Three-Cushion World Cup

Three-Cushion World Cup
Tournament information
Organisation(s)Union Mondiale de Billard
FormatRound Robin / single-elimination
Recent edition2024
Current championNetherlands Dick Jaspers (2023)

The Three-Cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in three-cushion billiards, which is held every year since 1986 between three and ten times a year.

History[edit]

The World Cup was founded in 1985 by German Werner Bayer, a carom billiards enthusiast and patron. He called the association "Billiards World Cup Association" (BWA) and in 1986 the first tournament was held in Paris. As a patron he had excellent contact to sponsors, and quickly the tournament grew into a popular meeting place for players and spectators. At the time, the World-Cup had one of the highest monetary prizes. Between 1986 and 1989, the prize money per tournament was approximately 100,000 DM, with the winner receiving 50,000 DM. The BWA organized the World-Cup along with the world governing body, the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB).

Between 1988 and 1993, the UMB no longer hosted any world championships themselves, therefore, for four years, the BWA World-Cup became the default world championship. In 1994 there were disagreements between the two associations. The UMB thus blocked players, including players wives, referees and organizers who took part in the World Cup, from participating in the tournaments of the UMB and CEB (Confédération Européenne de Billard). Thus, between 1994 and 1997, there were two parallel World-Cup championships. The BWA, as usual, played for 3rd place (the only exception was the tournament 1997/7 ), whereas the UMB did not, and therefore had two 3rd-place finishers. (With few exceptions, since the acquisition of the tournament in 1999, this is the rule up to now) .

After settling the disputes, the UMB and the BWA led the tournament together until early 1999 (Berlin Cup). After 1999, Mr. Bayer withdrew from the BWA for health reasons, and the UMB took over the organization of the tournament series from then on and the BWA broke up due to succession problems.

From 1994, the UMB tournaments were organized in collaboration with the European member association “Confédération Européenne de Billard” (CEB). Since 2004, the World-Cup has been organized as UMB/CEB (in Europe), UMB/CPB (in America), UMB/(in Amerika), UMB/ACBC World-Cup (in Asia), and since 2014, as UMB/ACC in Africa. The prize money amounts to approximately 35,000 € per tournament. The prize money has been €106,500 per tournament since 2018.

All detailed results are listed on the german Three-Cushion World Cup page.

The individual results of the World Cup 1997/1 were lost directly following the tournament and, up to now, have been unable to be reconstructed, even through research by the well-known billiards archivists Heinrich Weingartner and Dieter Haase (both editors of the three-volume "Encyclopedia of Billiards Sports").

In 2012, only three tournaments were held for the overall winner appointment, instead of the required four, thus the year remains the first year without a title award.[1] On 26 January 2013 it was announced that the Greek shipping magnate, Thanos Athanasiou, until 1995 a player himself, would finance a total of five tournaments in the coming three years. These include the three World-Cup tournaments until 2015, as well as the Junior World Championships in 2013 and the Women's World-Cup in 2014. All tournaments will be played in Athens.[2]

Media Report Transmission[edit]

Until the 2019/20 season, the French billiards portal Kozoom broadcast all UMB tournaments on the Internet and some of them were also taken over by the national broadcasters that hosted them. From the 2021/22 season, this task will be taken over by the Korean partner of Kozoom Five&Six.

Modus[edit]

Initially, the game was played in a set system of up to 15 points, with two winning sets to be completed in the qualification and then three winning sets in the final round. In 2013 they switched to the points system, with up to 30 points being played in the qualification and up to 40 points in the final round. At the change of season in 2019, the first final round will also be held as a group round (8 ×) of 4 players each.

Records[edit]

Prize money and ranking points[edit]

[3] Prize
money ()
Ranking
points
Winner (1×) 16.000 80
Finalist (1×) 10.000 54
Semi-finalists (2×) 6.000 38
5. – 8. (4×) 3.500 26
9. – 16. (8×) 2.500 16
17. – 32. (16×) 1.500 8
Quali (21×) 500 5
P-Quali 4
PP-Quali 3
PPP-Quali 2
Overall 106.500
Prize money for overall winner[3]
Place
1 5,000
2 3,700
3 2,500
4 2,000
5 1,700
6 1,600
7 1,500
8 1,400
9 1,300
10 1,200
11 1,100
12 1,000
Overall 24,000

Date of issue: 20 December 2017

Tournament records timeline[edit]

With the set system, the best individual average (SA) is only counted in the game with 3 winning sets. This also applies to the GA, where at least five games must be played. Since the maximum streak of 15 points was achieved a total of 42 times in the days of the set system, players who have reached this number of points several times are only mentioned with their first streak. The numbers in brackets indicate the frequency.

General Average (GA)
GA Name Year
1,257 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/1
1,516 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1986/2
1,643 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4
1,728 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1987/2
1,891 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/2
1,947 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/6
2,204 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1992/5
2,250 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1994/4
2,308 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1995/9
2,420 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 2011/4
2,465 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2013/1
2,739 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2013/3
2,777 Spain Daniel Sánchez 2017/2
Special Average (SA)
SA Name Year
1,956 United States Allen Gilbert 1986/1
1,960 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4
2,093 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1987/2
2,142 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/1
2,812 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1988/2
Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1991/1
2,312 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1994/3
Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1994/4
5,000 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1996/6
5,714 Belgium Eddy Merckx 2013/1
Belgium Frédéric Caudron 2017/1
Belgium Eddy Leppens 2017/4
6,666 Turkey Semih Saygıner 2018/5
High Run (HR)
HR Name Year
13 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/1
15 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4
Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl (4) 1991/1
Turkey Semih Saygıner 1997/8
Belgium Eddy Leppens (2) 1998/8
Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1999/2
Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1999/5
Spain Daniel Sánchez (3) 2004/3
Italy Marco Zanetti (4) 2004/5
Netherlands Dick Jaspers (2) 2005/1
Belgium Peter de Backer 2005/3
South Korea Choi Jae-dong 2005/3
Belgium Paul Stroobants 2006/2
France Jérémy Bury (3) 2006/2
Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir 2006/5
Netherlands Jean Paul de Bruijn 2007/6
Netherlands Barry van Beers 2008/1
Austria Andreas Efler 2008/5
Belgium Eddy Merckx 2009/3
South Korea Kim Kyung-roul (2) 2009/5
South Korea Kim Bong-soo 2010/2
Turkey Murat Naci Çoklu 2010/4
Belgium Roland Forthomme 2010/4
Spain Antonio Ortiz-Torrent 2011/3
Netherlands Dave Christiani 2011/4
Turkey Adnan Yüksel 2011/5
South Korea Kim Hyun-suk 2012/2
South Korea Um Sang-pil 2012/2
17 Eddy Merckx 2013/1
24 France Jérémy Bury 2013/2
South Korea Cho Myung-woo 2018/6
Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2019/5
26 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2023/3

Statistics[edit]

Colour key
  BWA World Cups
  UMB/CEB ParallelWorld Cups (1994 to 1997)
  considered as World Championship by UMB
  jointly organized World Cup (UMB/BWA)
  UMB World Cups
  Current official world record in the GA (date of issue: 1. April 2017)
List of single winners[4]
No. Year Venue Winner GA Second GA Third GA
001 1986/1 France Paris Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,157 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,257 United States Allen Gilbert 1,029
002 1986/2 Belgium Brussels Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,515 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,516 Netherlands Rini van Bracht 1,198
003 1986/3 Germany Berlin Portugal Egidio Vieira 1,098 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,116 Argentina Luis Mario Doyharzabal 1,250
004 1986/4 Netherlands Valkenburg Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,643 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,430 Japan Junichi Komori 1,305
005 1987/1 France Paris Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,303 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,145 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,213
006 1987/2 Belgium Antwerp Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,728 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,253 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,409
007 1987/3 Germany Berlin Japan Junichi Komori 1,364 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,726 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,496
008 1987/4 Netherlands Valkenburg Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,500 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,130 Japan Junichi Komori 1,142
009 1988/1 France Paris Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,360 Germany Dieter Müller 1,168 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,442
010 1988/2 Belgium Antwerp Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,507 Japan Junichi Komori 1,724 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,891
011 1988/3 Germany Berlin Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,764 Japan Junichi Komori 1,380 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,375
012 1988/4 Spain Palma Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,298 Japan Junichi Komori 1,212 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,404
013 1988/5 Netherlands Valkenburg Belgium Laurent Boulanger 1,395 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,318 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,267
014 1988/6 Japan Tokyo Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,947 Japan Akio Shimada 1,145 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,180
015 1989/1 Belgium Deurne France Richard Bitalis 1,311 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,406 Netherlands Rini van Bracht 1,238
016 1989/2 Germany Berlin Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,466 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,311 Japan Yoshihiko Mano 1,170
017 1989/3 Spain Palma Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,280 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,275 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,352
018 1989/4 United States Las Vegas Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,558 Japan Junichi Komori 0,971 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,406
019 1989/5 Japan Yokohama Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,406 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,310 Japan Junichi Komori 1,342
020 1990/1 Belgium Antwerp Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,671 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,500 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,266
021 1990/2 France Paris Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,521 France Richard Bitalis 1,356 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,503
022 1990/3 Germany Berlin Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,644 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,909 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,330
023 1990/4 Sweden Norrköping Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,648 France Richard Bitalis 1,425 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,484
024 1990/5 Spain Palma Italy Marco Zanetti 1,760 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,603 France Richard Bitalis 1,447
025 1990/6 Japan Tokyo Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,632 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,284 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,584
026 1991/1 Belgium Gent Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,758 United States Sang Lee 1,482 France Richard Bitalis 1,315
027 1991/2 Germany Berlin United States Sang Lee 1,492 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,570 France Richard Bitalis 1,335
028 1991/3 Spain Palma Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,616 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,857 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,579
029 1991/4 South Korea Seoul Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,356 Japan Yoshihiko Mano 1,024 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,106
030 1991/5 Japan Tokyo Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,712 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,587 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,161
031 1992/1 Netherlands Oosterhout Netherlands Rini van Bracht 1,488 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,215 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,756
032 1992/2 Belgium Gent United States Sang Lee 1,578 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,505 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,469
033 1992/3 Germany Berlin Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,796 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,413 Mexico José Paniagua 1,181
034 1992/4 France Orléans Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,492 Japan Junichi Komori 1,248 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,432
035 1992/5 Japan Tokyo Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,204 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,396 France Richard Bitalis 1,424
036 1992/6 Spain Palma Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,658 United States Sang Lee 1,648 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,441
037 1993/1 Netherlands Oosterhout Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,462 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,540 United States Sang Lee 1,516
038 1993/2 Turkey Istanbul United States Sang Lee 1,524 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,539 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,224
039 1993/3 Germany Berlin Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,681 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,401 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,566
040 1993/4 Japan Tokyo Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,461 Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi 1,485 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,472
041 1993/5 Italy Bolzano Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,904 Denmark Tonny Carlsen 1,678 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,621
042 1994/1 Belgium Gent United States Sang Lee 1,181 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,358 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,539
043 1994/2 Egypt Cairo Belgium Koen Ceulemans 1,231 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,265 Germany Christian Rudolph 1,095
044 1994/3 Turkey Istanbul Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,758 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,590 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,576
045 1994/4 Netherlands Oosterhout Austria Christoph Pilss 1,402 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,250 United States Sang Lee 1,666
046 1994/5 Germany Halle (Saale) Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,007 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,660 Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1,432
047 1994/6 Netherlands Dongen Portugal Jorge Theriaga 1,409 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,363 Netherlands John Tijssens 1,176
048 1994/7 Belgium Gent Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,567 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,672 Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,428
049 1995/1 Denmark Vejle Switzerland Andreas Efler 1,377 Netherlands Rini van Bracht 1,160 Netherlands John Tijssens 1,347
050 1995/2 Greece Athen Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,456 Portugal Jorge Theriaga 1,282 Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,484
051 1995/3 Luxembourg Mondorf-les-Bains Netherlands Rini van Bracht 1,376 Germany Christian Rudolph 1,513 Portugal Jorge Theriaga 1,335
052 1995/4 Portugal Porto Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,366 Belgium Leon Smolders 1,142 Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,215
053 1995/5 Belgium Hooglede Denmark Hans Laursen 1,247 Netherlands Rini van Bracht 1,111 Denmark Dion Nelin 1,236
054 1995/6 Netherlands Oosterhout Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,807 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,842 United States Sang Lee 1,316
055 1995/7 Germany Halle (Saale) Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,824 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,388 Denmark Tonny Carlsen 1,431
056 1995/8 Belgium Antwerp Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,757 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,473 Netherlands Louis Havermans 1,258
057 1995/9 Turkey Istanbul Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,308 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,535 Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1,170
No. Year Venue Winner GA Second GA Semi-
finalists
GA
058 1996/1 Turkey Antalya Portugal Jorge Theriaga 1,295 Belgium Eddy Leppens 1,324 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,288
Belgium Koen Ceulemans 1,187
059 1996/2 Portugal Porto Denmark Dion Nelin 1,489 Belgium Jozef Philipoom 1,270 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,300
Denmark Hans Laursen 1,069
060 1996/3 Belgium Hooglede Belgium Ludo Dielis 1,347 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,581 Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,410
Belgium Peter de Backer 1,244
061 1996/4 Greece Athen Belgium Francis Forton 1,228 Germany Christian Rudolph 1,327 Portugal Jorge Theriaga 1,246
Portugal Egidio Vieira 1,244
062 1996/5 Netherlands Oosterhout Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,690 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,704 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,914
063 1996/6 South Korea Daegu Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1,379 United States Sang Lee 1,433 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,573
064 1996/7 Belgium Antwerp Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,524 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,375 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,488
065 1996/8 Turkey Istanbul Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,651 Denmark Tonny Carlsen 1,285 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,532
066 1997/1 South Korea Seoul Germany Christian Rudolph ?,??? Portugal Jorge Theriaga ?,??? Spain Daniel Sánchez ?,???
South Korea Kim Chul-min ?,???
067 1997/2 Italy Salsomaggiore Terme Turkey Yilmaz Özcan 1,376 Germany Martin Horn 1,327 Denmark Dion Nelin 1,093
Germany Stefan Galla 1,248
068 1997/3 Portugal Porto Denmark Dion Nelin 1,575 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,685 Belgium Eddy Leppens 1,268
Germany Stefan Galla 1,137
069 1997/4 Belgium Hooglede Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,343 Germany Martin Horn 1,389 Turkey Yilmaz Özcan 1,356
Belgium Eddy Leppens 1,423
070 1997/5 Germany Herne Germany Christian Rudolph 1,410 Belgium Eddy Leppens 1,189 Luxembourg Fonsy Grethen 1,073
Belgium Peter de Backer 1,385
071 1997/6 Netherlands Oosterhout Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,662 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,685 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,244
072 1997/7 Turkey Antalya Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,805 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,964 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,605
Austria Andreas Efler 1,324
073 1997/8 Belgium Antwerp Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,583 Netherlands Gerwin Valentijn 1,500 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,475
074 1998/1 Netherlands Barendrecht Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,089 Denmark Dion Nelin 1,296 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,692
United States Sang Lee 1,482
075 1998/2 Netherlands Bussum Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,983 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,150 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,598
Netherlands Henk Habraken 1,239
076 1998/3 Portugal Lisbon Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,660 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,704 Denmark Dion Nelin 1,518
Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,366
077 1998/4 Belgium Hooglede Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,033 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,314 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,321
Germany Christian Rudolph 1,475
078 1998/5 Greece Corfu Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,568 Portugal Jorge Theriaga 1,244 Netherlands Ben Velthuis 1,230
Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1,456
079 1998/6 Colombia Bogotá Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,523 United States Carlos Hallon 1,153 Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1,363
Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,224
080 1998/7 Spain Torremolinos Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,486 Belgium Eddy Leppens 1,318 Belgium Raymond Ceulemans 1,516
Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,218
081 1998/8 Netherlands Oosterhout Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,773 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,094 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,906
082 1998/9 Turkey Antalya Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,649 Netherlands Gerwin Valentijn 1,503 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,331
Germany Christian Rudolph 1,311
083 1998/10 Netherlands Roermond Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,658 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,503 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,551
Denmark Dion Nelin 1,544
084 1999/1 South Korea Seoul Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,103 Denmark Tonny Carlsen 1,491 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,608
Germany Christian Rudolph 1,437
085 1999/2 United States Las Vegas United States Sang Lee 1,625 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,712 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,813
Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1,550
086 1999/3 Germany Berlin Italy Marco Zanetti 2,082 Germany Martin Horn 1,289 United States Sang Lee 1,512
Belgium Eddy Leppens 1,331
087 1999/4 Turkey Kemer Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,055 United States Sang Lee 1,461 Denmark Jakob Haack-Sörensen 1,586
Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,757
088 1999/5 Netherlands Oosterhout Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,815 Portugal Jorge Theriaga 1,288 United States Sang Lee 1,954
089 2000/1 Colombia Bogotá Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,404 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,672 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,381
Denmark Dion Nelin 1,466
090 2000/2 Netherlands Oosterhout Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,893 Denmark Dion Nelin 1,379 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,513
091 2001/1 Colombia Bogotá Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,452 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,660 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,626
Colombia Jaime Bedoya 1,337
092 2001/2 United States Las Vegas Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,050 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,891 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,397
Denmark Tonny Carlsen 1,317
093 2001/3 Turkey Kuşadası Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,497 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,429 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,615
Italy Marco Zanetti 1,441
094 2001/4 Spain Lugo Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,794 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,546 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,572
Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,431
095 2001/5 Netherlands Oosterhout Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,538 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,321 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,368
2002 Not held
096 2003 United States Las Vegas Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,606 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,719 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,623
Italy Marco Zanetti 1,286
097 2004/1 Netherlands Barendrecht Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,076 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,058 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,464
No. Year Venue Winner GA Second GA Semi-
finalists
GA
098 2004/2 Greece Athen Turkey Semih Saygıner 2,000 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,404 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,794
Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,457
099 2004/3 Spain Seville Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,668 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,570 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,626
Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,525
100 2004/4 Egypt Hurghada Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,277 Turkey Murat Naci Coklu 1,494 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,546
Denmark Brian Knudsen 1,211
101 2004/5 Belgium Antwerp Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,938 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,838 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,918
Germany Martin Horn 1,589
102 2005/1 Netherlands Sluiskil Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,181 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,754 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,570
Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,566
103 2005/2 Egypt Hurghada Belgium Roland Forthomme 1,636 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,553 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,478
South Korea Choi Jae-dong 1,324
104 2005/3 Netherlands Barendrecht Belgium Eddy Merckx 2,062 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 2,058 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,368
Netherlands Raimond Burgman 1,651
105 2005/4 Turkey Istanbul Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,786 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 2,032 Netherlands Jean Paul de Bruijn 1,405
Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir 1,694
106 2006/1 Netherlands Sluiskil Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,925 Turkey Adnan Yüksel 1,656 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,678
Belgium Roland Forthomme 1,569
107 2006/2 Portugal Porto Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,505 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,810 Netherlands John Tijssens 1,109
Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,790
108 2006/3 Greece Volos Belgium Roland Forthomme 1,907 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,946 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,542
South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,488
109 2006/4 Egypt Hurghada Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,741 Belgium Peter de Backer 1,342 Netherlands Jean Paul de Bruijn 1,474
Sweden Mikael Nilsson 1,424
110 2006/5 Turkey Istanbul Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,787 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,690 Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir 1,672
Germany Martin Horn 1,568
111 2007/1 Netherlands Sluiskil Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,925 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,032 Belgium Roland Forthomme 1,517
Germany Martin Horn 1,715
112 2007/2 Turkey Manisa Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,862 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,783 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,966
Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,571
113 2007/3 Greece Corfu Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,755 Turkey Semih Saygıner 1,736 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,612
Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,410
114 2007/4 Portugal Porto Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,153 Belgium Roland Forthomme 1,443 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,800
Greece Filippos Kasidokostas 1,595
115 2007/5 Egypt Hurghada Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,468 Germany Martin Horn 1,612 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,259
Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,910
116 2007/6 Mexico Mexico City Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,880 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,955 Belgium Roland Forthomme 1,600
South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,519
117 2007/7 South Korea Seoul Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,992 Vietnam Tran Chi Thanh 1,322 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 2,074
Peru Ramon Rodriguez 1,640
118 2008/1 Netherlands Sluiskil Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,948 Greece Nikos Polychronopoulos 1,642 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,847
South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,610
119 2008/2 Portugal Porto Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,992 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,755 South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,645
Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,716
120 2008/3 Mexico Irapuato Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,729 Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,535 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,697
Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,760
121 2008/4 South Korea Suwon Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,782 South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,494 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,564
Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,471
122 2008/5 Egypt Hurghada Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,779 Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,544 Netherlands Jean Paul de Bruijn 1,273
BelgiumPeter de Backer*1
123 2008/6 Spain Alcalá de Guadaíra Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,770 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,786 Germany Martin Horn 1,722
Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,787
124 2009/1 Netherlands Sluiskil Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,695 Belgium Jozef Philipoom 1,685 Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir 1,710
Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,649
125 2009/2 Turkey Antalya Germany Martin Horn 1,626 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,600 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,713
Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,343
126 2009/3 Portugal Matosinhos Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,751 Greece Nikos Polychronopoulos 1,592 South Korea Cho Jae-ho 1,656
France Jérémy Bury 1,483
127 2009/4 South Korea Suwon Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,950 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,892 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,712
South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,585
128 2009/5 Egypt Hurghada Belgium Jozef Philipoom 1,443 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,654 Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir 1,589
Spain Ruben Legazpi 1,544
129 2010/1 Turkey Antalya South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,601 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,815 Germany Martin Horn 1,744
Greece Filippos Kasidokostas 1,532
130 2010/2 South Korea Suwon Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,153 Greece Filippos Kasidokostas 1,715 France Jérémy Bury 1,533
Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir 1,891
131 2010/3 Portugal Matosinhos Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,476 Germany Martin Horn 1,550 France Jérémy Bury 1,620
Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,729
132 2010/4 Egypt Hurghada Greece Filippos Kasidokostas 1,860 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,802 France Jérémy Bury 1,853
Japan Kouji Funaki 1,686
133 2011/1 Turkey Trabzon Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,655 South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,800 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,911
Greece Filippos Kasidokostas 1,639
134 2011/2 Portugal Matosinhos Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,834 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 1,825 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 1,953
South Korea Cho Jae-ho 1,573
135 2011/3 South Korea Suwon Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,736 South Korea Cho Jae-ho 1,908 France Jérémy Bury 1,402
Vietnam Xuan Cuong Ma 1,756
136 2011/4 Austria Vienna Belgium Frédéric Caudron 2,420 Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,867 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,216
Turkey Lütfi Çenet 1,523
137 2011/5 Egypt Hurghada Turkey Adnan Yüksel 1,757 France Jérémy Bury 1,701 South Korea Kim Kyung-roul 1,669
Belgium Eddy Leppens 1,707
138 2012/1 Turkey Antalya South Korea Choi Sung-won 1,581 Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir 1,637 Belgium Frédéric Caudron 2,195
Spain Daniel Sánchez 1,657
139 2012/2 South Korea Suwon Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,370 Italy Marco Zanetti 1,746 Netherlands Dick Jaspers 2,053
Belgium Eddy Merckx 1,639
140 2012/3 Egypt Hurghada