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Yes (three-cushion billiards) 2001 – present. Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to carom the cue ball off both object balls while contacting the rail cushions at least three times before contacting the second object ball. A point is scored for each successful carom.
The first three-cushion billiards tournament took place at Mussey’s Billiard Hall in the United States in 1878. The winner was Leon Magnus, who received a cash prize of $75 (equivalent to $2,274 in 2023). However, fans of cue sports were not immediately taken with the new sport of three-cushion billiards.
The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). Until 1953 it was organized by the UIFAB (Union Internationale des Federations d'Amateurs de Billard). During a dispute between the UMB and ...
Final positions. Champion. Dick Jaspers. Runner-up. Murat Naci Çoklu. ← 2019. 2022 →. The 2021 UMB World Three-cushion Championship was the 73rd edition of the tournament. It took place from 7 to 11 December 2021 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
2022 UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams. The 2022 UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams 2022 was the 34th edition of the tournament. It was held from 10 March to 13 March in Viersen, Germany, the permanent location of the championship since 1990.
Overview 3 – Festhalle Viersen. The UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards where nations are represented by a team of two players. After the first three editions, which took place in various nations and were not scheduled regularly, the ...
Organisation (s) Union Mondiale de Billard. Format. Round Robin / single-elimination. Recent edition. 2024. Current champion. 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.
Martin Horn at the entrance of the Carom Café in 2016. The Verhoeven Open is a three-cushion billiards tournament held in Flushing, Queens in the US state of New York. The event is sanctioned by the Union Mondiale de Billard and the United States Billiard Association. The event was known as Sang Lee International Open between 2005 and 2008.