Binding World Championship

Binding World Championship
Raymond Ceulemans at the 1977 World Cup in Rotterdam
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	World Championship
Tournament format:	Round robin , knockout
Association / host:	UMB
Tournament details
Venue:	changing
Playing time:	1934-2014
Current title holder:	Frédéric Caudron
Records
Most wins: 6
Raymond Ceulemans
Best GD: 16.40
Jean Paul de Bruijn 2007, Elda
Best ED: 66.66
Francis Connesson , 1978 Ludo Dielis , 1983
Maximum series (HS): 199
Francis Connesson 1978 in Bruges
Position map
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The binding world championship has been held at irregular intervals since 1934 in the single binding carom variant . It has been organized by the World Carom Association (UMB) ( Union Mondiale de Billard ) since 1968 , previously by the UIFAB ( Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard ).

The record winner is the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans with 6 titles, the current title holder is the Belgian Frédéric Caudron .

Modes

The tournament distances were:

Game distances

year	Points
1934-1937 1995-2014	150
1968-1984	200
1992	2 × 75
Pentathlon
1933-1939	50
1954	150
1965-1975	200
1977-1981	100
since 2001	125

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Records

The best game played Francis Connesson 1978 in Bruges and Ludo Dielis 1983 in Rucphen with 66.66 GD . Francis Connesson also holds the series world record with 199 points (1978 Bruges).

Jean Paul de Bruijn achieved the best GD at a single binding world championship with 16.40 in Elda (2007). At the pentathlon world championship in Ghent in 1972, Raymond Ceulemans even achieved a GD of 17.91 in the cover.

Record development

General average (GD) GD Surname year Distance 50 pts (pentathlon; 1933–1939) 04.36 Gustave van Belle 1933 (F) Distance 150 pts (1934-1937; 1995-2009) 03.16 Jacques Davin 1934/1 03.31 Jacques Davin 1934/2 03.57 Ernst Reicher 1937 05.65 René Vingerhoedt 1954 (F) 12.36 Jos Bongers 1995 16.40 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2007 Distance 200 pts (1965–1984) 12.12 Raymond Ceulemans 1965 (F) 13.11 Raymond Ceulemans 1968 17.91 Raymond Ceulemans 1972 (F)

Single Average (ED) BED Surname year Distance 50 pts (pentathlon; 1933–1939) 06.25 Gustave van Belle 1933 (F) 10.00 Gustave van Belle 1935 (F) Distance 150 pts (1934-1937; 1995-2009) 04.41 Jacques Davin 1934/1 04.83 Jan Sweering 1934/2 06.81 Ernst Reicher 1937 07.50 René Vingerhoedt 1954 (F) 30.00 Peter de Backer 1995 Wolfgang Zenkner 1997 50.00 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2007 Distance 200 pts (1965–1984) 20.00 Raymond Ceulemans 1965 (F) 22.22 Raymond Ceulemans 1968 28.57 Raymond Ceulemans 1969 (F) Raymond Ceulemans 1972 (F) Ludo Dielis 1974 Raymond Ceulemans 1975 (F) 66.66 Francis Connesson 1978 Ludo Dielis 1983

Maximum series (HS) HS Surname year Distance 50 pts (pentathlon; 1933–1939) 021st Jean de Gasparin 1933 (F) 030th Jean Albert 1935 (F) 033 Joaquín Domingo 1936/1 (F) 040 Walter Lütgehetmann 1939 (F) Distance 150 pts (1934-1937; 1995-2009) 036 Ernst Reicher 1934/1 052 Joaquín Domingo 1935 061 Pedro Leopoldo Carrera 1954 (F) 088 Jos Bongers 1995 100 Wolfgang Zenkner 1997 137 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2007 Distance 200 pts (1965–1984) 066 Raymond Ceulemans 1965 (F) 097 Raymond Ceulemans 1968 168 Ludo Dielis 1972 (F) 199 Francis Connesson 1978

annotation

• (F) - scored in pentathlon

Tournament statistics

The GD indicates the general average of the respective player during the tournament.

No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	place 3	GD
01	1934/1	Vichy	Ernst Reicher	2.39	Alfredo Ferraz	2.95	Jan Sweering	2.13
02	1934/2	Paris	Jean Albert	3.24	Jan Sweering	2.85	Ernst Reicher	2.75
03	1935	Nice	Jacques Davin	3.01	Ernst Reicher	2.81	Jean Albert	2.77
04th	1937	Montargis	Robert Tolédano	3.07	Jacques Davin	3.27	Ernst Reicher	3.57
05	1968	Tournai	Raymond Ceulemans	13.11	Jean Marty	6.51	Johann Scherz	8.53
06th	1974	Tournai	Ludo Dielis	16.16	Christ van der Smissen	10.35	Raymond Ceulemans	13.25
07th	1976	Lions	Raymond Ceulemans	15.05	Christ van der Smissen	8.69	Ludo Dielis	11.38
08th	1977	Rotterdam	Raymond Ceulemans	13.71	Christ van der Smissen	9.72	Emile Wafflard	8.58
09	1978	Bruges	Raymond Ceulemans	12.84	Francis Connesson	12.42	Johann Scherz	7.45
10	1979	Mollerussa	Raymond Ceulemans	10.81	Ludo Dielis	10.42	Hans Vultink	7.65
11	1981	Murcia	Ludo Dielis	13.50	Raymond Ceulemans	10.33	Jose squeeze glass	5.40
12	1983	Rockets	Ludo Dielis	12.07	Wolfgang Zenkner	9.25	Nobuaki Kobayashi	9.11
13	1984	Copenhagen	Raymond Ceulemans	14.63	Christ van der Smissen	9.67	Thomas Wildforster	8.22
14th	1992	Duisburg	Fonsy Grethen	7.51	Peter de Backer	7.79	Fabian Blondeel	9.52
15th	1995	Carvin	Jos Bongers	12.36	Francis Connesson	10.56	Fonsy Grethen	7.74
16	1997	Vienna	Martin Horn	9.36	Francis Connesson	8.59	Wolfgang Zenkner	7.22
No.	year	place	winner	GD	place 2	GD	Semi-finalists	GD
17th	2007	Elda	Jean Paul de Bruijn	16.40	Frédéric Caudron	15.71	Eddy Leppens	10.38
							Jos Bongers	8.01
18th	2009	Cervera	Wolfgang Zenkner	11.41	Jean Paul de Bruijn	14.38	Frédéric Caudron	12.23
							Arnim Kahofer	9.66
19th	2014	Saint-Brevin-les-Pins	Frédéric Caudron	14.63	Jean Paul de Bruijn	10.79	Xavier Gretillat	9.08
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	10.10

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Web links

Commons : World Binding Championships  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 641-649 .
2. ↑ Karlheinz Heckert: One-binding world championships. Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 28, 2019 .  

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