Three-Cushion World Cup


The Three-Cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in three-cushion billiards, which is held every year since 1986 between three and ten times a year.

History

The World Cup was founded in 1985 by German Werner Bayer, a carom billiards enthusiast and patron. He called the association "Billiards World Cup Association" and in 1986 the first tournament was held in Paris. As a patron he had excellent contact to sponsors, and quickly the tournament grew into a popular meeting place for players and spectators. At the time, the World-Cup had one of the highest monetary prizes. Between 1986 and 1989, the prize money per tournament was approximately DM, with the winner receiving DM. The BWA organized the World-Cup along with the world governing body, the Union Mondiale de Billard.
Between 1988 and 1992, the UMB no longer hosted any world championships themselves, therefore, for four years, the BWA World-Cup became the default world championship. In 1994 there were disagreements between the two associations. The UMB thus blocked players, referees and organizers who took part in the World Cup, from participating in the tournaments of the UMB and CEB. Thus, between 1994 and 1997, there were two parallel World-Cup championships. The BWA, as usual, played for 3rd place, whereas the UMB did not, and therefore had two 3rd-place finishers. .
After settling the disputes, the UMB and the BWA led the tournament together until early 1999. After 1999, Mr. Bayer withdrew from the BWA for health reasons, and the UMB took over the organization of the tournament series from then on and the BWA broke up due to succession problems.
From 1994, the UMB tournaments were organized in collaboration with the European member association “Confédération Européenne de Billard”. Since 2004, the World-Cup has been organized as UMB/CEB, UMB/CPB, UMB/, UMB/ACBC World-Cup, and since 2014, as UMB/ACC in Africa. The prize money amounts to approximately € per tournament.
The individual results of the World Cup 1997/1 were lost directly following the tournament and, up to now, have been unable to be reconstructed, even through research by the well-known billiards archivists Heinrich Weingartner and Dieter Haase.
In 2012, only three tournaments were held for the overall winner appointment, instead of the required four, thus the year remains the first year without a title award. On 26 January 2013 it was announced that the Greek shipping magnate, Thanos Athanasiou, until 1995 a player himself, would finance a total of five tournaments in the coming three years. These include the three World-Cup tournaments until 2015, as well as the Junior World Championships in 2013 and the Women's World-Cup in 2014. All tournaments will be played in Athens.

Modus

Games are played to 15 points using the set system. In the qualification round, the game is played to two winning sets and in the final round, to three winning sets. Since 2013, games are played in the qualifiers to 30 points and in the final round, to 40 points.

Records

Statistics

  • The refers respectively to the entire tournament.
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*1 Peter de Backer was disqualified in semifinals against Daniel Sánchez due to a positive doping test.

World Cup overall champions


YearWinner
1986 Raymond Ceulemans
1987 Raymond Ceulemans
1988*1 Torbjörn Blomdahl
1989*1 Ludo Dielis
1990*1 Raymond Ceulemans
1991*1 Torbjörn Blomdahl
1992 Torbjörn Blomdahl
1993 Sang Chun Lee
1994 Torbjörn Blomdahl
1995 Torbjörn Blomdahl
1995 Daniel Sánchez
1996 Jorge Theriaga
1997 Dick Jaspers
1997 Christian Rudolph
1998 Torbjörn Blomdahl
1999 Dick Jaspers
2001 Torbjörn Blomdahl
2002not held
2003– *2
2004 Daniel Sánchez
2005 Frédéric Caudron
2006 Daniel Sánchez
2007 Torbjörn Blomdahl
2008 Dick Jaspers
2009 Frédéric Caudron
2010 Dick Jaspers
2011 Torbjörn Blomdahl
2012– *2
2013 Torbjörn Blomdahl
2014 Frédéric Caudron
2015 Daniel Sánchez
2016 Dick Jaspers
2017 Kim Haeng-jik
2018 Frédéric Caudron
2019 Dick Jaspers



PlaceNameNo.Years
1 Torbjörn Blomdahl111988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013
2 Dick Jaspers61997, 1999, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2019
3 Daniel Sánchez41995, 2004, 2006, 2015
3 Frédéric Caudron42005, 2009, 2014, 2018
5 Raymond Ceulemans31986, 1987, 1990
6 Ludo Dielis11989
6 Sang Chun Lee11993
6 Jorge Theriaga11996
6 Christian Rudolph11997
6 Kim Haeng-jik12017



;Notes:
  • *1 The UMB announced the World Cup Champions at the same time as World Champions.
  • *2 Without the award, because too little tournaments were played.

    List of World Cup single event winners


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