23rd Three Cushion World Championship 1968
Tournament dates
Tournament type:
World Championship
Tournament format:
Round robin
Organizer:
UMB
Tournament details
Venue:
City Hall, Düren Germany
Opening:
April 24, 1968
Endgame:
April 28, 1968
Attendees:
10
Defending champion:
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:
Japan Kōya Ogata
3rd place:
Austria Johann Scherz
Prize money:
Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:
1,227 Raymond Ceulemans Belgium
Best ED:
1,538 Raymond Ceulemans Belgium
Maximum series (HS):
10 Raymond Ceulemans 000 Belgium
Venue on the map
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The three-cushion world championship in 1968 was the 23rd tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from April 24th to 28th, 1968 in Düren . It was the world championship for the 1967/68 season. In Düren, a three-cushion World Cup took place in Germany for the third time.
history
Raymond Ceulemans secured the sixth world title in three cushion in a row. It was a world championship with no new records. Ceulemans won all of his games with ease. The Düren town hall was a worthy tournament venue and well attended. The last two days were completely sold out.
mode
The game was played in two preliminary round groups “everyone against everyone” with a score of 60 points. The groups consisted of 5 players each. The last two in the group were eliminated, but still played out ninth place.
Group stage
Final table group A
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Surname
MP
Pts.
Recording
GD
BED
HS
1
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans
8-0
240
203
1.182
1.538
9
2
Japan Kōya Ogata
6: 2
196
237
0.827
0.967
7th
3
Netherlands Cees van Oosterhout
4: 4
202
270
0.748
0.800
6th
4th
Germany Ernst Rudolph
2: 6
197
258
0.763
0.869
6th
5
United States Allen Gilbert
0: 8
208
280
0.742
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7th
Group average : 0.835
Final table group B
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Surname
MP
Pts.
Recording
GD
BED
HS
1
Belgium Laurent Boulanger
6: 2
230
207
1.111
1,250
7th
2
Austria Johann Scherz
6: 2
230
216
1.064
1.276
8th
3
Argentina Marcelo H. Lopez
4: 4
222
226
0.982
1.034
8th
4th
France Roger Hanoun
2: 6
205
242
0.847
1,132
8th
5
Germany Gert Tiedtke
2: 6
156
245
0.636
0.722
5
Group average : 0.918
Final round
Closing table
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Surname
MP
Pts.
Recording
GD
BED
HS
1
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans
16: 0
480
391
1.227
1.538
10
2
Japan Kōya Ogata
14: 2
436
479
0.910
1.034
9
3
Austria Johann Scherz
10: 6
441
437
1.009
1.276
8th
4th
Belgium Laurent Boulanger
8: 8
449
438
1.025
1,250
7th
5
Argentina Marcelo H. Lopez
8: 8
410
468
0.876
1.034
8th
6th
Germany Ernst Rudolph
6:10
406
524
0.774
0.923
7th
7th
Netherlands Cees van Oosterhout
6:10
387
512
0.755
0.909
7th
8th
France Roger Hanoun
2:14
376
486
0.773
1,132
8th
9
United States Allen Gilbert
2: 8
268
361
0.742
0.740
7th
10
Germany Gert Tiedtke
2: 8
212
326
0.650
0.722
5
Tournament average : 0.874
Individual evidence
^ A b c
Helmut Schulz: Deutsche Billard-Zeitung . 46th year, no. 6 . Krefeld June 1968, p. 81-85 .
^
Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 816 .
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