Three Cushion World Championship 1989

44th three-cushion world championship 1989
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin / knockout system
Organizer:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	various,
Opening:	November 10, 1989
Endgame:	December 16, 1989
Attendees:	31 total
Defending champion:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
Winner:	Ludo Dielis
2nd finalist:	Torbjörn Blomdahl
3rd place:	Raymond Ceulemans
Prize money:	?
Records
Best GD:	1,389 Torbjorn Blomdahl
Best ED:	2,500 Marco Zanetti
Maximum series (HS):	13 Junichi Komori000
Venue on the map
Deurne Berlin Palma de Mallorca Large map: Europe Small maps: USA / Japan Yokohama Las Vegas
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The three-cushion world championship in 1989 was the 44th edition of the three-cushion world championship, which has been held in the three- cushion pile-up variant since 1928 .

mode

In 1989 it took place in the form of five World Cup tournaments . It was the World Cup in

1. Deurne (Belgium) 10-12 November
2. Berlin (Germany) 24. – 26. November
3. Palma (Spain) 1st – 3rd December
4. Las Vegas (USA) 10-12 December
5. and the final in Yokohama (Japan) on April 14-16. December.

This season, for the first time, an international three-cushion tournament took place in Yokohama. The French Richard Bitalis won the only World Cup tournament of his career.

A total of 31 billiards athletes took part in all tournaments. It was played on 3 winning sets of 15 points each.

World ranking points were awarded for the tournaments (see points key). The best of all tournaments was the new world champion. The Belgian Ludo Dielis became world champion with a total of 180 world ranking points.

Points key

space	Points
1.	60
2.	45
3.	30th
4th	24
5.	21st
6th	18th
7th	15th
8th.	12

Results

Results of individual tournaments
year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	place 3	GD
1989/1	Deurne	Richard Bitalis	1,311	Ludo Dielis	1.406	Rini van Bracht	1,238
1989/2	Berlin	Ludo Dielis	1.466	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,311	Yoshihiko Mano	1.170
1989/3	Palma	Raymond Ceulemans	1.280	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.275	Ludo Dielis	1.352
1989/4	Las Vegas	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.558	Junichi Komori	0.971	Raymond Ceulemans	1.406
1989/5	Yokohama	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.406	Ludo Dielis	1,310	Junichi Komori	1,342

Final score of the 1989 World Cup
year	winner	Points	GD	place 2	Points	GD	place 3	Points	GD
1989	Ludo Dielis	180	1,342	Torbjörn Blomdahl	165	1.389	Raymond Ceulemans	111	1.321

Individual evidence

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