Spain win European basketball championship


Paris, Sep 21 (IANS): Spain lifted its third title in the last four European basketball championships after beating Lithuania 80-63 on Sunday.

Pau Gasol finished with 25 points, 12 rebounds, four assists, three blocked shots, one steal and no turnovers to earn the tournament's Most Valuable Player award, Xinhua news agency reported.

Spain opened with a 13-point lead and met few challenges throughout the match.

Earlier, France pulled away in the third quarter to beat Serbia 81-68 for the bronze medal.

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Spain win European basketball championship



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.