DAY 5:
The final day of this Artistic regrouped championships has just ended.
The Turkiye 1 team successfully defended the European Title conquered last year in Antalya.
The Turkish team line up had not changed from 2023: Haci Arap Yaman and Baris Cin confirmed their supremacy and took again the gold medal in front of their own fans.
In the final they confronted with Belgium team (Van Der Zegel - Vervliet) and won by 3-1 in sets. Belgium gained a silver medal. In the semifinals the Belgian duo eliminated the Austria team (Hekerle - Dahlke) by 3-1.
The second semifinals was played by Turkiye 1 and Germany 2; it was filled with suspence. On a 2-1 sets score in favor of Germany the two teams drawed the 4th set and a tie-break was needed to decide the winner of this set and perhaps of the match. Germany missed twice this opportunity and Turkiye won the tie-break thus going on a 2-2 sets score. The last decider set was then won by the Turkish duo.
Bronze medals were awarded to Austria and Germany 2.
DAY 4:
The fourth day of this Artistic Billiard marathon in the beautiful TFB facility in Ankara it's the day of the National Teams qualification groups and quarters final.
Groups were played at first to decide the 8 teams that clashed in the last 8 KO round at the end of the day.
Both groups A and B were clearly won by Turkiye 1 and Turkiye 2 with two victories each. Germany 2 and Austria were the runners up thanks to their victories against the two Spanish teams that are therefore both eliminated.
In groups C and D the three teams of each group won 1 match each. In group C France 2 and Germany 1 are qualified thanks to the higher number of sets won. Netherlands is out for one set difference. In group D there was even an equality of set points so it was necessary to compare the averages: France 1 and Belgium were qualified, Turkiye 3 is out.
Quite surprisingly all the teams 2 placed better than the team 1 of the same nation in the qualification ranking. Turkiye 2 was on top followed by Turkiye 1. French 2 was number 3 and French 1 was number 4. Then Austria in the fifth place followed, again, first by Germany 2 and then Germany 1. Last one of the 8 qualified was the Belgian team. The quarters final were played as follows:
TURKIYE 2 - BELGIUM
FRANCE 1 - AUSTRIA
FRANCE 2 - GERMANY 2
TURKIYE 1 - GERMANY 1
All of the quarters final matches were extremely tense and balanced matches, sets score was an exciting 3-2 for all of them and there wasn't a lack of surprises.
The last set gave the ticket to a spot on the podium to Belgium, Austria, Germany 2 and Turkiye 1.
Semifinals are scheduled for tomorrow morning, local time:
At 10:00 Belgium - Austria and at 12:30 Germany 2 - Turkiye 1
All info about schedules and results are available here. Kozoom will broadcast the event.
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THE SEMIFINALISTS
THE LAST 8
DAY 3:
The Artistic Individual European Title stays in Turkiye, it only changed the holder.
Baris CIN is the new European Champion after the victory against the Frenchman Michael HAMMEN who takes home a silver medal. Bronze medals were awarded to Haci Arap YAMAN (TR) and Sergio SANCHEZ (ES).
The final match was played on a rasor edge, until the last figure.
Baris Cin played his best match (93,710%, the best match of the whole tournament) in the last 16 round, setting the tournament best run of 97 points. The overall tournament average is set by Michael Hammen (72,026%), 91 his best run.
Detailed results here.
The show will continue tomorrow: the National Teams championship will be on the stage. All info about schedules and results are available here. Kozoom will broadcast the event.
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DAY 2:
8 players survived the last 16 session in the first half of the second day and are ready to clash in the quarters final for a spot on the podium:
Here are the quarters final:
HAMMEN (FR) vs DE JONG (NL)
YAMAN (TR) vs LACROIX (FR)
SANCHEZ (ES) vs HEINRICH (DE)
DAHLKE (AT) vs CIN (TR)
Two Turks, one French and one Spaniard won their match and will play the semifinals tomorrow morning at 10 and 12:30 local time.
Michael Hammen will play Haci Arap Yaman, Sergio Sanchez will face Baris Cin.
Detailed results here. All matches live on Kozoom
DAY 1:
Today the qualification session ended and the players qualified to the KO round of last 16 were decided.
Frenchman Michael Hammen is on top of the qualifications ranking with the best avg so far.
Here are the group winners and the runners up advancing to the next stage.
A: Haci Arap Yaman (TR) and Olivier Lacroix (FR)
B: Michael Hammen (FR) and Ken Dahlke (AT)
C: Xavier Fonellosa (ES) and Dennis Lendeckel (DE)
D: Hector Cuadrado (ES) and Bernd Singer (DE)
E: Kevin Tran (FR) and Thomas Ahrens (DE)
F: Serdar Gumus (TR) and Erik Vervliet (BE)
G: Sergio Sanchez (ES) and Marvin Heinrich (DE)
H: Baris Cin (TR) and Jop De Jong (NL)
Last 16 matches will start tomorrow morning at 10:00 and 12:30 local time:
HAMMEN Michaël vs LENDECKEL Dennis
GUMUS Serdar vs DE JONG Jop
YAMAN Haci arap vs AHRENS Thomas
CUADRADO Hector vs LACROIX Olivier
SANCHEZ Sergio vs SINGER Bernd
TRAN Kevin vs HEINRICH Marvin
FONELLOSA Xavier vs DAHLKE Ken
CIN Baris vs VERVLIET Erik
Quarters final will follow at 16:00 and 18:30 local time.
Detailed results here.
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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS ARTISTIC INDIVIDUAL AND NATIONAL TEAMS ARE READY TO START IN ANKARA
5 days of exciting and amazing billiard are ready to start in the TBF facility in Ankara (Turkiye).
2 European Championships are on the schedule this week.
The first one will be the European Championship Artistic Individual, from 6th to 8th March. It will be followed by the European Championship Artistic National Teams at its second edition, from 9th to 10th March.
The individual championship will be played by 24 players representing 8 National Federations. The 24 competitors are divided in 8 groups of 3; best two of each group will advance to the Last 16 KO round. Then quarters final, semifinals and final will follow. The semifinals and the final will be played on March 8th. The current CEB champion Haci Arap YAMAN will defend his title in front of his own crowd.
After that it will be the time for the European Championship Artistic National Teams. 12 teams will show up representing 7 National Federations. 4 groups of 3 teams are drawn; best two of each group will be qualified to quarters finals. The semifinals and the final will be played on Sunday 10th. Turkiye is the title holder federation and will defend the title with the same team line up winner of the first edition of this championship in Antalya in 2023.
Kozoom will broadcast the event.
More info, schedules and results are available on the dedicated info page.
Daily summary will follow on this page.
Photo: TBF
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