SANCHEZ WINS BOTH CEB AND UMB GOLD
02/23/2020
As strong as the Vietnamese, Korean and Turkish players have become, the golden generation of Western-European 3-cushion stars will not give up. Two of the best were in the final of the Antalya World Cup. The opening event of the 2020 cycle had three Vietnamese players in the last eight, but a Spaniard ran off with first prize. Antalya was his home for two weeks. Not only did Dani Sánchez win the CEB European team title, with his compadre Ruben Legazpi, he also won the UMB World... »
SPAIN IS THE NEW EUROPEAN CHAMPION FOR NATIONAL TEAM!
02/16/2020
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP NATIONAL TEAMS 2019/2020, ANTALYA Spain takes the title in the Scotch-Double. Today's final of the 3-Cushion European Championship for National Teams in Antalya/Turkey was as exciting as a thriller. The hosts with Semih Sayginer and Murat Naci Coklu met Daniel Sanchez and Ruben Legazpi from Spain. The duel between Sayginer and Sanchez turned out to be a great game at the highest level. Already in the second inning Sanchez scored seven for a 9:2-lead, but Sayginer... »
FIRST WORLD CUP FOR 2020: ANTALYA - TURKEY
02/16/2020
Immediately following two CEB events, the European Championships for Ladies and the European Championship for National teams, the Turkish city of Antalya will host the first UMB World Cup of 2020. As it was in 2019, the 2020 cycle will have seven World Cups to decide who follows Dick Jaspers as the overall WC winner of the year. Antalya will be followed by World Cups in Ho Chi Minh City, Porto, Guri, Veghel, Cheongju and Sharm El Sheikh. Fourteen players have been seeded for the... »
EC NATIONAL TEAMS 2019/2020, ANTALYA
02/14/2020
Magazine Media Page - Photo Galleries and Newsletters EC National Teams Results DAY 2 - Host-nation Turkey reaches semi-finals. Today the participants of tomorrow's semifinals were determined at the European 3-Cushion National Team Championships in Antalya. Before that, decisive group matches were scheduled, which provided a few surprises. For example defending champion Belgium 1 dropped out of the tournament due to another draw against the second team of the Netherlands. Eddy... »
THERESE KLOMPENHOUWER WINS THE GOLD MEDAL
02/13/2020
Magazine Media Page - Photo Galleries and Newsletters EC Ladies Results Therese Klompenhouwer wins the gold medal Therese Klompenhouwer is the old and new Women’s 3-Cushion European Champion. At the championships in Antalya, Turkey, the Dutchwoman won the final against her compatriot Karina Jetten with 30:20 after 21 innings. At the beginning of the final, both players were equal, with Jetten even taking a slight lead of 11:8 after ten innings. Only a few moments later,... »
EC 3-CUSHION LADIES AND NATIONAL TEAMS: MEDIA PAGE AND RESULTS
02/04/2020
Magazine Media Page - Photo Galleries and Newsletters EC Ladies Results EC National Teams Announcement In the week leading up to the UMB World Cup in Antalya, the CEB takes center stage in the same location. From February 11th – 13th, the European 3-cushion championship for ladies will take place in Antalya/Turkey, and from February 13th – 16th, it’s the European 3-cushion championship for national teams. Both events will take place in the Limak Atlantis Resort &... »
CONTINENTAL CUP: A TRIUMPH FOR THE ASIAN EIGHT
12/23/2019
The 2019 Continental Cup, the Ryder Cup of 3-cushion, produced one of the most shocking upsets in history, when the eight players from Asia defeated their eight European opponents by an enormous margin: 600 – 451. It was an even bigger win than the one recorded last year in France, when the inaugural Continental Cup was won by Europe, 600 – 483. No European player looked for excuses. “We were simply outplayed in most matches, they were better.” It was true, and... »
CONTINENTAL CUP: THE REMATCH
12/17/2019
It’s eight against eight, it’s Europe against Asia: the Continental Cup is to 3-cushion what the Ryder Cup is to golf and the Mosconi Cup to pool. Last year, the inaugural edition of this event, held in Eysines, France, was emphatically won by the European team: 600 – 483 in 328 innings (1.829 – 1.472). Naturally, the event now moves to the other continent. Seoul, South Korea will host the second edition, now named “e-BEST CONTINENTAL CUP”. The... »
TASDEMIR AND MERCKX LEAD BEFORE SHARM EL SHEIKH
12/04/2019
Two questions present themselves, just before the World Cup in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: who will win this seventh event of 2019, and who will win the overall World Cup for the season? Many players are still in win a chance. So far, we’ve seen Tasdemir win in Antalya, Caudron in Ho Chi Minh City, Palazon in Blankenberge, Jaspers in Porto, Haeng Jik Kim in Veghel and Merckx in Guri. World Cup winners collect 80 points, with second place good for 54, third 36, quarterfinalists 26, last... »
A SEVENTH WORLD CROWN FOR TORBJÖRN BLOMDAHL
11/30/2019
The 72nd UMB world championship was a week full of surprises, drama and great scoring by the world’s best players. The last man standing was one of Europe’s icons: Torbjörn Blomdahl from Sweden. He added a world title to his long resume, 32 years after he won his first. In a final with a tense second half, he beat the up and coming Vietnamese talent Duc Anh Chien Nguyen: 40–37 in 22 innings. Quite amazingly, there was just one Korean player in the last 16! Three... »