Three Cushion European Championship 1951

8th three-cushion European championship 1951
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Antwerp
Opening:	February 8, 1950
Endgame:	February 11, 1950
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	Bert Wevers
Winner:	René Vingerhoedt
2nd finalist:	Alfred Lagache
3rd place:	Léonard Dessart
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	0.895 René Vingerhoedt0
Best ED:	1,020 • René Vingerhoedt • Léonard Dessart 00000
Maximum series (HS):	9 René Vingerhoedt00000
Venue on the map
Antwerp
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The three-cushion European championship in 1951 was the eighth tournament in this discipline of the collision and took place from February 8 to 11, 1950 in Antwerp, Belgium .

history

For the first time the European Championship took place in the Belgian metropolis. As if this were a hint, the runner-up from 1947 and 1949 , René Vingerhoedt , won the title from the host country. He was not to give it up until 1957, the year of the double EM. This started the 32-year-old Belgian dominance in this tournament series. Until 1983 only two non-Belgians will win here; - Bernard Siguret from France (1957) and the Austrian Johann Scherz 1958. Otherwise the title went 21 × to Raymond Ceulemans and 1 × to Arnold de Pappe (1972).

Vingerhoedt also secured all tournament records, but he had to share the best individual average with his third-placed compatriot Léonard Dessart . It was the first European Championship since 1939 that the winner won without losing a game. Unique to date; - Vingerhoedt won five points ahead of second.

mode

The game was “everyone against everyone” to 50 points with an equal number of shots .

Oddities

Average is (not) everything! The Dutch Bert Wevers was at the EM in 1949 with a general average (GD) of 0.522 last of the tournament. In 1950 he was able to increase the GD by 62 thousandths and won with 0.584 and at the current EM he increased his GD again by another 9 thousandths to 0.593 and was ... again last!

Closing table

Final ranking space Surname MP GD BED HS 1 René Vingerhoedt 14: 0 0.895 1.020 9 2 Alfred Lagache 9: 5 0.640 0.735 7th 3 Léonard Dessart 8: 6 0.702 1.020 8th 4th Antonio Ventura 7: 7 0.724 0.847 7th 5 Marcel Lacroix 7: 7 0.653 0.769 8th 6th Joaquin Domingo 5: 9 0.670 0.793 8th 7th Ries Kok 4:10 0.583 0.961 7th 8th Bert Wevers 2:12 0.593 0.714 7th Tournament average: 0.676

Legend Abbr. meaning Pt. points scored Recording required recordings ED Single average GD General average VGD Relative general average BMD Best team average BED Best individual average BSD Best sentence average BEVD Best Individual Relative Average HS Maximum series MP Match points PP Lot of points GUV G ewonnen- U nentschieden- V erloren SV Sentence ratio 1st place (gold) 2nd place (silver) 3rd place (bronze) Best GD of the tournament / round Best VGD of the tournament / round Best ED of the tournament / round Best BVGD of the tournament / round Best HS of the tournament / round (It is possible that not all terms are used or some are not listed. These can be looked up in the list of collision terms .)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 872 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Results 1951  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Hekerle.net. Retrieved February 12, 2013.  
3. ↑ Did you know about billiards that ... on BSC-Girbelsrath.de. Retrieved September 5, 2012.