China won the last edition of the U-16 Türk Telekom Tournament, held last week in Gaziantep (Turkey). The asiatic team beat hosts in the big final with another amazing performance of 2.15 center Qi Zhou ('96). But many europeans shined in the event, like bulgarian Aleksandar Vezenkov ('95). The Aris forward appears in the top-10 of all the rankings. Let's see the stats recap, with the best prospects playing in Turkey.
Points: Aleksandar Vezenkov ('95, Bulgaria) 28.0, Qi Zhou ('96, China) 20.9, Vahid Dalrizahan ('95, Iran) 19.7, Viacheslav Fedorchenko ('95, Russia) 18.9, Miguel A. Cartagena ('95, Puerto Rico) 18.7, Vlad Popovici* ('94, Romania) 18.0, Xiapeng Guo ('95, China) 16.1, Sandro Bolkvadze ('95, Georgia) 15.3, Luka Kokol ('95, Slovenia) 15.1 and Ismet Akpinar ('95, Germany) 14.0
Rebounds: Vlad Popovici* ('94, Romania) 16.3, Aleksandar Vezenkov ('95, Bulgaria) 14.3, Vahid Dalrizahan ('95, Iran) 11.3, Qi Zhou ('96, China) 10.3, Vlad Cobzaru ('95, Romania) 10.3, Beka Darakhvelidze ('95, Georgia) 10.1, Vlad Berezhnyi ('95, Ukraine) 10.0, Damien Inglis ('95, France) 8.7, Alireza Mortazavi ('95, Iran) 8.2 and Mehmet Sanli ('95, Turkey) 7.9.
Assists: Jiwei Zhao ('95, China) 6.3, Kenan Sipahi ('95, Turkey) 5.0, Kartal Özmizrak ('95, Turkey) 4.9, Aleksandar Vezenkov ('95, Bulgaria) 4.4, Eliel González ('95, Puerto Rico) 4.0, Caslan Todorov ('95, Romania) 3.9, Igor Boyarkin ('95, Ukraine) 3.9, David Taylor ('95, Germany) 3.4, Matic Rebec ('95, Slovenia) 3.1 and Arthur Rozenfeld ('95, France) 3.0.
Steals: Kenan Sipahi ('95, Turkey) 3.7, Jiwei Zhao ('95, China) 3.6, Bryan Rodríguez ('95, Puerto Rico) 3.3, Hamed Arbatsafla ('95, Iran) 3.3, Kartal Özmizrak ('95, Turkey) 3.3, Igor Boyarkin ('95, Ukraine) 3.0, Zezva Liluashvili ('95, Georgia) 3.0, Igor Bespalyuk ('95, Ukraine) 2.8, Vahagan Gharibian ('95, Iran) 2.6 and Aleksandar Vezenkov ('95, Bulgaria) 2.4.
Blocks: Qi Zhou ('96, China) 5.4, Konstantin Kulikov ('95, Russia) 3.4, Vadim Prokopenko ('95, Ukraine) 2.7, Aleksandar Vezenkov ('95, Bulgaria) 2.0, Ning Pan ('95, China) 1.9, Vlad Cobzaru ('95, Romania) 1.7, Nikolai Georgiev ('95, Bulgaria) 1.6, Jure Ritlop ('95, Slovenia) 1.3, Maximilan Ugrai ('95, Germany) 1.3 and Vlad Berezhnyi ('95, Ukraine) 1.2.
*He is born in 1994.
Photo: FIBA Europe / N.Parausic
