Free game European championship
Free game European championship |
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Tournament dates | |
Tournament type: | Ranking tournament |
Tournament format: | Round robin / knock-out |
Association / host: | UIFAB / CEB |
Tournament details | |
Venue: | Udenhout Netherlands |
Playing time: | 1950-2000 |
Current title holder: | Patrick Niessen |
Records | |
Most wins: 4 | |
• Clement van Hassel (1951–53, 1956) • Jos Vervest (1954–55, 1957–58)
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Best GD: 250.20 | |
Piet Adrichem 1995, Vienna | |
Best ED: 500.00 | |
Maximum series (HS): 2,500 | |
Henk Scholte 1965, Antwerp | |
Position map | |
The Free Game European Championship has been played since 1950 in the carom variant Free Game . It usually took place once a year. Since 2000, however, no more EM has been hosted, so it can be assumed that this was the last. It is organized by the European carom billiards association CEB ( Confédération Européenne de Billard ).
history
In contrast to the Free Game World Cup , the tournament in Europe was still held relatively often (29 times). But at least cadre is also played with the juniors , because the free game is seen as too easy to continue to host European championships in the discipline.
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 play the balls in a certain position near a board and then score large series around the table. So a lot of actors ended the games in their first recording .
Modes
From 1950 to 1980, up to 500 points were played. In 1986 and from 1995 the game distance was reduced to 400 points. In between, the European Championships were held in the not very popular set system with distances of 100 or 150 points per set. The small corner swab was played with until 1939. Then only with the big smear.
Records
The first European to finish a game up to 500 points in one shot was the Spaniard Raymundo Vives at the 1929 World Cup in Cairo. A large number of actors followed, who also succeeded (later, of course, for shorter distances as well).
The Dutchman Piet Adrichem achieved the best general average (GD) at a free-game European championship in 1995 in Vienna with 250.20 over a distance of 400 points. During a pentathlon, the Dutchman Henk Scholte achieved a GD of 375.00 at a distance of 500 points in Antwerp in 1965. The German Dieter Müller finished all seven games in one shot at the 1978 European Pentathlon Championship in Moyeuvre-Grande with a distance of up to 250 points and thus played a GD of 250.00. The highest series in the outdoor match was scored by Henk Scholte with 2,500 points ( prolonged ) in 1965 in Antwerp.
Record development
Due to the relatively late start of the EM series, most of the players were already able to finish a match in 1 shot, even with the long distances. This also results in the large field of record holders. With the advent of the set tournaments and the short distances in the 1990s and the large field of participants (sometimes up to 50 players), the number of record holders became even greater, but at the same time the tournament management's interest in exact records dwindled. Some of the game slips were destroyed or not archived during the tournament, so that the actual number of record players can no longer be accurately reproduced.
Short game distances (100 or 150 points in the set system, 250 in the pentathlon) that were played at a later point in time (from the 1970s) are not listed here, as almost every participant was able to play them in one shot.
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annotation
- (F) = scored in pentathlon
Tournament statistics
The GD indicates the general average of the respective player during the tournament.
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Distance to 500 points | |
Distance from 400 points | |
2 sentences to 100 points | |
2 sets to 150 points in qualification (double knockout) 2 sets to 100 points in the main round |
No. | year | place | winner | GD | place 2 | GD | place 3 | GD | mode |
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1 | 1950 | Vienna | Kees de Ruijter | 67.77 | Clement van Hassel | 88.22 | Henk Metz | 32.06 | 500 |
2 | 1951/1 | Luxembourg City | Clement van Hassel | 81.21 | Kees de Ruijter | 68.39 | Raphael Garcia | 52.02 | |
3 | 1951/2 | Saint-Etienne | Clement van Hassel | 54.67 | Kees de Ruijter | 50.77 | Joaquín Domingo | 44.33 | |
4th | 1952 | Marseille | Clement van Hassel | 62.53 | Jean Galmiche | 43.84 | Raphael Garcia | 58.56 | |
5 | 1954 | Lisbon | Jos Vervest | 66.14 | Joaquín Domingo | 78.88 | Clement van Hassel | 46.94 | |
6th | 1955 | Saarbrücken | Jos Vervest | 91.28 | Siegfried Spielmann | 105.25 | Clement van Hassel | 57.86 | |
7th | 1956 | Barcelona | Clement van Hassel | 107.82 | Siegfried Spielmann | 70.77 | Joaquín Domingo | 77.75 | |
8th | 1957/1 * 1 | Antwerp | Jos Vervest | 207.18 | Cees van Oosterhout | 116.41 | Henk Scholte | 74.17 | |
9 | 1957/2 * 1 | Mollerusa | Joaquín Domingo | 60.71 | Jorge Pinto | 51.93 | Eduardo Brufaud | 25.18 | |
10 | 1958 | Berlin | Jos Vervest | 106.06 | Clement van Hassel | 75.37 | Siegfried Spielmann | 49.56 | |
11 | 1961 | Estoril | Henk Scholte | 89.91 | Jos Vervest | 125.04 | Siegfried Spielmann | 56.62 | |
12 | 1965 | Valencia | Henk Scholte | 144.30 | Salvador Orti Velez | 83.55 | Antoine Schrauwen | 78.94 | |
13 | 1966 | Cairo | Jean Marty | 194.44 | Henk Scholte | 105.31 | Jos Vervest | 85.92 | |
14th | 1968 | Lorient | José Gálvez | 148.14 | Antoine Schrauwen | 122.21 | Jean Marty | 180.89 | |
15th | 1969 | Nuenen | Henk Scholte | 112.90 | Antoine Schrauwen | 130.48 | Jean Marty | 110.07 | |
16 | 1970 | Saint Vincent | Klaus pants | 159.35 | Henk Scholte | 101.19 | Siegfried Spielmann | 99.70 | |
17th | 1972 | Reus | José Gálvez | 103.35 | Klaus pants | 163.33 | Francis Connesson | 116.34 | |
18th | 1975 | Enschede | Ludo Dielis | 145.83 | Klaus pants | 125.37 | José Gálvez | 94.11 | |
19th | 1980 | Lugo | Willy Wesenbeek | 111.11 | Georges Bourezg | 75.79 | Jan Arnouts | 194.61 | |
20th | 1986 | Lyon | Fonsy Grethen | 218.18 | Raimond Burgman | 182.81 | Georges Bourezg | 132.50 | 400 |
21st | 1990 | Bottrop | Fonsy Grethen | 53.46 | Fabian Blondeel | 42.41 | Henri Tilleman | 77.46 | 2 × 100 |
22nd | 1991 | Berlin | Jos Bongers | 66.91 | Stefan Galla | 82.50 | Frédéric Caudron | 52.62 | |
23 | 1992 | Bottrop | Brahim Djoubri | 56.87 | Stefan Galla | 39.04 | Stephan Horvath | 57.47 | |
24 | 1993 | Bottrop | Marc mass | 102.88 | Volker Baten | 78.55 | Frédéric Caudron | 124.70 | 2 × 150 2 × 150 |
25th | 1994 | Bad Mondorf | Martin Horn | 112.50 | Fabrice Puigvert | 88.35 | Fonsy Grethen | 75.16 | |
26th | 1995 | Vienna | Martin Horn | 218.18 | Stephan Horvath | 229.28 | Philippe Deraes | 153.75 | 400 |
No. | year | place | winner | GD | place 2 | GD | Semi-finalists * 2 | GD | mode |
27 | 1997 | Chemnitz | Arnim Kahofer | 116.10 | Fonsy Grethen | 129.47 | Martin Horn | 133.44 | 400 |
Henri Tilleman | 86.33 | ||||||||
28 | 1999 | Venlo | Fonsy Grethen | 222.22 | Martin Horn | 130.50 | Thomas Nockemann | 213.16 | |
Patrick Niessen | 126.44 | ||||||||
29 | 2000 | Udenhout | Patrick Niessen | 117.64 | René Luisterburg | 124.10 | Dave Christiani | 52.38 | |
Jordi Amell | 127.80 |
Notes
* 1 In 1957, two European championships were held by the competing and divided associations Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard (UIFAB) and Fédération Internationale de Billard (FIB). Since the players could only belong to one association at a time, the field of participants at the respective European championships was very different.
* 2 Since 1997, 3rd place has not been played out. There were only semi-finalists left.
Individual evidence
Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 23-55 .