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The 3-Cushion Carom European Championships was staged in Florange, France, from June 4-8.
Sweden was represented by the current swedish champion Michael Nilsson and the legendary Torbjörn Blomdahl. Michael progress from his group as second man but lost to Belgian ace Frederic Caudron with 2-1 at the last 16.
Torbjörn Blomdahl won his group fairly comfortable, but unconvincingly. At the last 16 TB started to get into tournament mode and won 3-1 over Martin Horn from Germany, with an average above 2. In the quarters, Blomdahl faces the tough Belgian Peter de Backer but managed after a thrilling end, winning the deciding set 15-13. In the semi-final, Torbjörn eased pass his former practise partner, Italian Marco Zanetti and got to yet another final.
In the final he met Dutchman Dick Jaspers, who along with Blomdahl has be to counted as the carom player in the world at the moment.
The standard of play in the final was one for the history books! Averaging one point per inning is professional level play, and averaging 1.5 to 2 is world class play. Torbjön averaged above 3 but still had no chance, losing 3-0!! Jaspers produced 45 points in 8 innings for an average of 5,625, new world record, beating the old record, set by Blomdahl, of 5,556.
Congrats to Jaspers, what an outstanding performance!
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Sweden was represented by the current swedish champion Michael Nilsson and the legendary Torbjörn Blomdahl. Michael progress from his group as second man but lost to Belgian ace Frederic Caudron with 2-1 at the last 16.
Torbjörn Blomdahl won his group fairly comfortable, but unconvincingly. At the last 16 TB started to get into tournament mode and won 3-1 over Martin Horn from Germany, with an average above 2. In the quarters, Blomdahl faces the tough Belgian Peter de Backer but managed after a thrilling end, winning the deciding set 15-13. In the semi-final, Torbjörn eased pass his former practise partner, Italian Marco Zanetti and got to yet another final.
In the final he met Dutchman Dick Jaspers, who along with Blomdahl has be to counted as the carom player in the world at the moment.
The standard of play in the final was one for the history books! Averaging one point per inning is professional level play, and averaging 1.5 to 2 is world class play. Torbjön averaged above 3 but still had no chance, losing 3-0!! Jaspers produced 45 points in 8 innings for an average of 5,625, new world record, beating the old record, set by Blomdahl, of 5,556.
Congrats to Jaspers, what an outstanding performance!
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