DAY 4: EUROYOUTH LONGONI NEXTGEN: THE DAY OF THE FINALS
The fourth and last day completed the Euroyouth and send it into the archives.
Four new European Champions were crowned today in Los Alcazares.
The first championship to reach the finish line was the 3-Cushion U17, played from this season on match tables. Bruno Martinez (Spain) and Mio Svensson (Sweden) played an exciting match; at first it was the Swede to take the lead but in the second half Martinez took the initiative and finally won. For Bruno it's the second U17 medal after the silver he got in 2023. Mio Svensson from Sweden is the first ever Swedish player to get an U17 3-Cushion medal, and the second ever if we consider U21 too. The new Spanish champion recorded the best average and the best match of the tournament (1,031-1,250). Runs of 7 were achieved by Martinez, Thiaudiere and Alba Wallerup.
Gold Medal: Bruno Martinez (Spain)
Silver Medal: Mio Svensson (Sweden)
Bronze medals: Muhammet Deniz Baldir and Remzi Akca (both Turkiye)
The second championship to assign medals was the Biathlon U21 National Teams. The two attending Spanish teams reached the final and clashed today for the gold medal. Spain 2 (Joel Sanchez and Arturo Zotov) was leading at the end of the 5-Pins fraction. Spain 1 (Joan Orbea and Marcos Morales) had to catch up in the 3-Cushion second half, and they did it very well. These are the first ever medals for Spain in this discipline since this championship was launched in 2019; Italy and Denmark can be called 'veterans', having already all kind of medals for this discipline in their palmares.
Gold medal: Spain 1 (Joan Orbea and Marcos Morales)
Silver medal: Spain 2 (Joel Sanchez and Arturo Zotov)
Bronze medals: Denmark 1 (Magnus Petersen and Daniel Kristiansen) and Italy 2 (Flavio Piccolomini and Paolo Turlà).
The third final was played between two Italians in the 5-Pins discipline. Semifinals had to be played first; the title holder Emanuel Cucchiara didn't give any chance to the Danish Magnus Petersen, scoring a 3-0 result. In the other semifinal, Flavio Piccolomini and Massimo Montechiesa, fought bravely. Piccolomini finally won by 3-1. Then it was the time of the final and again, Cucchiara left his opponent at zero. One more 3-0 for Emanuel who didn't lose a single set in this championship and will take home his fourth consecutive U21 title.
Gold medal: Emanuel Cucchiara (Italy)
Silver medal: Flavio Piccolomini (Italy)
Bronze medals: Massimo Montechiesa (Italy) and Magnus Petersen (Denmark)
Last but not least the event was completed with the 3-Cushion U21 title. Today quarters final, semifinals and the final were on the schedule. Two of the main favorites had to leave the tournament in the last 8: Amir Ibraimov (DE) was defeated by Mustafa Ceylan (TR) while Marcos Morales (ES) lost to his compatriot Daniel Sainz-Pardo. In the other two matches the Portoguese Luis Pinto sent home Toon Bollansee (BE) and Daniel Kristiansen (DK) won Joris Van't Zelfden (NL). Semifinals were set and the first one was decided very close to the finish line: Sainz-Pardo won Pinto by two points while Ceylan defeated Kristiansen to advance to the final. Then Sainz-Pardo faced Ceylan in the final match, he started very strongly and kept the opponent at a good distance until the end when he could finally cheers in front of his own crowd.
For statistics: best overall average and best match: Seymen Ozbas (1,164 - 2,500); best run (9) by Luis Pinto.
Gold medal: Daniel Sainz-Pardo (Spain)
Silver medal: Mustafa Oguz Ceylan (Turkiye)
Bronze medals: Luis Pinto (Portugal) and Daniel Kristiansen (Denmark)
The overall Longoni NextGen ranking 2024-2025 has been updated, click here to discover.
Spain is the virtual overall winner of this edition with the highest number of gold medals; below the full medals chart.
Spain: 3 gold, 1 silver
Italy: 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
Turkiye: 1 silver, 2 bronze
Sweden: 1 silver
Denmark: 3 bronze
Portugal: 1 bronze
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DAY 3: EUROYOUTH LONGONI NEXTGEN: 3-CUSHION U21 FINALISTS HAVE BEEN DECIDED. ALL IS SET FOR THE FINAL DAY.
The main news today are coming from the 3-Cushion U21 Championship. In the morning the qualification groups were completed and the last 16 were decided. The leader of the qualification ranking was Tangui Duriez (France), Amir Ibraimov (Germany) was second, Daniel Kristiansen (Denmark) third, all of them over 1,000 average.
Later in the afternoon the field was again shortened to only 8 survivors, winners of the round of 16.
In the first session of last 16 the defending champion Seymen Ozbas, who qualified as second in his group, had to leave the tournament at the hands of Portoguese Luis Pinto. Same destiny for the French Tangui Duriez eliminated by the Belgian Toon Bollansee. Marcos Morales and Daniel Sainz-Pardo, both from Spain, sent home Santos Goncalo (Portugal) and Cerkez Ataberk (Turkiye); they will have to face each other in the last 8.
In the second session Ibraimov was the first to reach the finish line and go to the last 8 at the expenses of Daniel Zotov (Spain). Samet Aygun and Mustafa Ceylan, both from Turkiye, faced each other and it was Ceylan to advance. Last two spots in the last 8 were taken by Joris Van't Zelfden (Netherlands) and Daniel Kristiansen (Denmark) who respectively eliminated Selahattin Ozkul (Turkiye) and Toni Garcia (Spain) on the finish line.
Quarters final will be played tomorrow morning at 9.30:
Bollansee (BE) - Pinto (PT)
Morales (ES) - Sainz-Pardo (ES)
Kristiansen (DK) - Van't Zelfden (NL)
Ceylan (TR) - Ibraimov (DE)
The semifinals of Biathlon U21 National Teams and 3-Cushion U17 were also played today.
For the Biathlon the two Spanish teams won both semifinals, thus we will have an all Spanish final. Italy and Denmark will take home a bronze medal. The final for the gold medal is scheduled for tomorrow at 12.15.
For the 3-Cushion U17 Spanish Bruno Martinez and Swede Mio Svensson respectively won the two semifinals against Deniz Muhammet Baldir and Renzi Akca, both from Turkiye, who will get the bronze medals. The final for the gold medal between Martinez and Svensson will be played tomorrow at 12.15.
The schedule of tomorrow is completed with the semifinals (at 9:30) and final (at 15:00) of 5-Pins U21; three Italians (Cucchiara, Piccolomini and Montechiesa) and one Danish (Petersen) will compete for the best spots on the podium.
The last match on the schedule is the 3-Cushion U21 final, tomorrow at 6Pm. Just after that all the podium ceremonies will take place.
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DAY 2: 5-PINS AND 3-CUSHION U17 REACHED THE KO ROUNDS
The daily schedule saw the 3-Cushion U17 and 5-Pins U21 championships reaching the KO rounds, in addition the first two qualification rounds of the 3-Cushion U21 Championship took place. In the middle of the day the official opening ceremony was run in the beautiful venue of Los Alcazares with local authorities, CEB and RFEB officials, all the participating federations representatives and delegates.
The first round in the morning determined the 8 finalists in 5-Pins. As expected all the 3 Italians (the title holder Emanuel Cucchiara, Massimo Montechiesa and Flavio Piccolomini) won their respective groups followed by Danish Magnus Petersen who also won his group. Two Spanish (Joel Sanchez and Joan Orbea) qualified as runners up. Last two spots in the quarterfinals were clinched by two other runners up: Andreas KJærbo (Denmark) and Julian Astic (France).
Quarters final were played in the late afternoon determining the 4 semifinalists; the 3 Italians won their respective matches while Petersen (Denmark) got the last spot available for a medal: here are the results.
Cucchiara - Astic 3-0
Petersen - Sanchez 3-0
Piccolomini - Orbea 3-0
Montechiesa - KJærbo 3-1
Semifinals are planned for the last day (Monday 21st) as follows:
Cucchiara vs Petersen
Piccolomini vs Montechiesa
The 3-Cushion U17 championship completed the qualification rounds too. The first two from each group advanced to the quarters final.
Group A: Bruno Martinez (Spain) and Joeri Wilkowski (Netherlands).
Group B: Remzi Akca (Turkiye) and Charles Legendre (France).
Group C: Mio Svensson (Sweden) and Gokalp Cebeoglu (Turkiye).
Group D: Muhammet Deniz Baldir (Turkiye) and Noa Thiaudiere (FRance)
Best average and best match so far: Bruno Martinez (1,071-1,250); Martinez also shared the best run with Spanish Alba Wallerup (7).
Quarters final will be played tomorrow morning at 9:30 and 11:30.
At 9:30:
Martinez - Legendre
Baldir - Cebeoglu
At 11.30:
Akca - Thiaudiere
Svensson - Wilkowski
The first two rounds of the 3-Cushion U21 championships were also played today. Some good averages have been shown and some groups had already their winners: Amir Ibraimov (Germany) in group C and Daniel Kristiansen (Denmark) in group D already won their two matches, therefore they are sure to advance to last 16 as group winners. Last rounds will be played tomorrow morning to decide all the best 16 qualified to the KO rounds.
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DAY 1: BIATHLON FINALISTS HAVE BEEN DECIDED
At the end of the first day in Los Alcazares we already know the four Biathlon teams finalists. The two Spanish teams, Denmark 1 and Italy 2 advanced to the semifinals.
The Spain 2 team (Joel Sanchez and Arturo Zotov) won the group A and advance in the semiinals. The Italian team 1 (Emanuel Cucchiara and Mirco Russino) was second and Czech Republic team (Vitek Alamik and Nicolas Cermak§) was third.
In group B all the 3 teams got 2 match points but the Portoguese (Santos Goncalo and Luis Pinto) recorded the lowest average thus placing third. Denmark 1 team (Magnus Petersen and Daniel Kristiansen) won the direct match against the France 1 team (Julian Astic and Tangui Duriez) and took the pass for the semifinals.
In the group C with four teams the Spain 1 team (Joan Orbea and Marcos Morales) won all the 3 matches. Italy 2 team (Flavio Piccolomini and Paolo Turlà) ranked seconds with two wins. France 2 (Ronan Delorme and Quentin Watbled) was third and Denmark 2 fourth (Sebastian Duchwaider and Andreas KJærbo).
The comparison of the averages of the 3 runner up teams awarded to the Italy 2 team the last spot in the semifinals as best second.
Biathlon semifinals will be played on April 20th at 13.30 (Sunday).
Spain 1 - Italy 2
Spain 2 - Denmark 1
Today the first qualification rounds of 3-Cushion U17 and 5-Pins U21 were also played and will continue tomorrow. Tomorrow will be also the starting day of the 3-Cushion U21 competitions with the first qualification rounds. This last competition is also part of the Longoni Next Gen circuit 24/25 which, through its dedicated yearly ranking, will award special CEB youth wild cards for the next EC 3-Cushion Individual.
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THE EUROYOUTH 2025 LONGONI NEXTGEN IS ABOUT TO START IN LOS ALCAZARES (SPAIN)
The most important yearly CEB event for young billiard athletes is ready to begin in Los Alcazares (Murcia, Spain). The Spanish sport facility (Centro de Alto Rendimiento "Infanta Cristina") for high level training in several main stream sports will host again the Euroyouth 2025 Longoni NextGen , one more time with the prestigious Italian cue brand as main sponsor and the strong committment and collaboration of the Royal Spanish Billiards Federation.
Four European titles will be awarded in Los Alcazares:
+ 3-Cushion U21
+ 3-Cushion U17
+ 5-Pins U21
+ Biathlon U21 National Teams
Eleven National Federations will be represented for a total of 52 athletes who will compete in the 4 disciplines.
The multi-event will last 4 full days, from Friday 18th until Monday 21st, a total of 104 matches will be played.
Let's take a brief overview of the 4 championships:
- The European Championship 3-Cushion U21 is played by 24 athletes divided in 8 groups of 3. The best two from each group will qualify to the last 16 KO stage, then quartersfinal, semifinal and final will follow. Turkish Seymen Ozbas will defend the title taken in 2024.
- The European Championship 3-Cushion U17 sees 16 athletes divided in 4 groups of 4. The best two will advance to the quartersfinal. There is no title holder here because 2024 winner Christos Kisniarov (Germany) is now too hold and will play in the U21 competition.
- In the European Championship 5-Pins U21 the one to beat is the Italian Emanuel Cucchiara who got 3 consecutive gold medals in the previous editions and is looking for the fourth. 12 players will compete divided in 4 groups of 3; the best two will advance to the quarters final.
- 10 teams are registered for the European Championship Biathlon U21 National Teams. They are divided on 3 groups by 3, 3 and 4 teams. the three group winners and one best second will play the semifinals. The 2024 champion team of Germany will not defend the title here.
All the games are played on Simonis cloths with Aramith billiard balls.
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