CEB OFFICIAL NEWS
8. May 2025
This is an official CEB communication. All the recipients are kindly requested to take it into account for what they are concerned.
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1. CEB GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The 53rd CEB General Assembly took place in Lausanne on May 3rd. The CEB President Diane Wild and all the CEB Board Members have been re-elected for the mandate 2025-2029. Nikolaos Tremoulis (presented by Hellenic Federation of Precision Sports) has been elected as new board member and Youth Director. To be noted that it is the first ever CEB Board member from Greece. Eva Viding Bussell, former Board member, was not candidate for personal reasons. The CEB board wishes to thank Eva for the valuable work done in these years as responsible for Youth and Ladies. The CEB Board will be now in charge of Ladies, as a priority.
Read here a full article about the General Assembly: https://www.eurobillard.org/news/the-53rd-ceb-general-assembly-399.html
2. THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP ALL-IN-ONE 2026
According to a request by the Turkish Billiards Federation the date of the European Championship All-In-One 2026 is postponed by two weeks.
The new date is March 2026, from 7th to 15th, in Antalya (Turkiye). Check the info page for the full list of championships included.
Link: https://www.eurobillard.org/events/the-european-championships-all-in-one-461.html
The opening of registrations for all the competitions is set to November 1st, 2025. The deadline is on December 15th, 2025.
3. OTHER CALENDAR UPDATES
Kindly take note of the following dates for the sport season 2025-2026:
GRAND PRIX 3C U21: Oct. 2025, 24th to 26th - May 2026, 1st to 3rd.
GRAND PRIX 3C LADIES: Aug. 2026, 28th to 30th.
ARTISTIC GRAND PRIX: Sept. 2025, 4th to 7th - May 2026, 28th to 31st
4. CURRENTLY ACTIVE REGISTRATIONS
The registrations for the the Coupe d'Europe 3-Cushion in Porto (8th to 13th July, 2025) are currently open. The deadline is June 3rd.
5. ETHICS
During latest 3-Cushion Championships (Ladies and Individual) some players did not attend the official opening ceremonies. The CEB Board issued official warnings and a financial fine to the guilty players.
6. ALBA, MATEO AND ANNA - HOPE FOR A NEW GENERATION OF IN BILLIARDS
EuroYouth is one of CEB’s most important events for youth billiards, with both 3-cushion and 5-pins on the schedule and over 50 young participants each year. Last year we saw two girls alongside the boys in the 5-pins discipline, Emma Bjerregaard from Denmark and Anna Pechmanova from Czech Republic. This year, Emma did not participate but Anna instead had the company of Alba Wollerup from Spain, who competed in the 3-cushion U17 category. Here we see them together with Luisa López, one of the referees during the event.
Alba Wollerup, Luísa López and Anna Pechmanova
We also had a little talk with Alba and her father about playing billiards.
Both Alba’s parents come from the billiards community, and her father Martin is also active as a referee for the Spanish federation, so it was natural for Alba and her little brother Mateo to take up the game.
“We practice with our dad a couple of times a week”, says Alba. “It’s a beautiful game.”
“Unfortunately, we live an hour from the billiard hall”, says Martin Wollerup, her father. “So, it takes a lot of time just to get there and back, but it’s worth it because they like it so much. And they don’t beat me – yet!”
Alba and Mateo Wollerup
In EuroYouth this year, both Alba and Mateo played in the 3-cushion U17 discipline. They did not qualify from the group stages, but Alba had the U17 highest run of 7, the same as Noa Thiaudière from France and eventual champion Bruno Martinez from Spain. She beat Jayden Van Buren from the Netherlands 25-22 with a nice average of 0.520, and Mateo also won a match against compatriot Sebastian Tomas. So it was a very promising debut for the Wollerups, who drove with their parents for almost 5 hours to get to Los Alcázares, where the competition was held for the second year in a row.
“It’s a long way to go”, says Martin. “But it’s a chance to see other players and learn from them.”
And judging from the interest from Alba and Mateo, who watched as many matches as they could and proudly wore the Team España colors all through the event, this is a couple of siblings who love the game and want to continue to get better. It gives us hope for the new generation, and we wish the Wollerups the best of luck in their billiards career.
7. MEMBERS CORNER
CEB kindly reminds to all interested federations about the new section on CEB website ("Members corner") concerning best practices and useful materials. We invite all the federations to contribute to this section by sending us any kind of material they deem useful for the development of our sport
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