Three-cushion world championship 1973

28th Three Cushion World Championship 1973
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard )
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Cairo
Opening:	15th February 1973
Endgame:	18th February 1973
Attendees:	8th
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Nobuaki Kobayashi
3rd place:	Humberto Suguimitzu
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1.478 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	1,818 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	11 Raymond Ceulemans000
Venue on the map
Cairo
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The three-cushion world championship in 1973 was the 28th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from February 15 to 18, 1973 in Cairo . After 40 years it was again a three-cushion World Cup in Cairo.

history

Raymond Ceulemans secured the eleventh three-cushion world title in a row; a record that is still valid today. According to the occasion, he increased the world record in the general average (GD) to 1.478 . How big the class difference was in the tournament is proven by the fact that no other player came over 1,000 GD.

mode

“Everyone against everyone” was played with 60 points.

Final round

Closing table space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 14: 0 420 284 1.478 1,818 11 2 Nobuaki Kobayashi 12: 2 400 414 0.966 1.463 8th 3 Humberto Suguimitzu 8: 6 382 471 0.811 0.869 9 4th Arnold de Paepe 8: 6 366 497 0.736 1.090 10 5 Mustafa Diab 4:10 339 523 0.648 0.750 8th 6th Nabih Yousri 4:10 338 522 0.647 0.740 5 7th John Bonner 4:10 310 500 0.620 0.789 6th 8th Mohammed Diab 2:12 345 555 0.621 0.689 8th Tournament average : 0.770

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. 58 . Brussels April 1973, p. 1-2 .