Wednesday, 11th of March
4 pm: Booklet of tournament results available for download
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The booklet, that all players
and officials get after the closing ceremony is now available
for everyone. Into it you can find any result of each set, each
game and each match with all the rankings, drawing results and
the final classement.
Also the database
of all known data to each of the players is updated and a total ranking of all
participants sorted by average is added. Any player can look
on his results played in Viersen since 1998. All matches of the
last 8 years are available, too. Simultanously with the live
scoreboard in 2005 all players are shown with a photograph. |
Sunday, 8th of March
4 pm: Sweden still unbeatable
Sweden remains unstoppable at the World Team Championship in
Viersen. For the fifst time in a row and for the ninth time overall
the Scandinavians clinched this title. Torbjörn Blomdahl
and Michael Nilsson als won the final versus Belgium without conceding
a single set. Also Eddy Merckx and Roland Forthomme could not
cause any trouble for the successful pair.
The Scandinavians only had to fight in their first sets. Torbjörn
Blomdahl took the lead over Eddy Merckx by 15-11, Michael Nilsson
won the first set against Roland Forthomme by 15-13. The the Swedes
never looked back. Blomdahl added the second with a score line
of 15-8; in the third set he stormed in only four innings to 15-4.
As Nilsson had won his second set already by 15-9 it was Sweden
again. For the second time after 2004 Belgium had to settle for
silver.
1 pm: Sweden and Belgium go for Gold
Defending champion Sweden and Belgium play for the title at
the World eam Championship in Viersen. In the last four Sweden
dominated Korea all the time and defeated the Asians by 2-0 matches
and 5-0 sets. Torbjörn Blomdahl and Michael Nilsson managed
to play an team average of 2.678 - a performance which is even
better that top class. Kim Kyung-Roul and Kang Dong Gung were
kept in their seats. A very good average of 1.560 was not enough
to them to win a single set.
Belgien reached the final for the second time after 2004 and
finally wants to land its first ever title. Eddy Merckx and Roland
Forthomme stopped host nation Germany in the semi-final by a score
line of 2-0 matches and 5-2 sets. Eddy Merckx defeated Martin
Horn by 3-1; as Roland Forthomme leaded Christian Rudolph by 2-1
at this time they were through to the final. The crucial point
was when former World Champion Merckx took the third set in only
two inning for a 2-1 lead..
A service of the organizer German Billiard Union DBU , realised by DaRu Billard-Turnierservice
