Free game European championship 1955

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6th Free Game European Championship 1955
Tournament dates
Tournament type: European Championship
Tournament format: Round robin
Organizer: CEB
Tournament details
Venue: Johannishof,
Saarbrücken GermanyGermany
Opening: May 19, 1955
Endgame: May 22, 1955
Attendees: 10
Defending champion: BelgiumBelgium Joseph Vervest
Winner: BelgiumBelgium Joseph Vervest
2nd finalist: GermanyGermany Siegfried Spielmann
3rd place: BelgiumBelgium Clement van Hassel
Prize money: European amateur championship
Records
Best GD: 102.42 Siegfried SpielmannGermanyGermany
Best ED: 500.00 Joseph Vervest Siegfried Spielmann Jacques Grivaud BelgiumBelgium
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Maximum series (HS): 001984 Siegfried SpielmannGermanyGermany
Venue on the map
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The free game European championship in 1955 was the 6th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from 19 to 22 May 1955 in Saarbrücken , in the autonomous Saarland. It was the first free-game European championship in Saarland.

history

A European championship of records took place in Saarland. First and foremost Siegfried Spielmann from Düsseldorf . He set a new record in the GD with 102.42 , which would have been even better if a game had not been deleted from the preliminary round. Then it would even be 105.25. He improved the new, extended record in the top series to 1984 . But it wasn't enough to win, as he lost games against Scholte and Vervest and had drawn against Pinto. Defending champion Joseph Vervest did better . He only lost to his compatriot Clement van Hassel . The 22-year-old Dutch champion Henk Scholte made a very strong impression . He lost in the final only against the defending champion and against Jacques Grivaud in one shot and surprisingly lost in the preliminary round against the Egyptian Mustafa Diab. Former world champion August Tiedtke , who started for Saarland, came in seventh.

mode

The game was played in two preliminary round groups with five players "everyone against everyone" up to 500 points. The top four in each group made it to the finals. Results of the eliminated players were not included in the final round and did not count towards the final ranking. Extended series were counted.

  1. MP = match points
  2. GD = general average
  3. HS = maximum series

Preliminary round

Legend
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)
Final table group A
space Surname MP Pts Recording GD BED HS
1 BelgiumBelgium Joseph Vervest 8-0 2000 14th 142.85 500.00 967
2 GermanyGermany August Tiedtke (Saar) 6: 2 1546 42 36.80 71.42 229
3 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Klaus Nussberger 4: 4 1006 36 27.94 62.50 223
4th FranceFrance Jacques Grivaud 2: 6 1379 37 37.27 166.66 339
5 Spain 1945Spain Juan Butrón 0: 8 825 37 22.29 - 325
Final table group B
space Surname MP Pts Recording GD BED HS
1 GermanyGermany Siegfried Spielmann 5: 3 1772 21st 84.38 250.00 484
2 BelgiumBelgium Clement van Hassel 5: 3 1516 35 43.31 125.00 288
3 NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Scholte 5: 3 1900 45 42.22 125.00 467
4th PortugalPortugal Jorge Pinto 3: 5 1544 32 48.25 100.00 380
5 EgyptEgypt Mustafa Diab 2: 6 850 53 16.03 31.25 245

Finals

Closing table
space Surname MP Pts Recording GD BED HS
1 BelgiumBelgium Joseph Vervest 12: 2 3060 35 87.42 500.00 994
2 GermanyGermany Siegfried Spielmann 9: 5 2868 28 102.25 500.00 1984
3 BelgiumBelgium Clement van Hassel 9: 5 2972 46 64.60 166.66 498
4th NetherlandsNetherlands Henk Scholte 9: 5 2566 49 52.36 125.00 467
5 PortugalPortugal Jorge Pinto 5: 9 2360 35 67.42 100.00 412
6th FranceFrance Jacques Grivaud 4:10 2169 44 49.29 500.00 932
7th GermanyGermany August Tiedtke (Saar) 4:10 1445 44 32.84 71.42 229
8th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Klaus Nussberger 4:10 1370 47 29.14 166.66 470
9 EgyptEgypt Mustafa Diab 2: 6 850 53 16.03 31.25 245
10 Spain 1945Spain Juan Butrón 0: 8 825 37 22.29 - 325
Tournament average: total: 48.00 final round: 57.34

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karlheinz Krienen: Billard-Zeitung . 32nd year, no. 12 . Cologne June 1955, p. 4-10 .
  2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 34 .