{"id":45109,"date":"2025-07-07T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45109\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T04:40:12","slug":"aj-dybantsa-wins-gold-medal-at-fiba-u19-world-cup-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/45109\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa wins gold medal at FIBA U19 World Cup \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AJ Dybantsa has won his third gold medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The BYU freshman helped Team USA capture the tournament crown at the FIBA under-19 World Cup, culminating in a 109-76 victory over Germany in the gold medal game on Sunday in Lausanne, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dybantsa \u2014 who scored 11 points with six rebounds and two assists in the gold medal contest against Germany \u2014 earned MVP honors for the event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751863212_408_UHKGP77IT5E3JLPDLCGEIU5ZBI.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Special Collector&#8217;s Issue: &#8220;1984: The Year BYU was Second to None&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football&#8217;s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Across seven tournament games, Dybantsa averaged 14.3 points with 4.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.1 steals while shooting 50% from the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dybantsa\u2019s best World Cup performances included a 22-point outing against Canada in the quarterfinals, 18 points against Australia in the first match of group play and a 16-point, five rebound and four assist effort in group play\u2019s conclusion against Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In addition to his new U19 medal, Dybantsa has previously won gold at the U16 World Cup in 2023 and the U17 event in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With Sunday\u2019s win, Team USA now claims nine U19 World Cup titles in its history.<\/p>\n<p>AJ Dybantsa\u2019s Team USA teammates and coaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AJ Dybantsa has won his third gold medal. The BYU freshman helped Team USA capture the tournament crown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1680,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-45109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-news-feed-local","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114810115742761376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}