Category: Basketball

Sophie Hediger, a member of Switzerland’s snowboard cross team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort, the country’s skiing federation said Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday at the Arosa resort in Switzerland. Hediger, 26, competed at the Beijing Games in the women’s snowboard cross and the mixed...

LAUSANNE (Switzerland) – Ticket sales for the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2025 have officially tipped off with various packages now available on Ticketmaster here. The official ticket sales for the tournament from June 28 to July 6, 2025 are divided into two phases: packages and daily tickets. The four different packages can be purchased...

MUNICH (Germany) – Switzerland and Austria both remained perfect at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Pre-Qualifiers, while Ireland and Romania both grabbed their first wins of the campaign in the opening day of the window. Switzerland took a giant step towards the Second Round of the Pre-Qualifiers as they knocked off Kosovo 75-43...

The duo of Leanne Wong (above) and Oklahoma’s Fuzzy Benas placed ninth in Saturday’s Swiss Cup Zürich competition. Photo By: Lloyd Smith/USA Gymnastics Zurich, Switzerland – The U.S. duo of Florida senior gymnast Leanne Wong and Oklahoma’s Fuzzy Benas took ninth in Saturday’s 41st annual Swiss Cup Zürich competition.   There was an elimination...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Senior gymnast Leanne Wong is headed off for another international adventure, competing for the United States Saturday, Nov. 9 in the Swiss Cup Zürich. After some flight maintenance issues that pushed Tuesday’s planned departure to a Thursday arrival, Wong and UF Assistant Coach Owen Field made it to Zürich.   Wong is...

ANTALYA (Turkiye) – SL Benfica have been one of the feel good teams of the Basketball Champions League over the past two seasons, and they are one step away from making it three straight Regular Season appearances after defeating Rilski Sportist in the Semi-Finals of the Qualification Rounds. It was a dramatic finish to the...

This story first appeared on athletics.stvincent.edu. LATROBE, PA — Julien Vonovier, a junior majoring in sports management with a minor in data analytics at Saint Vincent College, put his classroom lessons to work this past summer as an assistant coach for Switzerland’s U16 basketball national team.  Switzerland finished third in Division B of the International Basketball Federation...

LAUSANNE (Switzerland) – With one year to go until the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2025 in Switzerland, the occasion was celebrated with the unveiling of the Tissot countdown clock and the competition logo at a special event held in the host city. The flagship youth tournament will take place in the city of Lausanne...

Paris: Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands secured back-to-back women’s wheelchair basketball titles, denying the USA on the final day of competition. China finished top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics since Athens in 2004. They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49...