Three cushion world cup

Three cushion world cup
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World ranking tournament (3 to 10 times a year)
Tournament format:	Round robin , knockout
Association / host:	UMB ; until 2003 BWA
Tournament details
Venue:	changing
Playing time:	since 1986
Current title holder:	Dick Jaspers (2019)
Records
Most wins: 44
Torbjörn Blomdahl
Best GD: 2.777
Daniel Sánchez (2017 in Luxor )
Best ED: 6.666
Semih Saygıner (2018 in La Baule )
Maximum series (HS): 24
Jérémy Bury (2013 in Guri ) Cho Myung-woo (2018 in Seoul ) Dick Jaspers (2019 in Veghel )
Position map
Due to the number of venues , one card was not used. To view the venues on a map, please use the map links at the top right.

Cup of the annual overall winner (2017)

The typical, blue-covered table at the 4th World Cup 2013 in Medellin, Colombia

Contract status between the BWA and UMB between 1988 and 1991 (billard, No. 80, 12-1995)

The three-cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in carom , which has been held between three and ten times a year since 1986.

history

The World Cup was founded in 1985 by Werner Bayer, a billiards enthusiast and patron. He wanted to give amateur players the chance of a professional career through better earnings. In order to differentiate himself from the amateurs when playing, he introduced the blue cloth to the World Cups. The book that he later published about the history of "his" World Cup is therefore also called "Das Blaue Karree - The Blue Square". The blue cloth later found its way into the Bundesliga and is still a distinguishing feature of carom billiards today.

He called the association " Billiards Worldcup Association " (BWA) and in 1986 the first tournament was held in Paris. As a patron he had good contacts to sponsors, and the tournament quickly developed into a popular meeting place for players and spectators. The World Cup had one of the highest prizes at the time. From 1986 to 1989 the prize money per tournament was around 100,000 DM, the winner received 50,000 DM. The BWA organized the World Cup together with the world association, the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB).

Between 1988 and 1994 the UMB itself no longer hosted any world championships and so the World Cup became a quasi World Cup for four years (1988–1991) in which the overall World Cup winners were named world champions. In 1994 there were differences between the two associations. The UMB then blocked players (including players' women!), Referees and organizers who took part in the World Cup from participating in the UMB and CEB tournaments. Between 1994 and 1997 there were two World Cups held in parallel. The BWA, as usual, played 3rd place (the only exception was the 1997/7 tournament), whereas the UMB did not and consequently there were two 3rd places (since taking over the tournament in 1999, this is with a few Exceptions, so far regulated).

After the dispute was settled, the UMB and the BWA continued the tournament together until the end of 2003 (World Cup Las Vegas). After Mr Bayer withdrew from the BWA in 1999 (World Cup Berlin) for health reasons, the World Cup tournaments were continued under the new leadership of BWA Cor van Erp. But there were again differences with the UMB. In 2003 the BWA dissolved and since 2004 the World Cup tournaments have been organized solely by the UMB in cooperation with a local host.

The tournaments organized by the UMB from 1994 onwards were mastered in cooperation with the European sub-association Confédération Européenne de Billard (CEB). Since 2004 the World Cup has been held as UMB / CEB (in Europe), UMB / CPB (in America), UMB / ACBC World Cup (in Asia) and since 2014 as UMB / ACC in Africa. The prize money has been € 106,500 per tournament since 2018.

The individual results of the 1997/1 World Cup were lost immediately after the tournament and could not be researched by the billiard archivists Heinrich Weingartner and Dieter Haase (both editors of the three-volume "Encyclopedia of Billiards") until today.

In 2017, for the first time, an Asian overall winner became the winner. The Korean Kim Haeng-jik was only the second non-European player to win this title since Sang Chun Lee in 1993. He made this victory possible with two tournament victories in 2017.

184 world cup tournaments had been held by the end of 2019. The Netherlands leads with 25 events, followed by Turkey with 24 and Egypt with 22. In terms of the host locations, the Egyptian holiday resort Hurghada leads with 13, Porto with 11 and Oosterhout with 10. Berlin and Antalya each hosted 9 tournaments.

mode

Initially, the game was played in the set system up to 15 points, with two winning sets in the qualification and then three winning sets in the final round. In 2013 they switched to the point system, with up to 30 points being played in the qualification and up to 40 points in the final round. At the turn of the season in 2019, the first final round will also be played as a group round (8 ×) with 4 players each.

Up to and including 2012, the shot clock was set to 50 seconds, from 2013 to 2019 it was then reduced to 40 seconds, with each player having a maximum of three extensions available.

New regulations from January 1, 2020

round	mode	distance	Follow-up	Penalty	Shot clock
Pre-qualifications	Group of 3, Round Robin	30th			3 × 30s
Qual	Group of 3, Round Robin	40			4 × 30s
Last 32	Group of 4, Round Robin	40			4 × 30s
from 8el finals	Single, knockout system	50			4 × 30s

Swell:

Prize money and world ranking points

In contrast to the normal season, the rated game season for the World Cup runs from January to December. The overall winner will be determined after the end of the last annual tournament based on the achieved WC points. There is no separate tournament. To be able to choose an overall winner, at least four tournaments must be held during the current season (as of May 2018) . A match between the world champion and the overall world cup winner will take place in Antwerp at the World Super Cup & Player of the Year , organized by ex-world champion and world cup winner Ludo Dielis .

In the individual tournaments, the best 53 players will receive prize money totaling € 106,500. In addition, all participants receive world ranking points (= World Cup points).

At the end of the year, when the overall winner is chosen, the top twelve players receive a further payment in prize money. The prize money shown in the table below applies from 2018. The prize money for the overall winners has been discontinued since 2018.

Prize money ( € ) individual tournament World ranking points winner (1 ×) 16,000 80 finalist (1 ×) 10,000 54 Semi-finalists (2 ×) 6,000 38 05th - 08th (4 ×) 3,500 26th 09-16 (8 ×) 2,500 16 17th - 32nd (16 ×) 1,500 8th Qual (21 ×) 500 5 P-qual - 4th PP qual - 3 PPP qual - 2 All in all 106,500 -

Prize money for overall winners space € 1 5,000 2 3,700 3 2,500 4th 2,000 5 1,700 6th 1,600 7th 1,500 8th 1,400 9 1,300 10 1,200 11 1,100 12 1,000 All in all 24,000

(As of December 20, 2017)

Records

→ Main article : List of records in three cushion

Game slip from Jérémy Bury's World Cup record of 24 points in the HS (round of 16 against Filipos Kasidokostas )

• Record winner is Torbjörn Blomdahl with 44 individual and 11 overall wins.
• The general average (GD) of 2,777 was played by Daniel Sánchez (2017 in Luxor).
• The best individual average (ED) was achieved by Semih Saygıner with 6,666 (40  points in 6  recordings , played on October 27, 2018 in La Baule).
• The highest series at world cup tournaments has stood at 24  points since 2013 , set up by Jérémy Bury at the world cup tournament in Guri, Korea . Bury knocked out the game, which was set for 40 points, with a final streak of 24. This ended not because of a mistake, but because of reaching the goal of the game. On November 15, 2018, Cho Myung-woo from South Korea equalized the record. On October 25, 2019 in Veghel, Dick Jaspers also managed to set the record.
• One set in 1 recording (which was also the highest series until 2012) at a world cup tournament has achieved so far:

1. Nobuaki Kobayashi (Valkenburg 1986)
2. Torbjörn Blomdahl (Gent 1991, Istanbul 1995)
3. Marco Zanetti (Hall 1997, Antwerp 2004, Sluiskil 2007, Alcalá de Guadaira 2008)
4. Semih Saygıner (Antwerp 1997)
5. Eddy Leppens (Oosterhout 1998, Sluiskil 2007)
6. Raimond Burgman (Las Vegas 1999)
7. Raymond Ceulemans (Oosterhout 1999)
8. Paul Stroobants (Postage 2006)
9. Frédéric Caudron (Seville 2004, Hurghada 2007)
10. Daniel Sánchez (Seville 2004, Hurghada 2009, Antalya 2012)
11. Dick Jaspers (Sluiskil 2005)
12. Peter de Backer (Barendrecht 2005)
13. Choi Jae-dong (Barendrecht 2005)
14. Jérémy Bury (Hurghada 2006, Antalya 2009)
15. Tayfun Taşdemir (Istanbul 2006)
16. Barry van Beers (Sluiskil 2008)
17. Kim Kyung-roul (Hurghada 2009, Hurghada 2011)
18. Kim Bong-soo (Suwon 2010)
19. Murat Naci Çoklu (Hurghada 2010)
20. Antonio Ortiz Torrent (Suwon 2011)
21. Dave Christiani (Vienna 2011)
22. Um Sang-pil (Suwon 2012)

Tournament record development

In the set system, the best individual average (ED) is only rated in a game with 3 winning sets. This also applies to the GD, where at least five games must be played. Since the maximum series of 15 points was achieved a total of 42 times in the times of the sentence system, players who have achieved this number of points several times are only mentioned with their first series. The numbers in brackets indicate the frequency.

General average (GD) GD Surname year 1.257 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/1 1.516 Raymond Ceulemans 1986/2 1.643 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4 1.728 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1987/2 1,891 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/2 1,947 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/6 2.204 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1992/5 2.250 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1994/4 2.308 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1995/9 2,420 Frédéric Caudron 2011/4 2,465 Dick Jaspers 2013/1 2.739 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2013/3 2,777 Daniel Sánchez 2017/2

Single Average (ED) BED Surname year 1.956 Allen Gilbert 1986/1 1,960 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4 2.093 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1987/2 2.142 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/1 2.812 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1988/2 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1991/1 3.214 Dick Jaspers 1994/3 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1994/4 5,000 Frédéric Caudron 1996/6 5.714 Eddy Merckx 2013/1 Frédéric Caudron 2017/1 Eddy Leppens 2017/4 6.666 Semih Saygıner 2018/5

Maximum series (HS) HS Surname year 13 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/1 15th Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4 Torbjorn Blomdahl (4) 1991/1 Semih Saygıner 1997/8 Eddy Leppens (2) 1998/8 Raimond Burgman 1999/2 Raymond Ceulemans 1999/5 Daniel Sánchez (3) 2004/3 Frédéric Caudron (2) 2004/3 Marco Zanetti (4) 2004/5 Dick Jaspers (2) 2005/1 Peter de Backer 2005/3 Choi Jae-dong 2005/3 Paul Stroobants 2006/2 Jérémy Bury (3) 2006/2 Tayfun Taşdemir 2006/5 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2007/6 Barry van Beers 2008/1 Andreas Efler 2008/5 Eddy Merckx 2009/3 Kim Kyung-roul (2) 2009/5 Kim Bong-soo 2010/2 Murat Naci Çoklu 2010/4 Roland Forthomme 2010/4 Antonio Ortiz-Torrent 2011/3 Dave Christiani 2011/4 Adnan Yüksel 2011/5 Kim Hyun-suk 2012/2 To Sang-pil 2012/2 17th Eddy Merckx 2013/1 24 Jérémy Bury 2013/2 Cho Myung-woo 2018/6 Dick Jaspers 2019/5

Tournament statistics

• The general average (GD) relates to the entire tournament.

Color legend

BWA World Cups

UMB / CEB Parallel World Cups (1994 to 1997)

counted as world championships

jointly organized World Cups (UMB / BWA)

UMB World Cups

Current World Cup record in the GD (as of April 1, 2017)

Individual winner

No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	place 3	GD
001	1986/1	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1.157	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.257	Allen Gilbert	1.029
002	1986/2	Brussels	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.515	Raymond Ceulemans	1.516	Rini van Bracht	1.198
003	1986/3	Berlin	Egidio Vierat	1.098	Raymond Ceulemans	1.116	Luis Mario Doyharzabal	1,250
004th	1986/4	Valkenburg	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.643	Raymond Ceulemans	1.430	Jun'ichi Komori	1.305
005	1987/1	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1.303	Marco Zanetti	1,145	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,213
006th	1987/2	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.728	Raymond Ceulemans	1.253	Ludo Dielis	1.409
007th	1987/3	Berlin	Jun'ichi Komori	1.364	Raymond Ceulemans	1.726	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.496
008th	1987/4	Valkenburg	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,500	Marco Zanetti	1.130	Jun'ichi Komori	1.142
009	1988/1	Paris	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,360	Dieter Müller	1.168	Raymond Ceulemans	1,442
010	1988/2	Antwerp	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.507	Jun'ichi Komori	1.724	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,891
011	1988/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.764	Jun'ichi Komori	1,380	Raymond Ceulemans	1.375
012	1988/4	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.298	Jun'ichi Komori	1,212	Ludo Dielis	1.404
013	1988/5	Valkenburg	Laurent Boulanger	1.395	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.318	Raymond Ceulemans	1.267
014th	1988/6	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,947	Akio Shimada	1,145	Raymond Ceulemans	1.180
015th	1989/1	Antwerp	Richard Bitalis	1,311	Ludo Dielis	1.406	Rini van Bracht	1,238
016	1989/2	Berlin	Ludo Dielis	1.466	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,311	Yoshihiko Mano	1.170
017th	1989/3	Palma	Raymond Ceulemans	1.280	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.275	Ludo Dielis	1.352
018th	1989/4	Las Vegas	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.558	Jun'ichi Komori	0.971	Raymond Ceulemans	1.406
019th	1989/5	Yokohama	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.406	Ludo Dielis	1,310	Jun'ichi Komori	1,342
020th	1990/1	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.671	Raymond Ceulemans	1,500	Dick Jaspers	1.266
021st	1990/2	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1.521	Richard Bitalis	1.356	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.503
022nd	1990/3	Berlin	Ludo Dielis	1.644	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.909	Raymond Ceulemans	1.330
023	1990/4	Norrkoping	Raymond Ceulemans	1.648	Richard Bitalis	1.425	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.484
024	1990/5	Palma	Marco Zanetti	1.760	Raymond Ceulemans	1.603	Richard Bitalis	1.447
025th	1990/6	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.632	Ludo Dielis	1.284	Raymond Ceulemans	1.584
026th	1991/1	Ghent	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.758	Sang Chun Lee	1.482	Richard Bitalis	1,315
027	1991/2	Berlin	Sang Chun Lee	1.492	Raymond Ceulemans	1,570	Richard Bitalis	1,335
028	1991/3	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.616	Raymond Ceulemans	1.857	Dick Jaspers	1,579
029	1991/4	Seoul	Raymond Ceulemans	1.356	Yoshihiko Mano	1.024	Ludo Dielis	1.106
030th	1991/5	Tokyo	Dick Jaspers	1.712	Marco Zanetti	1,587	Ludo Dielis	1.161
031	1992/1	Oosterhout	Rini van Bracht	1.488	Frédéric Caudron	1.215	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.756
032	1992/2	Ghent	Sang Chun Lee	1.578	Ludo Dielis	1.505	Raymond Ceulemans	1.469
033	1992/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,796	Dick Jaspers	1.413	Jose Paniagua	1.181
034	1992/4	Orleans	Raymond Ceulemans	1.492	Jun'ichi Komori	1.248	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.432
035	1992/5	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.204	Raymond Ceulemans	1.396	Richard Bitalis	1.424
036	1992/6	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.658	Sang Chun Lee	1.648	Raymond Ceulemans	1.441
037	1993/1	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.462	Raymond Ceulemans	1,540	Sang Chun Lee	1.516
038	1993/2	Istanbul	Sang Chun Lee	1.524	Raymond Ceulemans	1,539	Ludo Dielis	1.224
039	1993/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.681	Marco Zanetti	1.401	Semih Saygıner	1,566
040	1993/4	Tokyo	Raymond Ceulemans	1.461	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.485	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.472
041	1993/5	Bolzano	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.904	Tonny Carlsen	1.678	Dick Jaspers	1.621
042	1994/1	Ghent	Sang Chun Lee	1.181	Frédéric Caudron	1.358	Marco Zanetti	1,539
043	1994/2	Cairo	Koen Ceulemans	1,231	Daniel Sánchez	1.263	Christian Rudolph	1.095
044	1994/3	Istanbul	Dick Jaspers	1.758	Raymond Ceulemans	1,590	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,576
045	1994/4	Oosterhout	Christoph Pilss	1.402	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.250	Sang Chun Lee	1.666
046	1994/5	Halle (Saale)	Dick Jaspers	2.007	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.660	Raimond Burgman	1.432
047	1994/6	Dongen	Jorge Theriaga	1.409	Rini van Bracht	1.160	John Tijssens	1.176
048	1994/7	Ghent	Semih Saygıner	1.567	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.672	Ludo Dielis	1.428
049	1995/1	Vejle	Andreas Efler	1.377	Daniel Sánchez	1.363	John Tijssens	1.347
050	1995/2	Athens	Daniel Sánchez	1.456	Jorge Theriaga	1.282	Eddy Merckx	1.484
051	1995/3	Bad Mondorf	Rini van Bracht	1.376	Christian Rudolph	1.513	Jorge Theriaga	1,335
052	1995/4	postage	Daniel Sánchez	1.366	Leon Smolders	1.142	Eddy Merckx	1.215
053	1995/5	Hooglede	Hans Laursen	1.247	Rini van Bracht	1.111	Dion Nelin	1,236
054	1995/6	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1.807	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,842	Sang Chun Lee	1,316
055	1995/7	Halle (Saale)	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,824	Raymond Ceulemans	1.388	Tonny Carlsen	1.431
056	1995/8	Antwerp	Raymond Ceulemans	1.757	Marco Zanetti	1.473	Louis Havermans	1.258
057	1995/9	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.308	Raymond Ceulemans	1.535	Raimond Burgman	1.170
No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	3rd place or semi-finalists	GD
058	1996/1	Antalya	Jorge Theriaga	1.295	Eddy Leppens	1,324	Daniel Sánchez	1.288
							Koen Ceulemans	1.187
059	1996/2	postage	Dion Nelin	1.489	Jozef Philipoom	1,270	Daniel Sánchez	1,300
							Hans Laursen	1.069
060	1996/3	Hooglede	Ludo Dielis	1.347	Daniel Sánchez	1.581	Eddy Merckx	1.410
							Peter de Backer	1.244
061	1996/4	Athens	Francis Forton	1.228	Christian Rudolph	1.327	Jorge Theriaga	1.246
							Egidio Vieira	1.244
062	1996/5	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1.690	Marco Zanetti	1.704	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.914
063	1996/6	Daegu	Raimond Burgman	1,379	Sang Chun Lee	1.433	Marco Zanetti	1.573
064	1996/7	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.524	Semih Saygıner	1.375	Raymond Ceulemans	1.488
065	1996/8	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.651	Tonny Carlsen	1.285	Dick Jaspers	1.532
066	1997/1	Seoul	Christian Rudolph	?, ???	Jorge Theriaga	?, ???	Daniel Sánchez	?, ???
							Kim Chul-min	?, ???
067	1997/2	Salsomaggiore Terme	Yilmaz Ozcan	1.325	Martin Horn	1,145	Dion Nelin	1.038
							Stefan Galla	1.230
068	1997/3	postage	Dion Nelin	1.575	Daniel Sánchez	1.685	Eddy Leppens	1.268
							Stefan Galla	1.137
069	1997/4	Hooglede	Eddy Merckx	1.343	Martin Horn	1.389	Yilmaz Ozcan	1.356
							Eddy Leppens	1.423
070	1997/5	Herne	Christian Rudolph	1.410	Eddy Leppens	1.189	Fonsy Grethen	1.073
							Peter de Backer	1.385
071	1997/6	Oosterhout	Frédéric Caudron	1.662	Dick Jaspers	1.685	Semih Saygıner	1.244
072	1997/7	Antalya	Dick Jaspers	1.805	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.964	Daniel Sánchez	1.605
							Andreas Efler	1,324
073	1997/8	Antwerp	Dick Jaspers	1,583	Gerwin Valentijn	1,500	Frédéric Caudron	1.475
074	1998/1	Barendrecht	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.089	Dion Nelin	1.296	Marco Zanetti	1.692
							Sang Chun Lee	1.482
075	1998/2	Bussum	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.983	Dick Jaspers	2.150	Marco Zanetti	1,598
							Henk Habraken	1,239
076	1998/3	Lisbon	Dick Jaspers	1.660	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.704	Dion Nelin	1.518
							Semih Saygıner	1.366
077	1998/4	Hooglede	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.033	Dick Jaspers	2,314	Frédéric Caudron	1.321
							Christian Rudolph	1.475
078	1998/5	Corfu	Dick Jaspers	1.568	Jorge Theriaga	1.244	Ben Velthuis	1.230
							Raimond Burgman	1.456
079	1998/6	Bogotá	Frédéric Caudron	1.532	Carlos Hallon	1.153	Raimond Burgman	1.363
							Semih Saygıner	1.224
080	1998/7	Torremolinos	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.486	Eddy Leppens	1.318	Raymond Ceulemans	1.516
							Semih Saygıner	1.295
081	1998/8	Oosterhout	Daniel Sánchez	1,773	Dick Jaspers	2.094	Semih Saygıner	1.906
082	1998/9	Antalya	Semih Saygıner	1.639	Gerwin Valentijn	1.503	Marco Zanetti	1.331
							Christian Rudolph	1,311
083	1998/10	Roermond	Frédéric Caudron	1.658	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.503	Marco Zanetti	1.551
							Dion Nelin	1.544
084	1999/1	Seoul	Dick Jaspers	1.103	Tonny Carlsen	1.491	Semih Saygıner	1.608
							Christian Rudolph	1.437
085	1999/2	Las Vegas	Sang Chun Lee	1.625	Semih Saygıner	1.712	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,813
							Raimond Burgman	1,550
086	1999/3	Berlin	Marco Zanetti	2.082	Martin Horn	1.289	Sang Chun Lee	1.512
							Eddy Leppens	1.331
087	1999/4	Kemer City	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.055	Sang Chun Lee	1.461	Jakob Haack-Sörensen	1,586
							Dick Jaspers	1.757
088	1999/5	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1,815	Jorge Theriaga	1.288	Sang Chun Lee	1.954
089	2000/1	Bogotá	Semih Saygıner	1.404	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.672	Frédéric Caudron	1.381
							Dion Nelin	1.466
090	2000/2	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.893	Dion Nelin	1,379	Daniel Sánchez	1.513
091	2001/1	Bogotá	Semih Saygıner	1.452	Dick Jaspers	1.660	Frédéric Caudron	1.626
							Jaime Bedoya	1.337
092	2001/2	Las Vegas	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.055	Dick Jaspers	1,891	Marco Zanetti	1.397
							Tonny Carlsen	1.317
093	2001/3	Kuşadası	Dick Jaspers	1.497	Daniel Sánchez	1,429	Semih Saygıner	1.615
							Marco Zanetti	1.441
094	2001/4	Lugo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,794	Dick Jaspers	1.546	Semih Saygıner	1,572
							Eddy Merckx	1.431
095	2001/5	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.538	Semih Saygıner	1.321	Marco Zanetti	1.368
	2002	Not held
096	2003	Las Vegas	Semih Saygıner	1.606	Dick Jaspers	1,719	Daniel Sánchez	1.623
							Marco Zanetti	1.286
097	2004/1	Barendrecht	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.076	Dick Jaspers	2.058	Semih Saygıner	1.464
No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	Semi-finalists	GD
098	2004/2	Athens	Semih Saygıner	2,000	Frédéric Caudron	1.404	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,794
							Eddy Merckx	1.457
099	2004/3	Seville	Frédéric Caudron	1,777	Daniel Sánchez	1,570	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.626
							Semih Saygıner	1.532
100	2004/4	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1.277	Murat Naci Çoklu	1.494	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.546
							Brian Knudsen	1,211
101	2004/5	Antwerp	Daniel Sánchez	1.938	Semih Saygıner	1,838	Dick Jaspers	1.918
							Martin Horn	1,589
102	2005/1	Sluiskil	Dick Jaspers	2.181	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.754	Semih Saygıner	1,570
							Daniel Sánchez	1,566
103	2005/2	Hurghada	Roland Forthomme	1.636	Frédéric Caudron	1.553	Semih Saygıner	1.478
							Choi Jae-dong	1,324
104	2005/3	Barendrecht	Eddy Merckx	2.062	Frédéric Caudron	2.058	Marco Zanetti	1.368
							Raimond Burgman	1.651
105	2005/4	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,786	Frédéric Caudron	2.032	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1.405
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1.694
106	2006/1	Sluiskil	Dick Jaspers	1.925	Adnan Yüksel	1.656	Daniel Sánchez	1.678
							Roland Forthomme	1.569
107	2006/2	postage	Daniel Sánchez	1.505	Dick Jaspers	1,810	John Tijssens	1.109
							Frédéric Caudron	1.790
108	2006/3	Volos	Roland Forthomme	1.907	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,946	Marco Zanetti	1.542
							Kim Kyung-roul	1.488
109	2006/4	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1.741	Peter de Backer	1,342	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1.474
							Michael Nilsson	1.424
110	2006/5	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,787	Semih Saygıner	1.690	Tayfun Taşdemir	1.672
							Martin Horn	1.568
111	2007/1	Sluiskil	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.925	Dick Jaspers	2.032	Roland Forthomme	1.517
							Martin Horn	1.715
112	2007/2	Manisa	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,862	Daniel Sánchez	1,783	Dick Jaspers	1,966
							Semih Saygıner	1.571
113	2007/3	Corfu	Frédéric Caudron	1,755	Semih Saygıner	1.736	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.612
							Daniel Sánchez	1.410
114	2007/4	Matosinhos	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.153	Roland Forthomme	1.443	Frédéric Caudron	1,800
							Filipos Kasidokostas	1,595
115	2007/5	Hurghada	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.468	Martin Horn	1.612	Dick Jaspers	2.259
							Frédéric Caudron	1.910
116	2007/6	Mexico city	Frédéric Caudron	1,880	Dick Jaspers	1,955	Roland Forthomme	1,600
							Kim Kyung-roul	1.519
117	2007/7	Suwon	Daniel Sánchez	1.992	Tran Chi Thanh	1.322	Frédéric Caudron	2.074
							Ramon Rodriguez	1.640
118	2008/1	Sluiskil	Frédéric Caudron	1,948	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1.642	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,847
							Kim Kyung-roul	1.610
119	2008/2	Matosinhos	Dick Jaspers	1.992	Daniel Sánchez	1,755	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.716
							Kim Kyung-roul	1.645
120	2008/3	Irapuato	Dick Jaspers	1.729	Daniel Sánchez	1.535	Marco Zanetti	1.697
							Frédéric Caudron	1.760
121	2008/4	Suwon	Dick Jaspers	1,782	Kim Kyung-roul	1.494	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.564
							Frédéric Caudron	1.471
122	2008/5	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1,779	Eddy Merckx	1.544	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1.273
							Peter de Backer * 1	-
123	2008/6	Alcalá de Guadaíra	Dick Jaspers	1,770	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,786	Martin Horn	1.722
							Daniel Sánchez	1,787
124	2009/1	Sluiskil	Frédéric Caudron	1.695	Jozef Philipoom	1.685	Tayfun Taşdemir	1.710
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.649
125	2009/2	Antalya	Martin Horn	1.626	Dick Jaspers	1,600	Frédéric Caudron	1.713
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.343
126	2009/3	Matosinhos	Eddy Merckx	1.751	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,592	Cho Jae-ho	1.656
							Jérémy Bury	1.483
127	2009/4	Suwon	Frédéric Caudron	1,950	Marco Zanetti	1,892	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.712
							Kim Kyung-roul	1.585
128	2009/5	Hurghada	Jozef Philipoom	1.443	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.654	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,589
							Rubén Legazpi	1.544
129	2010/1	Antalya	Kim Kyung-roul	1.601	Dick Jaspers	1,815	Martin Horn	1,744
							Filipos Kasidokostas	1.532
130	2010/2	Suwon	Dick Jaspers	2.153	Filipos Kasidokostas	1.715	Jérémy Bury	1.533
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1,891
131	2010/3	Matosinhos	Frédéric Caudron	1.476	Martin Horn	1,550	Jérémy Bury	1.620
							Dick Jaspers	1.729
132	2010/4	Hurghada	Filipos Kasidokostas	1,860	Frédéric Caudron	1.802	Jérémy Bury	1.853
							Kouji Funaki	1.686
133	2011/1	Trabzon	Eddy Merckx	1.655	Kim Kyung-roul	1,800	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.911
							Filipos Kasidokostas	1.639
134	2011/2	Matosinhos	Daniel Sánchez	1,834	Frédéric Caudron	1,825	Dick Jaspers	1.953
							Cho Jae-ho	1.573
135	2011/3	Suwon	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.736	Cho Jae-ho	1.908	Jérémy Bury	1.402
							Ma Xuan Cuong	1.756
136	2011/4	Vienna	Frédéric Caudron	2,420	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,867	Dick Jaspers	2.216
							Lütfi Çenet	1.523
137	2011/5	Hurghada	Adnan Yüksel	1.757	Jérémy Bury	1.701	Kim Kyung-roul	1.669
							Eddy Leppens	1.707
138	2012/1	Antalya	Choi Sung-won	1.581	Tayfun Taşdemir	1.637	Frédéric Caudron	2.195
							Daniel Sánchez	1.657
139	2012/2	Suwon	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,370	Marco Zanetti	1,746	Dick Jaspers	2.053
							Eddy Merckx	1.639
140	2012/3	Hurghada	Frédéric Caudron	1,826	Lütfi Çenet	1.684	Dick Jaspers	1.676
							Jérémy Bury	1,500
141	2013/1	Antalya	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,834	Jérémy Bury	2.076	Dick Jaspers	2,465
							Eddy Merckx	2.276
142	2013/2	Guri	Kang Dong-koong	2,000	Daniel Sánchez	2,000	Jérémy Bury	1.756
							Ngô Đình Nại	1.622
143	2013/3	Corinth	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.739	Rubén Legazpi	2.011	Filipos Kasidokostas	1.857
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1.693
144	2013/4	Medellin	Frédéric Caudron	1.941	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.532	Eddy Leppens	2.283
							Filipos Kasidokostas	1,892
145	2013/5	Hurghada	Eddy Merckx	2.222	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,876	Frédéric Caudron	1,985
							Choi Sung-won	1.704
146	2014/1	Istanbul	Cho Jae-ho	2.150	Choi Sung-won	1.351	Eddy Merckx	2.025
							Kim Kyung-roul	1.817
147	2014/2	Luxor	Frédéric Caudron	2.272	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.482	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1.709
							Lee Choong-bok	1.547
148	2014/3	postage	Dick Jaspers	1.923	Roland Forthomme	1,825	Choi Sung-won	1.678
							Peter Ceulemans	1,589
149	2014/4	Guri	Eddy Merckx	1,980	Frédéric Caudron	2.091	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.264
							Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện	1.923
150	2014/5	Hurghada	Marco Zanetti	1,834	Kang Dong-koong	1,867	Hwang Hyung-bum	1.915
							Javier Palazón	1,816
151	2015/1	Luxor	Dick Jaspers	2.247	Kim Haeng-jik	2,000	Daniel Sánchez	1,740
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.734
152	2015/2	postage	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,000	Hwang Hyung-bum	1.453	Daniel Sánchez	2,390
							Dick Jaspers	1.790
153	2015/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,298	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.108	Cho Jae-ho	2.191
							Eddy Merckx	1.807
154	2015/4	Guri	Daniel Sánchez	2.739	Tayfun Taşdemir	2.160	Dick Jaspers	2,942
							Frédéric Caudron	1,818
155	2015/5	Istanbul	Murat Naci Çoklu	1.612	Roland Forthomme	1,576	Dick Jaspers	1.666
							Eddy Merckx	1,500
156	2015/6	Hurghada	Frédéric Caudron	2.197	Marco Zanetti	2.217	Lütfi Çenet	1,866
							Daniel Sánchez	1,851
157	2016/1	Bursa	Dick Jaspers	2,325	Frédéric Caudron	2.063	Eddy Merckx	2.260
							Pedro Piedrabuena	1.462
158	2016/2	Luxor	Eddy Merckx	1.801	Jérémy Bury	1.520	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1.764
							Cho Jae-ho	1,470
159	2016/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Frédéric Caudron	1,980	Dick Jaspers	1.935	Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện	2.173
							Marco Zanetti	2,000
160	2016/4	postage	Frédéric Caudron	2.197	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1.989	Daniel Sánchez	1.986
							Marco Zanetti	1,869
161	2016/5	Guri	Jérémy Bury	2.020	Trần Quyết Chiến	1,900	Dick Jaspers	2.181
							Cho Myung-woo	1.726
162	2016/6	La Baule	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,980	Daniel Sánchez	1.636	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,795
							Marco Zanetti	1.632
163	2016/7	el-Guna	Heo Jung-han	1.680	Dick Jaspers	1,852	Martin Horn	1.678
							Trần Quyết Chiến	1.644
164	2017/1	Bursa	Frédéric Caudron	2.105	Dick Jaspers	2.636	Jérémy Bury	2.274
							Kang Dong-koong	1.536
165	2017/2	Luxor	Daniel Sánchez	2,777	Dick Jaspers	2.540	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,343
							Cho Myung-woo	2.073
166	2017/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Eddy Merckx	1.923	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.959	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,773
							Marco Zanetti	1.728
167	2017/4	postage	Kim Haeng-jik	1.681	Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện	1.748	Lütfi Çenet	2.053
							Heo Jung-han	1,591
168	2017/5	Cheongju	Kim Haeng-jik	1.923	Murat Naci Çoklu	2.021	Dick Jaspers	2.112
							Lütfi Çenet	1.562
169	2017/6	La Baule	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2.020	Frédéric Caudron	1,947	Cho Myung-woo	1,855
							Mã Xuân Cường	1.707
170	2017/7	el-Guna	Eddy Merckx	2.272	Roland Forthomme	1,887	Marco Zanetti	1.764
							Frédéric Caudron	1.666
171	2018/1	Antalya	Frédéric Caudron	2.739	Murat Naci Çoklu	1.906	Cho Jae-ho	2,393
							Daniel Sánchez	1.563
172	2018/2	Ho Chi Minh City	Trần Quyết Chiến	2,000	Ngô Đình Nại	2.072	Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện	1,876
							Frédéric Caudron	1.709
173	2018/3	Blankenberge	Dick Jaspers	2.061	Semih Saygıner	2.010	Eddy Merckx	2,465
							Nikos Polychronopoulos	2.208
174	2018/4	postage	Frédéric Caudron	2,380	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,320	Heo Jung-han	1,750
							Choi Sung-won	1.584
175	2018/5	La Baule	Martin Horn	2.020	Cho Jae-ho	1,970	Frédéric Caudron	2.053
							Semih Saygıner	1,921
176	2018/6	Seoul	Eddy Merckx	2,000	Filipos Kasidokostas	2.057	Dick Jaspers	1,949
							Kim Bong-chul	1,888
177	2018/7	Hurghada	Dick Jaspers	2.040	Frédéric Caudron	2.086	Kim Haeng-jik	2.239
							Semih Saygıner	2.038
178	2019/1	Antalya	Tayfun Taşdemir	1.758	Cho Jae-ho	1.516	Trần Quyết Chiến	1.963
							Murat Naci Çoklu	1,746
179	2019/2	Ho Chi Minh City	Frédéric Caudron	2,368	Roland Forthomme	1.717	Marco Zanetti	2.257
							Eddy Merckx	1,770
180	2019/3	Blankenberge	Javier Palazón	1.666	Martin Horn	1.954	Heo Jung-han	2.090
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,580
181	2019/4	postage	Dick Jaspers	2.029	Kim Haeng-jik	1.935	Lütfi Çenet	1,818
							Cho Myung-woo	1,773
182	2019/5	Veghel	Kim Haeng-jik	1.956	Lütfi Çenet	1.707	Nguyễn Đức Anh Chiến	1.697
							Antonio Montes	1.685
183	2019/6	Guri	Eddy Merckx	2.044	Jérémy Bury	1.640	Tayfun Taşdemir	2.018
							Kim Jun-tae	1.331
184	2019/7	Sharm El Sheikh	Marco Zanetti	2.718	Dick Jaspers	2.078	Martin Horn	1.691
							Jérémy Bury	1.791
185	2020/1	Antalya	Daniel Sánchez	1,879	Dick Jaspers	2.276	Kim Haeng-jik	1,827
							Murat Naci Çoklu	1.605
186	2020/2	Ho Chi Minh City

Notes: ^{* 1} Peter de Backer was disqualified because of a positive doping test in the semifinals against Daniel Sánchez.

Overall World Cup winner

Single years

year	winner
1986	Raymond Ceulemans
1987	Raymond Ceulemans
1988 * 1	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1989 * 1	Ludo Dielis
1990 * 1	Raymond Ceulemans
1991 * 1	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1992	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1993	Sang Chun Lee
1994	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1995	Torbjörn Blomdahl (BWA)
1995	Daniel Sánchez (UMB)
1996	Torbjörn Blomdahl (BWA)
1996	Jorge Theriaga (UMB)
1997	Dick Jaspers (BWA)
1997	Christian Rudolph (UMB)
1998	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1999	Dick Jaspers
2001	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2002	not held
2003	- * 2
2004	Daniel Sánchez
2005	Frédéric Caudron
2006	Daniel Sánchez
2007	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2008	Dick Jaspers
2009	Frédéric Caudron
2010	Dick Jaspers
2011	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2012	- * 2
2013	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2014	Frédéric Caudron
2015	Daniel Sánchez
2016	Dick Jaspers
2017	Kim Haeng-jik
2018	Frédéric Caudron
2019	Dick Jaspers

Eternal list

space	Surname	Number	Years
1	Torbjörn Blomdahl	11	1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013
2	Dick Jaspers	6th	1997, 1999, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2019
3	Daniel Sánchez	4th	1995, 2004, 2006, 2015
	Frédéric Caudron		2005, 2009, 2014, 2018
5	Raymond Ceulemans	3	1986, 1987, 1990
6th	Ludo Dielis	0 1	1989
	Sang Chun Lee	1993
	Jorge Theriaga	1996
	Christian Rudolph	1997
	Kim Haeng-jik	2017

Remarks:

• ^{* 1} Were named world champion by the UMB at the same time.
• ^{* 2} No award because too few tournaments were played.

World Cup individual winner

(As of February 23, 2020)

space	Surname	gold	silver	bronze	partial measures	First win year / tournament	place
01.	Torbjörn Blomdahl	44	19th	26th	164	1987/2	Antwerp
02.	Dick Jaspers	25th	21st	20th	148	1991/5	Tokyo
03.	Frédéric Caudron	21st	12	18th	125	1997/6	Oosterhout
04th	Daniel Sánchez	13	11	16	136	1995/2	Athens
05.	Eddy Merckx	11	1	13	112	1997/4	Hooglede
06th	Raymond Ceulemans	9	15th	12	74	1986/1	Paris
07th	Semih Saygıner	6th	7th	16	102	1994/7	Ghent
08th.	Sang Chun Lee	5	4th	6th	50	1991/2	Berlin
09.	Marco Zanetti	4th	9	19th	165	1990/5	Palma de Mallorca
10.	Ludo Dielis	3	4th	7th	52	1989/2	Berlin
11.	Nobuaki Kobayashi	3	4th	1	30th	1986/2	Brussels
12.	Kim Haeng-jik	3	2	2	48	2017/4	postage
13.	Martin Horn	2	6th	7th	86	2009/2	Antalya
14th	Roland Forthomme	2	5	3	99	2005/2	Hurghada
15th	Tayfun Taşdemir	2	4th	8th	90	2015/3	Ho Chi Minh City
16.	Jorge Theriaga	2	4th	2	53	1994/6	Dongen
17th	Murat Naci Çoklu	2	3	3	88	2015/5	Istanbul
18th	Dion Nelin	2	2	5	59	1996/2	postage
19th	Christian Rudolph	2	2	4th	94	1997/1	Seoul
20th	Rini van Bracht	2	2	2	33	1992/1	Oosterhout
21st	Junichi Komori	1	5	3	64	1987/3	Berlin
22nd	Jérémy Bury	1	4th	9	85	2016/5	Guri
23.	Cho Jae-ho	1	3	5	62	2014/1	Istanbul
24.	Kim Kyung-roul	1	2	7th	49	2010/1	Antalya
25th	Richard Bitalis	1	2	5	51	1989/1	Antwerp
25th	Filipos Kasidokostas	1	2	5	65	2010/4	Hurghada
27.	Tran Quyet Chien	1	2	2	43	2018/2	Ho Chi Minh City
28.	Jozef Philipoom	1	2	0	50	2009/5	Hurghada
29	Choi Sung-won	1	1	4th	64	2012/1	Antalya
30th	Kang Dong-koong	1	1	1	54	2013/2	Guri
31.	Adnan Yüksel	1	1	0	96	2011/5	Hurghada
32.	Raimond Burgman	1	0	7th	60	1996/6	Daegu
33.	Heo Jung-han	1	0	3	59	2016/7	El Gouna
34.	Koen Ceulemans	1	0	1	19th	1994/2	Cairo
34.	Andreas Efler	1	0	1	66	1995/1	Vejle
34.	Hans Laursen	1	0	1	17th	1995/5	Hooglede
34.	Yilmaz Ozcan	1	0	1	23	1997/2	Salsomaggiore Terme
34.	Javier Palazón	1	0	1	68	2019/3	Blankenberge
34.	Egidio Vierat	1	0	1	39	1986/3	Berlin
40.	Laurent Boulanger	1	0	0	2	1988/5	Valkenburg
40.	Christoph Pilss	1	0	0	31	1994/4	Oosterhout
40.	Francis Forton	1	0	0	51	1996/4	Athens

literature

• Werner Bayer: The Blue Square, The Blue Square . Fascination billiards. Ed .: Dr. Werner Bayer Foundation. Printing house H&P, Berlin 2004, p. 280 .

Web links

Commons : Three Cushion World Cup  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• List of World Cup winners

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: World Cup Final 2018 in Hurghada. Kozoom, December 2, 2018, accessed December 6, 2018 .  
2. ↑ New UMB 3-Cushion Events Rules Changes! The UMB Board during its meeting last week in Sharm El Sheikh, decided to make changes for UMB 3-Cushion events Sports Rules. UMB, December 17, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Three-Cushion World Cup rules and regulations December 17, 2019 (PDF) valid from January 1, 2020. UMB, December 16, 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019 (English).  
4. ↑ ^{a b} World Cup regulations. (PDF) May 2018. UMB, May 2, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2018 (English).  
5. ↑ ^{a b c} set of rules with update of the prize money from December 2017. (PDF) UMB , December 20, 2017, archived from the original on December 19, 2017 ; accessed on December 19, 2017 (English).  
6. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: 40 in 6 - new world cup record by Sayginer; Horn in the semi. Kozoom , October 27, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .  
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Bert van Manen: World Cup winner since 1986. (PDF) UMB, 2018, archived from the original on November 23, 2018 ; accessed on December 7, 2019 .  
8. ↑ Announcement About The Suspension Of Player P. De Backer ( English ) UMB . December 19, 2008. Archived from the original on August 20, 2012. Retrieved on August 20, 2012.
9. ↑ World Cup finals without overall winner. On: Kozoom.com. Retrieved January 9, 2013.

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