Iran was crowned at the Asian Under-20 Basketball Championships on Friday, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported, according to www.iranmania.com .

The home team stunned the powerful China as it snatched a 75-50 victory on the court of Azadi Sports Complex in western Tehran.  China had beaten Iran 85-71 in the second round of the tournament, but seemed to be uninterested in this game, having clinched a spot in the 2005 world tournament in Argentina with a semifinal win over South Korea.

Earlier today, Qatar came from behind to defeat South Korea for third place, 67-65.

According to dashayu66 of www.yaomingmania.com/forum/index.php the chinese news agency Sina reported that China beat South Korea yesterday 94-83 and to reach the finals and guarantee a spot in next year's world tournament.  Iran defeated Qatar 57-46 in the other semifinal.

Pryuen of yaomingmania, also translating from a sina.com source, states that Wang Lei  (200-F-86), China's outstanding young perimeter player, has been averaging over 20 points in the tournament.   But the star of the semifinal match was Chen Da Wei (203-F-85) . He had been playing this tournament with a fever, but excelled in the final 5 minutes of this match. South Korea got close, narrowing the Chinese lead to 69-67 with a 3-pointer, after being behind for most of the game.

Then Chen was sent in from the bench and scored 6 consecutive points, and led his team to eventual 11 point margin.  He was the top scorer with 25 points and also grabbed 5 rebounds in 28 minutes of play.

Iran 57        Qatar 46

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Iran got a place in the world U20 in Argentina

Surprisingly Iran will fly to Argentina when the other 15 teams will be qualifying.

For the second time in a tournament Iran met Qatar in the semi final. Both have met already in the first round where Qatar bowed the Iranian giants 63-60 and it happen one more time when Hamed Ehdadi fired them by his 32 points.

Great Afternoon

It was 5 in the afternoon. No way for kidding. It was the last chance for reserving a place in the WU21. Who do you think may ignore this chance? Surely anyone. That’s why both side start the game seriously. But the question was that: who could stop giant Hamed Ehdadi? It’s the secret of the game. Hamed made head coach Ali Fakhroo speechless. Hamed got 32 points and showed his ability to every one in the Azadi gym.

Giant Hamed fired Qatar

The first 2 quarters was absolutely in control by him. He was the super star of the game. He earned all 12 points of the first quarter. The best moment was when he scored at the buzzer! 12-12 is the final result of the first quarter.

Ali Baheran; Star of the future

Without any doubt the future is belong to Ali Baheran, who plays as a guard in the Iran NT’s. When he came in the court, he changed the atmosphere of the game. He scored in the first minute of the 2-quarter and led Iran 41-38.His brilliant pass and steals helped Iran, by the way he defended really fine. 

Second Quarter

In the second quarter the fight continued between Hamed and Malek Salem Abdulla who was the best player of the Qatar. But Hamed pushed him back easily.

Although Kazakhstan was very good team, they didn't find better place than 10th. With the great performance of Roman Muravyov the blue side of central Asia won Malaysia today 88-74. He got 25 points while Anton Kotenko added 20.
In the game for 13th place Japan just disappointed Kuwait. They dominated from the first minutes. In the half time Japan was in front 39-30 and at the end they cheered by 79-60.
Let's talk about Chinese Taipei who defeated Jordan on Wednesday night 87-60 for playing in the qualification match. To day they crashed the aggressive Iraq. When Lee Hsueh Lin showed unstoppable, the Iraqis just raised their hand as he got 21. In the other court Mohammad DH was the best as usual. He got 20 points for Iraq while Rahman Soleeman added 11 and Sefan Yilda had 10.
For Jordan playing against Lebanon wasn't difficult.  They have a clever coach named Onika. Jordan who surprised Qatar 2 days ago, in the qualification match against Lebanon backed to the game and managed it up to end. 6-17, 23-13, 19-27 and 21-21 was the final result. When Roy Samaha put his ball in the Jordan Hoop the game was over, he got 2 more points for Lebanon to the locker room 62-69. Now they have to fight for place 7th with Iraq while Jordan should meet Chinese Taipei tomorrow. 
Here is the schedule of tomorrow's game:

11/12 plc.
09:00
Saudi Arabia- Philippine

7-8 plc
13:00
Lebanon - Iraq

5-6 plc
15:00
Jordan - Chinese Taipei