European three-cushion championship 1997

54th three-cushion European championship 1997
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	Ranking tournament
Tournament format:	KO tournament
Organizer:	CEB
Tournament details
Venue:	Casino 2000, Bad Mondorf
Opening:	April 11, 1997
Endgame:	April 13, 1997
Attendees:	32
Defending champion:	Jozef Philipoom
Winner:	Daniel Sánchez
2nd finalist:	Jean-Christophe Roux
3rd place:	• Dion Nelin • Peter de Backer
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,579 Daniel Sánchez
Best ED:	2,173 Daniel Sánchez
Maximum series (HS):	13 Daniel Sánchez000
Venue on the map
Bad Mondorf
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The three-cushion European championship in 1997 was the 54th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from April 11th to 13th, 1997 in Bad Mondorf . It was the second three-cushion European Championship in Luxembourg after 1986.

history

Luxembourg took over the organization of the 54th European three-cushion championship at short notice. The championship was originally planned in Greece. The main sponsor should be a tobacco company. In the statutes of the CEB, however, it says that cigarette and tobacco companies are not allowed to sponsor European championships. Thus the EM was not financially viable for the Greeks. As in 1986, the Casino 2000 in Bad Mondorf was a perfect host. The winner was the outstanding Spaniard Daniel Sánchez , who achieved all tournament best performances. In the final against the surprise man of the tournament Jean-Christophe Roux, he won with 3-0 sets. Roux eliminated defending champion Jozef Philipoom after a tough fight in the first round and improved from game to game. But he had no chance in the final. Martin Horn from Essen could not repeat his previous success against Sánchez and lost against him in the quarterfinals with 2: 3. Horn finished a good fifth in the end.

mode

The tournament was played with 32 participants. The entire tournament was played on three sets of 15 points each. Third place was no longer played out. There was a bronze medal for each of the losers in the semi-finals.

Closing table

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 .)

Final ranking
phase	space	Surname	MP	SV	Pt.	Recording	GD	BED	BSD	HS
final	1	Daniel Sánchez	10-0	15: 5	267	169	1,579	2.173	7,500	13
	2	Jean-Christophe Roux	8: 2	12: 7	219	167	1,311	2.130	3,750	11
1/2 final	3	Dion Nelin	6: 2	10: 5	199	147	1.353	1.406	7,500	12
		Peter de Backer	6: 2	10: 7	191	163	1.171	1.666	2.142	7th
1/4 final	5	Martin Horn	4: 2	8: 6	180	138	1.304	1.346	3,000	7th
	6th	Brian Knudsen	4: 2	7: 6	151	120	1.258	1.357	3,750	8th
	7th	Egidio Vieira	4: 2	6: 5	84	106	0.792	0.800	3,000	5
	8th	Christian Rudolph	4: 2	6: 7	150	132	1.136	1.254	3,000	9
1/8 final	9	John Tijssens	2: 2	5: 3	95	67	1.417	1.730	3,750	12
	10	Manuel Fradinho	2: 2	5: 3	101	89	1.134	1.232	1,875	5
	11	Stefan Galla	2: 2	5: 4	112	93	1.204	1,239	1.666	5
	12	Eddy Leppens	2: 2	5: 4	113	109	1.036	0.983	1,500	7th
	13	Nikos Tremoulis	2: 2	4: 3	88	85	1.035	1.153	1.666	6th
	14th	Francis Forton	2: 2	5: 5	117	95	1,231	1.294	2.142	8th
	15th	Jorge Theriaga	2: 2	5: 5	126	141	0.893	1.059	1,875	5
	16	Gerhard Kostistansky	2: 2	3: 4	67	62	1.080	1.375	1,875	6th
1/16 finals	17th	Jozef Philipoom	0: 2	2: 3	70	61	1.147	---	1.666	6th
	18th	Koen Ceulemans	0: 2	2: 3	55	48	1,145	---	1,875	7th
	19th	Nalle Olsson	0: 2	2: 3	61	55	1.109	---	1,875	8th
	20th	Frank Martens	0: 2	2: 3	46	50	0.920	---	1,500	6th
	21st	Antonio Oddo	0: 2	2: 3	54	69	0.782	---	1,000	5
	22nd	Franz Stenzel	0: 2	2: 3	50	66	0.757	---	1,250	4th
	23	Mario Ribeiro	0: 2	1: 3	46	39	1.179	---	1,500	6th
	24	Eddy Merckx	0: 2	1: 3	47	47	1,000	---	1.666	5
	25th	Fonsy Grethen	0: 2	1: 3	42	45	0.933	---	0.937	8th
	26th	Mats Noren	0: 2	1: 3	49	58	0.844	---	1.153	4th
	27	Javier Minguell	0: 2	0: 3	26th	25th	1.040	---	---	4th
	28	Peter Banyai	0: 2	0: 3	25th	25th	1,000	---	---	4th
	29	Yilmaz Ozcan	0: 2	0: 3	31	32	0.968	---	---	5
	30th	Hans Laursen	0: 2	0: 3	33	38	0.868	---	---	5
	31	Robert Weingart	0: 2	0: 3	18th	37	0.486	---	---	7th
	32	Nikos Polychronopoulos	0: 2	0: 3	-	-	---	---	---	-
	Tournament average: 1.129

KO round

1/16 finals							1/8 final							1/4 final							1/2 final							final
	Jozef Philipoom	0	2	1.147
	Jean-Christophe Roux	2	3	0.983				Jean-Christophe Roux	2	3	1,875
	Gerhard Kostistansky	2	3	1.375				Gerhard Kostistansky	0	0	0.545
	Mario Ribeiro	0	1	1.179											Jean-Christophe Roux	2	3	1,580
	Eddy Merckx	0	1	1,000											Brian Knudsen	0	1	1.366
	Brian Knudsen	2	3	1.104				Brian Knudsen	2	3	1.357
	John Tijssens	2	3	1.730				John Tijssens	0	2	1.219
	Peter Banyai	0	0	1,000																		Jean-Christophe Roux	2	3	2.130
	Manuel Fradinho	2	3	1.323																		Dion Nelin	0	1	1,772
	Yilmaz Ozcan	0	0	0.968				Manuel Fradinho	0	2	1.018
	Dion Nelin	2	3	1.184				Dion Nelin	2	3	1.272
	Robert Weingart	0	0	0.486											Dion Nelin	2	3	1.406
	Jorge Theriaga	2	3	1.059											Egidio Vieira	0	1	0.938
	Franz Stenzel	0	2	0.757				Jorge Theriaga	0	2	0.743
	Egidio Vieira	2	-	---				Egidio Vieira	2	3	0.800
	Nikos Polychronopoulos	0	-	---																									Jean-Christophe Roux	0	0	0.555
	Nalle Olsson	0	2	1.109																									Daniel Sánchez	2	3	1.551
	Christian Rudolph	2	3	1.109				Christian Rudolph	2	3	1.254
	Mats Noren	0	1	0.844				Eddy Leppens	0	2	1,100
	Eddy Leppens	2	3	0.983											Christian Rudolph	0	0	0.961
	Antonio Oddo	0	2	0.782											Peter de Backer	2	3	1.666
	Peter de Backer	2	3	0.927				Peter de Backer	2	3	1.355
	Frank Martens	0	2	0.920				Francis Forton	0	2	1.159
	Francis Forton	2	3	1.294																		Peter de Backer	0	1	0.954
	Javier Minguell	0	0	1.040																		Daniel Sánchez	2	3	2.173
	Daniel Sánchez	2	3	1.730				Daniel Sánchez	2	3	1,270
	Fonsy Grethen	0	1	0.933				Stefan Galla	0	2	1.170
	Stefan Galla	2	3	1,239											Daniel Sánchez	2	3	1.534
	Nikos Tremoulis	2	3	1.153											Martin Horn	0	2	1.309
	Hans Laursen	0	0	0.868				Nikos Tremoulis	0	1	0.934
	Koen Ceulemans	0	2	1,145				Martin Horn	2	3	1.255
	Martin Horn	2	3	1.346

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Weingartner: Billiards . No. 95 . Vienna May 1997, p. 21-23 .
2. ↑ Jürgen Hahnel: Kick-off Das Billard Sport Magazin . 75th year, no. 6 . Dortmund June 1997, p. 34-35 .
3. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 903 .