1998 European Pool Billiards Championship

1998 European Pool Billiards Championship
venue	Luxembourg city
Disciplines	8-ball , 9-ball , 14/1 endless
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The Pool Championship 1998 was the European Pool Billiard Association EPBF in Luxembourg City being transmitted snooker tournament . The Pool Billiards European Championship thus took place in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the first time . In 1997 the three-cushion European championship had already taken place in Bad Mondorf .

The disciplines 8-ball , 9-ball and 14/1 endless as well as the European team championships for men and women were played.

The Finn Mika Immonen became the first non-German player since 1992 to become European champion. He won the final in 14/1 endlessly against defending champion Ralf Souquet . Souquet, who lost to Bernd Jahnke the previous year , won the 8-ball final against the Dutchman Rico Diks . With a final win against Italian Fabio Petroni , Souquet was also able to successfully defend his 1997 title in 9-ball. The German Thomas Engert and the Austrian Alexander Wanner each won bronze once.

In the women's 14/1 Endless, Allison Fisher from England won the final against Franziska Stark , who became vice European champion in this discipline for the third time in a row after 1996 and 1997. Fisher also became a 9-ball European champion by beating the Swiss Julia Rechfeld in the final . These were Fisher's first, and so far last, European Championship titles. She is also the only English woman who has become the European women's pool champion. The 8-ball European champion was Ilona Bernhard from Germany , who defeated Karen Corr from Northern Ireland in the final . Corr also won bronze in the 14/1 endless. The Germans Franziska Stark, Sandra Ortner and Michaela Rank , as well as the Austrian Gerda Hofstätter , who was the defending champion in two disciplines, each won a bronze medal.

In the men's team, Denmark won the European championship in the final against Finland. The German team ( Oliver Ortmann , Thomas Engert, Ralf Souquet, Bernd Jahnke and Thorsten Hohmann ), which recently became European champions seven times in a row, only finished third. In the women's finals, Norway won the European championship against Sweden. The defending champion, Switzerland, won the bronze medal, as did the German team (Ilona Bernhard, Franziska Stark, Sandra Ortner and Sylvia Buschhüter ).

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Gentlemen - 14/1 endless	Finland Mika Immonen	Germany Ralf Souquet	Russia Maxim Stalev
Gentlemen - 14/1 endless	Finland Mika Immonen	Germany Ralf Souquet	Sweden Niklas Bergendorff
Men - 8-Ball	Germany Ralf Souquet	Netherlands Rico Diks	Germany Thomas Engert
Men - 8-Ball	Germany Ralf Souquet	Netherlands Rico Diks	Finland Mika Lehtimäki
Men - 9-Ball	Germany Ralf Souquet	Italy Fabio Petroni	Austria Alexander Wanner
Men - 9-Ball	Germany Ralf Souquet	Italy Fabio Petroni	Denmark Peter Nielsen
Men's team	Denmark Denmark	Finland Finland	Germany Germany
Men's team	Denmark Denmark	Finland Finland	United Kingdom United Kingdom
Ladies - 14/1 endless	England Allison Fisher	Germany Franziska Stark	Northern Ireland Karen Corr
Ladies - 14/1 endless	England Allison Fisher	Germany Franziska Stark	Austria Gerda Hofstatter
Ladies - 8 ball	Germany Ilona Bernhard	Northern Ireland Karen Corr	Germany Franziska Stark
Ladies - 8 ball	Germany Ilona Bernhard	Northern Ireland Karen Corr	Germany Sandra Ortner
Ladies - 9-Ball	England Allison Fisher	Switzerland Julia Rechfeld	Germany Michaela Rank
Ladies - 9-Ball	England Allison Fisher	Switzerland Julia Rechfeld	Sweden Ulrika Andersson
Ladies team	Norway Norway	Sweden Sweden	Switzerland Switzerland
Ladies team	Norway Norway	Sweden Sweden	Germany Germany

Web links

European championship 1998 at werner-ertel.de

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