Free game European championship 1952
| 4th European Free Game Championship 1952 |
|
|---|---|
| Tournament dates | |
| Tournament type: | European Championship |
| Tournament format: | Round robin |
| Organizer: | CEB |
| Tournament details | |
| Venue: | Salle Albert Gorty, Marseille 
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| Opening: | December 11, 1952 |
| Endgame: | December 15, 1952 |
| Attendees: | 11 |
| Defending champion: |
 Clement van Hassel
|
| Winner: |
Clement van Hassel
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| 2nd finalist: |
Jean Galmiche
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| 3rd place: |
.svg){kind=small} Rafael Garcia
|
| Prize money: | European amateur championship |
| Records | |
| Best GD: |
65.96 Kees de Ruijter
 |
| Best ED: |
500.00 Jean Galmiche
|
| Maximum series (HS): |
500 Jean Galmiche Klaus Nussberger
 |
| Venue on the map | |
| ← 1951/2 | 1954 → |
The free game European championship in 1952 was the fourth tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from December 11th to 15th, 1952 in Marseille . It was the second European Free Game Championship in France.
history
The Belgian Clement van Hassel won the third free game title in a row in the French Mediterranean metropolis of Marseille . It was the second time he had to play in a playoff. He won that with 500: 306 against the Frenchman Jean Galmiche. For the third time in a row, the bronze medal went to Spain.
mode
The game was played in a final round "everyone against everyone" up to 500 points. Extended series were counted.
- MP = match points
- GD = general average
- HS = maximum series
Final round
| MP | Match Points (winner = 2; tie = 1; loser = 0) |
| GD | General average |
| BED | Best individual average by a player |
| HS | Maximum series |
| Best GD of the tournament | |
| Best ED of the tournament | |
| Best HS of the tournament | |
| 1st place (gold) | |
| 2nd place (silver) | |
| 3rd place (bronze) |
| space | Surname | MP | Pts | Recording | GD | BED | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Clement van Hassel |
14: 6 | 4315 | 66 | 65.37 | 166.66 | 495 |
| 2 |
Jean Galmiche |
14: 6 | 4473 | 98 | 45.64 | 500.00 | 843 |
| 3 |
Rafael Garcia |
13: 7 | 4041 | 69 | 58.56 | 166.66 | 489 |
| 4th |
Laurent Boulanger
|
12: 8 | 3388 | 75 | 45.17 | 125.00 | 344 |
| 5 |
Kees de Ruijter |
11: 9 | 4024 | 61 | 65.96 | 166.66 | 497 |
| 6th |
Jacques Grivaud |
11: 9 | 4177 | 80 | 52.21 | 166.66 | 425 |
| 7th |
 Siegfried Spielmann
|
11: 9 | 3342 | 82 | 40.75 | 166.66 | 492 |
| 8th |
Klaus Nussberger |
10:10 | 4229 | 110 | 38.44 | 250.00 | 500 |
| 9 |
Juan Butrón |
8:12 | 3219 | 119 | 27.05 | 45.45 | 366 |
| 10 |
Ernst Rudolph
|
4:16 | 2078 | 89 | 23.34 | 50.00 | 150 |
| 11 |
 Jorge Pinto |
2:18 | 2864 | 107 | 26.76 | 41.66 | 248 |
| Tournament average : 41.99 (without the trick game) | |||||||
| Stitch game | |||||||
| - |
Clement van Hassel
|
2-0 | 500 | 11 | 45.45 | 45.45 | 447 |
| - |
Jean Galmiche |
0: 2 | 306 | 11 | 27.84 | - | 272 |
| after stitch game | |||||||
| 1 |
Clement van Hassel |
16: 6 | 4815 | 77 | 62.53 | 166.66 | 495 |
| 2 |
Jean Galmiche |
14: 8 | 4779 | 109 | 43.84 | 500.00 | 843 |
| Tournament average: 41.87 (with playoff game) | |||||||
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Krienen: Billard-Zeitung . 30th year, no. 7 . Cologne January 1953, p. 10-12 .
- ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 33 .