Three-cushion world championship 1976

31st Three Cushion World Championship 1976
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard )
Tournament details
Venue:	Ostend cinema, Ostend
Opening:	May 25, 1976
Endgame:	May 30, 1976
Attendees:	12
Defending champion:	Raymond Ceulemans
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Nobuaki Kobayashi
3rd place:	Junichi Komori
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1,500 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	2,222 Junichi Komori Ludo Dielis 00000
Maximum series (HS):	12 Raymond Ceulemans000
Venue on the map
East End
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The three-cushion world championship in 1976 was the 31st tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from May 25th to 30th, 1976 in Ostend . It was the second three-cushion World Cup in Ostend after 1964.

history

Raymond Ceulemans won despite being tied with Nobuaki Kobayashi with the new world record of 1,500 in the general average (GD). Ceulemans suffered the only defeat against the Japanese champions and World Cup newcomer Junichi Komori . In the last round of the tournament there was the decisive game for the world title. Kobayashi, still undefeated, was enough to win the title with a draw. After 16 shots it was also 31:17 for Kobayashi. Then the defending champion from Belgium improved and finally won 33 shots with 60:37. For the first time in the history of the three-cushion World Cup, the tournament average was 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 20: 2 651 434 1,500 2.142 12 2 Nobuaki Kobayashi 20: 2 637 488 1.305 1.935 11 3 Junichi Komori 16: 6 645 521 1,238 2.222 11 4th Roland Dufetelle 16: 6 593 523 1.133 1.395 9 5 Humberto Suguimitzu 14: 8 609 591 1.030 1.463 10 6th Alfonso Gonzales 12:10 553 606 0.912 1,250 7th 7th Ludo Dielis 10:12 601 525 1.144 2.222 8th 8th John Korte 8:14 561 639 0.877 1,250 10 9 Avelino Rico 4:18 525 592 0.886 1.090 8th 10 Wolfgang Anreitter 4:18 524 600 0.873 1.071 9 11 George Ashby 4:18 521 611 0.852 1.176 11 12 Mustafa Diab 4:18 478 650 0.735 1.052 7th Tournament average : 1.017

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. ^ Hans H. Graßmann: Billard Sport . 54th year, (July / August). Düren 1976, p. 8-10 .