Three-cushion European championship 1959

17th three-cushion European championship 1959
Tournament dates
Tournament type:
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Hilversum
Opening:	March 12, 1959
Endgame:	March 15, 1959
Attendees:	9
Defending champion:	Johann Scherz
Winner:	René Vingerhoedt
2nd finalist:	August Tiedtke
3rd place:	Bernard Siguret
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,041 René Vingerhoedt
Best ED:	1,428 August Tiedtke
Maximum series (HS):	1110 • Joaquin Domingo • Herman Popeijus 1000
Venue on the map
Hilversum
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The three-cushion European championship in 1959 was the 17th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from 12 to 15 March 1959 in Hilversum in the province of North Holland .

history

Once again the Belgian René Vingerhoedt showed his superiority in three-cushion billiards in Europe. He won all of his games and was once again the only one to play a general average (GD) of over 1. The German August Tiedtke became vice European champion for the sixth time. Since it was the first time to play up to 60 points, he set the first European record for this game length with 1,428 (60 points in 42 recordings). He played this against the Austrian defending champion Johann Scherz . With 0.935 he also improved his own German record in the general average. August Tiedtke was once again the absolute darling of the public due to his spectacular style of play. The organizer received great praise from all participants for the tasteful equipment of the tournament venue, which was filled to the last place every day. With Søren Søgaard, a Scandinavian took part in a European championship for the first time. This event was reported live on March 13th during a Eurovision broadcast.

mode

The game was “everyone against everyone” to 60 points with an equal number of additional points .

Closing table

Closing table space Surname MP GD BED HS 1 René Vingerhoedt 16: 0 1.041 1.363 9 2 August Tiedtke 12: 4 0.935 1.428 10 3 Bernard Siguret 10: 6 0.854 1,200 9 4th Joaquin Domingo 9: 7 0.817 1,000 11 5 Herman Popeijus 8: 8 0.802 1.016 11 6th Henny de Ruijter 8: 8 0.765 0.952 8th 7th Johann Scherz 7: 9 0.813 0.937 6th 8th Søren Søgaard 2:14 0.687 0.937 5 9 Jacques Blanc 0:16 0.561 --- 5 Tournament average : 0.800

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 .)

Web links

Commons : 1959 European three-cushion championship  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Krienen: Billard-Zeitung . tape 36 , no. 10 . Mönchen-Gladbach April 1959, p. 3-6 .