24th three-cushion world championship 1969
Tournament dates
Tournament type:
World Championship
Tournament format:
Round robin
Organizer:
UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard )
Tournament details
Venue:
Toshimaen Sports Hall of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan
Opening:
April 1st 1969
Endgame:
April 6, 1969
Attendees:
10
Defending champion:
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:
Japan Kōya Ogata
3rd place:
Argentina Luis Manuel Martinez
Prize money:
Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:
1,276 Raymond Ceulemans Belgium
Best ED:
1,666 Laurent Boulanger Belgium
Maximum series (HS):
12 Kōya Ogata 0 0 0 Japan
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The three-cushion world championship in 1969 was the 24th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from April 1 to 6, 1969 in Tokyo . It was the first three-cushion World Cup in Asia.
history
Raymond Ceulemans secured the seventh world title in three cushion in a row. It was the first world championship in Japan. For the first time, Nobuaki Kobayashi, the new challenger for Ceulemans for the next almost 20 years, took part in a World Cup.
mode
“Everyone against everyone” was played with 60 points.
Final round
Closing table
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Surname
MP
Pts.
Recording
GD
BED
HS
1
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans
18: 0
540
423
1.276
1.538
8th
2
Japan Kōya Ogata
13: 5
500
504
0.992
1.358
12
3
Argentina Luis Manuel Martinez
13: 5
512
565
0.906
1,250
7th
4th
Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi
10: 8
477
479
0.995
1.578
10
5
United States Allen Gilbert
10: 8
471
582
0.809
1,132
10
6th
Japan Shigeki Kashiki
9: 9
449
531
0.845
1.071
10
7th
Peru Humberto Suguimitzu
6:12
428
500
0.845
1.428
8th
8th
Denmark Peter Thøgersen
5:13
418
565
0.739
0.983
8th
9
Belgium Laurent Boulanger
4:14
463
549
0.843
1.666
11
10
United States William Hynes
2:16
369
606
0.608
0.638
6th
Tournament average : 0.872
Individual evidence
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J. Babut du Mares: Le Billard . No. 43 . Brussels July 1969, p. 145 .
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Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 817 .
International carom tournaments
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