LAUSANNE (Switzerland) - There are 192 players at FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2025, set to play for the title in Lausanne.
We've gone deep through into the data, looked at all the athletes now ready to go to work, and have picked out some noteworthy categories to highlight before the games begin.
You'll get to know which players might cause their opponents issues in the paint with their height or keep an eye on those who might be smaller, but play larger than their size.
We also check out who in a competition between youngsters, is even significantly younger than the rest - to a point where they might even be eligible to play in the next U19 World Cup.
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Canada's Olivier Rioux should be used to this by now. For a fifth straight summer of representing Canada - from U16 AmeriCup in 2021, U17 World Cup in 2022, U19 World Cup in 2023, and U18 AmeriCup in 2024 - he is once again the tallest baller here in U19 World Cup 2025.
Fun fact: Rioux was listed at: 2.28M in 2021 and spurted up to 2.31M in 2023. This year, he's towering in at 2.33M here in Lausanne, a full 11 centimeters taller than second-place Daniel Jacobsen (2.21M).
Rank | Name | National Team | Height |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Olivier Rioux | Canada | 2.33 (7'8) |
2 | Daniel Jacobsen | USA | 2.21 (7'3") |
3 | Amadou Seini | Cameroon | 2.16 (7'1") |
4 | Cesaire Yenan | Cameroon | 2.15 (7'1") |
- | Sinan Huan | China | 2.15 (7'1") |
6 | Julius Halaifonua | New Zealand | 2.14 (7'0") |
7 | Matthew Dann | Canada | 2.13 (7'0") |
- | Eric Reibe | Germany | 2.13 (7'0") |
- | Aleksa Dimitrijevic | Serbia | 2.13 (7'0") |
10 | Faris Mucharbach | Jordan | 2.12 (6'11") |
As the shortest player in Lausanne, Omar Salman might be the biggest underdog here in the competition. But he's earned his spot here as Jordan's sharpshooter.
The youngster shot 46.9 percent from three-point range at the U18 Asia Cup last year, including 5-for-7 from downtown in the Quarter-Finals against Korea to punch their ticket to this U19 World Cup.
Rank | Name | National Team | Height |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Omar Khaled Mahmoud Salman | Jordan | 1.70 (5'7") |
2 | Matteo Da Silva | Switzerland | 1.75 (5'9") |
3 | Thiago Sucatzky | Argentina | 1.78 (5'10") |
4 | Jordan Charles | Canada | 1.80 (5'11") |
- | Yi Yang | China | 1.80 (5'11") |
- | Zheng Zhu | China | 1.80 (5'11") |
- | Hannes Steinbach | Germany | 1.80 (5'11") |
- | Roy Sharon | Israel | 1.80 (5'11") |
- | Abdallah Abu-Saab | Jordan | 1.80 (5'11") |
10 | Wyllie Joshuan | Canada | 1.82 (6'0") |
Stefan Ilic from Canada is number 3 on the list
There will be 6 players who will only be 16 by the time the U19 World Cup officially tips-off and 3 of them are on the Cameroon national team roster. The youngest of the bunch is Gregory Kemet who was just less than two weeks away from being born in 2009.
Maybe we'll see some of these players again at the U19 World Cup in 2027.
Rank | Name | National Team | Birthdate |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gregory Kemet | Cameroon | 20-DEC-2008 |
2 | Franck Belbi | Cameroon | 1-NOV-2008 |
3 | Stefan Ilic | Canada | 22-OCT-2008 |
4 | David Wenga | Cameroon | 14-OCT-2008 |
5 | Dario Cokara | Switzerland | 28-AUG-2008 |
6 | Alassane Doucoure | Mali | 4-JUL-2008 |
7 | Keny Vado | France | 22-APR-2008 |
8 | Sekou Ousmane Bagayoko | Mali | 28-APR-2008 |
9 | Simon Gradin | Argentina | 31-MAR-2008 |
10 | Klark Riethauser | Switzerland | 29-MAR-2008 |
Note: Final national team rosters have been confirmed at the respective Technical Meetings.
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