Three-cushion world championship 1969

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
Opening:	April 1st 1969
Endgame:	April 6, 1969
Attendees:	10
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Kōya Ogata
3rd place:	Luis Manuel Martinez
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1,276 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	1,666 Laurent Boulanger
Maximum series (HS):	12 Kōya Ogata000
Venue on the map
Tokyo
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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 space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 18: 0 540 423 1.276 1.538 8th 2 Kōya Ogata 13: 5 500 504 0.992 1.358 12 3 Luis Manuel Martinez 13: 5 512 565 0.906 1,250 7th 4th Nobuaki Kobayashi 10: 8 477 479 0.995 1.578 10 5 Allen Gilbert 10: 8 471 582 0.809 1,132 10 6th Shigeki Kashiki 9: 9 449 531 0.845 1.071 10 7th Humberto Suguimitzu 6:12 428 500 0.845 1.428 8th 8th Peter Thøgersen 5:13 418 565 0.739 0.983 8th 9 Laurent Boulanger 4:14 463 549 0.843 1.666 11 10 William Hynes 2:16 369 606 0.608 0.638 6th Tournament average : 0.872

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 .)

Individual evidence

1. ^ J. Babut du Mares: Le Billard . No. 43 . Brussels July 1969, p. 145 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 817 .