Three Cushion World Championship 1985

40th three-cushion world championship 1985
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	?, Heeswijk-Dinther
Opening:	May 16, 1985
Endgame:	May 19, 1985
Attendees:	12
Defending champion:	Nobuaki Kobayashi
Winner:	Raymond Ceulemans
2nd finalist:	Nobuaki Kobayashi
3rd place:	Junichi Komori
Prize money:	Amateur World Championship
Records
Best GD:	1,541 Raymond Ceulemans
Best ED:	2,272 Raymond Ceulemans
Maximum series (HS):	14 Nobuaki Kobayashi000
Venue on the map
Heeswijk-Dinther
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The 1985 three-cushion world championship was the 40th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from May 16-19, 1985 in Heeswijk-Dinther . It was the fifth three cushion World Cup in the Netherlands.

history

With the closest of all results, the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans secured his 19th World Championship title in three cushion. In the final against his toughest opponent Nobuaki Kobayashi from Japan he won 50:49 in 32 shots. In the semifinals Ceulemans won against the Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl with 50:14 in 22 shots. He had lost the last two games against the Swede. Every day of the tournament there was a crowd and there was an extraordinary atmosphere in the hall.

mode

The game was played in the group stage, 2 groups of 6 players each, "everyone against everyone" with 50 points. The first two in the group made it to the semi-finals. The semi-final winners made it to the final. All places were played out.

Group stage

Final table group A space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Nobuaki Kobayashi 8: 2 242 191 1.337 1,785 14th 2 Torbjörn Blomdahl 8: 2 243 235 1.034 1.612 11 3 Rini van Bracht 6: 4 228 191 1.193 1.515 9 4th José Gomez 4: 6 172 217 0.792 1.190 9 5 Allen Gilbert 2: 8 180 257 0.700 ? 6th 6th Mohammed Diab 2: 8 172 253 0.679 0.748 5 Group average : 0.920 Final table group B space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 10-0 250 173 1.445 ? 11 2 Junichi Komori 8: 2 230 220 1.045 ? 10 3 Hidetoshi Iguchi 4: 6 207 235 0.880 1,250 6th 4th Frank Torres 4: 6 212 243 0.872 1,250 8th 5 Aria Weijenburg 2: 8 202 219 0.922 1.111 11 6th José Viteri 2: 8 210 238 0.882 0.769 7th Group average : 0.987

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 .)

Final round

Place 1-4

The results are shown as follows: Points / Shots

	Semi-final 50 points				Final 50 points
	April 19, 1985
	Nobuaki Kobayashi	50/37
	Junichi Komori	34/37
					April 19, 1985
					Raymond Ceulemans	50/32
					Nobuaki Kobayashi	49/32
					Game for 3rd place 50 points
	April 19, 1985				April 19, 1985
	Raymond Ceulemans	50/22			Junichi Komori	50/36
	Torbjörn Blomdahl	14/22			Torbjörn Blomdahl	24/36

Closing table space Surname MP Pts. Recording GD BED HS 1 Raymond Ceulemans 14: 0 350 227 1.541 2.272 11 2 Nobuaki Kobayashi 10: 4 341 250 1.364 1,785 14th 3 Junichi Komori 10: 4 314 293 1.071 1.388 11 4th Torbjörn Blomdahl 8: 6 281 293 0.959 1.612 11 5 Hidetoshi Iguchi 6: 6 257 281 0.914 1,250 6th 6th Rini van Bracht 6: 6 272 237 1.147 1.515 13 7th Frank Torres 6: 6 262 288 0.909 1,250 8th 8th José Gomez 4: 8 211 262 0.805 1.190 9 9 Allen Gilbert 4: 8 230 290 0.793 1.515 11 10 Aria Weijenburg 2:10 242 252 0.960 1.111 11 11 José Viteri 4: 8 260 317 0.820 0.769 7th 12 Mohammed Diab 2:10 220 332 0.662 0.746 5 Tournament average : 0.975

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. ↑ ^{a b c} José Pisart: Le Billard . No. 97 . Ghent July 1985, p. 11-14 .