Cadre 47/2 World Championship 1978

42nd Cadre 47/2 World Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	Sports hall Rheton, Rheden
Opening:	April 6, 1978
Endgame:	April 9, 1978
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	Hans Vultink
Winner:	Francis Connesson
2nd finalist:	Ludo Dielis
3rd place:	Dieter Wirtz
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	085.07 Ludo Dielis
Best ED:	400.00 Ludo Dielis
Maximum series (HS):	000400 Ludo Dielis
Venue on the map
Rheden
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The 1978 Cadre 47/2 World Championship was the 42nd World Championship, which was held until 1947 in Cadre 45/2 and from 1948 in Cadre 47/2. The tournament took place from April 6th to 8th, 1978 in Rheden . It was the seventh Cadre 47/2 (45/2) World Championship in the Netherlands.

history

Never before has a Cadre 47/2 World Championship started with such a strong starting class. Were reported Ludo Dielis with 162.43 GD, Francis Connesson with 120.69 GD and Osvaldo Berardi with 112.53 GD. In a very exciting and high-class tournament, Connesson prevailed in the end. He only lost to Berardi. Ludo Dielis came second with all tournament best performances. He lost to Franz Stenzel and to Connesson. A surprising third place went to Dieter Wirtz from Düsseldorf. Dielis was the fifth player to play a game of up to 400 points in one shot at a Cadre 47/2 World Championship. That is the setting of the world record in the BED.

Tournament mode

It was played in the round robin system up to 400 points. In the event of a tie in the MPs, the following order is taken:

1. MP = match points
2. GD = general average
3. HS = maximum series

Closing table

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0)
Pts.	Achieved collisions
Recording	Required attempts
GD	General average
BED	Best individual average by a player
HS	Maximum series
	Best GD of the tournament
	Best ED of the tournament
	Best HS of the tournament
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	Pts.	Recording	GD	BED	HS
1	Francis Connesson	12: 2	2783	35	79.51	133.33	388
2	Ludo Dielis	10: 4	2382	28	85.07	400.00	400
3	Dieter Wirtz	8: 6	1898	38	49.94	80.00	225
4th	Piet Vet	8: 6	2348	54	43.48	100.00	263
5	Franz Stenzel	6: 8	2165	49	25.84	200.00	223
6th	Louis Havermans	6: 8	1829	47	38.91	50.00	168
7th	Osvaldo Berardi	4:10	2002	40	50.05	66.66	248
8th	Nobuaki Kobayashi	2:12	1638	36	45.50	100.00	214
Tournament average: 51.93

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans H. Grassmann: Billard Sport . 56th year, no. 5 . Düren May 1978, p. 10-11 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 198 .