Iran Qualification to Tokyo among Top 10 Moments in Asia for 2019
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Sealing a spot at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo is among the top 10 moments in Asia basketball for 2019.
The year 2019 will soon be behind us but the many big moments that happened over the past 12 months will live strong in the memory, fiba.com reported.
A couple of heartbreaking defeats - 83-81 to Puerto Rico and 73-65 to Spain (Iran had led in the fourth quarter) - and a 79-67 setback to Tunisia left Iran with a 0-3 record heading into the Classification Round.
With their eyes on the prize of Olympic qualification, Hamed Haddadi and Co first beat Angola, 71-62 and then, on September 8, thumped the Philippines, 95-75, to clinch a spot in the Tokyo Games.
