Marco Zanetti will lose his life penalty

Whatever the final day of the World Cup in Matosinhos will end: Dick Jaspers will improve his position on the world ranking in any case and Frédéric Caudron climbs up from the third place to second behind Jaspers. Eddy Merckx wasted many points in Matosinhos and dropped from second to fifth or sixth place.

Marco Zanetti remains on the thirteenth place after the elimination by Jae Ho Cho and is not automatically qualified for the World Cup in Suwon later this year. The Italian however will lose after the tournament in South Korea the fifty points penalty, with which he was punished by the UMB after an incident in Suwon in 2009. The lifelong penalty has been reversed by the world federation: Zanetti will get back his fifty points at the end of this year.

The positions ten until fourteen in the ranking, important for seeding for the Worldcups and international championships, will also undergo some changes. Jef Philipoom has passed Tayfun Tasdemir and is now eleventh in the ranking.