Piterbasket (ru. - ''Питербаскет'', lt. - ''piterbolas'', ''trikrepšis'') is a team sport closely resembling basketball. The game was initially created for kindergarten children, but is now played by adults and handicapped athletes.
Piterbasket was created by
Anatolij Nesmejanov in
Saint Petersburg
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,
Russia
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in 2002.
Trikrepšio istorija
/ref> In 2010 in Kaunas
Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...
, Lithuania held the world's first international piterbasket match between Kaunas and Saint Petersburg teams. In 2011, piterbasket was included in Lithuania's national Olympic kindergarten festival programme.
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Forms of basketball
Ball games
Team sports
Sports originating in Russia
Basketball in Lithuania
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