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The CEB European Three-cushion Championship is

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tournament organized by the

Confédération Européenne de Billard The Confédération Européene de Billard (CEB) is the European governing body of carom billiards and is affiliated to the world federation UMB. History The CEB was founding on 12 July 1958 in Geneva. Its predecessor was the Fédération Int ...

. Held since 1932, it is one of longest-running tournaments in the sport. The 2007 event offered a total purse of

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18,500 ( US$26,134) with €4,000 ($5,651) for the winner. Before 1995, there was a third place match played between the two losing finalists, in order to determine the ranking. However, the match has been cancelled since then and the losing finalists are regarded as having the same ranking in the competition. Since the season 2012/13 the tournament was held in a mammoth event every two years in

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History

Until the Second World War the European Championships were held only in the disciplines

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and in three-cushion, and that even more irregular. After the war (1947) a regular, annual cycle was introduced. Exception was the season 1995/96. This had to do with the association disputes between the World Federation

Union Mondiale de Billard The Union Mondiale de Billard (French for World Union of Billiards) is the world governing body for carom (carambole) billiard games. History The organization was founded in Madrid, Spain on 1 June 1959, and is dedicated to promoting the mo ...

(UMB) and the

Billiards World Cup Association The Billiards World Cup Association (BWA) was a governing body for three-cushion carom billiards which organized and marketed the Three-Cushion World Cup from 1985 to 1999. It was subordinate to the World Association Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB ...

(BWA). It also meant that the players which were under contract with the BWA in the years 1993 to 1997 were not allowed to participate at the European Championship. In the season 1956/57, there have been already two associations. In the dispute over sports and leadership policies within the "Union Internationale des Fédérations d'Amateurs de Billard" (UIFAB) culminated in the founding of the competing "Fédération Internationale de Billard" (FIB) and a "double" European Championships were held in straight rail, balkline, and three-cushion in 1957. The following year, the disputes were resolved and UIFAB was again the only European federation. This fusion was expressed in the founding/renamed into

(CEB) on 12. July 1958.

Prize money and ranking points

Tournament records (timeline)

Billiard

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Raymond Ceulemans Raymond, Knight Ceulemans (born 12 July 1937) is a Belgian billiards player who won 21 UMB three-cushion World Championship titles, more than any other player. Along with 48 Europea ...

from

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won the tournament more times (23) than any other player. His closest competitors for the record are country fellow René Vingerhoedt and Swedish

Torbjörn Blomdahl Torbjörn Blomdahl (born 26 October 1962 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player from Helsingborg, Sweden who plays for FC Porto. He is a seven time World Champion in three-cushion billiards, ...

at a distant 9 and 8 respectively. By delivering the European

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for 22 consecutive years (1962-1983),

also holds the record for most consecutive wins. In 2013

Marco Zanetti Marco Zanetti (born 10 April 1962) is an Italian professional three-cushion billiards player and a two-time world champion from Bolzano, Italy. Privat Zanetti started playing billiards at 7. He needed a chair to play. His father, Erwin Zanett ...

played a new record General Average (GA) of 2.500. Frédéric Caudron puts up a new European record in High-run of 28 and equalizes the records of

Junichi Komori (11 July 1941 – 26 July 2015)
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(1993), Raymond Ceulemans (1998), and

Roland Forthomme Roland Forthomme (born 3 November 1970) is a Belgian carom billiards player. He won twice at the Three-Cushion World Cup from 2005 to 2006. Forthomme got into second place five times and third place twice at the Three-Cushion World Cup from 200 ...

(2012).

Champions

The GA indicates the General Average. ;Note: * ^*1 Since there were two competing and fractious associations at that time, namely, Union Internationale des Fédérations d'Amateurs de Billard (UIFAB) und Fédération Internationale de Billard (FIB), two different championships were held. Since the players could only affiliate to one of the associations, there was no overlapping of the participants of the respective European Championship. * ^*2 New European record

Medals (1932-2023)

References

External links

* {{Cue sports nav Three-cushion billiards competitions

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Recurring sporting events established in 1932