Three-Cushion World Cup

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

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 1992, 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 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]

Modus

Games are played to 15 points using the set system. In the qualification round, the game is played to two winning sets and in the final round, to three winning sets. Since 2013, games are played in the qualifiers to 30 points and in the final round, to 40 points.

Records

• Torbjörn Blomdahl is record winner with 43 single and 11 total victories.
• The best general average (GD) was achieved by Dick Jaspers with 2,942 points (2015 in Guri). This is a new official world record.
• The best single average (ED) was achieved by Eddy Merckx in Antalya in 2013 with 5,714 points (40 points in 7 runs). This is a new official world record.
• Since 2013, The highest series at a World-Cup tournament is 24 points, established by Jérémy Bury in Guri, South Korea. Bury ended the game, which was set at 40 points, with a final series of 24, thus ending the game not by mistake, but by reaching the game target.
• One set in one run in a World-Cup tournament (which until 2012 was also the highest series) was achieved so far by:
  • Nobuaki Kobayashi (Valkenburg 1986)
  • Torbjörn Blomdahl (Gent 1991, Istanbul 1995)
  • Marco Zanetti (Halle 1997, Antwerp 2004, Sluiskil 2007, Alcalá de Guadaira 2008)
  • Semih Saygıner (Antwerp 1997)
  • Eddy Leppens (Oosterhout 1998)
  • Raymond Ceulemans (Oosterhout 1999)
  • Frédéric Caudron (Sevilla 2004, Hurghada 2007)
  • Daniel Sánchez (Sevilla 2004, Hurghada 2009, Antalya 2012)
  • Dick Jaspers (Sluiskil 2005)
  • Peter de Backer (Barendrecht 2005)
  • Choi Jae-dong (Barendrecht 2005)
  • Jérémy Bury (Hurghada 2006, Antalya 2009)
  • Kim Kyung-roul (Hurghada 2009, Hurghada 2011)
  • Kim Bong-soo (Suwon 2010)
  • Murat Naci Coklu (Hurghada 2010)
  • Antonio Ortiz Torrent (Suwon 2011)
  • Dave Christiani (Vienna 2011)

Prize money and ranking points

(Date of issue: 1 January 2013)

Statistics

• The general average (GA) refers respectively to the entire tournament.

Colour key

No.	Year	Venue	Winner	GA	Second	GA	Third	GA
001	1986/1	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1,157	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,257	Allen Gilbert	1,029
002	1986/2	Brussels	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,515	Raymond Ceulemans	1,516	Rini van Bracht	1,198
003	1986/3	Berlin	Egidio Vieira	1,098	Raymond Ceulemans	1,116	Luis Mario Doyharzabal	1,250
004	1986/4	Valkenburg	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,643	Raymond Ceulemans	1,430	Junichi Komori	1,305
005	1987/1	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1,303	Marco Zanetti	1,145	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,213
006	1987/2	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,728	Raymond Ceulemans	1,253	Ludo Dielis	1,409
007	1987/3	Berlin	Junichi Komori	1,364	Raymond Ceulemans	1,726	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,496
008	1987/4	Valkenburg	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,500	Marco Zanetti	1,130	Junichi Komori	1,142
009	1988/1	Paris	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,360	Dieter Müller	1,168	Raymond Ceulemans	1,442
010	1988/2	Antwerp	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,507	Junichi Komori	1,724	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,891
011	1988/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,764	Junichi Komori	1,380	Raymond Ceulemans	1,375
012	1988/4	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,298	Junichi Komori	1,212	Ludo Dielis	1,404
013	1988/5	Valkenburg	Laurent Boulanger	1,395	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,318	Raymond Ceulemans	1,267
014	1988/6	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,947	Akio Shimada	1,145	Raymond Ceulemans	1,180
015	1989/1	Deurne	Richard Bitalis	1,311	Ludo Dielis	1,406	Rini van Bracht	1,238
016	1989/2	Berlin	Ludo Dielis	1,466	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,311	Yoshihiko Mano	1,170
017	1989/3	Palma	Raymond Ceulemans	1,280	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,275	Ludo Dielis	1,352
018	1989/4	Las Vegas	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,558	Junichi Komori	0,971	Raymond Ceulemans	1,406
019	1989/5	Yokohama	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,406	Ludo Dielis	1,310	Junichi Komori	1,342
020	1990/1	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,671	Raymond Ceulemans	1,500	Dick Jaspers	1,266
021	1990/2	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1,521	Richard Bitalis	1,356	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,503
022	1990/3	Berlin	Ludo Dielis	1,644	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,909	Raymond Ceulemans	1,330
023	1990/4	Norrköping	Raymond Ceulemans	1,648	Richard Bitalis	1,425	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,484
024	1990/5	Palma	Marco Zanetti	1,760	Raymond Ceulemans	1,603	Richard Bitalis	1,447
025	1990/6	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,632	Ludo Dielis	1,284	Raymond Ceulemans	1,584
026	1991/1	Gent	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,758	Sang Chun Lee	1,482	Richard Bitalis	1,315
027	1991/2	Berlin	Sang Chun Lee	1,492	Raymond Ceulemans	1,570	Richard Bitalis	1,335
028	1991/3	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,616	Raymond Ceulemans	1,857	Dick Jaspers	1,579
029	1991/4	Seoul	Raymond Ceulemans	1,356	Yoshihiko Mano	1,024	Ludo Dielis	1,106
030	1991/5	Tokyo	Dick Jaspers	1,712	Marco Zanetti	1,587	Ludo Dielis	1,161
031	1992/1	Oosterhout	Rini van Bracht	1,488	Frédéric Caudron	1,215	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,756
032	1992/2	Gent	Sang Chun Lee	1,578	Ludo Dielis	1,505	Raymond Ceulemans	1,469
033	1992/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,796	Dick Jaspers	1,413	José Paniagua	1,181
034	1992/4	Orléans	Raymond Ceulemans	1,492	Junichi Komori	1,248	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,432
035	1992/5	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,204	Raymond Ceulemans	1,396	Richard Bitalis	1,424
036	1992/6	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,658	Sang Chun Lee	1,648	Raymond Ceulemans	1,441
037	1993/1	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,462	Raymond Ceulemans	1,540	Sang Chun Lee	1,516
038	1993/2	Istanbul	Sang Chun Lee	1,524	Raymond Ceulemans	1,539	Ludo Dielis	1,224
039	1993/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,681	Marco Zanetti	1,401	Semih Saygıner	1,566
040	1993/4	Tokyo	Raymond Ceulemans	1,461	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,485	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,472
041	1993/5	Bolzano	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,904	Tonny Carlsen	1,678	Dick Jaspers	1,621
042	1994/1	Gent	Sang Chun Lee	1,181	Frédéric Caudron	1,358	Marco Zanetti	1,539
043	1994/2	Cairo	Koen Ceulemans	1,231	Daniel Sánchez	1,265	Christian Rudolph	1,095
044	1994/3	Istanbul	Dick Jaspers	1,758	Raymond Ceulemans	1,590	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,576
045	1994/4	Oosterhout	Christoph Pilss	1,402	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,250	Sang Chun Lee	1,666
046	1994/5	Halle (Saale)	Dick Jaspers	2,007	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,660	Raimond Burgman	1,432
047	1994/6	Dongen	Jorge Theriaga	1,409	Daniel Sánchez	1,363	John Tijssens	1,176
048	1994/7	Gent	Semih Saygıner	1,567	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,672	Ludo Dielis	1,428
049	1995/1	Vejle	Andreas Efler	1,377	Rini van Bracht	1,160	John Tijssens	1,347
050	1995/2	Athen	Daniel Sánchez	1,456	Jorge Theriaga	1,282	Eddy Merckx	1,484
051	1995/3	Mondorf-les-Bains	Rini van Bracht	1,376	Christian Rudolph	1,513	Jorge Theriaga	1,335
052	1995/4	Porto	Daniel Sánchez	1,366	Leon Smolders	1,142	Eddy Merckx	1,215
053	1995/5	Hooglede	Hans Laursen	1,247	Rini van Bracht	1,111	Dion Nelin	1,236
054	1995/6	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1,807	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,842	Sang Chun Lee	1,316
055	1995/7	Halle (Saale)	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,824	Raymond Ceulemans	1,388	Tonny Carlsen	1,431
056	1995/8	Antwerp	Raymond Ceulemans	1,757	Marco Zanetti	1,473	Louis Havermans	1,258
057	1995/9	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,308	Raymond Ceulemans	1,535	Raimond Burgman	1,170
No.	Year	Venue	Winner	GA	Second	GA	Semi- finalists	GA
058	1996/1	Antalya	Jorge Theriaga	1,295	Eddy Leppens	1,324	Daniel Sánchez	1,288
							Koen Ceulemans	1,187
059	1996/2	Porto	Dion Nelin	1,489	Jozef Philipoom	1,270	Daniel Sánchez	1,300
							Hans Laursen	1,069
060	1996/3	Hooglede	Ludo Dielis	1,347	Daniel Sánchez	1,581	Eddy Merckx	1,410
							Peter de Backer	1,244
061	1996/4	Athen	Francis Forton	1,228	Christian Rudolph	1,327	Jorge Theriaga	1,246
							Egidio Vieira	1,244
062	1996/5	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1,690	Marco Zanetti	1,704	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,914
063	1996/6	Daegu	Raimond Burgman	1,379	Sang Chun Lee	1,433	Marco Zanetti	1,573
064	1996/7	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,524	Semih Saygıner	1,375	Raymond Ceulemans	1,488
065	1996/8	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,651	Tonny Carlsen	1,285	Dick Jaspers	1,532
066	1997/1	Seoul	Christian Rudolph	?,???	Jorge Theriaga	?,???	Daniel Sánchez	?,???
							Kim Chul-min	?,???
067	1997/2	Salsomaggiore Terme	Yilmaz Özcan	1,376	Martin Horn	1,327	Dion Nelin	1,093
							Stefan Galla	1,248
068	1997/3	Porto	Dion Nelin	1,575	Daniel Sánchez	1,685	Eddy Leppens	1,268
							Stefan Galla	1,137
069	1997/4	Hooglede	Eddy Merckx	1,343	Martin Horn	1,389	Yilmaz Özcan	1,356
							Eddy Leppens	1,423
070	1997/5	Herne	Christian Rudolph	1,410	Eddy Leppens	1,189	Fonsy Grethen	1,073
							Peter de Backer	1,385
071	1997/6	Oosterhout	Frédéric Caudron	1,662	Dick Jaspers	1,685	Semih Saygıner	1,244
072	1997/7	Antalya	Dick Jaspers	1,805	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,964	Daniel Sánchez	1,605
							Andreas Efler	1,324
073	1997/8	Antwerp	Dick Jaspers	1,583	Gerwin Valentijn	1,500	Frédéric Caudron	1,475
074	1998/1	Barendrecht	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,089	Dion Nelin	1,296	Marco Zanetti	1,692
							Sang Chun Lee	1,482
075	1998/2	Bussum	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,983	Dick Jaspers	2,150	Marco Zanetti	1,598
							Henk Habraken	1,239
076	1998/3	Lisbon	Dick Jaspers	1,660	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,704	Dion Nelin	1,518
							Semih Saygıner	1,366
077	1998/4	Hooglede	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,033	Dick Jaspers	2,314	Frédéric Caudron	1,321
							Christian Rudolph	1,475
078	1998/5	Corfu	Dick Jaspers	1,568	Jorge Theriaga	1,244	Ben Velthuis	1,230
							Raimond Burgman	1,456
079	1998/6	Bogotá	Frédéric Caudron	1,523	Carlos Hallon	1,153	Raimond Burgman	1,363
							Semih Saygıner	1,224
080	1998/7	Torremolinos	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,486	Eddy Leppens	1,318	Raymond Ceulemans	1,516
							Semih Saygıner	1,218
081	1998/8	Oosterhout	Daniel Sánchez	1,773	Dick Jaspers	2,094	Semih Saygıner	1,906
082	1998/9	Antalya	Semih Saygıner	1,649	Gerwin Valentijn	1,503	Marco Zanetti	1,331
							Christian Rudolph	1,311
083	1998/10	Roermond	Frédéric Caudron	1,658	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,503	Marco Zanetti	1,551
							Dion Nelin	1,544
084	1999/1	Seoul	Dick Jaspers	1,103	Tonny Carlsen	1,491	Semih Saygıner	1,608
							Christian Rudolph	1,437
085	1999/2	Las Vegas	Sang Chun Lee	1,625	Semih Saygıner	1,712	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,813
							Raimond Burgman	1,550
086	1999/3	Berlin	Marco Zanetti	2,082	Martin Horn	1,289	Sang Chun Lee	1,512
							Eddy Leppens	1,331
087	1999/4	Kemer	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,055	Sang Chun Lee	1,461	Jakob Haack-Sörensen	1,586
							Dick Jaspers	1,757
088	1999/5	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1,815	Jorge Theriaga	1,288	Sang Chun Lee	1,954
089	2000/1	Bogotá	Semih Saygıner	1,404	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,672	Frédéric Caudron	1,381
							Dion Nelin	1,466
090	2000/2	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,893	Dion Nelin	1,379	Daniel Sánchez	1,513
091	2001/1	Bogotá	Semih Saygıner	1,452	Dick Jaspers	1,660	Frédéric Caudron	1,626
							Jaime Bedoya	1,337
092	2001/2	Las Vegas	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,050	Dick Jaspers	1,891	Marco Zanetti	1,397
							Tonny Carlsen	1,317
093	2001/3	Kuşadası	Dick Jaspers	1,497	Daniel Sánchez	1,429	Semih Saygıner	1,615
							Marco Zanetti	1,441
094	2001/4	Lugo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,794	Dick Jaspers	1,546	Semih Saygıner	1,572
							Eddy Merckx	1,431
095	2001/5	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,538	Semih Saygıner	1,321	Marco Zanetti	1,368
	2002	Not held
096	2003	Las Vegas	Semih Saygıner	1,606	Dick Jaspers	1,719	Daniel Sánchez	1,623
							Marco Zanetti	1,286
097	2004/1	Barendrecht	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,076	Dick Jaspers	2,058	Semih Saygıner	1,464
No.	Year	Venue	Winner	GA	Second	GA	Semi- finalists	GA
098	2004/2	Athen	Semih Saygıner	2,000	Frédéric Caudron	1,404	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,794
							Eddy Merckx	1,457
099	2004/3	Seville	Frédéric Caudron	1,668	Daniel Sánchez	1,570	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,626
							Semih Saygıner	1,525
100	2004/4	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1,277	Murat Naci Coklu	1,494	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,546
							Brian Knudsen	1,211
101	2004/5	Antwerp	Daniel Sánchez	1,938	Semih Saygıner	1,838	Dick Jaspers	1,918
							Martin Horn	1,589
102	2005/1	Sluiskil	Dick Jaspers	2,181	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,754	Semih Saygıner	1,570
							Daniel Sánchez	1,566
103	2005/2	Hurghada	Roland Forthomme	1,636	Frédéric Caudron	1,553	Semih Saygıner	1,478
							Choi Jae-dong	1,324
104	2005/3	Barendrecht	Eddy Merckx	2,062	Frédéric Caudron	2,058	Marco Zanetti	1,368
							Raimond Burgman	1,651
105	2005/4	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,786	Frédéric Caudron	2,032	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1,405
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1,694
106	2006/1	Sluiskil	Dick Jaspers	1,925	Adnan Yüksel	1,656	Daniel Sánchez	1,678
							Roland Forthomme	1,569
107	2006/2	Porto	Daniel Sánchez	1,505	Dick Jaspers	1,810	John Tijssens	1,109
							Frédéric Caudron	1,790
108	2006/3	Volos	Roland Forthomme	1,907	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,946	Marco Zanetti	1,542
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,488
109	2006/4	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1,741	Peter de Backer	1,342	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1,474
							Mikael Nilsson	1,424
110	2006/5	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,787	Semih Saygıner	1,690	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,672
							Martin Horn	1,568
111	2007/1	Sluiskil	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,925	Dick Jaspers	2,032	Roland Forthomme	1,517
							Martin Horn	1,715
112	2007/2	Manisa	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,862	Daniel Sánchez	1,783	Dick Jaspers	1,966
							Semih Saygıner	1,571
113	2007/3	Corfu	Frédéric Caudron	1,755	Semih Saygıner	1,736	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,612
							Daniel Sánchez	1,410
114	2007/4	Porto	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,153	Roland Forthomme	1,443	Frédéric Caudron	1,800
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,595
115	2007/5	Hurghada	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,468	Martin Horn	1,612	Dick Jaspers	2,259
							Frédéric Caudron	1,910
116	2007/6	Mexico City	Frédéric Caudron	1,880	Dick Jaspers	1,955	Roland Forthomme	1,600
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,519
117	2007/7	Seoul	Daniel Sánchez	1,992	Tran Chi Tranh	1,322	Frédéric Caudron	2,074
							Ramon Rodriguez	1,640
118	2008/1	Sluiskil	Frédéric Caudron	1,948	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,642	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,847
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,610
119	2008/2	Porto	Dick Jaspers	1,992	Daniel Sánchez	1,755	Kim Kyung-roul	1,645
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,716
120	2008/3	Irapuato	Dick Jaspers	1,729	Daniel Sánchez	1,535	Marco Zanetti	1,697
							Frédéric Caudron	1,760
121	2008/4	Suwon	Dick Jaspers	1,782	Kim Kyung-roul	1,494	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,564
							Frédéric Caudron	1,471
122	2008/5	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1,779	Eddy Merckx	1,544	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1,273
							Peter de Backer*1	–
123	2008/6	Alcalá de Guadaíra	Dick Jaspers	1,770	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,786	Martin Horn	1,722
							Daniel Sánchez	1,787
124	2009/1	Sluiskil	Frédéric Caudron	1,695	Jozef Philipoom	1,685	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,710
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,649
125	2009/2	Antalya	Martin Horn	1,626	Dick Jaspers	1,600	Frédéric Caudron	1,713
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,343
126	2009/3	Matosinhos	Eddy Merckx	1,751	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,592	Cho Jae-ho	1,656
							Jérémy Bury	1,483
127	2009/4	Suwon	Frédéric Caudron	1,950	Marco Zanetti	1,892	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,712
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,585
128	2009/5	Hurghada	Jozef Philipoom	1,443	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,654	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,589
							Ruben Legazpi	1,544
129	2010/1	Antalya	Kim Kyung-roul	1,601	Dick Jaspers	1,815	Martin Horn	1,744
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,532
130	2010/2	Suwon	Dick Jaspers	2,153	Filippos Kasidokostas	1,715	Jérémy Bury	1,533
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1,891
131	2010/3	Matosinhos	Frédéric Caudron	1,476	Martin Horn	1,550	Jérémy Bury	1,620
							Dick Jaspers	1,729
132	2010/4	Hurghada	Filippos Kasidokostas	1,860	Frédéric Caudron	1,802	Jérémy Bury	1,853
							Kouji Funaki	1,686
133	2011/1	Trabzon	Eddy Merckx	1,655	Kim Kyung-roul	1,800	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,911
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,639
134	2011/2	Matosinhos	Daniel Sánchez	1,834	Frédéric Caudron	1,825	Dick Jaspers	1,953
							Cho Jae-ho	1,573
135	2011/3	Suwon	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,736	Cho Jae-ho	1,908	Jérémy Bury	1,402
							Xuan Cuong Ma	1,756
136	2011/4	Vienna	Frédéric Caudron	2,420	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,867	Dick Jaspers	2,216
							Lütfi Çenet	1,523
137	2011/5	Hurghada	Adnan Yüksel	1,757	Jérémy Bury	1,701	Kim Kyung-roul	1,669
							Eddy Leppens	1,707
138	2012/1	Antalya	Choi Sung-won	1,581	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,637	Frédéric Caudron	2,195
							Daniel Sánchez	1,657
139	2012/2	Suwon	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,370	Marco Zanetti	1,746	Dick Jaspers	2,053
							Eddy Merckx	1,639
140	2012/3	Hurghada	Frédéric Caudron	1,826	Lütfi Çenet	1,684	Dick Jaspers	1,676
							Jérémy Bury	1,500
141	2013/1	Antalya	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,834	Jérémy Bury	2,076	Dick Jaspers	2,465
							Eddy Merckx	2,276
142	2013/2	Guri	Kang Dong-koong	2,000	Daniel Sánchez	2,000	Jérémy Bury	1,756
							Ngo Dinh-Nai	1,622
143	2013/3	Corinth	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,739	Ruben Legazpi	2,011	Filippos Kasidokostas	1,857
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1,693
144	2013/4	Medellín	Frédéric Caudron	1,941	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,532	Eddy Leppens	2,283
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,892
145	2013/5	Hurghada	Eddy Merckx	2,222	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,876	Frédéric Caudron	1,985
							Choi Sung-won	1,704
146	2014/1	Istanbul	Cho Jae-ho	2,150	Choi Sung-won	1,351	Eddy Merckx	2,025
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,817
147	2014/2	Luxor	Frédéric Caudron	2,272	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,482	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,709
							Lee Choong-bok	1,547
148	2014/3	Porto	Dick Jaspers	1,923	Roland Forthomme	1,825	Choi Sung-won	1,678
							Peter Ceulemans	1,589
149	2014/4	Guri	Eddy Merckx	1,980	Frédéric Caudron	2,091	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,264
							Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	1,923
150	2014/5	Hurghada	Marco Zanetti	1,834	Kang Dong-koong	1,867	Hwang Hyung-bum	1,915
							Javier Palazon	1,816
151	2015/1	Luxor	Dick Jaspers	2,247	Kim Haeng-jik	2,000	Daniel Sánchez	1,740
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,734
152	2015/2	Porto	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,000	Hwang Hyung-bum	1,453	Daniel Sánchez	2,390
							Dick Jaspers	1,790
153	2015/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,298	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,108	Cho Jae-ho	2,191
							Eddy Merckx	1,807
154	2015/4	Guri	Daniel Sánchez	2,739	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,160	Dick Jaspers	2,942
							Frédéric Caudron	1,818
155	2015/5	Istanbul	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,612	Roland Forthomme	1,576	Dick Jaspers	1,666
							Eddy Merckx	1,500
156	2015/6	Hurghada	Frédéric Caudron	2,197	Marco Zanetti	2,217	Lütfi Çenet	1,866
							Daniel Sánchez	1,851
157	2016/1	Bursa	Dick Jaspers	2,325	Frédéric Caudron	2,063	Eddy Merckx	2,260
							Pedro Piedrabuena	1,462
158	2016/2	Luxor	Eddy Merckx	1,801	Jérémy Bury	1,520	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,764
							Cho Jae-ho	1,470
159	2016/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Frédéric Caudron	1,980	Dick Jaspers	1,935	Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	2,173
							Marco Zanetti	2,000
160	2016/4	Porto	Frédéric Caudron	2,197	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,989	Daniel Sánchez	1,986
							Marco Zanetti	1,869
161	2016/5	Guri	Jérémy Bury	2,020	Tran Quyet Chien	1,900	Dick Jaspers	2,181
							Cho Myung-woo	1,726
162	2016/6	La Baule	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,980	Daniel Sánchez	1,636	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,795
							Marco Zanetti	1,632
163	2016/7	Hurghada	?		?		?
							?

Notes

^*1 Peter de Backer was disqualified in semifinals against Daniel Sánchez due to a positive doping test.^[4]

World Cup overall winner

Single years

Year	Winner
1986	Raymond Ceulemans
1987	Raymond Ceulemans
1988*1	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1989*1	Ludo Dielis
1990*1	Raymond Ceulemans
1991*1	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1992	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1993	Sang Chun Lee
1994	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1995	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1995	Daniel Sánchez
1996	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1996	Daniel Sánchez
1997	Dick Jaspers
1997	Christian Rudolph
1998	Torbjörn Blomdahl
1999	Dick Jaspers
2001	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2002	not held
2003	– *2
2004	Daniel Sánchez
2005	Frédéric Caudron
2006	Daniel Sánchez
2007	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2008	Dick Jaspers
2009	Frédéric Caudron
2010	Dick Jaspers
2011	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2012	– *2
2013	Torbjörn Blomdahl
2014	Frédéric Caudron
2015	Daniel Sánchez

Eternal list

Place	Name	No.	Years
1	Torbjörn Blomdahl	11	1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013
2	Daniel Sánchez	5	1995, 1996, 2004, 2006, 2015
3	Dick Jaspers	4	1997, 1999, 2008, 2010
4	Raymond Ceulemans	3	1986, 1987, 1990
	Frédéric Caudron	3	2005, 2009, 2014
6	Ludo Dielis	1	1989
	Sang Chun Lee		1993
	Christian Rudolph		1997

Notes

• ^*1 The UMB announced the World Cup Champions at the same time as World Champions.
• ^*2 Without the award, because too little tournaments were played.^[1]

World Cup single event winners

Name	Wins
Torbjörn Blomdahl	43
Dick Jaspers	22
Frédéric Caudron	17
Daniel Sánchez	11
Raymond Ceulemans	9
Eddy Merckx	7
Semih Saygıner	6
Sang Chun Lee	5
Nobuaki Kobayashi	3
Ludo Dielis	3
Marco Zanetti	3
Rini van Bracht	2
Jorge Theriaga	2
Dion Nelin	2
Christian Rudolph	2
Roland Forthomme	2
Murat Naci Çoklu	2
Egidio Vierat	1
Junichi Komori	1
Laurent Boulanger	1
Richard Bitalis	1
Koen Ceulemans	1
Christoph Pilss	1
Andreas Efler	1
Hans Laursen	1
Francis Forton	1
Raimond Burgman	1
Yilmaz Özcan	1
Martin Horn	1
Jozef Philipoom	1
Kim Kyung-roul	1
Filippos Kasidokostas	1
Adnan Yüksel	1
Choi Sung-won	1
Kang Dong-koong	1
Cho Jae-ho	1
Tayfun Taşdemir	1
Jérémy Bury	1

References

1. 1 2 World Cup without overall-winner on Kozoom.com. Retrieved 9 January 2013. (in german)
2. ↑ Markus Schönhoff (2013-01-26). "Griechischer Schiffs-Eigner ist Retter in der Not" (in German). Kozoom.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2013-01-26. 
3. ↑ "Rules Three-cushion World Cup (Date of issue: 1 January 2013)". 2013-01-01. Archived from the original (PDF; 128 kB) on 2013-02-14. Retrieved 2013-02-14. 
4. ↑ "Announcement About The Suspension Of Player P. De Backer". UMB. 2008-12-19. Archived from the original on 2012-08-20. Retrieved 2012-08-20.  External link in |publisher= (help)

5 Billiard world cup winners ^[1]

1. ↑ "World Cup Winners". Carombil. Retrieved 2015-12-06.