranked third in the world, entered the final, tying it in the World Series. best record in history.

　　Today, the Chinese women's basketball team has once again become the runner-up in the world, which also shows that this honorary division that has fallen into a long trough has recovered.

　　The predecessor of the Women's Basketball World Cup was the Women's Basketball World Championship, which started in 1953, and was held 17 times until 2014.

In 2018, the Women's Basketball World Championship was renamed the Women's Basketball World Cup, and it has been the 19th so far.

In the previous 18 World Cups (World Championships), the U.S. women's basketball team won 10 championships and won three consecutive championships in the first three sessions.

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