2014 Wroclaw, Poland
November 1-9
11/08/2014
High set for the day was 1213 by Chris Barnes of the USA who is now lying in 3rd place on 4646. Romeo Gagenoui of Romania also shot over 1200 (1204) and moved up into 5th place, with Magnus Johnson of Sweden remains in 4th on 4625 after his 1187.
This was a day for high games. We had our second 300 of the tournament, from Artur Colomer of Catalonia in the first squad. But we also had a rash of 270s from Eric Kok (Netherlands 279), Magnus Johnson Jr (Sweden, 278), Syafiq Ridhwan (Malaysia, 278), Jiri Beran (Czech Republic 277) and Arturs Levikins (Latvia, 276). With one game to go it was nip and tuck for the 24th spot to go forward to round 2. Eric Kok was just four pins ahead of Neil Sullivan, both of them bowling the last squad. Dmitri Chilkine of Belarus was a further 9 pins down. Dmitri shot a 226 but Eric found the strike line late in the game and finished with a 224 to take the final slot. He said afterwards: “Whew! That was close. I am very pleased to have made it to round two and it just shows there is life in the old dog yet!”
Our two former champions, Syafiq Ridhwan (winner in 2012) and Michael Schmidt of Canada (winner in 2005 and 2010) are lying in 10th and 14th place respectively on 4508 and 4452.
The results from today mean it is the best ever finish for a male bowler from several countries. For Romania, never finishing higher than 46th before ( in 2009); for India with Dhruv Sarda in 15th place, beating his country’s previous best of 37th in 1987; for Gibraltar, Adam Shrubb finishing this round in 18th place, beating his 25th place from 2012; and for Slovakia with Lukas Andrassy finishing 21st, easily beating his country’s best previous finish of 63rd.
The men’s overall average is 201.37 with 45 players averaging over 200.
The top 24 men will bowl their second round tomorrow afternoon when the field will be cut to the top eight. At present that is Glen Loader of Australia on 4539 with Steve Thornton of England in 9th on 4523.
Ends
Action photos of all the players are available on request.
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Tobias Börding of Germany continued where he had left off with another consistent set of 1157 over his five games today. He is 170 pins ahead of Mykhaylo Kalika of the Ukraine who had a 1189 set to stay in second place as we finish the round of qualifying for the men.
Tobias Börding of Germany continued where he had left off with another consistent set of 1157 over his five games today. He is 170 pins ahead of Mykhaylo Kalika of the Ukraine who had a 1189 set to stay in second place as we finish the round of qualifying for the men.
High set for the day was 1213 by Chris Barnes of the USA who is now lying in 3rd place on 4646. Romeo Gagenoui of Romania also shot over 1200 (1204) and moved up into 5th place, with Magnus Johnson of Sweden remains in 4th on 4625 after his 1187.
This was a day for high games. We had our second 300 of the tournament, from Artur Colomer of Catalonia in the first squad. But we also had a rash of 270s from Eric Kok (Netherlands 279), Magnus Johnson Jr (Sweden, 278), Syafiq Ridhwan (Malaysia, 278), Jiri Beran (Czech Republic 277) and Arturs Levikins (Latvia, 276). With one game to go it was nip and tuck for the 24th spot to go forward to round 2. Eric Kok was just four pins ahead of Neil Sullivan, both of them bowling the last squad. Dmitri Chilkine of Belarus was a further 9 pins down. Dmitri shot a 226 but Eric found the strike line late in the game and finished with a 224 to take the final slot. He said afterwards: “Whew! That was close. I am very pleased to have made it to round two and it just shows there is life in the old dog yet!”
Our two former champions, Syafiq Ridhwan (winner in 2012) and Michael Schmidt of Canada (winner in 2005 and 2010) are lying in 10th and 14th place respectively on 4508 and 4452.
The results from today mean it is the best ever finish for a male bowler from several countries. For Romania, never finishing higher than 46th before ( in 2009); for India with Dhruv Sarda in 15th place, beating his country’s previous best of 37th in 1987; for Gibraltar, Adam Shrubb finishing this round in 18th place, beating his 25th place from 2012; and for Slovakia with Lukas Andrassy finishing 21st, easily beating his country’s best previous finish of 63rd.
The men’s overall average is 201.37 with 45 players averaging over 200.
The top 24 men will bowl their second round tomorrow afternoon when the field will be cut to the top eight. At present that is Glen Loader of Australia on 4539 with Steve Thornton of England in 9th on 4523.
Ends
Action photos of all the players are available on request.
Information on the world’s largest annual international sports event can now be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.qubicaamf.com<http://www.qubicaamf.com/>. The new website contains facts, photos and statistics from each of the previous 49 World Cups, as well as bulletins and news for the current year. It will be updated as news becomes available. It will also be the official site for the daily results during the tournament. And you can also keep up to date with all the news, views and happenings in the months leading up to this year’s world cup in Poland on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/QubicaAMFWorldCup?ref=hl> and https://twitter.com/BowlingWorldCup