The CEB European Three-cushion Championship is three-cushion billiards

Three-cushion billiards

Three-cushion billiards is a form of carom billiards, and one of the most popular and challenging cue sports in the world.The object of the game is to the off both and contact the at least 3...

 tournament organized by the Confédération Européenne de Billard. Held since 1933, it is one of longest-running tournaments in the sport. The 2007 event offered a total purse of €

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18,500 (US$

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26,134) with €4,000 ($5,651) for the winner.

Billiard

Billiard

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 legend

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 Raymond Ceulemans

Raymond Ceulemans

Raymond ridder Ceulemans is a three-cushion billiards player and possibly the most dominant single figure in any one sport, having won 35 World Championship titles , 48 European titles and 61 national titles...

 from Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 won the tournament more times (23) than any other player. His closest competitors for the record are country fellow René Vingerhoedt and Swedish Torbjörn Blomdahl

Torbjörn Blomdahl

Torbjörn Blomdahl is a Swedish professional carom billiards player from Helsingborg, Sweden.-Background:...

 at a distant 9 and 8 respectively. By delivering the European Champion

Champion

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 for 22 consecutive years (1962-1983), Belgium

Belgium

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 also holds the record for most consecutive wins.

Champions

Year	Winner	Nationality
1933	Franz Aeberhard	Switzerland
1935	Alfred Lagache Alfred Lagache Alfred Lagache was a French professional three-cushion billiards player.A number of players from France have won world championships in different disciplines of carom billiards, but Lagache has been the only Frenchman to ever win the UMB World Three-cushion Championship, taking the title in 1935...	France
1936	Claudio Puigvert	Spain
1939	Alfred Lagache	France
1947
1948	Joaquin Domingo	Spain
1949	Alfred Lagache	France
1950	Bert Wevers	Netherlands
1951	René Vingerhoedt	Belgium
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1957	Bernard Siguret	France
1958	Johann Scherz	Austria
1959	René Vingerhoedt	Belgium
1960
1961	Johann Scherz	Austria
1962	Raymond Ceulemans Raymond Ceulemans Raymond ridder Ceulemans is a three-cushion billiards player and possibly the most dominant single figure in any one sport, having won 35 World Championship titles , 48 European titles and 61 national titles...	Belgium
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973	Arnold De Paepe	Belgium
1974	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984	Rini van Bracht	Netherlands
1985	Torbjörn Blomdahl Torbjörn Blomdahl Torbjörn Blomdahl is a Swedish professional carom billiards player from Helsingborg, Sweden.-Background:...	Sweden
1986
1987	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
1988	Torbjörn Blomdahl	Sweden
1989	Lennart Blomdahl	Sweden
1990	Torbjörn Blomdahl	Sweden
1991
1992	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
1993	Rini van Bracht	Netherlands
1994	John Thijssens	Netherlands
1995	Jozef Philipoom	Belgium
1997	Daniel Sánchez	Spain
1998	Torbjörn Blomdahl	Sweden
1999	Semih Saygıner Semih Sayginer Semih Saygıner nicknamed Mr. Magic and the Turkish Prince, is a Turkish professional carom billiards player....	Turkey
2000	Daniel Sánchez	Spain
2001	Torbjörn Blomdahl	Sweden
2002	Frédéric Caudron Frédéric Caudron Frédéric Caudron is a Belgian professional three-cushion billiards player, nicknamed "L'Extraterrestre" . He won the UMB World Three-cushion Championship in 1999...	Belgium
2003	Dick Jaspers Dick Jaspers Dick Jaspers is a Dutch professional carom billiards player who specializes in the three-cushion event.-Early life:...	Netherlands
2004	Murat Naci Çoklu	Turkey
2005	Torbjörn Blomdahl	Sweden
2006	Frédéric Caudron	Belgium
2007	Eddy Merckx	Belgium
2008	Dick Jaspers	Netherlands
2009	Daniel Sánchez	Spain
2010	Dick Jaspers	Netherlands

Countries dominating the event

Country	# Events Won Out of 68 To Date	Percentage
Belgium	37	54.4 %
Sweden	9	13.2 %
Netherlands	7	10.3 %
France	5	7.4 %
Spain	5	7.4 %
Others	5	7.4 %