{"id":35975,"date":"2025-12-01T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-great-britain-claim-90-82-win-over-iceland-in-group-d-as-carl-wheatle-top-scores\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:02:22","slug":"fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-great-britain-claim-90-82-win-over-iceland-in-group-d-as-carl-wheatle-top-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-great-britain-claim-90-82-win-over-iceland-in-group-d-as-carl-wheatle-top-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiba World Cup 2027 qualifiers: Great Britain claim 90-82 win over Iceland in Group D as Carl Wheatle top scores"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Great Britain earned their first win of the 2027 Fiba World Cup qualifiers with a 90-82 victory over Iceland.<\/b><\/p>\n

GB were beaten on the buzzer in an 89-88 defeat<\/a> by Lithuania in their Group D opener last Thursday but were much more in control against the Icelanders at the Laugardalsholl in Reykjavik.<\/p>\n

The scores had been level at 17-17 at the end of a competitive first quarter between two sides separated by just three places in the Fiba rankings with GB 43rd to Iceland’s 46th.<\/p>\n

However, GB seized the initiative and had an 18-point cushion at 69-51 heading into the final quarter.<\/p>\n

Iceland reduced the deficit to eight points with one minute 47 seconds left on the clock, but GB held their nerve after a timeout to kill the home side’s hopes of a late fightback.<\/p>\n

Carl Wheatle led the way for GB with a game-high 22 points while Myles Hesson and Quinn Ellis chipped in with 17 and 16 respectively.<\/p>\n

Martin Hermannsson top scored for Iceland with 18 points while Tryggvi Hlinason collected 17.<\/p>\n

All four teams in the group will face each other twice in the first round of the qualifiers before the top three qualify for the next stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Great Britain earned their first win of the 2027 Fiba World Cup qualifiers with a 90-82 victory over Iceland. GB were beaten on the buzzer in an 89-88 defeat by Lithuania in their Group D opener last Thursday but were much more in control against the Icelanders at the Laugardalsholl in Reykjavik. The scores had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35977,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35975\/revisions\/35977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}