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USA, France, Japan (women) and Poland, Netherlands and Latvia (men) earned their ticket to 3x3's Olympic debut following the FIBA 3x3 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Graz, Austria on May 30, 2021

A total of 20 teams per gender participated at the FIBA 3x3 Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT), which will grant 3 tickets to the Olympics by gender.

The teams made it to the OQT due to being hosts, thanks to their medal at the FIBA 3x3 World Cup 2019 or because they were the highest-ranked teams in the FIBA 3x3 Federation Ranking not yet qualified.

One of 3x3’s missions is to bring basketball to new countries, which are not traditional basketball powerhouses and FIBA has put in place a series of universality rules. A maximum of 10 teams per continent and a minimum of 30 different countries must take part at the Olympic Qualifying Tournament. In other words, only the top 6 teams qualified for the OQT based on ranking could have a team both in men and women (like France, the Netherlands, and USA). The last 10 berths in each gender were allocated following the Federation Ranking list only if the respective country didn’t already have a team in any gender qualified.

Belgium and italy

Italy's women and Belgium's men earned the last two tickets to 3x3's Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games following the FIBA 3x3 Universality Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Debrecen, Hungary on June 4-6.