UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams

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Overview 1 – Viersen 2013

Overview 2 – Viersen 2013

The UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards where nations are represented by a team of two players. After the first three editions, which took place in various nations and were not scheduled regularly, the Union Mondiale de Billard decided to keep the championships situated in Viersen, Germany and to organize these championships annually.

List of champions[]

Below is the list of winning nations since 1981. From 2004 on, no third-place match was played and the third place was shared by the two semi-final losing teams.

Year	Location	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1981	Mexico City	Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi Junichi Komori	1.237	Belgium Raymond Ceulemans Ludo Dielis	1.232	France	0.953
1985	Bordeaux	Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi Junichi Komori	1.311	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.058	United States Gilbert	1.103
1987	Madrid	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.017	United States Gilbert	0.960	Japan	1.074
1990	Viersen	Japan	1.114	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.177	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.064
1991	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.246	Denmark	1.044	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.118
1992	Viersen	Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi Junichi Komori	1.218	United States Sang Lee	1.159	Portugal Ribeiro	1.096
1993	Viersen	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.104	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.120	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.182
1994	Viersen	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.252	Portugal Ribeiro	1.073	Germany	1.004
1995	Viersen	Denmark	1.145	Sweden	1.133	Portugal	1.073
1996	Viersen	Denmark	1.181	Japan	1.067	Spain Dani Sánchez	1.199
1997	Viersen	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.156	Austria	1.210	Japan	1.014
1998	Viersen	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.540	Spain Dani Sánchez	1.182	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.321
1999	Viersen	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.478	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.489	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.245
2000	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.553	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.430	Denmark	1.214
2001	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.546	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.444	Denmark	1.255
2002	Viersen	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.381	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.503	Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir	1.258
2003	Viersen	Turkey Semih Sayginer Tayfun Taşdemir	1.412	Greece Filippos Kasidokostas Nikos Polychronopoulos	1.400	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.707
Year	Location	Gold		Silver		Losing semi-finalists
2004	Viersen	Turkey Semih Sayginer Tayfun Taşdemir	1.514	Belgium Frédéric Caudron	1.362	Spain Dani Sánchez	1.302
						France	1.164
2005	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.414	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.377	Belgium Eddy Leppens Eddy Merckx	1.471
						Germany Christian Rudolph	1.050
2006	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.421	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.412	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.647
						Turkey Semih Sayginer	1.531
2007	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.537	Denmark	1.217	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.526
						Germany Christian Rudolph	1.164
2008	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.664	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.593	South-Korea Choi Sung-won Kim Kyung-roul	1.584
						Spain Dani Sánchez	1.549
2009	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl	1.769	Belgium Eddy Merckx	1.588	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.607
						South-Korea Kim Kyung-roul	1.560
2010	Viersen	Turkey	1.689	Spain Dani Sánchez	1.456	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.831
						South-Korea Choi Sung-won Kim Kyung-roul	1.516
2011	Viersen	Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir	1.510	Belgium Eddy Leppens Eddy Merckx	1.652	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.570
						Germany	1.250
2012	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.884	Germany	1.504	Spain Dani Sánchez	1.640
						Denmark	1.282
2013	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.640	Germany Christian Rudolph	1.371	Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir	1.580
						South-Korea Kim Kyung-roul	1.397
2014	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	2.295	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.486	Germany	1.412
						Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir	1.314
2015	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.968	South Korea	1.867	Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir	1.427
						Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.693
2016	Viersen	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.675	Turkey Semih Saygıner	1.491	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.700
						Austria	1.287
2017	Viersen	South Korea Choi Sung-won	1.515	Belgium Frédéric Caudron	1.701	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.923
						France	1.260
2018	Viersen	South Korea Choi Sung-won	1.920	Austria	1.273	Turkey Semih Sayginer Tayfun Taşdemir	1.394
						Denmark	1.472
2019	Viersen	Turkey	1.803	Netherlands Dick Jaspers	1.529	South Korea	1.431
						Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.713

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References[]

• Official webpage