Asiatic players had to settle for the bronze medals in Seoul World Cup while two Europeans played for the gold.
Dick Jaspers won the final against Tayfun Tasdemir. MW Cho and JT Kim shared the bronze. The Dutch closed the gap with Vietnamese QC Tran in the overall World Cup ranking 2024, now they share the first place. All will be decided in last World Cup of 2024 in December in Egypt. Jaspers is the leader of the UMB World Ranking too. JT Kim equalized the world record with a run of 28.
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SEOUL WORLD CUP 2024
The penultimate World Cup of 2024 cycle has already started in Seoul and PQ rounds will be played tomorrow. The seventh and last one will be in Sharm El-Sheikh in December.
Dick Jaspers, Eddy Merckx, Martin Horn, Tayfun Tasdemir, Marco Zanetti, Torbjorn Blomdahl and Tolgahan Kiraz are the CEB players seeded in the last 32 main tournament planned on November 8th. KO rounds will follow on November 9th and 10th. Many other European players travelled to Seoul to take part. Eddy Merckx won this World Cup in 2023.
Follow the event on UMB Website (schedules, results, live streaming).
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