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Canada Golden at 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup

Canada 2017 FIBA U19 Worl Cup Champions
Canada 2017 FIBA U19 Worl Cup Champions

The 81 year-old hunt for International basketball Gold at a Olympics and FIBA World Cups is over for Canada!

Canada’s U19 Junior Men’s basketball team became the first Canadian basketball team to play for and win Gold at an Olympics and/or FIBA World Cup event since Canada lost 19-8 at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.  Marking the sports’ first official medal event, a ceremony which surely made Dr. James Naismith proud as he awarded both teams the medals.

Canada unleashed a potent, versatile and balanced team effort, leaving the Italians without any hopes of denying the Canadians their historic and hard earned Golden generation podium moment. A moment that Canadian basketball advocates have rightfully known it was coming, but patiently awaited for this historic day.

Making it remarkably sweeter was the fact that Canada’s run to World Champions glory was crafted and architected by prodigy child and 17-year-old phenom Rowan Barrett Jr. The tournament’s Most Value Player. Barrett’s 18 points, 12 rebounds, four assists paced four Canadians in double-digits in the 79-60 defeat of Italy to capture the 2017 FIBA U19 Word Cup in Egypt Cairo.

Canadian Rowan Barrett MVP 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup
Canadian Rowan Barrett MVP 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup – FIBA

Barrett Jr. finished as the tournaments top scorer averaging a mind-boggling 21.6 points per game (1st), 8.3 rebounds (11th overall), 4.6 assists (8th overall), shooting 45.9% (50/109) on 7-of-15 shots per game. He also led the seven game 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup in free-throws mades (46) and attempts (61) connecting on 75.4% from the line.

Tournament All-Star Abu Kigab concluded Canada’s championship run with his fourth double-double in seven games with 12 points and and 10 rebounds and finished in the top five in rebounds per game at 10.5. Nate Darling added 12 points and four rebounds and Lindell Wigginton returned to the line-up after missing the past two game with concussion like symptoms contributing 11 points, three rebounds and three assists.

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Canada U19 Win Gold Medal 2017 FIBA Word Cup
Canada U19 Win Gold Medal 2017 FIBA Word Cup

Canada finished the tournament with a nearly perfect 6-1 record defeating Mali 91-42, Japan 100-75, and heavyweights Angola 87-65, France, 73-67, USA 99-87 and Italy to capture gold. Canada’s only blemish was a 78-73 loss to fourth place finisher Spain.

Canada won a Gold Medal at the 1983 Summer Universiade games in Edmonton beating a star-studded USA (Karl Malone, Charles Barkley) team in the semi-finals. The Canadian Senior Women’s  National Team also won gold at the 2015 Pan American games in Toronto.

Final standings of the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2017:
1. Canada
2. Italy
3. USA
4. Spain
5. Germany
6. Lithuania
7. France
8. Argentina
9. Puerto Rico
10. Japan
11. New Zealand
12. Egypt
13. Angola
14. Korea
15. Iran
16. Mali

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