Japanese three-cushion championship

Japanese three-cushion championship
Tournament dates
Tournament type:	National Championship
Tournament format:	?
Association / host:	JPBF
Tournament details
Venue:	changing
Playing time:	since 1938
Current title holder:	?
Records
Most wins: 15
Kōya Ogata

The Japanese three-cushion championship is one of the oldest national championships in this discipline of carom billiards and has been held every year since the Second World War. The organizer is the national billiards association Japan Professional Billiards Federation (JPBF), which is affiliated to the Nippon Billiards Association (NBA).

history

Just one year after Kinrei Matsuyama's return from the USA, from where he brought the three- cushion game with him, he was able to convince the association to host a national championship, the first of which he also won. In the second edition in 1939 Matsuyama was already playing a general average (GD) of <1,000, a mark that no amateur player in Europe or America could afford at the time. Pedro Leopoldo Carrera was the first to break this mark in the 1952 three-cushion world championship . Until the war-related suspension of the championship in 1942, he won all titles. After the war, the first championship was played in 1949, the winner was Kōya Ogata , who won the title a total of 15 times over the years and is still the tournament record winner today. In 1968 he won his last title and was then replaced by Nobuaki Kobayashi , who won the tournament five times by 1974. He was followed by Jun'ichi Komori and both players dominated the championship from then until the early 1980s, were also successful as a team in 1981, 1985 and 1992 at the three-cushion world championship for national teams .

The Japanese Championship was one of the first tournaments to introduce a time limit on the push. In 1993 it was 60 seconds. After the first violation, the player was warned, the second was disqualified, as happened with Kawamae in 1993. It was the second disqualification of its kind since its introduction in Japan. The BWA only later introduced a time limit on an international level, which was then gradually introduced by the UMB at world and European championships and has become the standard today.

Tournament statistics

The number in brackets indicates the number of victories.

Winners list No. year GD 1 1938 Kinrei Matsuyama (1) 0.844 2 1939 Kinrei Matsuyama (2) 1.057 3 1940 Kinrei Matsuyama (3) 0.970 00001941: No issue 4th 1942 Kinrei Matsuyama (4) 0.992 00001943–1948: No issue 5 1949 Kōya Ogata (1) 0.856 6th 1949 Kōya Ogata (2) 1.010 7th 1950 Keizo Kubo (1) 1.195 8th 1951 Kōya Ogata (3) 1.081 9 1952 Keizo Kubo (2) 1.195 10 1953 Kōya Ogata (4) 0.871 11 1954 Kōya Ogata (5) 1.190 12 1955 Kōya Ogata (6) 0.967 13 1956 Kōya Ogata (7) 0.960 14th 1957 Kōya Ogata (8) 1.165 15th 1958 Kōya Ogata (9) 1,212 16 1959 Kōya Ogata (10) 1.020 17th 1960 Trazo Miyabe (1) 0.984 18th 1961 Kōya Ogata (11) 1.106 19th 1962 Kōya Ogata (12) 1.048 20th 1963 Kiyoshi Miyaguchi (1) 0.997 21st 1964 Kōya Ogata (13) 1.347 22nd 1965 Kōya Ogata (14) 0.972 23 1966 Kōya Ogata (15) 1.077 24 1967 Shigeaki Nakaya (1) 0.944 25th 1968 Kōya Ogata (16) 0.965 26th 1969 Nobuaki Kobayashi (1) 1.245 27 1970 Shigeki Kashiki (1) 1.085 28 1971 Nobuaki Kobayashi (2) 1,135 29 1972 Nobuaki Kobayashi (3) 1.191 30th 1973 Nobuaki Kobayashi (4) 1.122 31 1974 Nobuaki Kobayashi (5) 1,236 32 1975 Jun'ichi Komori (1) 1.165 33 1976 Jun'ichi Komori (2) 1.457 34 1977 Jun'ichi Komori (3) 1.253 35 1978 Nobuaki Kobayashi (6) 1.394 36 1979 Yoshio Yoshihara (1) 1.168 37 1980 Nobuaki Kobayashi (7) 1.568 38 1981 Yoshio Yoshihara (2) 1.168 39 1982 Nobuaki Kobayashi (8) 1.303 40 1983 Nobuaki Kobayashi (9)

Winners list No. year GD 41 1984 Jun'ichi Komori (4) 1,379 42 1985 Yoshio Yoshihara (3) 1.363 43 1986 Yoshio Yoshihara (4) 1.167 44 1987 Joji Kai (1) 0.954 45 1988 Yoshihiko Mano (1) 1.191 46 1989 Yoshio Yoshihara (5) 1.205 47 1990 Joji Kai (2) 0.954 48 1991 Reiji Ichinose (1) 1.009 49 1992 Jun'ichi Komori (5) 1.432 50 1993 Nobuaki Kobayashi (10) 1.474 51 1994   52 1995   53 1996   54 1997   55 1998   56 1999   57 2000   58 2001   59 2002   60 2003   61 2004   62 2005   63 2006   64 2007   65 2008   66 2009   67 2010   68 2011   69 2012   70 2013   71 2014   72 2015   73 2016   74 2017   75 2018   76 2019   77 2020

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ The History of the JPBF. JPBF, 2017, accessed February 7, 2020 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Weingartner : Three Cushion in Japan . All Japanese three-cushion champions (1938–1993). Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape  12 , no. 60 . Self-published, 1993, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 31 .