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Tip Off for 3×3 Basketball at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham
The fast-paced 3×3 basketball makes its debut for the first time in Commonwealth Games history. The traditional 5×5 version of the game has been contested twice at the Games, first in Melbourne in 2006, and on the Gold Coast in 2018.
The 3×3 Basketball will be played in the heart of Birmingham City Centre at the Smithfield site, which will be transformed in readiness for Birmingham 2022.
It will be a Commonwealth Games debut for all but one of the squad members, with Jesse Wagstaff returning from a 2018 Commonwealth Games appearance in the Gold Coast where he won gold with the Boomers in the conventional 5×5 format.
Australian 3×3 Basketball & 3×3 Wheelchair Basketball Schedule:
All times in AEST
| Women’s Saturday 30 July
Australia v Scotland 12:55am Australia v Kenya 6:35 Monday 1 August Sri Lanka v Australia 12:30am |
Men’s Sunday 31 July
Australia v Trinidad & Tobago 12:30am Australia v New Zealand 6:10am Monday 1 August England v Australia 6:10am |
| Women’s Wheelchair
Saturday 30 July Australia v Scotland 5:45am Monday 1 August South Africa v Australia 5:45am |
Men’s Wheelchair
Saturday 30 July Canada v Australia 5:20am Monday 1 August Australia v Northern Ireland 5:20am |
Australian 3×3 Basketball & 3×3 Wheelchair Basketball Team Members – Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games:
| NAME | EVENT | AGE | COMMONWEALTH GAMES | STATE |
| Lauren Mansfield | Women’s 3×3 Basketball | 32 | Debut | SA |
| Lauren Scherf | Women’s 3×3 Basketball | 26 | Debut | QLD |
| Marena Whittle | Women’s 3×3 Basketball | 28 | Debut | VIC |
| Alex Wilson | Women’s 3×3 Basketball | 28 | Debut | SA |
| Hannah Dodd | Women’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 30 | Debut | QLD |
| Georgia Inglis | Women’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 28 | Debut | WA |
| Amber Merritt | Women’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 29 | Debut | WA |
| Ella Sabljak | Women’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 30 | Debut | QLD |
| Greg Hire | Men’s 3×3 Basketball | 34 | Debut | WA |
| Daniel Johnson | Men’s 3×3 Basketball | 34 | Debut | SA |
| Jesse Wagstaff | Men’s 3×3 Basketball | 36 | 2nd Games (2018 – Gold: Men’s Basketball) |
WA |
| Thomas Wright | Men’s 3×3 Basketball | 33 | Debut | VIC |
| Lachlin Dalton | Men’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 21 | Debut | QLD |
| Jake Kavanagh | Men’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 27 | Debut | WA |
| Luke Pople | Men’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 31 | Debut | NSW |
| Kurt Thomson | Men’s Wheelchair 3×3 Basketball | 40 | Debut | QLD |
