USA Team
Brunner	Hernandez	Smith	Williams	Foye

Greg Brunner (201-F-83) of University of Iowa
Chris Hernandez (188-G-83) of Stanford University
Craig Smith (201-F-83) of Boston College
Shelden Williams (206-F-83) of Duke University
Randy Foye (191-G-83) of Villanova University
Mike Gansey (193-G/F-82) of West Virginia University
Vincent Grier (196-G/F-83) of University of Minnesota
Matt Haryasz (210-F-84) of Stanford University
Eric Hicks (198-G/F-83) of University of Cincinnati
Bobby Jones (198-F-84) of The Univ. of Washington
Gerry McNamara (188-G-83) of Syracuse University
Patrick Sparks (183-G-83) of University of Kentucky
Head Coach: Jay Wright (Villanova University).
Assistant: Jeff Capel of Virginia Commonwealth University
Assistant: Bobby Gonzalez of Manhattan College (N.Y.)

 

  USA Gets The Gold In Izmir - Aug 21, 2005
 In the final game a strong USA team took the lead early in the first quarter and never looked back against the unexpected finalists Ukraine. USA outrebounded the yellows and dominated the painted area thanks to Shelden Williams (206-F-83) who added 15 points, 14 boards and 4 blocks (Totally 10 by USA team). Craig Smith (201-F-83) the other star of USA also scored 16 points and led his team in offence. At the other hand Kryvych brothers totally chipped in 35 points as the promising big guy Olexei Pecherov (212-C-85) registered a double double for Ukraine.
In the third place game two legends SRB and Russia had a fight for the bronze medal. Serbians started the game well and took the control in the first half. Russia resisted in the second half but SRB took advantage of pressure on D and stole 14 balls which was the key of their victory. Milan Dozet (202-G/F-79, agency: Beo Basket) once again led his team in scoring as Russia's leading scorer Andrei Trushkin (205-C/F-81) 's 23 point effort was not enough for the Russians.
Ukraine(70): Victor Kobzystyy 7, Rostlav Kryvych 16, Olexei Pecherov (212-C-85) 10, Yevgeniy Podorvannyy 0, Andrii Lebediev 2, Artem Butskvy 4, Stanislav Balashov 2, Igor Kryvych 19, Volodymyr Koval 4, Dmytro Korablov 0, Roman Gumenvuk 0, Kyrylo Fesenko 6
USA(85): Patrick Sparks 0, Greg Brunner 2, Eric Hicks 0, Gerard Mcnamara 13, Christopher Hernandez 11, Randy Foye 12, Michael Gansey 2, Vincent Grier 10, Bobby Jones 0, Craig Smith (201-F-83) 16, Matt Haryasz 4, Shelden Williams (206-F-83) 15
(17-24,33-46,49-69,70-85)

Serbia&Montenegro(86): Milenko Tepic 0, Marko Scekic 14, Feliks Kojadinovic 8, Vanja Plisnic 14, Ivan Bosnjak 0, Milan Dozet (202-G/F-79, agency: Beo Basket) 15 , Dusan Djordjevic 8, Vladimir Golubovic 6, Nenad Bogdanovic 8, Ilija Zolotovic 0, Estrahinja Milosevic 2, Ivan Ivanovic 11
Russia(77): Andrey Ivanov 0, Vladimir Shevel 9, Konstantin Nesterov 14, Alexey Zozulin 3, Andrey Vokhmyanin 0, Sergey Bykov 6, Alexey Ekimov 4, Taras Osipov 0, Andrey Penkin 5, Alexey Lobanov 0, Andrei Trushkin (205-C/F-81) 23, Fedor Dmitriev 13
(20-16,39-35,63-58,86-77)

Places 5-6: Germany - Turkey 74 - 55 (Geib 11 - Yucel 12)
Places 7-8: Canada - Australia 75 - 81 (King 14 - Dillon 15)
Places 9-10: Italy - Lithuania 83 - 82 (Allegretti 15 - Peciukas 27)
Places 11-12: Greece - Finland 85 - 81 (Giannoulakos 22 - Heinonen 16)
Places 13-14: Czech Republic - China 102 - 56 (Novotny 25 - Zhao 17)
Places 15-16: South Korea - Japan 96 - 82 (Yang 27 - Onishi 24)
Places 17-18: Slovakia - Iran 61 - 56 (Gavel 14 - Nekkhahbah 13)
Places 19-20: Angola - Portugal 67 - 68 (Leonel 22 - Brito 15)
Places 21-22: Brazil - Great Britain 0 - 20
Places 24-25: South Africa - Estonia 47 - 79 (Marhanele 15 - Doronin 13)
Places 26-27: Cyprus - Lebanon 20 - 0

  Day 7 - Ukraine And USA In Final - Aug 20, 2005
In the semi final match ups Ukraine managed to beat SRB by 6 in a close game as USA showed no mercy to Russia and crushed them by 40. Ukraine was down till the last quarter but they ran a 21-15 serie in the fourth and edged Serbia to reach the gold medal chance. Oleksiy Pecmerov dominated the painted area and added 14 points, 8 rebounds as he blocked 6 shots. In the other semi final clash USA defeated Russia much easier than expected. The Russian side led the first quarter but then USA started to take over and dominated rest of the game. Shelden Williams (206-F-83) registered this tournament's one of the few double doubles (20 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks) and led led his team to final. Ukraine and USA will fight for the golden medal on Sunday.

Serbia&Montenegro(63): Milenko Tepic 8, Marko Scekic 3, Feliks Kojadinovic 2, Vanja Plisnic 9, Ivan Bosnjak 2, Milan Dozet 16 , Dusan Djordjevic 0, Vladimir Golubovic 14, Nenad Bogdanovic 3, Ilija Zolotovic 0, Estrahinja Milosevic 6, Ivan Ivanovic 0
Ukraine(69): Victor Kobzystyy 11, Rostvav Kryvych 4, Oleksiy Pecremov 14, Yevgeniy Podorvannyy 12, Andrii Lebediev 0, Artem Butskvy 9, Stanislav Balashov 6, Igor Kryvych 4, Volodymyr Koval 9, Dmytro Korablov 0, Roman Gumenvuk 0, Kyrylo Fesenko 0
(17-6,34-29,48-48,63-69)

USA(120): Patrick Sparks 5, Greg Brunner 10, Eric Hicks 7, Gerard Mcnamara 3, Christopher Hernandez 14, Randy Foye 20, Michael Gansey 6, Vincent Grier 15, Bobby Jones 2, Craig Smith 13, Matt Haryasz 5, Shelden Williams (206-F-83) 20
Russia(80): Andrey Ivanov 5, Vladimir Shevel 11, Konstantin Nesterov 10, Alexey Zozulin 14, Andrey Vokhmyanin 0, Sergey Bykov 15, Alexey Ekimov 1, Taras Osipov 4, Andrey Penkin 4, Alexey Lobanov 0, Andrey Trushkin 12, Fedor Dmitriev 4
(16-21,48-37,84-59,120-80)

Places 1-4:
USA - Russia 120 - 80
Ukraine - Serbia 69 - 63
Places 5-8:
Canada - Germany 59 - 63
Australia - Turkey 72 - 82
Places 9-12:
Italy - Greece 104 - 84
Finland - Lithuania 80 - 99
Places 13-16:
Korea - Czech Republic 82 - 86
Japan - China 76 - 81
Places 17-20:
Angola - Slovakia 62 - 73
Portugal - Iran 71 - 80
Places 21-24:
Brazil - Mexico 88 - 81
Great Britain - Haiti 20 - 0
Places 25-28:
Cyprus - South Africa 68 - 72
Estonia - Lebanon 90 - 75
Places: 29-30:
Peru - UAE 20 - 0 *
(*:Registered 20 - 0 by the committee)

  Day 6 - Second Classification Matches - Aug 19, 2005
Places 1-8:
USA - Australia 88 - 68
Russia - Turkey 83 - 79
SRB - Canada 80 - 77
Ukraine - Germany 69 - 62
Places 9-16:
Lithuania - China 108 - 69
Finland - Japan 77 - 73
Italy - South Korea 88 - 85
Czech Republic - Greece 58 - 70
Places 17-24:
Great Britain - Iran 56 - 64
Haiti - Portugal 0 - 20 *
Slovakia - Mexico 75 - 71
Angola - Brazil 74 - 68
Places 25-31:
Peru - Lebanon 0 - 20 *
UAE - South Africa 40 - 90
(*:Registered 0-20 by the committee)

  Day 5 - Classification Round - Aug 19, 2005
Group I
SRB - Turkey 86 - 79
South Korea - Finland 65 - 73
Group J
Italy - Japan 87 - 53
Canada - Russia 68 - 82
Group K
Germany - China 115 - 69
USA - Checz Republic 87 - 57
Group L
Germany - Australia 87 - 94
Ukraine - Lithuania 89 - 80
Group M
Haiti - Brazil 98 - 94
Group N
Portugal - South Africa 83 - 64
Angola - Cyprus 62 - 57
Group O
Slovakia - Peru 105 - 65
Group P
Estonia - Lebanon 99 - 76
Mexico - Great Britain 84 - 86

  Day 4 - Classification Round - Aug 19, 2005
Group I
Turkey - South Korea 89 - 85
Finland - SRB 72 - 84
Group J
Russia - Italy 78 - 70
Japan - Canada 74 - 85
Group K
Czech Republic - Germany 53-69
China - USA 61 - 117
Group L
Lithuania - Greece 74-79
Australia - Ukraine 69-85
Group M
UAE - Haiti 52 - 115
Group N
Cyprus - Portugal 70 - 73
South Africa - Angola 55 - 57
Group O
Peru - Iran 38 - 78
Group P
Great Britain - Estonia 65 - 59
Lebanon - Mexico 66 - 80

  Day 3 Results - Aug 17, 2005
Group A
Finland - UAE 103-39 (Maki-Tulokas 20 - Yousif 14)
Turkey - Brazil 121-76 (Vekiloglu 19 - Da Silva 16)
Group B
SRB - South Korea 100-72 (Klisnic 19 - Kim 13)
Group C
Russia - Japan 100-64 (Trushkin 25 - Itakura 10)
Cyprus - South Africa 67-58 (Pivalas 20 - Kgwedi 13)
Group D
Portugal - Angola 63-77 (Simao 11 - Ortet 15)
Canada - Italy 84 - 76 (Balderson 19 - Cinciarini 23)
Group E
Czech Republic - Peru 98-29 (Novotny 22 - Perananda 7)
Group F
USA - Germany 72- 62 (Smith 20 - Geib 16)
Slovakia - Iran 75- 57 (Gavel 19 - Sohrabnejad 13)
Group G
Australia - Lithuania 65-68 (Conn 10 - Pociuipa 18)
Great Britain - Lebanon 87-68 (Johnson 24 - Akiki 23)
Group H
Estonia - Greece 66-72 (Paade 16 - Stefanidis 19)
Ukraine - Mexico 79-75 (Pecmerov 12 - Marentez 22)

  Day 2 Results - Aug 13, 2005

  Day 1 Results - Aug 13, 2005

ROSTERS OF PARTICIPATING TEAMS Angola

4 Vladimir Pontes (187-F-84) of Piaget 5 Marco Lutucuta (190-F-79) of Lusíadas 6 Edgar dos Santos (188-F-77) of Letras da UAN 7 Jorge Tati (197-F-83) of Petro Atletico de Luanda 8 Alfonso Rodrigues (179-G-82) of Lusíadas 9 Anlide Lufungula (187-G-82) of Lusíadas 10 Francisco Horacio (193-F-80) of Petro Atletico de Luanda 11 Francisco Pinto (191-F-78) of Engenharia da UNA 12 Domingos Bonifacio (185-G-84) of Inter-Clube de Luanda 13 Paulo Leonel (190-F-86) of Petro Atletico de Luanda 14 Eugenio Amaral (190-G-76) of Inter-Clube de Luanda 15 Helder King (201-C-82) of Petro Atletico de Luanda Head Coach: A Paquete Assistant: F Figueiredo

Australia

Brophy Hunt Williamson Brennan Hobba 4 Kye Pattrick (206-G) of Loyola Chicago (USA) 5 Ben Hunt (186-G-78) of Texas Wesleyan (USA) 6 Daniel Dillon (191-G) of Arizona (USA) 7 Kevin Brophy (186-G-85) of Georgia (USA) 8 Simon Conn (206-F/C) of Gardner-Webb (USA) 9 Drew Williamson (193-G-83) of Metropolitan St. (USA) 10 Brent Hobba (205-F/C-82) of Colorado Christian (USA) 11 Christopher Cameron (210-F/C-82) of Louisiana at Lafayette (USA) 12 Ian Crosswhite (212-F-82) of Central Oregon Hotshots (USA) 13 Mitch Brennan (198-F/G-84) of Mercyhurst (USA) 14 John Philip (196-G) of Illawarra Seahawks

Brazil

4 - Ycaro Rocha (197-F-82) of Londrina/TIM 5 - Daniel Muller Lima (Rio de Janeiro) - C 6 - Valdison Rodrigo Tenorio da Silva (Alagoas) - G/F 7 - Douglas Motta (190-G/F-77) of Liga Macaense 8 - 'Dudu' Carbonari (170-G-77) of Paulistano/DIX AMICO 9 - Nailson Cunha da Silva (Pernambuco) - C 10 - Alessandro Batista (193-F-84) of Warner Pacific College (USA) 11 - Wilson Souza Coutinho Neto (São Paulo) - F 12 - Ygor Alexsander Petrovich Klemenson (Pernambuco) - G 13 - 'Big' de Oliveira (197-C-77) of Fortaleza EC 14 - Luiz Felipe Eliseo Mendes (São Paulo) - G/F 15 - Roberto Francisco Alves Mafra (Pernambuco) - C Head Coach: Ricardo Costa Pacheco Couto (Xexa) Assistant: Marcelo Silveira Ribeiro (Marcelinho Rato)

Canada

Bains Balderson Brempong Ferguson Julius 4 Erfan Nasajpour (175-G-84) of University of Winnipeg 5 Jamie McNeilly (191-G) of University of New Orleans (USA) 6 Shane James (190-G-84) of Loyola College (USA) 7 Pasha Bains (192-G-80) of University of British Columbia 8 Jimmy Balderson (198-G-83) of Brigham Young University (USA) 9 Kyle Julius (191-G-79) of Cari Fabriano (ITA) 10 Jevohn Shepherd (210-F-86) of Michigan (USA) 11 Mike King (203-F/C-82) of Harbour Heat (NZL) 12 Rans Brempong (203-F-81) of Western Carolina University (USA) 13 Scott Morrison (211-C-86) of Portland State University (USA) 14 Jeffrey Ferguson (208-F/C-81) of University of Missouri (USA) 15 Jordan Sabourin (211-C-81) of MTV Stuttgart (GER) Head Coach: Kevin Hanson of UBC 7604 Assistant: Thorn Gillespie of UNB

China

4 Zhao Xi (185-G-82) of Tsinghua U. 5 Zhang Huan Yu (178-G-84) Yu of Tsinghua U. 6 Hou Ye (189-G-81) of Renmin U. China 7 Zhou Xiang Yu (190-G-83) of Tsinghua U. 8 Guo Ye (198-F-85) of Guangdong Tech 9 Yang Chao (192-G/F-84) of Renmin U. China 10 Xie Li Bin (190-G-83) of Renmin U. China 11 Miao Long Jiang (194-G/F-82) of Hunan U. 12 Liu Zi Qiu (194-G/F-82) of Tsinghua U. 13 Xie Dong Yuan (204-C-85) of Xiamen U. 14 Mo Guo Chao (210-C-85) of Guangdong Tech 15 Zhao Nan (195-G/F-84) of Tsinghua U. Head Coach: Huang Yunlong of Tsinghua U.

Cyprus

4 Andreas Pilavas (194-G-83) of ENAD Nicosia 5 Christoforos Livadiotis (175-G-80) of Etha Engomi 6 Constantinos Hatzigeorgiou 7 Iezekel Papadopoulos (194-G/F-82) of Keravnos Strovolou 8 Alexis Georgiadis (194-F-79) of Deltalcon APOEL Nicosia 9 Marios Argyrou (181-G-77) of Ydra Asfalistiki ENAD Nicosia 10 Giannis Ioannides (182-G-84) of PAO Panathinaikos Limassol 11 Kosta Stelios Philipou (196-F-82) 12 Pavlos Pavlou (188-G-77) of Ydra Asfalistiki ENAD Nicosia 13 Stratis Stulianou (189-G/F-84) of Achilleas Kaimakliou 14 Christodoulos Kaskiris (206-F/C-79) of Keravnos Nicosia 15 Glaukos Christou (204-C-80) of Achilleas Kaimakliou Head Coach: Renos Pittalis

Czech Rep.

Dousa Kraus Reinberger Gajdosik Nachtigall 4 Daniel Gajdosik (189-G-80) of A Plus Brno 5 Ivo Nachtigall (187-G-77) of Triga Houseri Brno 6 Tomas Toth (195-G-84) of USK Praha 7 Pavel Novotny (204-F-79) of BK SCP Usti nad Labem 8 Jan Wiedner (199-F-81) of BK SCE Decin 9 Stepan Reinberger (200-F-81) of BC Sparta Praha 10 Jakub Velensky (183-G-79) 11 David Dousa (208-C/F-77) of BC Sparta Praha 12 Pavel Houska (198-F-84) of BK SCP Usti nad Labem 13 Martin Klimes (203-C-83) of University of Vermont (USA) 14 Jiri Novotny (199-F-77) of BK Synthesia Pardubice 15 Ales Chan (214-C-80) of BC Nymbruk Head coach Zdenek Janik

Estonia

Hallik Kraav Doronin Aab Rannula 4 Heikko Rannula (186-G-83) of SK Tartu Rock 5 Viljar Veski (215-C-86) of Rakvere Palliklubi 6 Sven Pugonen (182-G-80) of Rakvere Palliklubi 7 Henrik Herman (190-F-84) of Pirita BM 8 Silver Kallas (192-F-77) of Rakvere Palliklubi 9 Kristo Aab (194-F-85) of SK Tartu Rock 10 Priit Silland (196-F-81) of Dalkia / Nybit Tallinn 11 Marek Doronin (200-F/G-83) of SK Tartu Rock 12 Asko Paade (205-F-84) of SK Tartu Rock 13 Vallo Allingu (205-C-78) of SK Tartu Rock 14 Leho Kraav (208-F-79) of Ramat Hasharon (ISR) 15 Reinar Hallik (204-C-84) of Audentese Ülikool Head Coach: Paavo Russak

Ahvenniemi Iisalo Heinonen Virtanenen 4 Olli Ahvenniemi (207-F/C-83) of University of Maine (USA) 5 Artur Surov (214-C-83) of St.Joseph's University (USA) 6 Joonas Suotamo (211-C-86) of Pennsylvania State (USA) 7 Kimmo Muurinen (203-F-81) of Honka Espoo Playboys 8 Esa Maki-Tulokas (200-F-82) of Long Island University (USA) 9 Anssi Kinnaslampi (192-G-82) of Kotkan Tyovaen Palloilijat (KTP) 10 Timo Heinonen (195-F-81) of Vantaan Pussihukat 11 Tuomas Iisalo (193-G-82) of Honka Espoo Playboys 12 Juha Sten (191-G-83) of Mitteldeutscher BC (GER) 13 Ville Tuominen (191-G-82) of ToPo Helsinki 14 Petri Virtanen (184-G-80) of Joensuun Kataja 15 Nanayaw Awuah Addae (175-G-84) of Vantaan Pussihukat Coach: Tomi Kaminen

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