05/03/2015
On the 9th day of the European Billiards Championship in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, there was only one medal presentation, a very prestigious one. In the final of the 3-Cushion team event the Belgian squad with Frédéric Caudron and Roland Forthomme faced the Dutch team with Dick Jaspers and Raimund Burgman. Jaspers played a brilliant match with an average of 2.5 against Caudron and won by 40:30-points after 16 innings. At the same time the score between Burgman and Forthomme was 31:33 after 21 innings in favor of the Belgian but not good enough to equal the overall-score where Forthomme would have won the match against Burgman. The Netherlands were the better team by average.The two bronze medals went to the German and the Turkish Team who both lost in yesterday’s semi finals.Meanwhile the participants for the quarterfinal in the Club-Team Event 3-Cushions are set. 24 teams were divided into eight groups and only the winner of each group qualified for the final eight. Germany is represented by two teams but the duos from Andernos (France) and Maaslandse (Belgium) are more or less the favorites for the title.
The preliminary round for the ladies 3-Cushion tournament was played today. Therese Klompenhouwer from the Netherlands is not only the title holder but also one of the biggest favorites for the entire European Championship. That was made clear in her group where she beat her opponents with 25:16 and 25:14. The quarterfinals will be played on early Sunday morning.
In Baulk Line (Cadre) 71/2 the Dutch title holder Raymund Swertz is on the way to defend his gold medal of two years ago. In today’s two matches he only needed four innings to reach the necessary 400 points. In tomorrow’s final he will play against his fellow countryman Dave Christiani who beat Thomas Nockemann from Germany in the semifinal. Besides Nockemann, Raul Cuenca (Spain) will receive the second bronze medal at tomorrow’s awards ceremony.
One of the day’s biggests surprises was the elimination of Eric Daelman in the Artistique event. The title holder from Belgium lost in round 16 against Baris Cin from Turkey. Germany’s Thomas Ahrens is out after losing to his fellow countryman Marvin Heinrich. Tomorrow Heinrich will face Walter Bax from Belgium in the quarters.
In the Men’s Division the Italians are dominating the Junior 5 Pins tournament. The final on Sunday will be played by the brothers Giovanni and Domenico Forino. Giovanni played Germany‘s Max Gabel who had a very good chance to take a 2:1-leads in the sets but failed, Giovanni won later by 3:1 sets. In the second semifinal it was Domenico Forino who beat Jonas Threms from Denmark.
All results, pictures and further media-information can be found here. Pay-per-View-Livestream is broadcasted by www.kozoom.com.
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