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The 2003 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 14th edition of the WPA World Championship for 9-Ball Pool. It took place from July 12 to 20, 2003 in Cardiff, Wales. Thorsten Hohmann won the event 17–10 victory in the final against Filipino Alex Pagulayan. [1] Defending champion Earl Strickland was eliminated in the semi-final against Hohmann.
In the summer of 1989, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) began plans for a world championship tournament. The group sent invitations, rules, sports regulations and by-laws. Reception was positive, and a provisional Board was created. [1] In March 1990, the inaugural WPA World Nine-ball Championship was held in Bergheim, Germany. The ...
The 2000 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 11th edition of the WPA World Championship for 9-Ball Pool.It took place from July 1 to 7, 2000 in Cardiff, Wales. [1]Chao Fong-pang won the event, defeating Mexican Ismael Páez in the final, winning 17–6.
The official WPA World Nine-ball Championship was hosted at the Cardiff International Arena between 2000 and 2003. Since 2007, the arena has been one of the Premier League Darts venues, including the semi-finals and finals night of the 2008 Premier League Darts on 26 May 2008.
It is closely related to the game of rounders, and emerged as a distinct sport when governing bodies in Wales and England agreed to change the name of the game from "rounders" when the rules were codified in 1892. [21] [22] The sport was at its peak in Wales in the 1930s and 1950s, and is most popular in the cities of Cardiff and Newport. [21]
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Cardiff AAC athletes have won a total of 122 medals at major international championships: Olympic and Paralympic Games; World and European Championships; Commonwealth Games; and the World University Games.
The 1890s and early 1900s saw an increase in competitive association football in south Wales, but the Triple Crown success of the Wales rugby team in the 1893 Home Nations Championship heralded the start of the first "Golden era" of Welsh rugby, culminating in the famous Game of the Century, where a sell out crowd at Cardiff Arms Park watched ...