Mediterranean Bowling Championship (MBC) is back. Tenpin Bowling Association of France and the MBC committee announce the days for the 2021 edition. The championship will take place from 10^th to 17^th of October 2021 in Paris, France. The 23^rd edition will be held in Moussy le Neuf, located north of Paris. Visit our website for more details http://mbc-bowling.com/  and/or our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/mccbowling.

Marios Nicolaides
Mediterranean Bowling Confederation – President

….alone we can do so little; together we can do so much…

The Host of Brunswick Ballmaster Open, in Helsinki Finland, is taking the opportunity and is hosting the postponed Brunswick Ballmaster Open during 14-22 August 2021

Further info can be found at https://europeanbowling.sport/tourn-2021-01-bbo/

Unfortunately, due to heavy scheduling in the beginning of 2022 we are forced to postpone the ESC2022 that was scheduled end of January 2022 in Aalborg, Denmark

We are working on finding new suitable dates and will inform as soon as possible.

It is my sad duty to inform you that ESBC Honourable Member Paul Douw from The Netherlands has passed away this Tuesday.

Paul was a good friend to many bowlers all around Europe and the World. He served the ESBC Organization as Secretary from 2002 to 2008 and as President from 2008 to 2017. While he led the organization, ESBC and the ESBC Championships have grown tremendously to social events. Due to starting health problems, Paul was forced to step down after 15 years of membership in the ESBC Presidium and was appointed Honourable Member. Now, he had to give up his last fight with cancer.

Our thoughts and feelings are with his family and his wife Annemarie. We will always honour Paul’s memory.

On behalf of the ESBC Presidium.

Florian Fister
Secretary
European Senior Bowlers Committee

www.esbc-europe.eu

It is with great pleasure to announce the recognition of the Mediterranean Bowling Confederation by the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (ICMG).

The Mediterranean Bowling Confederation family is very grateful for the support of ABF, ETBF, and BFA. It is highly appreciated.

Our thanks also to Mr. Athanasios Vasiliadis and Mr. Argyris Logothetis for their assistance, hard work, and passion they contributed towards this recognition.

Our special appreciation also to the President of IBF, Sheikh Talal Mohammad Al-Sabah for his help and support throughout the process.

This is the beginning of a lot of hard work and dedication from my committee to fulfil the requirements necessary for the ICMG.

Looking forward to a long and productive cooperation.

Regards,

Marios Nicolaides
Mediterranean Bowling Confederation – President

As our beloved sport and industry are hit strongly by the pandemic, the ETBF Presidium and Educational committee decided to use this as an opportunity to enhance their educational programs.

The ETBF Academy Development Team will work on our existing coaching programs’ content and structure and will evaluate the options to make it more accessible via online channels. Besides improving our content for Coaching, Lane Maintenance and Ball Drilling programs, our team will work on creating additional online clinics for more advanced and focused content.

An ETBF Level IV Coaching Program will be the core part of our 2021 Development Project, which will provide a very important addition to our Coaching Programs. ETBF Senior Instructor Juha Maja will lead the Level IV Program which is planned to be released in 2022.

Ulf Hämnäs (Norway), Robert Anderson (Sweden), Mark Heathorn (England) and Calvin Murray (Scotland) will join our Development Team with our Educational Team members (Onder Gurkan, Marios Nicolaides, Piritta Maja, Costas Mitsingas and Gediz Ege). Our team will also communicate and work with various coaches and experts during this process.

We are very excited to start creating new contents and updating our programs for our federations.

Best regards with our hopes to come back to normal days …

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ETBF – European Tenpin Bowling Federation is the governing body of Tenpin Bowling Federations in European zone. ETBF ACADEMY is European Tenpin Bowling Federation’s education platform that provides Coaching and Technical programs for Federations.

Unfortunately, due to the COVID pandemic then the host of the EMC 2020 together with ETBF has decided to postpone again – EMC will be hosted in Helsinki, Finland second part of January 2022.

Further to this then we will be informing later about the exact dates.

Unfortunately, due to the COVID pandemic then the host of the Odense International 2021 has decided to cancel the tournament and return in 2022 again.

Odense International, was expected to be hosted in Odense, Denmark during 22-29 August 2021.

Unfortunately, due to the COVID pandemic then we have 2 cancellation:  Brunswick Madrid Challenge and Storm San Marino Open are both cancelled.

Brunswick Madrid Challenge was supposed to be held in Madrid during 3-11 July 2021 and Storm San Marino Open was supposed to be held in San Marino during 10-18 July 2021