Three Cushion European Championship 1990

48th three-cushion European championship 1990
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	-
Tournament format:	Every man for himself
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Norrkoping
Opening:	March 15, 1990
Endgame:	March 18, 1990
Attendees:	20th
Defending champion:	Lennart Blomdahl
Winner:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2nd finalist:	Dick Jaspers
3rd place:	Paul Stroobants
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,434 Torbjorn Blomdahl
Best ED:	2,240 Dick Jaspers
Maximum series (HS):	15 Torbjörn Blomdahl10
Venue on the map
Norrkoping
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The three-cushion European championship in 1990 was the 48th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from 15 to 18 March 1990 in Norrköping in the Swedish province of Östergötland County . It was the second three-cushion European Championship in Sweden after 1980.

history

As in previous years, the European Championship was played with 20 participants. The German champion Hans-Jürgen Kühl prevailed in Group A and was the only one to win all of his preliminary round games. Against the defending champion Lennart Blomdahl, Kühl played his best average with 1,774. Blomdahl was only fourth and was eliminated. In the balanced group B, the artistry world champion Raymond Steylaerts and surprisingly the Greek George Sakkas prevailed. In Group C, the Italian Marco Zanetti had to be satisfied with third place due to the poor set ratio. Torbjörn Blomdahl and Dick Jaspers continued. In Group D, the two favorites Paul Stroobants and Rini van Bracht prevailed. In the quarterfinals that came out for the German champions. Severely weak in the flu, he was defeated by the Dutch ex-European champion Rini van Bracht. With the exception of Stroobants against Vierat, the other quarter-finals were clear affairs for the favorites. There were also clear victories in the semifinals. The excitement of the final, in front of fully occupied grandstands and live TV broadcast, was hard to beat. Blomdahl won the first set and Jaspers the second. Jaspers started the third sentence with a period. From a very difficult position Blomdahl knocked out the game with 15 points in the first shot. He was only the second player after the Japanese Nobuaki Kobayashi who succeeded in this at an international tournament. Jaspers won the fourth set again with 15: 4. Also in the fifth set Jaspers led 11: 8 in 7 takes. To great applause, Blomdahl finished the game with a series of seven points and was three-cushion European champion for the fourth time. The 24-year-old Dick Jaspers, who lost in the final, also made a very strong impression on his European Championship debut.

mode

In the preliminary round, the game was played in the "everyone against everyone" system for two sets of 15 points each. The first two in the group qualified for the quarter-finals. From the quarter-finals onwards, three sets of 15 points each were played. The losers in the knockout games played out places three to eight.

Group stage

Final table group A space Surname MP SV Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Hans-Jürgen Kühl 8-0 12: 3 207 168 1.232 1,774 8th 2 Egidio Vierat 6: 2 10: 7 224 217 1.052 1.806 11 3 Peter Thøgersen 4: 4 8: 7 160 154 1.038 1.636 8th 4th Lennart Blomdahl 2: 6 7: 9 200 169 1.183 1,250 9 5 Manuel Fradinho 0: 8 1:12 129 168 0.767 --- 4th Group average : 1.050 Final table group B space Surname MP SV Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Steylaerts 6: 2 11: 6 218 215 1.013 1,135 5 2 George Sakkas 6: 2 11: 7 228 293 0.778 1.285 6th 3 Richard Bitalis 4: 4 9: 7 202 202 1,000 1.285 7th 4th Christoph Pilss 4: 4 6: 8 156 150 1.040 1.261 7th 5 Hisham Saad 0: 8 3:12 148 220 0.672 --- 6th Group average : 0.881 Final table group C space Surname MP SV Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Torbjörn Blomdahl 6: 2 11: 4 204 145 1.406 1,786 8th 2 Dick Jaspers 6: 2 10: 4 186 146 1.273 2.240 13 3 Marco Zanetti 6: 2 10: 6 200 150 1.333 1,442 9 4th Jan Dutch 2: 6 4:11 136 217 0.626 0.614 7th 5 Gerhard Figl 0: 8 2:12 135 219 0.616 --- 6th Group average : 0.981 Final table group D space Surname MP SV Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Paul Stroobants 6: 2 11: 5 211 191 1.104 1.286 8th 2 Rini van Bracht 6: 2 11: 7 217 208 1.043 1,250 7th 3 John Korte 4: 4 9: 6 179 192 0.932 1.364 8th 4th Mikael Nilsson 2: 6 5:11 164 195 0.841 0.912 5 5 José Carrillo 2: 6 4:11 159 188 0.846 1.082 7th Group average : 0.954

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 .)

Finals

	Quarterfinals 3 winning sets of 15 points each								Semi-finals 3 winning sets of 15 points each								Final 3 winning sets of 15 points each
		MP	SP	GD	BSD	HS
	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2	3	1.551	-	5
										MP	SP	GD	BSD	HS
	George Sakkas	0	0	0.821	-	3
									Torbjörn Blomdahl	2	3	1.364	-	6th
		MP	SP	GD	BSD	HS
									Rini van Bracht	0	0	0.969	-	4th
	Rini van Bracht	2	3	1.184	-	6th
																		MP	SP	GD	BSD	HS
	Hans-Jürgen Kühl	0	0	0.864	-	6th
																	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2	3	1.512	15,000	15th
		MP	SP	GD	BSD	HS
																	Dick Jaspers	0	2	1.410	-	8th
	Egidio Vierat	0	2	1.036	-	7th
										MP	SP	GD	BSD	HS
	Paul Stroobants	2	3	1.148	-	6th
									Paul Stroobants	0	1	1.464	-	6th
		MP	SP	GD	BSD	HS
									Dick Jaspers	2	3	1.724	-	7th
	Raymond Steylaerts	0	1	1,344	-	8th
	Dick Jaspers	2	3	1,600	-	7th

Closing table

Final ranking space Surname MP SV Pts Recording GD BED HS 1 Torbjörn Blomdahl 12: 2 20: 6 353 246 1.434 1,786 15th 2 Dick Jaspers 10: 4 18: 9 339 244 1.389 2.240 13 3 Paul Stroobants 10: 4 (2: 0) 18:12 374 (60) 323 (50) 1,139 (1,200) 1.285 (1.200) 8th 4th Rini van Bracht 8: 6 (0: 2) 16:13 345 (52) 327 (49) 1.055 (1.061) 1.250 (---) 7th 5 Hans-Jürgen Kühl 10: 2 (2: 0) 15: 8 306 (67) 278 (73) 1.100 (0.918) 1,774 (0.918) 8th 6th Raymond Steylaerts 6: 6 (0: 2) 14:12 314 (57) 317 (73) 0.990 (0.780) 1.134 (---) 8th 7th George Sakkas 8: 4 (2: 0) 14:12 315 (64) 394 (73) 0.799 (0.877) 1.285 (0.877) 7th 8th Egidio Vierat 6: 6 (0: 2) 14:13 346 (65) 344 (72) 1.005 (0.903) 1.806 (---) 11 9 Marco Zanetti 6: 2 10: 6 200 150 1.333 1.446 9 10 John Korte 4: 4 9: 6 179 192 0.932 1.363 8th 11 Richard Bitalis 4: 4 9: 7 202 202 1,000 1.285 7th 12 Peter Thøgersen 4: 4 8: 7 160 154 1.038 1.636 8th 13 Christoph Pilss 4: 4 6: 8 156 150 1.040 1,260 7th 14th Lennart Blomdahl 2: 6 7: 9 200 169 1.183 1,250 9 15th Mikael Nilsson 2: 6 5:11 164 195 0.841 0.911 5 16 Jan Dutch 2: 6 4:11 136 217 0.626 0.613 7th 17th José Carrillo 2: 6 4:11 159 188 0.846 1.081 7th 18th Hisham Saad 0: 8 3:12 148 220 0.672 --- 6th 19th Gerhard Figl 0: 8 2:12 135 219 0.616 --- 6th 20th Manuel Fradinho 0: 8 1:12 129 168 0.768 --- 4th Tournament average : 0.990

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. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Heinrich Weingartner: Billard . No. 22 . Vienna March 1990, p. 14-15 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Rolf Kalb : Billard-Zeitung . 68th year, no. 5 . Oldenburg May 1990, p. 18-19 .