Free game European championship 1956
| 7th Free Game European Championship 1956 |
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|---|---|
| Tournament dates | |
| Tournament type: | European Championship |
| Tournament format: | Round robin |
| Organizer: | CEB |
| Tournament details | |
| Venue: | Clubhouse of the Barcelona Billiards Club, Barcelona 
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| Opening: | May 5th 1956 |
| Endgame: | May 8, 1956 |
| Attendees: | 9 |
| Defending champion: |
 Joseph Vervest
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| Winner: |
Clement van Hassel
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| 2nd finalist: |
 Siegfried Spielmann
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| 3rd place: |
.svg){kind=small} Joaquin Domingo
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| Prize money: | European amateur championship |
| Records | |
| Best GD: |
107.82 Clement van Hassel
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| Best ED: |
500.00 Clement van Hassel Siegfried Spielmann Rafael Garcia
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| Maximum series (HS): |
1489 Clement van Hassel
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| Venue on the map | |
| ← 1955 | 1957/1 → |
The free game European championship in 1956 was the 7th tournament in this discipline of carom billiards and took place from 5 to 8 May 1956 in Barcelona . It was the first free game European championship in Spain.
history
Almost all experts were certain that Düsseldorf's Siegfried Spielmann would win the title this time, as the outstanding player of the past two years, Joseph Vervest, was missing. But the three-time European champion Clement van Hassel made a fantastic comeback in Barcelona, which very few people thought he could do. Before the last game, Van Hassel and Spielmann were tied at the top of the table. According to the statutes of that time, a game of stitches was necessary. Spielmann only started with one point. Van Hassel showed all his class and finished the game in the first shot and became European champion in the free game for the fourth time. The strong Spaniards Domingo and Garcia followed in the places.
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: 2 | 3705 | 38 | 97.50 | 500.00 | 989 |
| 2 |
Siegfried Spielmann |
14: 2 | 3750 | 52 | 72.11 | 500.00 | 862 |
| 3 |
Joaquin Domingo |
10: 6 | 3188 | 41 | 77.75 | 250.00 | 397 |
| 4th |
Rafael Garcia |
10: 6 | 3584 | 52 | 68.92 | 500.00 | 897 |
| 5 |
 Kees de Ruijter |
6:10 | 1629 | 45 | 36.20 | 166.66 | 499 |
| 6th |
 Jacques Grivaud |
6:10 | 2396 | 83 | 28.86 | 83.33 | 296 |
| 7th |
 Ernst Reicher
|
4:12 | 1941 | 58 | 33.46 | 125.00 | 357 |
| 8th |
 Jorge Pinto |
4:12 | 1834 | 70 | 26.20 | 55.55 | 303 |
| 9 |
 Klaus Nussberger |
4:12 | 1941 | 81 | 23.96 | 35.71 | 319 |
| Tournament average: 46.09 (without the trick game) | |||||||
| Stitch game | |||||||
| - |
Clement van Hassel
|
2-0 | 500 | 1 | 500.00 | 500.00 | 500 |
| - |
Siegfried Spielmann |
0: 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | - | 1 |
| after stitch game | |||||||
| 1 |
Clement van Hassel |
16: 2 | 4205 | 39 | 107.82 | 500.00 | 1489 |
| 2 |
Siegfried Spielmann |
14: 4 | 3751 | 53 | 70.77 | 500.00 | 862 |
| Tournament average: 46.87 (with playoff game) | |||||||
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Krienen: Billard-Zeitung . 33rd volume, no. 11 . Cologne May 1956, p. 8-10 .
- ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 35 .