Pool
In the final matches of the Team competition, Germany took the Gold Medal in the junior's division while Poland took the Gold in the pupil's division.
The German juniors were never really in danger against their Russian opponents. Finn Eschment (GER) won the straight pool over Andrey Seroshtan (RUS) with 100:-1. While Vladislav Zaborovskii (RUS) was leading 6:5 in 8-ball over Jan-Henrik Wolf (GER), Tobias Bongers (GER) won the 9-ball match with 8:4 over Vitaly Pavlukhin (RUS). That brought Team Germany their 5th Gold Medal for these Championships.
In the pupil's division, Team Poland was victorious over Team Germany. The straight pool match went to Germany; Joshua Filler (GER) won 75:47 over Mikolaj Zabecki (POL). But Filler's teammates were not able to bring their matches home. Can Salim-Giasar (GER) lost 5:7 to Patryk Statkiewicz (POL) in 9-ball while Pawel Kaczmarek (POL) took the 8-ball over David Vu (GER) with 6:4.
Top 4 Finishers Team:
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Juniors |
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Pupils |
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1. |
Germany |
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Poland |
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2. |
Russia |
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Germany |
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3. |
Norway |
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Russia |
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Poland |
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Norway |
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Medal Table after five of five disciplines:
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Nation |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
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1. |
Germany |
5 |
5 |
6 |
16 |
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2. |
Belgium |
3 |
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2 |
5 |
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3. |
Poland |
2 |
2 |
7 |
11 |
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4. |
Spain |
2 |
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2 |
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5. |
Denmark |
1 |
1 |
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2 |
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6. |
Russia |
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2 |
3 |
5 |
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7. |
Ukraine |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
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8. |
Slovenia |
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1 |
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1 |
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9. |
North Cyprus |
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1 |
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1 |
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10. |
Norway |
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2 |
2 |
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11. |
Sweden |
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1 |
1 |
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12. |
Hungary |
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1 |
1 |
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13. |
Croatia |
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1 |
1 |
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14. |
Switzerland |
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1 |
1 |
That concludes the coverage of the Dynamic Billiards Youth European Championships 2012. The Senior's and Ladies event will begin on Sunday, August 5th, with more exciting pool-billiard action to come.