Valgeir Gudbjartsson
Arnar David Jonsson from Iceland won his second tour stop ever, when he defeated Nicole Sanders from Netherlands in the final of the Track Dream-Bowl Palace Open by Erdinger.
The tournament, which was conducted in Dream-Bowl Palace in Unterföhring, as the 8th stop in the European Bowling Tour 2019, attracted 233 athletes, that competed for the 48 spots in the final steps on the 21 July.
In Step 5 then following were the 4 players qualified from the earlier steps:
1796: Arnar David Jonsson, Iceland
1794: Nicole Sanders, Netherlands
1749: Oliver Morig, Germany
1723: Jesper Agerbo, Denmark – winner of the last year’s tournament.
Oliver Morig and Jesper Agerbo were eliminated in stop 5 which ended as follows:
2003: Arnar David Jonsson, Iceland
1970: Nicole Sanders, Netherlands
1968: Jesper Agerbo, Denmark
1950: Oliver Morig, Germany
And finally, Arnar David Jonson became the winner of the Tournament:
2199: Arnar David Jonsson, Iceland
2156: Nicole Sanders, Netherlands
We did not see any changes in the women’s division of the tour as Anna Andersson from Sweden is leading now with 558 points in front of her countrywoman Jenny Wegner with 477 points, Cherie Tan from Singapore is at 3rd place with 475.
In men’s division then we had change in the leader of the tour: Arnar David Jonsson, Iceland is leading the men’s division of the tour with 488 points in front of Adam Andersson from Sweden at position 2 with 451 points and Carsten Hansen from Denmark at position 3 with 375 points.
Click here to see the ranking in the Women’s Division
Click here to see the ranking in the Men’s Division
One of the most beautiful locations in Europe, San Marino held the Storm San Marino Open for the 15th time, which was conducted from 6 July until 14 July.
Daniel Fransson picked up his second Tour win after beating Antonino Fiorentino in the final. Final Step 4 was played over 3 games, were the lowest score was eliminated after each game.
After first game, Anna Andersson had the low game of 173 and finished 4th. After the second game, Thomas Larsen from Denmark had the lowest series of 441 in 2 games so he finished in 3rd place and then in the end Daniel Fransson had a series of 695 in 3 games against 686 from Fiorentino.
This was Fransson’s second tour win but his first win came in Tilburg in 2016 in the Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel. For the win, Fransson pocketed 8,000 euros. Congratulations Daniel.
We did see a big change in the women’s division of the tour as Anna Andersson from Sweden is leading now with 558 points in front of her countrywoman Jenny Wegner with 477 points, Cherie Tan from Singapore is at 3rd place with 475.
In men’s division then Adam Andersson from Sweden is leading the men’s division of the tour with 388 points in front of Arnar David Jonsson from Iceland at position 2 with 338 points and Niko Oksanen from Finland at position 3 with 318 points.
Click here to see the ranking in the Women’s Division
Click here to see the ranking in the Men’s Division
One of the well-known tournaments in the European Bowling Tour, The Brunswick Madrid Challenge was conducted on 29 June to 7 July 2019.
The final were a Swedish battle between the hottest young bowler in Europe today, William Svensson, just coming with load of medals from the EMC in Munich few weeks earlier, and his fellow teammate Adam Andersson, in short then this was the moment for Adam, and he won the nail-biting final 214 vs 207. His first EBT title. In third and fourth place were Kyle Troup from USA and Siti Safiyah Amirah from Malaysia.
For Madrid, this was a record breaking tournament, with 183 athletes in total – thereof 42 women, and total of 581 entries/re-entries.
Cherie Tan from Singapore is leading the women’s division of the tour with 475 points in front of her fellow countrywoman, Bernice Lim at position 2 with 400 points and Anna Andersson, Sweden at position 3 with 358 points.
Adam Andersson from Sweden is leading the men’s division of the tour with 388 points in front of Arnar David Jonsson from Iceland at position 2 with 338 points and Carsten Warming Hansen from Denmark at position 3 with 281 points.
Click here to see the ranking in the Women’s Division
Click here to see the ranking in the Men’s Division
Rafiq Ismail and Sin Lin Jane from Malaysia won the EBT Masters 2019 that has just been finalized in Bowling Chamartin in Madrid.
After 8 games then Rafiq Ismail and Sin Li Jane – both from Malaysia – had good lead in their respective divisions, but in the last 4 games of the men then Kyle Troup and Jesper Svensson tried as best they could to catch up with Rafiq Ismail, but without success. On the women side then Sin Li Jane lead from the beginning and never looked back.
Final standing in each division as follows:
Women: | ||
Sin Li Jane | Malaysia | 1725 + 878 |
Mai Ginge Jensen | Denmark | 1542 + 797 |
Siti Safiyah | Malaysia | 1489 + 759 |
Jenny Wegner | Sweden | 1541 + 702 |
Daria Pajak | Poland | 1488 |
Cajsa Wegner | Sweden | 1421 |
Wendy Bartaire-Jiminez | France | 1373 |
Maxime De Rooij | The Netherlands | 1316 |
Men: | ||
Rafiq Ismail | Malaysia | 1850 + 901 |
Kyle Troup | USA | 1748 + 993 |
Jesper Svensson | Sweden | 1717 + 1000 |
Carsten W. Hansen | Denmark | 1647 + 930 |
Pontus Andersson | Sweden | 1643 |
Anthony Simonsen | USA | 1597 |
Christopher Sloan | Ireland | 1585 |
Thomas Larsen | Denmark | 1562 |
Denmark became the best nation, when the European Men Championships 2019 were conducted
in Dream Bowl Palace, Unterföhring, Germany on the 10-21 June 2019.
Denmark won 2 Gold medals, 1 Silver medal and 3 Bronze medals, closely followed by Sweden
that won 2 Gold medals and 2 Bronze medals.
The Danish titles came in the Doubles event by Mik Stampe and Carsten Warming Hansen and
in the All Events by Thomas Larsen.
The Swedish titles came at the end of the championship; in the Team event by Mattias
Wetterberg, Mattias Olsson, Pontus Andersson, William Svensson and Martin Larsen and then in
the Masters event after 2-1 win to William Svensson over Germany´s Frank Drevenstedt; 238
vs 167, 212 vs 213 and 230 vs 160
Italian title came in Trios by Nicola Pongolini, Alessandro Santu and Antonino Fiorentino.
England got finally one title – in singles by Matty Clayton.
The previously awarded host of Slovenia has informed ETBF that they cannot do the hosting as
the Bowling center in Ljubljana will not be ready.
Another host has been ready to take on the duties of the hosting with this notice, and we will
be looking forward to the ECC 2020 edition.
The European Championship of Champions 2020 will be held at its originally scheduled period
of 19-25 October 2020 in Greece, the Mega Place Bowling Center in Chania, Crete
The ETBF Presidium wants to express the appreciation to the organizers in Greece to step in
and take over the hosting with this short notice.
The Rome Open, which was supposed to be conducted in September in Rome, is cancelled by
the organizers due to various domestic problems.
The organizer expresses the wish to reinsert the tournament into the European Bowling Tour
at a later moment – another year. We obviously hope that they will succeed.
The 22st edition of the Mediterranean Bowling Championships was concluded on Saturday 6 April in Eden Superbowl, situated in Malta.
These regional championships, which are conducted annually, are open for member federations with a coastline of the Mediterranean See – This time with record participation of 16 federations
The 10 titles in the championships were distributed as follows:
4 titles in the women’s division
Singles: Georgia Sagona from Greece
Doubles: Sara Xuereb and Sue Abela from Malta
All Events: Georgia Sagona from Greece
Masters: Delphine Labille from France
4 titles in the men’s division
Singles: Antonino Fiorentino from Italy
Doubles: Gediz Ege and Taygun Erkeskin from Turkey
All Events: Antonino Fiorentino from Italy
Masters: Taygun Erkeskin from Turkey
2 titles for mixed groups
Doubles: Ebru Ozogluntur & Taygun Erkeskin from Turkey
Team: Delphine Labille, Audrey Skopnick, Julien Keller and Jonathan Lefevre from France
The following six matches, all bowled over two games total pin fall to count, concluded the championships in Ankara.
Women’s Masters, Semi Final 1:
434 (235+199): Sue Abela, Malta
368 (188+180): Martha Karatzoula, Greece
Women’s Masters, Semi Final 2:
376 (185+191): Sara Xuereb, Malta
428 (232+196): Delphine Labille, France
Women’s Masters, Final:
399 (183+216): Delphine Labille, France
396 (181+215): Sue Abela, Malta
Men’s Masters, Semi Final 1:
442 (204+238): Mauro Anastasi, Malta
404 (207+207): Julien Keller, France
Men’s Masters, Semi Final 2:
420 (187+233): Ziga Zalar, Slovenia
486 (262+224): Taygun Erkeskin, Turkey
Men’s Masters, Final:
392 (191+201): Taygun Erkeskin, Turkey
353 (165+188): Mauro Anastasi, malta
Turkey became the best federation with 3 Gold and 2 Bronze, Greece became the second best nation with 2 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze and France became the third best nation with 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze
The 12th edition of the EBT Masters, the EBT Masters 2019, will be conducted in Bowling Chamartin, in Madrid, Spain on 4 July 2019.
The EBT Master 2019 is conducted on Thursday morning/early afternoon during the week of the VII Brunswick Madrid Challenge, which will be conducted on 29 June to 7 July 2019 in the same centre.
The 8 highest ranked women and the 8 highest ranked men, by the conclusion of the European Bowling Tour 2018, are qualified for participation in the EBT Masters 2019. In cases of excuses, the next on the ranking lists are called –but this time all top 8 – both women and men, have announced their participation.
The 8 athletes, competing in the women’s division, are as follows:
Position 1: Jenny Wegner, Sweden
Position 2: Mai Ginge Jensen, Denmark
Position 3: Ghislaine Sigter van der Tol, The Netherlands
Position 4: Maxime de Rooij, The Netherlands
Position 5: Cajsa Wegner, Sweden
Position 6: Sin Li Jane, Malaysia
Position 7: Darja Pajak, Poland
Position 8: Siti Safiyah, Malaysia
The 8 athletes, competing in the men’s division, are as follows:
Position 1: Anthony Simonsen, USA
Position 2: Jesper Svensson, Sweden
Position 3: Thomas Larsen, Denmark
Position 4: Pontus Andersson, Sweden
Position 5: Carsten W. Hansen, Denmark
Position 6: Kyle Troop, USA
Position 7: Rafiq Ismail, Malaysia
Position 8: Christoper Sloan, Ireland
The ETBF Presidium has decided to award the hosting of the European Senior Championships 2022 to Lovvang Bowling Centre in Aalborg, Denmark.
The championships will be held in the well-known Lovvang Bowling Centre in Aalborg from 28 January to 6 February 2022.
The European Senior Championships is a championship for 50+ bowlers established at ETBF’s Congress in 2017. The 2022 issue of the championships is the second edition of the championships.
The format of the championships is identical with the format of the European Youth Championships, namely 4 male and 4 female athletes participating in Singles, Doubles, Team of Four, All Event and Masters, in total 10 titles.