3x3 Basketball - Team Mongolia

General
Mongolia were unable to advance from the pool stage at the inaugural Asian Games 3x3 tournament in 2018, when the competition was restricted to U23 players. Although they suffered defeats to the Republic of Korea and Chinese Taipei, the Mongolians finished with a respectable ranking of 12th from 22 teams thanks to wins over Bangladesh [17-13] and Kyrgyzstan [22-15].

The team participated in all three editions of the U23 World Cup that took place between 2018 and 2022, but did not reach the knockout stages of the tournament in that period. In 2022 they defeated Slovakia and Chile but lost their other pool phase matches to the People's Republic of China and Latvia.

At senior level, Mongolia are among the most successful teams at the Asia Cup, having won their second title in 2023 with a 21-18 victory over Australia in the final. They have developed something of a rivalry with the Australian team at the Asia Cup. The Mongolians beat Australia in the semifinals on their way to their first title in 2017 before losing to the Australians in the final in both 2018 and 2019.

The Mongolian team made a run to the quarterfinals on their senior World Cup debut in 2018, beating the Philippines, the Russian Federation, and Brazil before being sent home by eventual champions Serbia. At the 2022 edition they finished ninth after a defeat to Poland in the first knockout round.