1968 European three-cushion championship

26th three-cushion European championship 1968
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Opening:	March 12, 1968
Endgame:	17th March 1968
Attendees:	11
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Johann Scherz
3rd place:	Laurent Boulanger
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,379 R. Ceulemans
Best ED:	1,818 R. Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	15 R. Ceulemans10
Venue on the map
Madrid
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The 1968 European three-cushion championship was the 26th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from March 14th to 17th, 1968 in Madrid . It was the third three-cushion European championship in Madrid after 1948 and 1953. The European Championship was originally awarded to Bilbao . For organizational reasons, the EM was moved to Madrid at short notice.

history

The usual picture of the last few years continued in Madrid. Once again, Raymond Ceulemans became the undefeated three-cushion European champion. Ceulemans once again achieved all of the tournament bests. But again there was no new European record. The performances of the players after him are also getting better and better. For the first time in the history of the European Championship, three players achieved a general average (GD) of over 1. Thus, at 0.893, the best tournament average in 36-year tournament history was achieved. That Belgium is a three-cushion power in Europe was once again shown with two championship medals. The only one who could keep up with the Belgians for years was the Austrian Johann Scherz . After two European Championship titles, he won his sixth silver medal in Madrid. Due to the live broadcast on Spanish TV, the final game between Ceulemans and Scherz started at 12 noon. The actually registered German Ernst Rudolph had to cancel the EM for family reasons. As a result, the younger brother of the German record champion August Tiedtke was reported. Gert Tiedtke showed a very good performance in his first EM appearance and ended up sixth.

mode

The game was played in the system “everyone against everyone” to 60 points with additional push / equal intake .

Closing table

Final ranking space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 20: 0 600 435 1,379 1,818 15th 2 Johann Scherz 16: 4 567 504 1.122 1.538 13 3 Laurent Boulanger 14: 6 552 480 1.150 1.538 8th 4th Roger Hanoun 13: 7 572 673 0.849 1,200 9 5 Cees van Oosterhout 11: 9 532 628 0.847 1.363 8th 6th Gert Tiedtke 8:12 485 621 0.780 1.153 13 7th Jacques Blanc 8:12 520 672 0.773 0.937 6th 8th Avelino Rico 6:14 506 590 0.857 1,250 7th 9 Klaus Christensen 6:14 457 569 0.803 1.071 13 10 Mario Ribeiro 4:16 472 617 0.764 1.052 9 11 Claudio Nadal 4:16 435 584 0.744 0.937 7th Tournament average: 0.893

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. ^ Helmut Schulz: Billard-Zeitung . 46th year, no. 4 . Krefeld April 1968, p. 49-51 .