Free game world championship
Map with all coordinates: Free game world championship
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| WM 1929 in Cairo: game of Edmond Soussa (EGY), standing at the table, against Théo Moons (BEL), sitting at the top right of the table. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Tournament type: | Ranking tournament | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tournament format: | Round robin / knock-out | ||||||||||||||||||
| Association / host: | UMB | ||||||||||||||||||
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Linz ,
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| Playing time: | 1928-1969 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current title holder: |
Raymond Ceulemans 
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| Most wins: 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
Edmond Soussa (1928–1930) Juan Butrón (1932, 1936–37) Jean Albert (1934–35, 1938)
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| Best GD: 375.00 | |||||||||||||||||||
Henk Scholte 1965, Antwerp,
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| Best ED: 500.00 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Edmond Soussa 1931, Vichy, (then 25 more players) |
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| Maximum series (HS): 2,500 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Henk Scholte 1965, Antwerp,
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The Free Game World Championship was held 17 times in 15 locations in six countries in the free game carom variant between 1928 and 1969 . It was organized by the World Carom Association UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard ).
history
The last world championship took place in Linz in 1969 . That's why the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans is still the reigning world champion. With the improvement of the pool tables over the years, it was no longer so difficult for the best pool players in the world to control the balls. Thus, the free game tournaments were only so-called America series . Here you played the balls in a certain position near a board and then scored large series around the table. So a lot of actors ended the games in one shot .
All world championships were played over a distance of 500 points.
Records
Edmond Soussa was the first athlete to play a game in one shot at a World Cup in 1931 . A large number of actors followed who succeeded in doing the same.
Raymond Ceulemans achieved the best GD at a free game world championship with 178.42. In a pentathlon in Antwerp in 1965, the Dutchman Henk Scholte managed to achieve a GD of 375.00.
The maximum series (HS) in the outdoor game at a World Cup also achieved Henk Scholte 2500 Points ( prolonged ) in Antwerp.
Record development
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| ‡ | prolonged |
| Q | Record was set during the qualifying tournament |
| F. | The record was set as part of the Pentathlon (pentathlon) |
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Tournament statistics
The GD indicates the general average of the respective player during the tournament.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 11-21 .
| World championships |
Free game • Cadre 35/2 & 45/2 • Cadre 45/1 • Cadre 47/1 • Cadre 45/2 • Cadre 47/2 • Cadre 71/2 • Cover • Three-cushion • Three-cushion (women) • Three-cushion (juniors) • Three cushion (national teams) • Pentathlon • Billiard Artistique • 5-cone billiards |
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Continental championships |
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| Other tournaments |
AGIPI Billiards Masters • ANAG Billiards Cup • Coupe d'Europe • Crystal Kelly Tournament • Three Cushion World Cup • Lausanne Billiards Masters • Verhoeven Open (formerly Sang Lee International Open) • Verhoeven Open (women) (Jennifer Shim International Open) • LG U + Cup 3-Cushion Masters • Survival 3C Masters (formerly 3-Cushion Challenge Masters) |
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| NOC tournaments |
Asian Games • Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games • Southeast Asian Games • World Games |
| Pre-war tournaments |
1928 Edmond Soussa • 1929 Edmond Soussa • 1930 Edmond Soussa • 1931 Théo Moons • 1932 Juan Butrón • 1933 Walter Joachim • 1934 Jean Albert • 1935 Jean Albert • 1936 Juan Butrón • 1937 Juan Butrón • 1938 Jean Albert • 1939 Alfredo Ferraz |
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| War tournaments |
No world championships were held between 1940 and 1948. |
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| Post-war tournaments |
1949 Clément van Hassel • 1950 Pedro Leopoldo Carrera • 1951–1952 no World Cup • 1953 Pedro Leopoldo Carrera • 1954–1963 no World Cup • 1964 José Gálvez Manzano • 1965–1968 no World Cup • 1969 Raymond Ceulemans |
