Three Cushion European Championship 1953

10th three-cushion European championship 1953
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Madrid
Opening:	May 28, 1953
Endgame:	May 31, 1953
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	René Vingerhoedt
Winner:	René Vingerhoedt
2nd finalist:	August Tiedtke
3rd place:	Antonio Ventura
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1.005 René Vingerhoedt
Best ED:	1,428 René Vingerhoedt
Maximum series (HS):	8 René Vingerhoedt
Venue on the map
Madrid
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The three-cushion European championship in 1953 was the tenth tournament in this discipline of the carom and took place from 28 to 31 May 1953 in Madrid, Spain.

history

For the second time after 1948 , the Spanish capital hosted this European championship. For the third time in a row, the title went to Belgian René Vingerhoedt . Again he secured all tournament records and remained without a game loss. As in the previous year, August Tiedtke from Germany came in second. This constellation was to exist a total of six more times by 1960. Tiedtke never managed to beat Vingerhoedt.

The tournament average was over 0.700 for the first time at an EM. Three players with an individual average (BED) of over 1,000 were a small side record of this EM.

mode

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

Closing table

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; draw = 1; loser = 0)
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

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	GD	BED	HS
1	René Vingerhoedt	14: 0	1.005	1.428	8th
2	August Tiedtke	9: 5	0.796	0.943	7th
3	Antonio Ventura	8: 6	0.680	0.877	5
4th	Joaquin Domingo	6: 8	0.715	0.806	7th
5	Pierre Fauconnier	6: 8	0.683	1.041	7th
6th	Alfred Lagache	5: 9	0.629	0.746	6th
7th	João Pereira	4:10	0.650	1.020	7th
8th	Jan Sweering	4:10	0.561	0.657	5
Tournament average : 0.706

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 873 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Results 1953  ( 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 13, 2013.