Three-cushion world championship 1958

15th three-cushion world championship 1958
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UIFAB
Tournament details
Venue:	Cine-Lyceum, Barcelona
Opening:	May 26, 1958
Endgame:	May 31, 1958
Attendees:	11
Defending champion:	Enrique Navarra
Winner:	Enrique Navarra
2nd finalist:	René Vingerhoedt
3rd place:	August Tiedtke
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1,089 René Vingerhoedt
Best ED:	1,612 August Tiedtke
Maximum series (HS):	13 Johann Scherz000
Venue on the map
Barcelona
← 1953	1960 →

The three-cushion world championship in 1958 was the 15th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from May 26th to 31st, 1958 in Barcelona . So after five years there was again a three-cushion world championship.

history

Once again the world championship was decided with a playoff. The Argentine Enrique Navarra won this in 47  shots with 50:45 against René Vingerhoedt from Belgium. But Vingerhoedt set a new world record in the general average (GD) with 1.089 . August Tiedtke from Duisburg played the best individual average with 1.612 , with it he set Vingerhoedt's world record from 1952, and came in third place. The Austrian Johann Scherz , who is participating in a world championship for the first time , started with a world record. He improved the 35-year-old series record, which was set four times, by 1 point to 13  points.

mode

In a final round "everyone against everyone" was played with 50 points.

Final round

Legend

MP	Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0)
GD	General average
BED	Best individual average by a player
HS	Maximum series
	Best GD of the tournament
	Best ED of the tournament
	Best HS of the tournament
	1st place (gold)
	2nd place (silver)
	3rd place (bronze)

Closing table

space	Surname	MP	GD	BED	HS
1	Enrique Navarra	16: 4	0.913	1.351	10
2	René Vingerhoedt	16: 4	1,089	1.515	11
3	August Tiedtke	14: 6	0.921	1.612	9
4th	Bert Teegelaar	11: 9	0.833	0.980	7th
5	Bernard Siguret	11: 9	0.791	1,000	7th
6th	Antonio Ventura	10:10	0.821	1.388	9
7th	Adolfo Suarez	8:12	0.860	1.388	8th
8th	Joaquín Domingo	8:12	0.830	1.111	7th
9	Carlos Monestier	7:13	0.746	1.136	6th
10	Johann Scherz	5:15	0.817	1.282	13
11	João Pereira	4:16	0.690	0.862	10
Tournament average : 0.839

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Krienen: Billard-Zeitung . 35th year, no. 12 . Mönchen-Gladbach June 1958, p. 5-8 .