European three-cushion championship 1978

36th three-cushion European championship 1978
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	CEB / DDBU
Tournament details
Venue:	Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen
Opening:	February 21, 1978
Endgame:	February 26, 1978
Attendees:	12
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Peter Thøgersen
3rd place:	Ludo Dielis
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1.478 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	1,935 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	11 Johann Scherz Christ van der Smissen000 00000
Venue on the map
Copenhagen
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The three-cushion European championship in 1978 was the 36th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from February 21 to 26, 1978 in Copenhagen . It was the second three-cushion European Championship in Denmark after 1964.

history

The usual picture of the last few years continued in Copenhagen. Despite a loss in the last game against his compatriot Ludo Dielis , Raymond Ceulemans secured his 16th European three-cushion title. Again the battle for the first three places was in the foreground. They were important because they qualified for the three cushion World Cup in the American gaming metropolis Las Vegas . The strong Dane Peter Thøgersen took advantage of the home advantage and repeated his sensational second place at the 1972 European Championship in Dortmund . The French Richard Bitalis played an excellent tournament. With a new French record, he finished fourth. For the Austrian permanent medal collector Johann Scherz it was only enough for fifth place this time. The German Dieter Müller from Berlin set a new German record in the best individual average (BED) with 1.875 and achieved his best placement in three-cushion at European level with sixth place. Even if only very close, a new record in the tournament average was played again with 0.949 .

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: 2 651 441 1.476 1.935 10 2 Peter Thøgersen 16: 6 603 563 1.071 1.463 10 3 Ludo Dielis 16: 6 609 574 1.060 1,500 7th 4th Richard Bitalis 14: 8 610 525 1.161 1.666 10 5 Johann Scherz 14: 8 626 584 1.071 1.764 11 6th Dieter Müller 13: 9 612 635 0.963 1,875 10 7th Christ van der Smissen 12:10 565 588 0.964 1.621 11 8th Antonio Oddo 7:15 549 669 0.820 0.937 8th 9 Mats Noren 6:16 561 664 0.844 1.333 8th 10 John Søgaard 6:16 488 743 0.656 0.833 8th 11 Antonio Morais Vinagre 5:17 501 652 0.768 1.090 8th 12 Avelino Rico 3:19 548 656 0.835 0.983 7th Tournament average : 0.949

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. ^ Hans H. Gaßmann: Billard-Zeitung . 56th year, no. 4 . Düren April 1978, p. 6-7 .