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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.
Dream-Bowl Palace did not manage to continue the record streak they had the last 2 years, but still a total of 1145 entries from 382 athletes in this year’s 16th issue of the Brunswick Euro Challenge which were concluded in Munich on 24 March 2019
The format of the final day included a step 1 with 52 athletes, bowling 6 games from scratch, continuing with step 2 consisting of 28 athletes, including top 16 from step 1 and top 12 from the qualification, bowling another 6 games starting from scratch.
From step 2, 8 athletes continued into a 7 games round robin with the pin fall from step 2 carried forward.
The standing after step 3, including scores from 13 games and bonus points, were as follows:
1. Martin Larsen, Sweden: 3038
2. Maria Jose Rodrigues, Columbia: 2993
3. Niko Oksanen, Finland: 2992
4. Carsten Hansen, Denmark: 2903
5. Arnar David Jonsson, Iceland: 2900
6. Adam Andersson, Sweden: 2870
7. Rocio Restrepo, Columbia: 2787
8. Jesper Agerbo, Denmark: 2647
Finally top 3 concluded the tournaments with two stepladder matches as follows:
Match 1: Niko Oksanen vs. Maria Jose Rodriguez: 224 vs 199
Match 2: Martin Larsen vs. Niko Oksanen: 184 vs 160
Martin Larsen ended long time without win on the EBT, but at the same time is winning his 9th EBT title. Maria Jose Rodrigues was for the first time with the highest position of women on the EBT tour.
Cherie Tan from Singapore is leading the women’s division of the tour with 475 points, Bernice Lim from Singapore is at position 2 with 400 points and Daphne Tan from Singapore is at position 3 with 300 points.
Arnar David Jónson from Iceland is leading the men´s division for the first time with 326 points in front of Adam Anderson from Sweden with 288 points at position 2 and Carsten Hansen from Denmark with 265 points at position 3.
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Vice President of the ETBF, Kim Thorsgaard Jensen passed away on Tuesday 26 February 2019 at the age of 62.
He joined our Presidium in 1997 when he was elected in Nottingham, UK. In 1999 Kim was elected as vice president.
It is almost impossible to mention all his valuable contributions to ETBF and to World Bowling. Kim created in 2000 the European Bowling Tour and it has been growing ever since. He was also the driving force behind all our European Championships and Tournaments.
We thank our dear friend for everything he did for our sport and we also thank him for his friendship.
We will miss Kim a lot in the ETBF Presidium: in our daily business, at our meetings and at our events.
We wish his daughter, son and family a lot of strength to carry this enormous loss.
We also like to thank our member federations for the heartwarming responses to this tragic loss.
May he rest in peace!
Addie Ophelders
President ETBF
One of the classic tournaments in European Bowling Tour, The Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament was conducted on 24.02.-3.03.2019 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
A total of 210 athletes, which was 163 men and 47 women made their way to Tilburg to compete for the 40 spots in the final steps in the tournament.
The format included a field of 40 athletes advancing into the final steps, of which 36 played 6 games starting from scratch, were after the remaining part of the format included pools of 4 athletes, each playing two games; 4 pools in step 2, 2 pools in step 3 and finally 1 pool of 4 players in the last step of the final.
The final pool of 4 athletes ended as follows:
Hadley Morgan, England 447 (233+214)
Anna Andersson, Sweden 442 (212+214)
Arnar David Jonsson, Iceland 437 (245+192)
Jenny Wegner, Sweden 372 (156+200)
Cherie Tan from Singapore is leading the women’s division of the tour with 350 points in front of two of her fellow countrywomen, Bernice Lim at position 2 with 285 points and Anna Anderson from Sweden now at position 3 with 263 points.
Jesse Kallio from Finland is leading the men’s division of the tour with 238 points in front of Kim Bolleby from Thailand at position 2 with 234 points and Hadley from England at position 3 with 220 points.
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It is with great sorrow that we were informed this morning that our dear friend and Vice President of ETBF, Kim Thorsgard Jensen passed away.
Kim leaves a daughter and a son behind. He was only 62.
On behalf of the ETBF Presidium
Addie Ophelders
President
The organizer of the VII Brunswick Madrid Challenge has decided to extend the duration of the tournament from 8 to 9 days, since they will add a squad on Saturday in the weekend before the main tournament week.
This means that the tournament period will change from 30 June – 7 July 2019 to 29 June – 7 July 2019. The tournament will as always be conducted in Bowling Chamartín.
Bowling Chamartín will in 2019 additionally host the EBT Masters 2019, which will be conducted on Thursday 4 July 2019 during the main week of the VII Brunswick Madrid Challenge.
Click here to see the EBT 2019 Calendar.
The classic Irish Open Championships was conducted on 13-20 January 2019, as always in Leisureplex Stillorgan in Dublin.
The tournament was this time conducted under the name, the 31st Irish Open Championships in association with Storm, 900 Global and 3G Shoes, as the 3rd stop of the EBT 2019.
The tournament, which appeared in the tour in 2005 and 2006, returned in 2015, so the 2019 issue of the Irish Open Championships represents the 7th appearance in the EBT.
A total of 196 athletes, which was 150 men and 46 women, had found their way to Leisureplex Stillorgan to compete for the 62 available spots for the final steps of the tournament.
Step 1 included 54 bowlers playing 3 games starting from scratch, Step 2 included 32 bowlers playing 3 games starting from scratch and Step 3 included 16 bowlers playing 2 games matches in a pyramid system including Eighth Finals, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and a Final.
The outcome of the three last matches became as follows:
Semi Final 1
Jamie Elliott, England: 205 + 190 = 395
Glen Richardson, England: 190 + 196 = 386
Semi Final 2
Steven Gill, Scotland: 224 + 222 = 446
Anthony Simonsen, USA: 219 + 211 = 430 (The winner in 2018)
Final
Jamie Elliott, England: 254 + 208 = 462
Steven Gill, Scotland: 244 + 184 = 428
Jamie Elliott from England won his first tour stop title and became at the same time, also for the first time, the highest ranked in the men’s division, while Denise Blankenzee from The Netherlands became the highest ranked in the women’s division, also for the fist time.
Cherie Tan from Singapore is leading the women’s division of the tour with 350 points in front of two of her fellow countrywomen, Bernice Lim at position 2 with 285 points and Daphne Tan at position 3 with 225 points.
Kim Bolleby from Thailand is leading the men’s division of the tour with 234 points in front of Jesse Kallio from Finland at position 2 with 220 points and Joonas Jehkinen from Finland at position 3 with 200 points.
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The European Bowling Tour is running in its 20th season, and in just as many occasions the famous Brunswick Ballmaster Open has been adopted in the tour; something no other tournament in the tour can match.
This year’s issue of the tournament was as always bowled in the spectacular Tali Bowl in Helsinki, where a total of not less than 538 athletes (436 men and 102 women) took part.
The number of athletes is the second highest number ever taking part in a tour stop, only passed by the 550 athletes, which entered Brunswick Ballmaster Open in 2018.
36 of these athletes continued to the first step of the final, which were athletes positioned 13-40 from the general standing, top 3 from a separate standing of Squad 1-8, top 2 from a separate standing of Squad 9-10 and top 3 from the Desperado Squad. The 36 athletes played 6 games starting from scratch Saturday night.
Step 2 of the final included athletes positioned 1-12 from the general standing combined with top 24 from step 1. The 36 athletes played 8 games Sunday morning starting from scratch.
Top 16 from the final step 2 was divided in two groups of 8 athletes, each playing 7 one game Round Robin matches with 30 bonus points for a won match and 15 bonus points for a tied.
Everything were added together: the 8 games in the final step 2 + the 7 Round Robin games + Round Robin bonus + women’s handicap to determine the two best athletes from each group to be qualified for the Semi Finals in the Final step 4 of the tournament.
Group 1: The two highest after 15 games plus various bonuses:
1. 3738: Cherie Tan, Singapore
2. 3595: Petteri Salonen, Finland
Group 2: The two highest after 15 games plus various bonuses:
1. 3661: Joonas Jehkinen, Finland
2. 3645: Jesse Kallio, Finland
Semi Final 1
Cherie Tan, Singapore: 264
Jesse Kallio, Finland: 200
Semi Final 2
Joonas Jehkinen, Finland: 248
Petteri Salonen, Finland: 231
The Final
Cherie Tan, Singapore: 213
Joonas Jehkinen, Finland: 234
Cherie Tan, who was in her second EBT Stop Final in 8 days, became the highest ranked women in a tour stop for the 3rd time in her career, while Jonas Jehkinen became the highest ranked man in a tour stop for the 2nd time in his career.
It was indeed also the second tour stop title for Joonas Jehkinen, since he won his first title at the Track Dream-Bowl Palace Open by Erdinger in 2013.
Cherie Tan from Singapore is leading the women’s division of the tour with 350 points in front of two of her fellow countrywomen, Bernice Lim at position 2 with 250 points and Daphne Tan at position 3 with 225 points.
Kim Bolleby from Thailand is leading the men’s division of the tour with 234 points in front of Jesse Kallio from Finland at position 2 with 220 points and Joonas Jehkinen from Finland at position 3 with 200 points.
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