The Russian team fought hard before being defeated 18-15 by red-hot favourites the United States, whose squad contained a host of players from the Women’s National Basketball Association.

The first member of the silver medal-winning team from Russia is Evgeniia Frolkina, 24, who plays as a small forward for the club Dynamo Kursk.

Her twin sister Olga Frolkina, 24, was part of the Russia squad that finished eighth at the 2019 European Games in Belarus.

Both of the Frolkina sisters tried swimming, volleyball and tennis before their mother, who also played basketball, enrolled them into the sport.

In an interview in the build-up to Tokyo 2020, the Frolkina sisters said they "just could not live without 3x3".

The third member of the silver-medal winning squad is Yulia Kozik, 24, who was also part of the squad that competed at the 2019 European Games.

Kozik represented the Russian Federation at 5-on-5 basketball and won bronze at three consecutive European Under 20 Championships from 2015 to 2017.

Kozik, who started playing basketball as a child at the age of nine, took up 3x3 basketball professionally in 2019.

The fourth member of the squad is Anastasiia Logunova, 31, who was part of the Russia team that finished in first place at the 2017 Women’s 3x3 World Cup in France.

Logunova was also part of the Russia team that finished in first place at the 2017 3x3 Europe Cup in The Netherlands.

Logunova, who began playing basketball while at school, competed at the 2015 and 2019 European Championships in the 5-on-5 discipline, while earlier in her career she won silver in women’s basketball at the 2013 Summer World University Games on home soil in Kazan.