Three Cushion European Championship 1969

27th three-cushion European championship 1969
Rini van Bracht
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, The Hague
Opening:	15th January 1969
Endgame:	19th January 1969
Attendees:	11
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Laurent Boulanger
3rd place:	Johann Scherz
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,538 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	2,222 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	14 Raymond Ceulemans10
Venue on the map
The hague
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The three-cushion European championship in 1969 was the 27th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from January 15 to 19, 1969 in the Dutch seat of government, The Hague . It was the seventh three-cushion European championship in the Netherlands since 1932. This makes the country the record host in this billiards discipline.

history

A three-cushion European championship of records took place in The Hague in 1969. Of course, the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans was once again the dominant player in the tournament. Ceulemans holds all world and European records, with the exception of the World Cup series. The new European record in the general average (GD) now stands at 1.538 . For the first time, a tournament average of over 0.9 was achieved with 0.926 . The victory for Ceulemans at this EM was extremely close. In the last round of the game, Ceulemans and his compatriot Laurent Boulanger met with a tie. So it was a real final, with Ceulemans having a better GD to defend the title with a draw. The big sports hall was filled to the last place during this duel. After initial equilibrium, Boulanger continued to break away and led in the 44th shot with 59:53. But then Ceulemans turned it up again and scored the necessary 7 points in 4 shots. Boulanger then made the draw in the second half. On January 18, 1969, the Dutch Prince Claus was in the tournament hall all day, creating a very special atmosphere. For the German surprise champion Dieter Häring from Berlin , it was only enough for 11th and last place in his first international appearance, albeit only very narrowly.

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 19: 1 600 390 1.538 2.222 14th 2 Laurent Boulanger 19: 1 600 511 1.174 1,500 9 3 Johann Scherz 16: 4 582 544 1.069 1.333 12 4th Jean Marty 12: 8 564 565 0.998 1.395 9 5 Kurt Thǿgersen 10:10 520 578 0.899 1.034 11 6th Rini van Bracht 10:10 523 602 0.868 1.176 10 7th Jan Doggen 8:12 510 610 0.836 0.909 7th 8th Avelino Rico 6:14 525 617 0.850 1,132 6th 9 Antonio Morais Vinagre 6:14 513 622 0.824 1.224 7th 10 Jacques Blanc 2:18 485 681 0.7121 0.759 7th 11 Dieter Haring 2:18 413 580 0.7120 0.769 7th Tournament average : 0.926

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 .)

Photo gallery

The participants at the game

Kurt Thǿgersen

Jean Marty

Avelino Rico

Web links

Commons : Three-Cushion European Championship 1969  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helmut Schulz: Billard-Zeitung . 47th volume, no. 3 . Krefeld March 1969, p. 33-34 .