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 Union Mondiale de Billard decided to keep the championships situated in Viersen, Germany and to organize these championships annually.

List of champions[edit]

Below is the list of winning nations since 1981. From 2004 on, no third-place match was played and the third place was shared by the two semi-final losing teams.

Year	Location	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1981	Mexico City	Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi Junichi Komori	1.237	Belgium Raymond Ceulemans Ludo Dielis	1.232	France Edigio Vierat Richard Bitalis	0.953
1985	Bordeaux	Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi Junichi Komori	1.311	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Lennart Blomdahl	1.058	United States Frank Torres Allen Gilbert	1.103
1987	Madrid	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Lennart Blomdahl	1.017	United States Frank Torres Allen Gilbert	0.960	Japan Joji Kai Yoshio Yoshihara	1.074
1990	Viersen	Japan Joji Kai Yoshio Yoshihara	1.114	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Lennart Blomdahl	1.177	Germany Christian Rudolph Günter Siebert	1.064
1991	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Lennart Blomdahl	1.246	Denmark Tonny Carlsen Hans Laursen	1.044	Germany Hans-Jürgen Kühl Christian Rudolph	1.118
1992	Viersen	Japan Nobuaki Kobayashi Junichi Komori	1.218	United States Sang Lee Frank Torres	1.159	Portugal Manuel Ribeiro Jorge Theriaga	1.096
1993	Viersen	Germany Maxime Aguirre Christian Rudolph	1.104	Netherlands Dick Jaspers Louis Havermans	1.120	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Lennart Blomdahl	1.182
1994	Viersen	Germany Maxime Aguirre Christian Rudolph	1.252	Portugal Ribeiro Jorge Theriaga	1.073	Germany Johann Schirmbrand Christian Zöllner	1.004
1995	Viersen	Denmark Dion Nelin Jacob Haack-Sørensen	1.145	Sweden Lennart Blomdahl Mats Noren	1.133	Portugal Manuel Fradinho Jorge Theriaga	1.073
1996	Viersen	Denmark Hans Laursen Dion Nelin	1.181	Japan Reiji Ichinose Joji Kai	1.067	Spain José Quetglas Dani Sánchez	1.199
1997	Viersen	Germany Christian Rudolph Johann Schirmbrand	1.156	Austria Andreas Efler Gerhard Kostistansky	1.210	Japan Tatsuo Arai Reiji Ichinose	1.014
1998	Viersen	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.540	Spain Javier Minguell Dani Sánchez	1.182	Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.321
1999	Viersen	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.478	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.489	Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.245
2000	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.553	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.430	Denmark Dion Nelin Jacob Haack-Sørensen	1.214
2001	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.546	Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.444	Denmark Tonny Carlsen Dion Nelin	1.255
2002	Viersen	Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.381	Netherlands Anno de Kleine Dick Jaspers	1.503	Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir Adnan Yüksel	1.258
2003	Viersen	Turkey Semih Sayginer Tayfun Taşdemir	1.412	Greece Filippos Kasidokostas Nikos Polychronopoulos	1.400	Netherlands Anno de Kleine Dick Jaspers	1.707
Year	Location	Gold		Silver		Losing semi-finalists
2004	Viersen	Turkey Semih Sayginer Tayfun Taşdemir	1.514	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Peter de Backer	1.362	Spain Alfonso Legazpi Dani Sánchez	1.302
						France Jérémy Bury Jean Christoph Roux	1.164
2005	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.414	Netherlands Jean Paul de Bruijn Dick Jaspers	1.377	Belgium Eddy Leppens Eddy Merckx	1.471
						Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.050
2006	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.421	Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.412	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.647
						Turkey Semih Sayginer Adnan Yüksel	1.531
2007	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.537	Denmark Tonny Carlsen Brian Knudsen	1.217	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.526
						Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.164
2008	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.664	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.593	South-Korea Choi Sung-won Kim Kyung-roul	1.584
						Spain Ricardo García Dani Sánchez	1.549
2009	Viersen	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.769	Belgium Roland Forthomme Eddy Merckx	1.588	Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.607
						South-Korea Kang Dong-gung Kim Kyung-roul	1.560
2010	Viersen	Turkey Murat Naci Çoklu Adnan Yüksel	1.689	Spain Rubén Legazpi Dani Sánchez	1.456	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.831
						South-Korea Choi Sung-won Kim Kyung-roul	1.516
2011	Viersen	Turkey Lütfi Cenet Tayfun Taşdemir	1.510	Belgium Eddy Leppens Eddy Merckx	1.652	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.570
						Germany Stefan Galla Martin Horn	1.250
2012	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.884	Germany Stefan Galla Martin Horn	1.504	Spain Javier Palazón Dani Sánchez	1.640
						Denmark Thomas Andersen Tonny Carlsen	1.282
2013	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.640	Germany Martin Horn Christian Rudolph	1.371	Turkey Murat Naci Çoklu Tayfun Taşdemir	1.580
						South-Korea Heo Jung-han Kim Kyung-roul	1.397
2014	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	2.295	Netherlands Dick Jaspers Barry van Beers	1.486	Germany Martin Horn Steffan Galla	1.412
						Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir Tolgahan Kiraz	1.314
2015	Viersen	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.968	South Korea Heo Jung-han Cho Jae-ho	1.867	Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir Adnan Yüksel	1.427
						Netherlands Dick Jaspers Barry van Beers	1.693
2016	Viersen	Netherlands Dick Jaspers Jean van Erp	1.675	Turkey Semih Saygıner Lütfi Çenet	1.491	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.700
						Austria Arnim Kahofer Andreas Efler	1.287
2017	Viersen	South Korea Choi Sung-won Kim Jae-guen	1.515	Belgium Frédéric Caudron Roland Forthomme	1.701	Netherlands Dick Jaspers Jean van Erp	1.923
						France Jérôme Barbeillon Cédric Melnytschenko	1.260
2018	Viersen	South Korea Choi Sung-won Kang Dong-koong	1.920	Austria Arnim Kahofer Andreas Efler	1.273	Turkey Semih Sayginer Tayfun Taşdemir	1.394
						Denmark Tonny Carlsen Thomas Andersen	1.472
2019	Viersen	Turkey Murat Naci Çoklu Lütfi Çenet	1.803	Netherlands Raimond Burgman Dick Jaspers	1.529	South Korea Kim Haeng-jik Cho Jae-ho	1.431
						Belgium Frédéric Caudron Eddy Merckx	1.713
2022	Viersen	Turkey Tayfun Taşdemir Can Çapak	1.729	Columbia Pedro Gonzalez Huberney Cataño	1.410	Spain Dani Sánchez Rubén Legazpi	1.610
						South Korea Seo Chang-hoon Kim Haeng-jik	1.402
2023	Viersen	Turkey Semih Sayginer Tayfun Taşdemir	1.818	Sweden Torbjörn Blomdahl Michael Nilsson	1.680	Spain Dani Sánchez Rubén Legazpi	1.578
						Netherlands Dick Jaspers Jean Paul de Bruijn	1.512
2024	Viersen	Vietnam Trần Quyết Chiến Bao Phương Vinh	1.695	Spain Rubén Legazpi Sergio Jiménez	1.347	Japan Ryuuji Umeda Takao Miyashita	1.206
						United States Raymon Groot Hugo Patino	1.180

Medals (1981-2024)[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	9	5	1	15
2	Turkey	7	1	6	14
3	Belgium	4	5	3	12
4	Germany	4	4	10	18
5	Japan	4	1	3	8
6	Netherlands	3	7	8	18
7	Denmark	2	2	4	8
8	South Korea	2	1	6	9
9	Vietnam	1	0	0	1
10	Spain	0	3	6	9
11	United States	0	2	2	4
12	Austria	0	2	1	3
13	Portugal	0	1	2	3
14	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
16	France	0	0	3	3
Totals (16 entries)		36	36	55	127

External links[edit]

• Media related to World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams at Wikimedia Commons

References[edit]

• Official webpage