2011 European Pétanque Championships

3rd European Espoirs Pétanque Championships 2011
Attendees	16 (8 men's and 8 women's teams) (from 12 nations)
venue	Roskilde
Period	October 21-23, 2011
Defending champions / men	France
Winner / Gentlemen	France
Defending champion / women	Germany
Winners / ladies	Germany

The 4th Espoirs European Pétanque Championship will take place from October 21 to 23 in Roskilde , Denmark . There are parallel women and men competition. 8 teams each play in 2 groups of four.

mode

In contrast to the world and European championships for seniors, women or juniors, the European championships for espoirs are not only held in triplets with the option of substitution. Instead, the first round of triplets is followed by a double and a tete-a-tete at the same time, without the possibility of changing.

Every victory is awarded one point. Thus, the overall game wins the team that can win at least two of the three games.

A preliminary round is played in groups of four (everyone against everyone). The first and second in each group reach the semi-finals which are played crosswise (A1 - B2 and B1 - A2). There is no game for third place.

There is also no draw for the preliminary round groups, as the "seeding positions" of the participating teams were announced according to the following pattern before the three qualifying rounds:

groups
E.	F.
A1	B1
B2	C2
C1	Defending champion
Host ( )	A2

Men's

The defending champions are France, which were pre-qualified alongside hosts Denmark. Other teams had to go to a qualifying round.

qualification

To determine the six free starting places, three qualifying rounds took place in the run-up to the European Championship, each of which was attended by 5 teams. The first two teams in each qualification group qualified for the European Championship. So played on 23/24. March Sascha Wagner, Zeki Engin, Frank Maurer and Niclas room in Rastatt in Germany by one of the two EM tickets and were able to qualify sovereign with four wins from four matches.

Group A

In qualification group A, in addition to hosts Germany, Israel, Sweden, Belgium and England also played for the starting places for the European Championship.

Group A
space	team	Victories	Games	Points	difference
1.	Germany	4th	8: 4	128: 109	+19
2.	Israel	2	6: 6	133: 129	+4
3.	England	2	6: 6	120: 124	−6
4th	Belgium	1	5: 7	115: 132	−17
5.	Sweden	1	5: 7	120: 122	−2

Group B and Group C

Qualifying group B played in Finland, which qualified for the European Championship in second behind Spain. The other participants were Turkey, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

The qualifying group C games took place in Slovenia. Here Monaco and Italy qualified for the EM. The hosts, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were eliminated.

Group B
space	team
1.	Spain
2.	Finland
nq	Czech Republic
nq	Turkey
nq	Hungary

Group C
space	team
1.	Monaco
2.	Italy
nq	Luxembourg
nq	Netherlands
nq	Slovenia

Preliminary round

The following preliminary round groups result from the fixed betting system:

groups
E.	F.
Germany	Spain
Finland	Italy
Monaco	France
Denmark	Israel

Group E

Germany played as the winners of qualifying group A in group E against hosts Denmark, Monaco and Finland. Mika Everding (VFPS Osterholz-Scharmbeck), Till-Vincent Goetzke ( TuRa Braunschweig ), Frank Maurer and Niclas Zimmer (both PCB Horb) played for the DPV

space	team	Victories	Games	Bullets	Diff.
1	Monaco	3	7: 2	111: 86	+25
2	Germany	2	6: 3	105: 93	+12
3	Denmark	1	5: 4	104: 91	+13
4th	Finland	0	0: 9	67: 117	−50

round	Team 1	Team 2	3: 3	2: 2	1: 1	Bullets	Final score
1	Finland	Monaco	06:13	12:13	01:13	18:39	0: 3
1	Denmark	Germany	04:13	13: 9	11:13	28:35	1: 2
2	Finland	Denmark	06:13	05:13	10:13	21:39	0: 3
2	Monaco	Germany	13:10	11:13	13: 8	37:31	2: 1
3	Finland	Germany	04:13	12:13	12:13	28:39	0: 3
3	Monaco	Denmark	09:13	13:12	13:12	35:37	2: 1

Group F.

In Group F, three medal winners from the last European Championships (2009) met in the preliminary round with France, Italy and Spain. France, the defending champion, played with Dylan Rocher and Kevin Malbec, who had already become European senior champions in August .

space	team	Victories	Games	Bullets	Diff.
1	France	3	7: 2	106: 63	+43
2	Italy *	1	3: 6	85:93	−8
3	Israel *	1	4: 5	78:98	−20
4th	Spain *	1	4: 5	81:96	−15

round	Team 1	Team 2	3: 3	2: 2	1: 1	Bullets	Final score
1	France	Italy	13: 4	13:12	13: 3	39:19	3-0
1	Spain	Israel	13:12	00:13	10:13	23:38	1: 2
2	Italy	Israel	13: 2	11:13	13: 6	37:21	2: 1
2	Spain	France	07:13	13: 3	05:13	25:29	1: 2
3	Italy	Spain	13: 7	04:13	12:13	29:33	1: 2
3	France	Israel	13: 3	12:13	13: 3	38:19	2: 1

(*) Italy will reach the semi-finals, since according to the regulations, if three teams have a tie, only the results of the teams are counted among themselves.

This results in the following table for determining the second place:

space	team	Victories	Games	Bullets	Diff.
2	Italy	1	3: 3	66:54	+12
3	Israel	1	3: 3	59:60	−1
4th	Spain	1	3: 3	56:67	−11

Final round

The final round with the semi-finals and the final took place entirely on October 23, 2011.

The French won the semi-finals and the final around Dylan Rocher with confidence and thus won the third title for the French men's espoirs.

	Semifinals					final
	E1	Monaco	3
	F2	Italy	0
							Monaco	0
							France	3
	F1	France	3
	E2	Germany	0

round	Team 1	Team 2	3: 3	2: 2	1: 1	Bullets	Final score
HF1	Monaco	Italy	13:10	13:10	13: 9	39:29	3-0
HF2	France	Germany	13: 1	13: 4	13: 4	39: 9	3-0
final	Monaco	France	00:13	09:13	09:13	18:39	0: 3

Final score

Final score men

space	country	player
1		Florent Coutanson, Dylan Rocher, Kevin Malbec and Jean Feltain
2		Yohan Borde, Vincent Ferrandez, Joseph Gimenez, Pierre Lucchesi
3		Mika Everding, Till-Vincent Goetzke, Frank Maurer, Niclas Zimmer
		Mattia Chiappello, Gianluca Rattenni, Alessandro Basso, Alex Marro
5		Emil Petersen, Mathias Ellekaer Hansen, Morten Saxild-Hansen, Daniel Presutti
		Hadar Redinger, Eliyahu Ochana, Yonatan Aviel Malka, Gal Azulai
7th		Joel Anttonen, Ville Punta, Mikko Kappuri
		Jose Luis Guach, Oscar Alberola, Pedro Garcia, Lorenzo Mendez

Ladies

The defending champion is Germany, which was pre-qualified alongside hosts Denmark. Other teams had to go to a qualifying round.

qualification

As with the men, there were also three qualifying tournaments for the women’s competition, and the two first-placed winners could buy their tickets for the European Championship. However, only a total of 10 teams took part in the three qualifying rounds.

Group A (in Italy)
space	team
1.	Spain
2.	Netherlands
nq	England
nq	Italy

Group B (in France)
space	team
1.	France
2.	Belgium
3.	Slovenia

Group C (in Turkey)
space	team
1.	Turkey
2.	Austria
3.	Sweden

Preliminary round

The following preliminary round groups result from the betting system:

groups
E.	F.
Spain	France
Belgium	Austria
Turkey	Germany
Denmark	Netherlands

Group E

In Group E, in addition to Turkey, hosts Denmark, Belgium and Spain played three teams that have already won a bronze medal at previous Espoir European Championships.

space	team	Victories	Games	Bullets	Diff.
1	Belgium *	2	6: 3	99:84	+15
2	Spain *	2	6: 3	101: 73	+28
3	Denmark *	2	4: 5	81:88	−7
4th	Turkey	0	2: 7	65: 101	−36

round	Team 1	Team 2	3: 3	2: 2	1: 1	Bullets	Final score
1	Belgium	Turkey	04:13	13: 9	13: 5	30:27	2: 1
1	Denmark	Spain	13: 4	03:13	13: 8	29:25	2: 1
2	Belgium	Denmark	13: 8	13:10	13: 2	39:20	3-0
2	Turkey	Spain	06:13	00:13	08:13	14:39	0: 3
3	Belgium	Spain	08:13	09:13	13:11	30:37	1: 2
3	Turkey	Denmark	05:13	06:13	13: 6	24:32	1: 2

(*) Similar to the men’s group F, the rankings in this group were determined by comparing the players of the three teams with one another.

This resulted in the following table:

space	team	Victories	Games
1	Belgium	1	4: 2
2	Spain	1	3: 3
3	Denmark	1	2: 4

Group F.

Defending champion Germany, who played with Muriel Hess (PCB Horb), Julia Würthle (BC Edingen-Neckarhausen), both European champions in 2009, Natascha Denzinger (TSG Weinheim-Lützelsachsen) and Lea Mitschker (Koldinger SV), scored in one of the preliminary rounds New edition of the finals from 2009 on France, also on the Netherlands and Austria.

space	team	Victories	Games	Bullets	Diff.
1	France	3	8: 1	110: 72	+38
2	Germany	2	5: 4	99:72	+27
3	Netherlands	1	5: 4	92:70	+22
4th	Austria	0	0: 9	30: 117	−87

round	Team 1	Team 2	3: 3	2: 2	1: 1	Bullets	Final score
1	Austria	Germany	04:13	07:13	01:13	12:39	0: 3
1	Netherlands	France	11:13	13: 6	08:13	32:32	1: 2
2	Austria	Netherlands	01:13	02:13	01:13	4:39	0: 3
2	Germany	France	07:13	10:13	09:13	26:39	0: 3
3	Austria	France	07:13	02:13	05:13	14:39	0: 3
3	Germany	Netherlands	08:13	13: 1	13: 7	34:21	2: 1

Final round

After two close semifinals it came to the "dream final" Germany against France. Both teams faced each other in the finals of the European Championships in 2008 and 2009.

The German women managed to defend the title and thus win the second gold medal on international soil for the DPV . Decisive for the game was, as in 2009, the tete-a-tete, which Muriel Hess won with 13:10.

	Semifinals					final
	E1	Belgium	1
	F2	Germany	2
							Germany	2
							France	1
	F1	France	2
	E2	Spain	1

round	Team 1	Team 2	3: 3	2: 2	1: 1	Bullets	Final score
HF1	Belgium	Germany	07:13	13: 8	11:13	31:34	1: 2
HF2	France	Spain	13:11	13: 5	10:13	36:29	2: 1
final	Germany	France	13: 5	02:13	13:10	18:39	2: 1

Final score

Final result women

space	country	player
1		Natascha Denzinger, Muriel Hess, Lea Mitschker, Julia Würthle
2		Anna Maillard, Mayline Cegarra, Celine Baron, Nadege Baussian
3		Camille Max, Jordane Parker, Inge Grotjans, Stephanie Moiny
		Carolina Jimenez, Cynthia Arrabal, Jennifer Lopez, Ana Fernandez
5		Sofie Donkild, Mette Ellekaer Hansen, Mette Ryberg Petersen, Lykke Maria Larsen
		Petra Blom, Denise van Arnhem, Ilse Smits, Irma Smits
7th		Isabella Schimak, Carina Traub, Katharina Engl
		Ilke Kumartaslioglu, Merve Ozturk, Cankaya H. Gozde, Sila Yilmaz

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