2008 European Pool Billiards Championship

2008 European Pool Billiards Championship
venue	Sauerland Stern Hotel, Willingen , Germany
opening	August 7, 2008
The End	August 16, 2008
Disciplines	8-ball , 9-ball , 14/1 endless
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European Championship 2008 in Willingen

The 2008 European pool championship was a pool tournament that took place from August 7th to 16th, 2008 in the Sauerland Stern Hotel in Willingen, Germany. The European pool association EPBF is responsible for the organization . A total of over 700 athletes from 40 nations took part in the fourth European Championship in Germany after 1980 , 1987 and 2006 .

The EM 2008 was particular in that (as usual) as not only the categories of men , women and wheelchairs fought out their EM together in one place, but in parallel also the juniors , juniors , students , seniors and seniors played in Willingen. The disciplines 8-ball , 9-ball and 14/1 were played out endlessly . There was also a team competition for the juniors , schoolchildren and seniors . However, not all categories played out all disciplines; for example, wheelchair users traditionally only played the 8-ball and 9-ball titles; but not endlessly in 14/1.

For the sake of clarity, this article only deals with the classic categories of men , women and wheelchair users . For the competitions of the juniors , juniors and students , see Pool Billiard European Youth Championship 2008 .

Schedule & Format

First of all, the titles in 14/1 , which were scheduled for the period from August 7th to 9th, were played endlessly . This was followed by the competitions in the 8-ball discipline, which were played between August 8th and 11th. The conclusion was then 9-Ball, which was on the program between August 12th and 16th.

Initially, all categories were played in the double knockout system . This means that you can lose a game (but then you have to survive the longer way through the losers round) without being eliminated from the tournament immediately. A second defeat led to the end of the tournament in any case. This game mode was used until there was only a certain number of players in the tournament (32 for men, 16 for women and 8 for wheelchair users). From then on it went in the knockout system (meaning: every defeat leads to immediate elimination) until the final. A game for 3rd place was not played.

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Gentlemen - 14/1 endless	Croatia Ivica Putnik	Germany Ralf Souquet	Germany Andreas Roschkowsky
Gentlemen - 14/1 endless	Croatia Ivica Putnik	Germany Ralf Souquet	Norway Vegar Kristiansen
Men - 8-Ball	Sweden Marcus Chamat	Serbia Zoran Svilar	Germany Thorsten Hohmann
Men - 8-Ball	Sweden Marcus Chamat	Serbia Zoran Svilar	Croatia Robert Sudić
Men - 9-Ball	France Stephan Cohen	Serbia Zoran Svilar	Italy Bruno Muratore
Men - 9-Ball	France Stephan Cohen	Serbia Zoran Svilar	England Imran Majid
Ladies - 14/1 endless	Denmark Charlotte Sorensen	Norway Line Kjørsvik	Russia Olga Levina
Ladies - 14/1 endless	Denmark Charlotte Sorensen	Norway Line Kjørsvik	Austria Jasmin Ouschan
Ladies - 8 ball	Austria Jasmin Ouschan	Norway Line Kjørsvik	Germany Janine Schwan
Ladies - 8 ball	Austria Jasmin Ouschan	Norway Line Kjørsvik	Spain Amalia Matas
Ladies - 9-Ball	Switzerland Sabina Dederding	Netherlands Estelle Bijnen	Austria Jasmin Ouschan
Ladies - 9-Ball	Switzerland Sabina Dederding	Netherlands Estelle Bijnen	Spain Amalia Matas
Wheelchair users - 8-ball	England Karl Read	Sweden Henrik Larsson	Germany Tankred Volkmer
Wheelchair users - 8-ball	England Karl Read	Sweden Henrik Larsson	Finland Jouni Tahti
Wheelchair users - 9-ball	Finland Jouni Tahti	Austria Emil Schranz	England Matt Duffy
Wheelchair users - 9-ball	Finland Jouni Tahti	Austria Emil Schranz	Slovenia Matej Brajkovic

Men's competitions

For the sake of clarity, only the results from the quarter-finals are listed below.

14/1 endless

Finalist in 14/1:
Ralf Souquet (DEU)

Quarter-finalist in 14/1:
Albin Ouschan (AUT)

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Bruno Muratore

112

Germany Ralf Souquet

125

Germany Ralf Souquet

125

Vegar Kristiansen

50

Norway Vegar Kristiansen

125

Radoslaw Babica

107

Ralf Souquet

99

Croatia Ivica Putnik

125

Martin Kempter

85

Germany Andreas Roschkowsky

125

Andreas Roschkowsky

113

Croatia Ivica Putnik

125

Croatia Ivica Putnik

125

Albin Ouschan

120

8 ball

Semi-finalist in 8-Ball:
Thorsten Hohmann (DEU)

Quarter-finalist in 8-Ball:
Oliver Ortmann (DEU)

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Radoslaw Babica

2

Croatia Robert Sudić

8th

Robert Sudić

2

Serbia Zoran Svilar

8th

Markus Juva

3

Serbia Zoran Svilar

8th

Zoran Svilar

3

Sweden Marcus Chamat

8th

Oliver Ortmann

7th

Sweden Marcus Chamat

8th

Sweden Marcus Chamat

8th

Thorsten Hohmann

1

Yannick Beaufils

5

Germany Thorsten Hohmann

8th

9-ball

Quarter-finalist in 9-Ball:
Nick van den Berg (NED)

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Imran Majid

9

Nick van den Berg

7th

Imran Majid

6th

Zoran Svilar

9

Zoran Svilar

9

Sandor dead

8th

Zoran Svilar

8th

Stephan Cohen

9

Stephan Cohen

9

Carlos Cabello

5

Stephan Cohen

9

Bruno Muratore

5

Darren Appleton

7th

Bruno Muratore

9

Women's competitions

For the sake of clarity, only the results from the quarter-finals are listed below.

14/1 endless

Semi-finalist in 9-ball & 14/1,
winner in 8-ball:
Jasmin Ouschan (AUT)

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Jasmin Ouschan

75

Kynthia orfanidis

20th

Jasmin Ouschan

55

Line Kjorsvik

75

Sabina Dederding

61

Line Kjørsvik

75

Line Kjorsvik

64

Denmark Charlotte Sorensen

75

Olga Levina

75

Christine Feldmann

45

Olga Levina

20th

Denmark Charlotte Sorensen

75

Christelle Faroux

39

Charlotte Sorensen

75

8 ball

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Maria Vania Franco

2

Amalia Matas

6th

Amalia Matas

3

Line Kjorsvik

6th

Markéta Mlejnková

1

Line Kjørsvik

6th

Line Kjorsvik

2

Jasmin Ouschan

6th

Jasmin Ouschan

6th

Melissa Rademakers

2

Jasmin Ouschan

6th

Janine Schwan

3

Daniela Benz

4th

Janine Schwan

6th

9-ball

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Estelle Bijnen

7th

Janine Schwan

6th

Estelle Bijnen

7th

Amalia Matas

0

Eleni Athanasiou

1

Amalia Matas

7th

Estelle Bijnen

4th

Sabina Dederding

7th

Jasmin Ouschan

7th

Marika Poikkijoki

2

Jasmin Ouschan

5

Sabina Dederding

7th

Sabina Dederding

7th

Line Kjørsvik

5

Wheelchair competitions

For the sake of clarity, only the results from the quarter-finals are listed below.

8 ball

Quarter finals			Semifinals			final

	England Daniel Luton	3
	Germany Tankred Volkmer	5
				Germany Tankred Volkmer	2

				England Karl Read	5
	England Karl Read	5

	Ireland Fred Dinsmore	3
							England Karl Read	5

							Sweden Henrik Larsson	3
	Belgium Kurt Deklerck	1

	Finland Jouni Tahti	5
				Finland Jouni Tahti	4th

				Sweden Henrik Larsson	5
	Sweden Henrik Larsson	5

	England Roy Kimberley	0

9-ball

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Daniel Luton

4th

Emil Schranz

7th

Emil Schranz

7th

Matej Brajkovic

5

Matej Brajkovic

7th

Joachim Schuler

2

Emil Schranz

6th

Jouni Tahti

7th

Jouni Tahti

7th

Fred Dinsmore

6th

Jouni Tahti

7th

Matt Duffy

3

Henrik Larsson

5

Matt Duffy

7th

Medal table

space	nation
1	Austria Austria	1	1	2
2	Sweden Sweden	1	1	0
3	England England	1	0	2
4th	Finland Finland	1	0	1
4th	Croatia Croatia	1	0	1
6th	Denmark Denmark	1	0	0
	France France	1	0	0
	Switzerland Switzerland	1	0	0
9	Norway Norway	0	2	1
10	Serbia Serbia	0	2	0
11	Germany Germany	0	1	4th
12	Netherlands Netherlands	0	1	0
13	Spain Spain	0	0	2
14th	Italy Italy	0	0	1
	Russia Russia	0	0	1
	Slovenia Slovenia	0	0	1

Web links

Official website

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