European men's pétanque championship 2013

3rd European Pétanque Championships 2013
Attendees	36
venue	Rome
Period	October 10-13, 2013
Defending champion / triplet	France
Winner / triplet	France
Defending champion / Tir d. P.	Dylan Rocher
Winner / Tir d. P.	Dylan Rocher
Highest Score	50 Diego Rizzi Dylan Rocher

The 3rd European Pétanque Championship 2013 will take place from October 10th to 13th in Rome ( Italy ).

It served as a qualifying tournament for the 2014 World Cup . Of the 36 participating nations, 24 will qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Tahiti .

At the same time as the European Triplet Championship, the 3rd European Championship will take place in the Tir de précision .

The defending champion is France in both disciplines.

The European Championship is organized by the Confédération Européenne de Pétanque (CEP), the European umbrella organization.

Triplets

As in world championships, the game is played in triplet mode with a substitute. During a game, a player can be substituted and the substitute player can be substituted on.

Each team has to play at least six games due to the mode.

The defending champion is France.

mode

In contrast to the EM 2011 , the preliminary round is no longer played in groups, but in the Swiss system as in the world championships . As a result, the EM will be held in three phases:

Phase 1 - Swiss system .

The 36 teams play 5 rounds according to the Swiss system. The first 16 of the final table reach phase 2, the remaining 20 teams continue to play in the Coupe de Nations, the "B-EM".

Stage 2 - Four Poules.

The 16 remaining teams play the eight quarter-finalists in four four- poules .

Phase 3 - knock-out.

In the quarter-finals, Poule winners meet Barrage winners. The semifinals will then be drawn anew.

All teams that reach phase 2 of the A-EM are qualified for the 2014 World Cup.

The 20 teams that failed in the preliminary round will play in a B European Championship (Coupe de nations) for the remaining eight starting places for the 2014 World Championship. If France, already qualified as World Champion 2012 for the next World Cup, should make it into the top 16, nine starting places will be awarded awarded in the Coupe de nations.

First, a cadrage is played to reduce the field of participants to 16. This is completed by the teams in places 29–36.

The equipes that reach the quarter-finals are qualified for the World Cup and play the winner of the B-EM in the knockout system. A last starting place goes to the Barrage loser, who was placed highest in the preliminary round table.

Time schedule

A busy program awaits the Equipes; the future European champion has to play up to eleven games over three days, for the 36 participants in precision shooting there are up to five exercises of 20 shots each.

The EM will open on Thursday with the draw for the first round and a meeting of the CEP. This is followed by the preliminary rounds in the Tir de précision. The players who have not been nominated for this competition will intervene on Friday. The first of five rounds according to the Swiss system starts at 8 a.m.

Legend for the following sequence of the European Championship:

Ceremonies & Meetings

Tir de Précision

Triplette: European Championship (EM)

Triplet: Coupe des nations (CDN, "B-EM")

2012 World Pétanque Championship schedule
	October 10th	October 11th	October 12th	October 13th
08.00		1st round Swiss system	5th round Swiss system	Quarterfinals (also CdN)
09.00
10.00		2nd round Swiss system	Cadrage	Semi-finals (also CdN)
11.00			Presentation of the Nations (11.30 am)
12.00
13.00
14.00		3rd round Swiss system	Start of the poule round (until approx. 7 p.m.)	Semifinals
15.00	Congress & draw			Final afterwards award ceremony
16.00		4th round Swiss system		Final afterwards award ceremony (also CdN)
17.00
18.00	Preliminary round
19.00
8:00 pm				Gala dinner
21.00	Preliminary round (21.30)	Repechage	Quarter-finals (21.30)
22.00

Attendees

In September it became known that 36 nations would take part in the European Championship. Each team consists of four players. In addition, each country provides a participant for the competition in the Tir de précision.

Participating Nations

The quarter-finalists of the EM 2011 are seeded in the first round of the Swiss system and cannot meet.

set	Belgium	Germany	England	France
	Italy	Monaco	Sweden	Spain
unset	Andorra	Bulgaria	Denmark	Estonia
	Finland	Ireland	Israel	jersey
	Latvia	Lithuania	Luxembourg	Netherlands
	Norway	Austria	Poland	Portugal
	Russia	San Marino	Scotland	Switzerland
	Slovakia	Slovenia	Czech Republic	Turkey
	Ukraine	Hungary	Wales	Belarus

Participating players

The DPV , 5th of the EM 2011, nominated In August Toufic Faci (BC Edingen-Neckarhausen / Baden-Württemberg), Jan Garner (VFPS Osterholz-Scharmbeck / Lower Saxony), Till-Vincent Goetzke ( TuRa Braunschweig ) / Lower Saxony and Daniel Reichert ( PCB Horb / Baden-Württemberg) for the EM.

Garner and Reichert, who will also compete in the Tir de précision, were already together in the 2009 EM squad, and for Goetzke and Faci it is their first appearance in an international men's competition.

Defending champion France nominated two European champions from 2011 with Dylan Rocher and Kevin Malbec, plus Jean Feltain and Zvonco Radnic.

The players in italics take part in the Tireuer competition

country	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
	Michel Constans	Philippe Santmann	Bruno Santmann	Antoine Saez
	Charles Weibel	Michel Vancampenhout	Fabrice Uytterhoeven	Steven Ielegems
	Yuliy Takov	Lyubomir Milushev	Stanimir Chonev	Petko manchev
	Daniel Presutti	Let Dithmar	Morten Per Laursen	Jonas Kristensen
	Toufik Faci	Jan Garner	Till-Vincent Goetzke	Daniel Reichert
	Kevin Spillet	Rowland Jones	Greg Davenport	Marcus Hickman
	Veiko Proos	Margus Berkmann	Kaido Kopel	Hardo Sokk
	Arttu Poikolainen	Juha-Pekka Siro	Samuli Kankkunen	Mikael Paakkanen
	Jean Feltain	Kevin Malbec	Dylan Rocher	Zvonco Radnic
	Richard Elvin	Jacques di Pizzo	Msteslav Cozloukov	Pierre di Pizzo
	Usi Bashari	Amit Bashari	Eran Siri	Meir Siri
	Alessio Cocciolo	Gianni Laigueglia	Fabio Dutto	Diego Rizzi
	Toby Northern	Ross Payne	David Ibitson	Matthew Ryan
	Eriks Vilumovs	Kristaps Boze	Maris Lacis
	Tautvydas Alenskas	Almantas Burneika	Algis Petrauskas	Linas Budrikas
	Serge Cattazzo	Claudio Contardi	Alain Laterza	Didier Kohler
	Remy Galleau	Franck Millo	Eric Motte	Nicolas Riviere
	Noel Kempeneer	Erik Telkamp	Essa Agzoul	Mark Wildeboer

country	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
	Benny Bel-Lafkih	Ole Hågensen	Roger Johansen	Ronny Gudmundsen
	Sven Thill	Christopher Salzmann	Stephane Barbery	Lionel Bossard
	Andrzej Sliz	Jedrzej Sliz	Marek Lach	Szymon Kubiesa
	Hugo Dores	Paulo Jacinto	Fernando Valério
	Alexander Borisov	Andrey Davydov	Gulinin Evgeny	Andrey Kolesnikov
	Alfredo Mazza	Secondo Vannucci	Primo Beccari
	Paul Bretenoux	Robbie Stronach	John Wilson	Stephane Maurage
	Not so Larsson	Kenneth Kohalmi	Thomas Wiede	William Silfverberg
	Joseph Molinas	Olivier Fornerod	Didier Senezergues	Franck Bandel
	Marek Sobolič	Lukáš Tomka	Peter Fratrič	Martin Lampert
	Joze Skrbinek	Klemen Podgoršek	Gregor Sever	Gregor Oprešnik
	Miguel Darder	José Luis Guasch	Francisco Berzal	Francisco Flores
	Pavel Valence	Jindrich Kauca	Jan Valenz	Lukas Valenz
	Ozcan Duman	Mesut Ergisi	Ahmet Musa	Ahmet Emen
	Petro Hoys	Mykhaylo Tarkaniy	Ihor Zaslavskyy	Kyrylo Vorotyntsev
	Zoltán Horváth	Gábor Hegedüs-H.	Zoltan Fodor	Bertalan Fodor
	Matthew Franks	Philip Bradshaw	Ian Bailey	Jean-Yves Robic
	Pavel Ivanov	Artsion Liubko	Arthur Siarheyeu	Mikhail Kurlovich

Swiss system

With a mode similar to that of the 2012 World Cup, all teams were guaranteed five games.

After the five rounds, the first 16 teams reach the round of 16, while the remaining 20 teams continue to play in the Coupe des nations, the "B-EM".

Teams that have already played against each other cannot meet again in the preliminary round.

1 round

Germany is placed 5th in the last European Championship in the first round and cannot meet any other quarter-finalist from 2011.

The draw on Thursday afternoon showed that Germany will face the Czech Republic in their first game; The Germans won this game in the formation Faci, Garner, Goetzke sovereign with 13: 1.

France faced Estonia, while hosts Italy met Ireland. Both top teams had little trouble and also scored their first victory.

There were "derbies" between Sweden and Norway, as well as Austria and Switzerland, and both went to the outsiders. Norway beat Sweden 13:10, Austria defeated the four-time world champion from Switzerland very narrowly with 13:12.

The "top game" of the first round was probably the game between Vice European Champion Monaco against the third from 2009, Denmark. There was also a surprise here. The Danes won 13: 9.

Monaco	-	Denmark	9:13
Italy	-	Ireland	13: 4
England	-	Slovenia	13: 9
Belgium	-	jersey	13: 2
Spain	-	Russia	13: 2
France	-	Estonia	13: 3
Sweden	-	Norway	10:13
Germany	-	Czech Republic	13: 1
Luxembourg	-	Latvia	13: 4

Austria	-	Switzerland	13:12
Hungary	-	Turkey	4:13
Lithuania	-	Poland	4:13
Wales	-	Finland	10:13
Netherlands	-	Belarus	13: 5
Israel	-	Andorra	8:13
Scotland	-	Ukraine	13: 1
Bulgaria	-	Portugal	0:13
San Marino	-	Slovakia	3:13

2nd round

In the second round, Germany met Scotland (in the same line-up as in round 1) and won the game after trailing 7-1 with twelve points in a row.

France, Belgium and Spain, who won their second games with ease, also remained unbeaten. Italy, on the other hand, had more trouble and won almost 13:11 against Denmark.

Austria met the Netherlands and this time had to accept a 12-13 defeat. Switzerland rehabilitated after the unexpected defeat and won against Bulgaria via Fanny, which thus could not get a single point from two games. Monaco also clinched its first victory against San Marino.

Israel, however, also lost the second game. It was 0:13 against Sweden.

Scotland	-	Germany	7:13
Luxembourg	-	Finland	13: 4
Portugal	-	France	3:13
Norway	-	Poland	8:13
Denmark	-	Italy	11:13
Austria	-	Netherlands	12:13
Andorra	-	England	13: 4
Turkey	-	Spain	1:13
Belgium	-	Slovakia	13: 0

Hungary	-	Latvia	13: 7
Switzerland	-	Bulgaria	13: 0
Slovenia	-	Belarus	13: 0
Czech Republic	-	Lithuania	13: 2
Estonia	-	Ireland	13: 8
jersey	-	Wales	11:13
Ukraine	-	Russia	2:13
Monaco	-	San Marino	13: 3
Israel	-	Sweden	0:13

3rd round

In the third round, Germany faced hosts Italy. In the end, you had almost no chance against the EM co-favorites at 3:13.

In addition to Italy, France, Belgium (which only lost two points in three games), Spain and, surprisingly, Andorra remained unbeaten and can already plan for the Poule round.

Switzerland, Monaco and Sweden won their second game after their opening defeat and stayed within striking distance of the top teams.

Austria had to admit defeat to Portugal and is under pressure for the last two rounds. Newcomer Jersey came against Belarus to their very first victory in an international championship. For the Belarusians, as well as for Latvia, Bulgaria, San Marino and the Ukraine, the end was already certain after the third defeat.

Luxembourg	-	Andorra	12:13
Germany	-	Italy	3:13
Belgium	-	Poland	13: 0
France	-	Netherlands	13: 2
Spain	-	Finland	13: 7
Czech Republic	-	Sweden	8:13
Slovakia	-	Wales	13:10
Slovenia	-	Monaco	5:13
Turkey	-	Estonia	13: 3

Denmark	-	Russia	13: 8
Norway	-	Switzerland	2:13
England	-	Hungary	13: 4
Austria	-	Portugal	4:13
Scotland	-	Latvia	13: 2
San Marino	-	Lithuania	7:13
Ukraine	-	Israel	2:13
Ireland	-	Bulgaria	13: 7
Belarus	-	jersey	11:13

4th round

In round four, Germany beat England and will therefore start the last round on Saturday with a good starting position.

France, Belgium (already with the third Fanny in the fourth game) and Spain remained unbeaten.

Switzerland defeated Portugal 13: 9, Austria had to admit defeat to Slovenia (again 12:13).

Belgium	-	Andorra	13: 0
France	-	Italy	13: 0
Spain	-	Poland	13: 4
Scotland	-	Turkey	12:13
Sweden	-	Slovakia	13: 4
Portugal	-	Switzerland	9:13
Germany	-	England	13: 5
Monaco	-	Luxembourg	13:11
Denmark	-	Netherlands	13:12

Finland	-	Czech Republic	13: 8
Austria	-	Slovenia	12:13
Wales	-	Israel	8:13
Norway	-	jersey	13: 1
Estonia	-	Hungary	13: 3
Lithuania	-	Russia	9:13
Ireland	-	Belarus	13: 3
Latvia	-	Ukraine	13:10
San Marino	-	Bulgaria Bulgaria	8:13

5th round

The fifth round was drawn on Friday evening.

Germany met Turkey and won the game after a 3:10 deficit with 13:12. The DPV team thus finished the preliminary round in sixth place.

France and Belgium played the top game, which the defending champion won almost 13:10. Spain, also unbeaten, met with Denmark again on a high-resolution team and won confidently.

Switzerland had to admit defeat to Italy. The Netherlands, Luxembourg, England, Finland and Slovenia won their "finals" and reached the poule phase.

Austria ended the preliminary round with a fanny against Jersey. Ukraine and Belarus did not win the preliminary round.

France	-	Belgium	13:10
Spain	-	Denmark	13: 2
Turkey	-	Germany	12:13
Italy	-	Switzerland	13: 0
Andorra	-	Sweden	13:11
Monaco	-	Russia	13: 9
Poland	-	Ireland	12:13
Finland	-	Scotland	13: 7
Israel	-	Slovenia	8:13

Portugal	-	Netherlands	4:13
Luxembourg	-	Norway	13: 5
England	-	Estonia	13: 9
Slovakia	-	Czech Republic	13: 2
Latvia	-	Bulgaria	13: 2
Austria	-	jersey	13: 0
Lithuania	-	Wales	13:11
Hungary	-	Ukraine	13: 5
Belarus	-	San Marino	7:13

Closing table

For the order in the final table, the number of wins counts first, then the Buchholz points (BH) , the Feinbuchholz points (FBH) and then the ball difference, which remains unmentioned because all teams could be classified with the first three criteria.

The first 16 teams reach the second round of the European Championship, the teams in positions 17 to 36 continue to play in the Coupe des nations. The teams in places 29-36 have to go into the cadrage.

space	team	Victories	bra	FBH
1	France	5-0	15th	75
2	Spain	5-0	13	75
3	Italy	4: 1	18th	66
4th	Andorra	4: 1	15th	68
5	Belgium	4: 1	15th	65
6th	Germany	4: 1	13	75
7th	Monaco	4: 1	12	68
8th	Denmark	3: 2	18th	69
9	England	3: 2	15th	65
10	Turkey	3: 2	15th	64
11	Luxembourg	3: 2	15th	59
12	Netherlands	3: 2	12	70
13	Finland	3: 2	12	66
14th	Sweden	3: 2	12	63
15th	Switzerland	3: 2	11	67
16	Slovenia	3: 2	11	61
17th	Slovakia	3: 2	10	63
18th	Ireland	3: 2	9	72
19th	Estonia	2: 3	16	64
20th	Poland	2: 3	16	56
21st	Portugal	2: 3	14th	61
22nd	Russia	2: 3	14th	60
23	Norway	2: 3	12	63
24	Scotland	2: 3	12	58
25th	Austria	2: 3	12	57
26th	Israel	2: 3	11	59
27	Hungary	2: 3	10	64
28	Latvia	2: 3	8th	58
29	Lithuania	2: 3	7th	66
30th	Czech Republic	1: 4	15th	54
31	Bulgaria	1: 4	11	52
32	Wales	1: 4	11	49
33	San Marino	1: 4	10	51
34	jersey	1: 4	9	61
35	Belarus	0: 5	11	51
36	Ukraine	0: 5	10	55

Poules

The 16 teams that have survived the preliminary round play the quarter-finals in four-poules. The poule round starts on Saturday at 2 p.m.

The poules were formed according to the following pattern:

The numbers refer to the placement after the preliminary round.

Poules
A.	B.	C.	D.
1	16	6th	11
2	15th	5	12
3	14th	8th	9
4th	13	7th	10

This composition and the positions in the final table resulted in the following poules:

Germany initially met Luxembourg in Poule A. Other possible opponents were France and Slovenia.

After a win in the first game and a loss to France, Germany met Luxembourg again in the Barrage. Thanks to the 13: 4 success, the DPV team qualified for the quarter-finals again.

The four semi-finalists of the EM 2011 France, Monaco, Italy and Spain won their poules. Denmark moved into the quarter-finals with a Barrage victory over neighboring Sweden, as did Finland, which narrowly defeated Andorra, who were fourth in the preliminary round, in the Barrage.

In what is probably the strongest Poule B, Switzerland caused a big surprise with a clear victory over Belgium, as the Belgians were definitely among the favorites until then.

All teams that have reached the poules are qualified for the 2014 World Cup.

Poule A
Game 1	France	13: 0	Slovenia
Game 2	Germany	13: 3	Luxembourg
Game 3	France	13: 4	Germany
Game 4	Slovenia	5:13	Luxembourg
Barrage	Germany	13: 4	Luxembourg
qualified	France	&	Germany
eliminated	Luxembourg	&	Slovenia

Poule B
Game 1	Spain	13: 0	Switzerland
Game 2	Belgium	13: 5	Netherlands
Game 3	Spain	13:11	Belgium
Game 4	Switzerland	13: 8	Netherlands
Barrage	Belgium	4:13	Switzerland
qualified	Spain	&	Switzerland
eliminated	Belgium	&	Netherlands

Poule C
Game 1	Italy	13:11	Sweden
Game 2	Denmark	13: 0	England
Game 3	Italy	13: 0	Denmark
Game 4	Sweden	13: 8	England
Barrage	Denmark	13: 9	Sweden
qualified	Italy	&	Denmark
eliminated	Sweden	&	England

Poule D
Game 1	Andorra	2:13	Finland
Game 2	Monaco	13: 4	Turkey
Game 3	Finland	12:13	Monaco
Game 4	Andorra	13: 9	Turkey
Barrage	Finland	13:11	Andorra
qualified	Monaco	&	Finland
eliminated	Andorra	&	Turkey

Final round

The Poule winners and runners-up reach the quarter-finals, which are played according to the pattern below. The semi-finals will be drawn freely.

All quarter-finals ended clearly in favor of the Poule winners. Germany resisted the host the most.

In the much closer semifinals, France and Monaco prevailed. Thus the 2011 final was reissued. Italy and Spain, on the other hand, remained “only” bronze.

In an exciting and high-class final that lasted over two hours, the defending champion prevailed with 13:10 and thus won the third European Championship title at the third event.

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

A1

France

13

C2

Denmark

4th

France

13

Spain

9

B1

Spain

13

D2

Finland

0

France

13

Monaco

10

C1

Italy

13

A2

Germany

6th

Italy

10

Monaco

13

D1

Monaco

13

B2

Switzerland

2

Coupe de Nations

The 20 teams eliminated after the preliminary round continue to play in the Coupe de Nations.

In order to get to a field of 16, which continues to play in four-poules analogous to the EM, the last eight of the preliminary round had to go into a cadrage.

Cadrage

Lithuania, Jersey, Bulgaria and the Ukraine were eliminated and thus missed qualifying for the 2014 World Cup.

Bulgaria	-	San Marino	1:13
Wales	-	jersey	13: 4
Czech Republic	-	Ukraine	13: 8
Lithuania	-	Belarus	8:13

Poules

The teams that survived the poule qualified for the 2014 World Cup. This means that Austria and Norway will also be on Tahiti next year.

By contrast, Estonia, Israel and Russia surprisingly failed and missed qualifying for the World Cup.

The 25th European starting place goes to Slovakia as the best team in the preliminary round that failed in the Barrage.

Poule A
Game 1	Slovakia	13: 6	San Marino
Game 2	Russia	7:13	Hungary
Game 3	Slovakia	12:13	Hungary
Game 4	San Marino	13: 4	Russia
Barrage	Slovakia	7:13	San Marino
qualified	Hungary	&	San Marino
eliminated	Slovakia	&	Russia

Poule B
Game 1	Ireland	0:13	Wales
Game 2	Portugal	13: 5	Latvia
Game 3	Wales	8:13	Portugal
Game 4	Ireland	13: 7	Latvia
Barrage	Wales	9:13	Ireland
qualified	Portugal	&	Ireland
eliminated	Wales	&	Latvia

Poule C
Game 1	Estonia	12:13	Czech Republic
Game 2	Scotland	4:13	Austria
Game 3	Czech Republic	13:11	Austria
Game 4	Esland	13: 3	Scotland
Barrage	Austria	13: 4	Estonia
qualified	Czech Republic	&	Austria
eliminated	Estonia	&	Scotland

Poule D
Game 1	Poland	13: 0	Belarus
Game 2	Norway	5:13	Israel
Game 3	Poland	13:12	Israel
Game 4	Belarus	12:13	Norway
Barrage	Israel	10:13	Norway
qualified	Poland	&	Norway
eliminated	Israel	&	Belarus

KO phase

With Portugal, the nominally strongest team won the B-EM. In the final there was a clear 13: 1 over Poland.

Austria beat Hungary in the quarter-finals and came in a good third place in the Coupe de Nations.

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

A1

Hungary

10

C2

Austria

13

Austria

10

Portugal

13

B1

Portugal

13

D2

Norway

9

Portugal

13

Poland

1

C1

Czech Republic

13

A2

San Marino

5

Czech Republic

9

Poland

13

D1

Poland

13

B2

Ireland

3

Tir de precisión

The competition in the Tir de precisión is also taking place for the third time. All 36 shooters start in the preliminary round with an exercise of 20 shots.

The first four go straight to the quarter-finals, the shooters in places 5 to 20 reach the repêchage, the second chance in which the four best of this round complete the last eight. From the quarter-finals onwards, the knockout system is man against man.

Daniel Reichert starts for Germany.

Preliminary round

Defending champion Dylan Rocher (France) and ex-Junior World Champion Diego Rizzi (Italy) achieved the best results in the preliminary round with 50 points. Rizzi scored more "fives" and was the first to complete the first round. The Swiss starter Didier Senezergues and the Norwegian Benny Bel-Lafkih also made it directly to the quarter-finals.

Daniel Reichert narrowly missed the direct quarter-finals qualification in sixth with 38 points, but reached the Repêchage, just like the Austrian Sven Thill and the former European champion Charles Weibel from Belgium.

space	country	Shooter	Points
1		Diego Rizzi	50
2		Dylan Rocher	50
3		Didier Senezergues	40
4th		Benny Bel-Lafkih	38
5		Gregor Sever	37
6th		Daniel Reichert	36
7th		Hugo Dores	35
8th		Charles Weibel	32
9		Alain Laterza	30th
10		Jose Luis Guasch	30th
11		Eric Motte	30th
12		Yuliv Takov	27
13		Veiko Proos	27
14th		Sven Thill	25th
15th		Juha-Pekka Siro	25th
16		Mark Wildeboer	25th
17th		Daniel Presutti	25th
18th		Amit Bashari	24
19th		Andrei Sliz	23
20th		William Silfverberg	23
21st		Martin Lampert	20th
22nd		Ahmet Musa	19th
23		Jacques di Pizzo	18th
24		Robbie Stronach	17th
25th		Gabor Hegedus	16
26th		Alexander Borisov	15th
27		Alfredo Mazza	15th
28		Linas Budrikas	14th
29		Pavel Valence	13
30th		Pavel Ivanov	12
31		Petro Hoys	11
32		Ian Bailey	11
33		Philippe Santmann	9
34		Rowland Jones	8th
35		Eriks Vilumovs	7th
36		Matthew Ryan	3

Repêchage

In the repêchage on Friday evening, the 16 shooters who had landed in the preliminary round in places 5 to 20 will compete.

The best four of this round complete the quarter-finals.

Veiko Proos from Estonia, third in the European Championships in 2011 and Charles Weibel from Belgium, European champion from 2009, scored the most points in the Repêchage with 36 and reached the quarter-finals together with Sven Thill from Austria and the Slovenian Gregor Sever.

Daniel Reichert retired, as did the vice European champion from 2011, Hugo Dores from Portugal.

space	country	Shooter	Points
1		Veiko Proos	36
2		Charles Weibel	36
3		Sven Thill	35
4th		Gregor Sever	33
5		Hugo Dores	31
6th		Jose Luis Guasch	30th
7th		Eric Motte	30th
8th		Mark Wildeboer	29
9		Amit Bashari	25th
10		Andrei Sliz	24
11		Daniel Reicher	21st
12		Alain Laterza	21st
13		Daniel Presutti	19th
14th		Willam Silverberg	13
15th		Juha-Pekka Siro	12
16		Yuliv Takov	7th

Final round

In the quarter-finals, the first of the preliminary round meets the fourth of the Repêchage, the second meets the third and vice versa.

After every two victories there was a "dream final" between Diego Rizzi and Dylan Rocher. In an always exciting final at eye level, Rizzi had the chance to win with the last shot at the sow, but he punched and so Rocher defended his title from 2011.

Veiko Proos won his second medal with bronze at an EM, ex-European champion Charles Weibel also failed in the semi-finals.

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

V1

Diego Rizzi

48

R4

Gregor Sever

35

Diego Rizzi

33

Veiko Proos

23

V4

Benny Bel-Lafkih

12

R1

Veiko Proos

28

Diego Rizzi

33

Dylan Rocher

35

V3

Didier Senezergues

33

R2

Charles Weibel

45

Charles Weibel

37

Dylan Rocher

43

V2

Dylan Rocher

45

R3

Sven Thill

22nd

Final score

Final score triplets

space	country	player
1		Jean Feltain, Kevin Malbec, Zvonco Radnic, Dylan Rocher
2		Remy Galleau, Tailcoat Millo, Eric Motte, Nicolas Riviere
3		Alessio Cacciolo, Fabio Dutto, Gianni Laigueglia, Diego Rizzi
		Francisco Berzal, Miguel Darder, Francisco Flores, José Luis Guasch

Final score Tir de precisión

space	country	player
1		Dylan Rocher
2		Diego Rizzi
3		Charles Weibel
		Veiko Proos

Web links

• Homepage of the EM
• CEP
• German Pétanque Association