JASPERS AGAIN!
04/03/2022
In the Las Vegas World Cup Dick Jaspers did it again. The Dutchman won his third big event in a row, the 27th World Cup in his career. It was 19 years ago when last World Cup took place in the Usa, that was in LasVegas back then. Sameh Sidhom from Egypt played the final against Jaspers. He took a small advantage at the start but soon he lost it, anyway he fought until the end showing an exciting end. Final result: 50-43 in 30/29 innings. Semifinal losers were Jeremy Bury (France) and... »
GOLD MEDAL FOR BERNARD BAUDOIN IN PAIPORTA
03/27/2022
The European Championship 1-Cushion is just finished in the Club Billar Paiporta. Bernard Baudoin, also known as the main sponsor of Kozoom, shown a flawless tournament and rushed to the gold medal. The silver medal was awarded to Arnim Kahofer from Austria, author of an excellent performance. The bronze medals went to the two semifinal losers: Xavier Leroy (France) and Nikolaos Gerassimopoulos playing for Greece. The Frenchman prevailed on some of the favorites players for... »
JASPERS AND NILSSON WON GROUP A&B OF THE KOZOOM 3C CHALLENGE CUP
03/24/2022
The first two groups of the Kozoom 3C Challenge Cup 2022 have their winners. In group A Dick Jaspers left no rooms for his two rivals. The Dutchman won by a large margin with 14 sets, Therese Klompenhouwer won 3 sets, only 1 set for the young Italian Alessio D'Agata, Jaspers averaged 2,695, Klompenhouwer 1,370, D'Agata 1,000. Best runs of 10, 8 and 5. In group B there was an hard and exciting head to head all along the three days between Costa and Nilsson, Nelin trailing. Only... »
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 1-CUSHION
03/24/2022
European Championships in classics disciplines is just around the corner and finally will start again tomorrow after the long Covid stop with the 1-Cushion EC in Paiporta (Valencia), Spain, organized by the Royal Spanish Billiard Federation and the Club Billar Paiporta. 22 players representing 8 nations are expected from 25th to 27th March 2022. Group games to 100 points are scheduled from March 25th to March 26th. The 8 group winners will play the quarter finals on Saturday 26th at... »
KOZOOM 3C CHALLENGE CUP 2022: GROUPS A & B
03/20/2022
Kozoom 3C Challenge Cup 2022 is ready to start in the Kozoom Studio in Andernos-les-Bains. The original format of the first edition is maintained, the three player of each group will play on one billiard at the same time. A special set of Aramith ball will be used. 8 qualification groups are planned, the 8 group winners will play a final round in a double KO format in September. The distance has been reduced to 18 sets to 10 points, who will win most of the sets will advance to the final... »
TURKEY DEFENDS HIS WORLD TITLE
03/13/2022
Turkey defends his world-title At the World 3-Cushion Team Championships in Viersen/Germany, Turkey successfully defended the title of 2019. The final between the Turks and the big surprise of the weekend, Team Colombia, saw very even games especially in the first half. On both tables, high series were missing. Only shortly before the obligatory 5-minute break, Can Capak could pull away against Huberney Catano of 23:16. On the TV table, Pedro Gonzalez scored five points in a row for the... »
VIERSEN, THE BALLS ARE ROLLING AGAIN
03/10/2022
PRESS RELEASE DAY 3, Saturday 12th Semifinalists are fixed. The quarterfinals of the 3-Cushion World Team Championships in Viersen/Germany were played today. The duo of the host nation Germany had to play against the strong team from Vietnam. Martin Horn started like fire in his singles match and went into the short break with a 21:3 after only six inning. Ronny Lindemann also showed once more that he meanwhile has matured to an international class player. Against Duc Anh Chien Nguyen,... »
CEB BOARD - MODIFICATION
03/08/2022
Did Schintgen has decided to resign beacause of health problems. Eva Viding Bussell will take the vacant place in the CEB Board, with the important mission to promote Carom for both young and female players. Read more here »
JASPERS IS THE WINNER IN ANKARA WORLD CUP
02/27/2022
Dick Jaspers is the winner in the first World Cup of 2022, Quyet Chien Tran is the runner up, third place for Marco Zanetti and Tayfun Tasdemir. The Dutchman crowned himself with gold in Ankara after not an easy road to victory. In the final match Jaspers dominated the Vietnamese Quyet Chien Tran for 50-23 in 20 innings. Before the final he was twice on the edge of leaving the tournament but finally won by one single point. In quarter finals Haeng Jik Kim was leading 32-19 at... »
BLOMDAHL AND NILSSON GET THE GOLD FOR SWEDEN IN ANKARA.
02/19/2022
The European Championship 3-Cushion National Teams ended today in Ankara, in the new headquarters of Turkish Billiards Federations. 20 national teams representing 13 CEB federations started on Thursday divided in 7 groups. The 7 finalist group winners were Spain 1, Turkey 1, Sweden 1, Belgium 1, Spain 2, Germany 1, Greece 1. Turkey 2 was qualified as the best second. In three out of four quarter finals a scotch double extension was needed to decide the winners after the draws of the... »