European Youth Pétanque Championship 2008

The 2008 European Pétanque Championships for young people were held from August 8th to 10th by the Confédération Européenne de Pétanque (CEP) in Nieuwegein , Netherlands .

France became world champion in triplet with Dylan ROCHER, Vianney MOUREAU-FONTAN, Vianney MOUREAU-FONTAN and Florent COUTANSON, while precision shooting was won by the Spaniard Juan Carlos SOGORB.

Triplets

At the start were 22 triplets from the member associations of the CEP, the host Netherlands provided two triplets.

The teams of the German and Austrian Pétanque Federation and the Fédération Suisse de Pétanque

DPV	Public transport	FSP
Frank Maurer	Clemens Koss	Steven Tamburini
Manuel Strokosch	Isabella Schimak	Ântony Hubert
Moritz Wiegand	Carina Traub	Denis Frechloz
Niclas room	Stefan Traub	Ântony Vicensi

Preliminary round

Due to a defeat in the last game, the German team was only able to qualify for the quarter-finals as second in the group. Austria and Switzerland could not qualify for the quarter-finals as second or third in the group and played on in the Nations Cup.

Preliminary round
space	A.	B.	C.	D.
1	France	Spain	Denmark	Italy
2	Netherlands 1	Luxembourg	Germany	Finland
3	Austria	Czech Republic	Sweden	Israel
4th	Slovenia	Estonia	Switzerland	Netherlands
5	Slovakia	Hungary	Netherlands 2	Turkey
6th	Poland	England

Finals

The defeat in the last preliminary round matched the team of the DPV tournament favorite France in the quarter-finals. The DPV team eliminated with 0:13.

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

European Champion :
Dylan ROCHER / Vianney MOUREAU-FONTAN Vianney MOUREAU-FONTAN / Florent COUTANSON		France
Vice European champion
Diego RIZZI / Mattia CHIAPELLO Alessio FARINA / Mattia BALESTRA		Italy
place 3	Francisco BERNABE GUILLEN / Pedro Luis GARCIA LISON Juan Carlos SOGORB MANCHEÑO / Marc DIAZ MARTINEZ	Spain
	Davey KOOIJMAN / Joey VAN DOORN Kees KOOGJE / Tom VAN DER VOORT	Netherlands
5th place	Frank MAURER / Manuel STROKOSCH Moritz WIEGAND / Niclas ZIMMER	Germany
	Mikko TALJA / Joel ANTTONEN Mikko KAMPPURI / Ville PUNTA	Finland
	Mikkel TOFT / Lasse DITHMAR Kasper LUNAU-CRISTENSEN / Sofie DONKILD	Denmark
	Massimo SANTIONI / Thomas PICKAR Fränz FOGENS / Sven THILL	Luxembourg

Nations Cup

Austria and Switzerland were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The Nations Cup was won by the Czech Republic with Filip BAYER, Jiří KOREŠ, Tomáš MICHÁLEK and Jiří MRŇÁK.

qualification
Team 1	Team 2	Points
Austria
Czech Republic
Sweden	Poland	12:13
Israel	England	12:13
Slovenia	Netherlands	13: 3
Estonia	Turkey	13: 9
Switzerland	Slovakia	13: 3
Belgium	Hungary	8:13

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Precision shooting

The German Niklas Zimmer, like the Israeli Hadar Redlinger, reached 25 points in the preliminary fight, but was eliminated due to a less scored five-point goal. The Austrian Carina Traub took 19th place in the pre-fight. The Swiss Steven Tamburini came fifth.

Preliminary round
space	Shooter	nation	Points
1	Juan Carlos SOGORB	Spain	48
2	Dylan ROCHER	France	48
3	Alexander NORIN	Sweden	40
4th	Jirí KOREŠ	Czech Republic	35
5	Mattia CHIAPELLO	Italy	34
6th	Kees KOOGJE	Netherlands	30th
7th	Steven TAMBURINI	Switzerland	26th
8th	Hadar REDLINGER	Israel	25th
9	Niclas ZIMMER	Germany	25th
19th	Carina TRAUB	Austria	9

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1	Juan Carlos SOGORB	33
	8th	Hadar REDLINGER	32
						1	Juan Carlos SOGORB	52
						3	Alexander NORIN	19th
	3	Alexander NORIN	29
	6th	Kees KOOGJE	23
											1	Juan Carlos SOGORB	34
											5	Mattia CHIAPELLO	24
	2	Dylan ROCHER	36
	7th	Steven TAMBURINI	21st
						2	Dylan ROCHER	40
						5	Mattia CHIAPELLO	45
	4th	Jirí KOREŠ	23
	5	Mattia CHIAPELLO	30th

European Champion :
Juan Carlos SOGORB		Spain
Vice European champion
Mattia CHIAPELLO		Italy
place 3	Alexander NORIN	Sweden
	Dylan ROCHER	France
5th place	Hadar REDLINGER	Israel
	Kees KOOGJE	Netherlands
	Steven TAMBURINI	Switzerland
	Jirí KOREŠ	Czech Republic