On February 23, the WCBA League (China Women's Basketball League) officially announced the list of participants for the 2023-2024 WCBA All-Star Skills Challenge through its official Weibo. The WCBA All-Star Game, Star Match, Three-Point Contest and Skills Challenge will be held from March 16 to 17 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, the Asian Games venue in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
The picture shows the list of participants in this WCBA All-Star Skills Challenge. Photo courtesy of the WCBA league official WeChat.
The WCBA All-Star Skills Challenge contestants are Li Yuqiong (Xinjiang Guoda Hydrogen), Fang Min (Fujian Panpan Food), Fu Jing (Wuhan Shengfan Baihe), Sun Fengyi (Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank), Yang Mengping (Fujian Xiamen Bailu), Peng Huaqian (Shijiazhuang Yingli), Li Yuan (Inner Mongolia Nongxin), Li Shuangfei (Sichuan Yuanda Meile) and two wild card players.
In addition, the 2023-2024 WCBA All-Star Weekend Three-Point Contest has also been released a few days ago, Wang Siyu, Huang Sijing, Luo Xinqi 3 women's basketball players will compete on the same court, Zhang Jingyi, who is in hot form, and Dong Keer, who has won the WCBA regular season three-point king for 3 consecutive years, are also among them.
On October 5, 2023, the women's basketball final of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou was held in the gymnasium of the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center. China won the championship with a 74-72 victory over Japan. The picture shows the Chinese team celebrating after the game. Photo by China News Service reporter Luo Yunfei.
At present, the voting for the starting lineup of the 2023-2024 WCBA All-Star Game is still in full swing, and the results of the second phase of fan voting have been released, and the popularity of several women's basketball players is undiminished: Han Xu continues to lead with 52,266 votes, and Li Meng receives 47,115 votes, temporarily ranking second in the front court of the South District; Yang Liwei in the backfield of the southern region achieved a reversal, temporarily ranking first with 47,281 votes, and Wang Siyu ranked second; The front and back of the North District are still led by Zhang Ru (44,318 votes) and Li Yuan (46,580 votes). (*Guo Tianqi).