Three-cushion world championship 1988

43rd Three Cushion World Championship 1988
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	ueb #
Tournament details
Venue:	various,
Opening:	November 6, 1988
Endgame:	December 30, 1988
Attendees:	36 total
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2nd finalist:	Nobuaki Kobayashi
3rd place:	Raymond Ceulemans
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,594 Torbjorn Blomdahl
Best ED:	2,812 Nobuaki Kobayashi
Maximum series (HS):	13 Raymond Ceulemans000
Venue on the map
Antwerp Paris Berlin Valkenburg Palma de Mallorca Large Map: Europe Small Map: Japan Tokyo
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The three-cushion world championship in 1988 was the 43rd edition of the three-cushion world championship, which had been held since 1928 in the three- cushion carom variant between November 6 and December 30, 1988 at six different venues around the world.

mode

In 1988 it took place in the form of six World Cup tournaments . This means that there has been a rule change compared to previous years; previously the World Cup was always played in a single tournament. The World Cups took place in

1. Paris (France) 4th – 6th November
2. Antwerp (Belgium) 11-13 November
3. Berlin (Germany) 25. – 27. November
4. Palma (Spain) 2-4. December
5. Valkenburg (Netherlands) 9-11. December
6. and the final in Tokyo (Japan) 29. – 30. December.

A total of 36 players took part in the 6 tournaments. It was played on three winning sets of 15 points each.

An audience of 8,000 was Paris. A total of 15,700 spectators came to the tournaments.

World ranking points were awarded for the tournaments (see points key). The best of all tournaments was the new world champion. The Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl won this title with four wins from six tournaments and a total of 94 points .

Points key

space	Points
1.	20th
2.	15th
3.	10
4th	8th
5.	7th
6th	6th
7th	5
8th.	4th

Results

Results of individual tournaments
year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	place 3	GD
1988/1	Paris	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,360	Dieter Müller	1.168	Raymond Ceulemans	1,442
1988/2	Antwerp	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.507	Junichi Komori	1.724	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,891
1988/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.764	Junichi Komori	1,380	Raymond Ceulemans	1.375
1988/4	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.298	Junichi Komori	1,212	Ludo Dielis	1.404
1988/5	Valkenburg	Laurent Boulanger	1.395	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1.318	Raymond Ceulemans	1.267
1988/6	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,947	Akio Shimada	1,145	Raymond Ceulemans	1.180

Final result of the 1988 World Cup
year	winner	Points	GD	place 2	Points	GD	place 3	Points	GD
1988	Torbjörn Blomdahl	94	1,594	Nobuaki Kobayashi	59	1.224	Raymond Ceulemans	53	1.293

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Das Blaue Karree / The Blue Square - Fascination Billiards, editor: Dr. Werner Bayer Foundation, Berlin (2004). ISBN 4520934605