Three Cushion European Championship 1955

12th three-cushion European championship 1955
The finalist Herman Popeijus (left) congratulates the winner René Vingerhoedt (right)
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky , Amsterdam
Opening:	February 10, 1955
Endgame:	February 13, 1955
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	René Vingerhoedt
Winner:	René Vingerhoedt
2nd finalist:	Herman Popeijus
3rd place:	Walter Lütgehetmann
Records
Best GD:	1.017 René Vingerhoedt
Best ED:	1,388 René Vingerhoedt
Maximum series (HS):	15 Herman Popeijus
Venue on the map
Amsterdam
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The three-cushion European championship in 1955 was the twelfth tournament in this discipline of the carom and took place from February 10th to 13th, 1955 in Amsterdam .

history

The Dutch metropolis hosted the European Championship for the fourth time after 1932 , 1935 and 1950 . The number of participants fell back to eight players.

The Belgian René Vingerhoedt won for the fifth time in a row. Unlike in previous years, when he always played without losses, this time there was a draw against the Austrian Johann Scherz , who was only last in the end. Runner-up was the newcomer Herman Popeijus from the Netherlands. With a maximum series of 15, he achieved a new European Championship record. The old record 12, from 1948, of the four-time European Championship winner Alfred Lagache was history. Last year's runner-up, Walter Lütgehetmann, had to be content with third place due to the poor general average .

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	13: 1	1.017	1.388	8th
2	Herman Popeijus	10: 4	0.884	1.351	15th
3	Walter Lütgehetmann	10: 4	0.813	0.980	8th
4th	Bernard Siguret	10: 4	0.783	0.943	8th
5	João Pereira	4:10	0.724	1.111	7th
6th	Pierre Fauconnier	4:10	0.706	0.806	5
7th	Alejandro Romero	4:10	0.630	0.909	5
8th	Johann Scherz	1:13	0.656	0.684	8th
Tournament average : 0.771

Web links

Commons : Three-Cushion European Championship 1955  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. 874 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Results 1955  ( 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 8, 2013.