
Carrom 15thEuro C up 2011 in France Concluded with great enthusiasm
The 15th Carrom Euro Cup was concluded on Sunday, 26th June 2011 at Villepinte near Paris, France.
Karnal Abdin of UK, defended successfully his title of Euro Cup winner. Karnal defeated Fabian Peirera of France in final in a hard contest with 25:15 in 14 boards to lift the singles trophy.
The third place went to Pierre Dubios of France.
The Doubles Trophy also went to UK's Karnal Abdin and Sunahar Ali. Another U.K. pair Nazrul Islam and Muhiuddin Ahmed came on second place, while the third place went to Pierre Dubois and Collard Steve of France.
The Teams Championship was also won by the UK while Germany came on second and France on thrd place followed by Switzerland, Italy, Poalnd and Czech Republic.
The 15th Carrom Euro Cup was opened on 24th June by ECC President Arif Naqvi, when he praised the rising standard of Carrom in Europe and asked the players to
take the 15th Euro Cup as a rehersal for the Carrom World Championship in 2012.
A total number of about 100 players took part in this years Euro Cup of which 96 players entered in the Singles Event held in 11 rounds plus final.
The Prize Distribution Ceremony was attended on 26th June by the mayor of Villepinte Madam
Welly Rolfand, who appreciated the game of Carrom and assured full support of the municipality for future international Carrom events. Closing the 15th Euro Cup Arif Naqvi President of the European Carrom Confederation, who is also the President of the ICF, praised the friendly atmosphere of the tournament and rise of the satandard in Europe. He announced that the 16th Carrom Euro Cup will be held in 2012 in Darmstadt, Germany, while the young Carrom Federation of Poland is preparing to host the 17th Euro Cup in 2013.
An international Umpires examination of ICF in writing, oral and practical, was also conducted during the 15th Euro Cup, in which Horst Simunskyof Czech Republic, who supervised the finayl match of Doubles as his practical test, passed with very good marks. Claudio Motta of Italy was umpire for the singles final.
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Thrilling matches at the 14th Carrom Euro Cup in Rome, Italy.
(Report by ICF Media Commission)
The 14th Carrom Euro cup held from 11th to 13th June in Rome ended on Sunday by the Prize Distribution Ceremony, in which ECC president Arif Naqvi announced that the 15th Euro Cup has been alloted by the ECC to France.
About one hundred Carrom players from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Slovania, Switzerland and United Kingdom participated in this year's Euro Cup, which was held in three disciplines: Singles, Doubles and Team Event.
The team from Czech Republic could not attend at the last minute due to the death of the father of an important member
of the team.
the 14th Euro Cup was opened on Thursday evening by Arif Naqvi, President of European Carrom Confederation and ICF,
who appreciated that the Carrom Euro Cup has been held every year without any interval and has contributed to its popularity and rise of the standard. He said that the 14th Euro Cup should be taken as a rehersal for the 3rd World Cup which would be taking place from 27th September to 1st October in Richmond, Virginia USA. Naqvi appreciated the dedicated hard work done by Elisa Martinelli and other members of the Italian Carrom Federation to make the event successful.
The teams Championship conducted on first day, 11th June, was won by the UK with an edge of only one point against Germany. Switzerland came on third place.
The points are as following:
1. UK 25 points
2. Germany 24 points
3. Switzerland 15 points
4. France 14 points
5. Italy 12 points
6. Poland 0 points
Simultaneously the doubles Campionship was conducted on the same day which was won by Italy's Weerasinghe Sriyantha and Cristiani Gianluca agians Collard Steve and Pierre Dubois of France, with 25 to 24 . Both sides gave a excellent performance. At one point the score in the final game was 24 to 24. Leu Jonathan and Pierre Fabian of France came on third place.
The Singles Event , which was conducted on 12th and 13th June, was won by Karnal Abedin of UK for the third consecutive time. After the 11 round of matches the final was held between Karnal Abedin of UK and Pierre Dubois of France. While Karnal was leading clearly after 11 rounds with 20 points in hand Pierre Dubois of France, Peter Boecker of Germany and Abdul Malik of UK followed him with 18 points each, while Pierre had edge with Bucholz points.
The final between Karnal Abedin and Pierre Dubois was extremely exiting. While Karnal won the first game clearly, Pierre gave him a very good fight in the second game, winning the game clearly. The third game was however dominated by Karnal Abeding and he won the match and the trophy for the third consecutive time. Peter Boecker of Germany came on the third place.
The meeting of the General Council of the European Carrom Confederation was also held during the Euro Cup in Rome. It was attended by the representatives of France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Slovania (as guest), Switzerland and United Kingdom. The 15th Euro Cup was alotted to France and is to be held near Paris.
Poland's Paulina Nowakowska and UK's Nazrul Islam were included in the ECC General Council as two new Vice Presidents.
The 14th Euro Cup was concluded with prize distribution ceremny and a closing speech of the ECC President Arif Naqvi
at a restaurant rear the sea side of Rome. Naqvi asked the players to forward to 3rd. World Cup (2010) in USA, while Elisa Martinelly thanked on behalf of the italian federation to all players and sponsors for the coperation.
Presidents.
The present Office Bearers of the ECC are as following:
President: Arif Naqvi (Germany)
Vice Presidents: Paulina Nowakowska (Poland)
Nazrul Islam (UK)
Secretry General: Elisa Martinelli (Italy)
Treasurer: Kurt Scherrer (Switzerland)
!4th Carrom Euro Cup Results
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Singles Event: ( 91 player )
Winner: Karnal Abedin (UK)
2nd: Pierre Dubois (France)
3rd.: Peter Boecker (Germany)
Doubles Event:
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Winner: Weerasinghe Sriyantha and Cristiani Gianluca (Italy)
2nd: Collard Steve and Pierre Dubois (France)
3rd.: Leau Jonathan and Fabian Pereira (France)
Teams Event
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1. UK
2. Germany
3. Switzerland
4. France
5. Italy
6. Poland
13th Euro Cup
09-13th July 2009 at Lenk, Simmental, Switzerland
Under the authority of European Carrom Confederation
Organised by Swiss Carrom Association
13th Carrom Euro Cup a grand succes
Winners of the Singles Championship
(We thank the Italian Carrom Federation for 13th Euro Cup photos - Editor)
Karnal Abdin of UK is agian European Carrom Champion.
During the 13th Carrom Euro Cup 2009 at Lenk, Switzerland, Karnal Abdin successfully defended his European Title, by winning all 12 matches and defeating Jonathan Leau of France in Final by 25:01, 25:12. Jonathan Leau and Fabian Pereira (both France) came on second and third places. A total number of 86 players participated in Singles Event, which was conducted with Swiss System of 8 boards or 25 points (whichever is first) based on 2 winning points plus Bucholz points and Coins difference.
The doubles event was won by Fabian Pereira and his 12 year old partner Radjou Venou of France, who surprised by winning the final beating Murshad Khan and Ala Miah of UK, who came on second place. Steffen Eder and Jan Geister of Germany came on third place.
The UK Team also defended the Teams Championship title beating all other countries. France came on second place, while Germany on third place. Germany, Italy and Switzerland had 18 points each, but the coins difference was in favour of Germany. Poland (which participated with full team for the first time) came on 6th place behind Switzerland. Poland scored 6 points.
Best woman player was Elisa Martinelli of Italy.
Arif Naqvi and Roger Meyer were the Chief Referees, while the final matches were conducted by Claudio Motta of Italy.
Earlier on 10th July the 13th Carrom Euro Cup, under the auspices of the European Carrom Confederation, was inaugurated by ECC president Arif Naqvi (who is also ICF president) at Lenk in Simmenthal, Switzerland, surrounded by beautiful mountains. Naqviappreciated the excellent arrangements made by the Swiss Carrom Association and also praised the rising standard of Carrom in Europe and welcomed some new countries willing to join ECC. Speaking on behalf of the host country Roger Meyer welcomed the participants and thanked the ECC and other federations for their support.
Also in the prize distribution ceremony on 12th evening, ECC president Arif Naqvi praised the arrangements and claimed that the 13th Euro Cup was a great success and the excellent performances of the players in 13th Euro Cup will also reflect in the Carrom World Cup in 2010 in USA.
Roger Meyer of Switzerland thanked all participants and sponsors for their support.
During the meeting of the Board of Management of the European Carrom Confederation, during the Euro Cup, it was decided to send Greetings to the participants of the SAARC Countries Championshipin Mumbai and Asian Carrom Championsip in Pune in August this year. It is hoped that the Asian players who have always been inspiring the players all over the world will have excellent performances during these championship and continue raising the prestigue of Carrom.
Teams Championship
| Ranking |
Nation |
|
Wins |
Coins |
| 1. |
England |
 |
36 |
306 |
| 2. |
Frankreich |
 |
24 |
109 |
| 3. |
Deutschland |
 |
18 |
-3 |
| 4. |
Italien |
 |
18 |
-20 |
| 5. |
Schweiz |
 |
18 |
-69 |
| 6. |
Polen |
 |
8 |
-323 |
Singles Event
Karnal Abedin of UK beat Jonathan Leau of France in Final by 25:01, 25:12
| Ranking |
Player |
Nation |
Win Pt. |
Buchol Pt. |
| 1. |
Karnal Abdin |
 |
24 |
186 |
242 |
| 2. |
Jonathan Leau |
 |
20 |
188 |
148 |
| 3. |
Fabian Pereira |
 |
18 |
195 |
110 |
| 4. |
Amitha Ubhayathunga |
 |
18 |
181 |
66 |
| 5. |
Abdul Malik |
 |
18 |
179 |
117 |
| 6. |
Sriyantha Weerasinghe |
 |
16 |
194 |
24 |
| 7. |
Nazrul Islam |
 |
16 |
190 |
42 |
| 8. |
Pierre Dubois |
 |
16 |
187 |
108 |
| 9. |
Mouraly Venou |
 |
16 |
184 |
99 |
| 10. |
Heiko Wurst |
 |
16 |
177 |
65 |
| 11. |
Abdul Wahid |
 |
16 |
176 |
95 |
| 12. |
Thomas Scheuerl |
 |
16 |
172 |
71 |
| 13. |
Gianluca Cristiani |
 |
16 |
168 |
75 |
| 14. |
Kevin Seiger |
 |
16 |
153 |
44 |
| 15. |
Cornel D'Silva |
 |
16 |
151 |
83 |
| 16. |
Steeve Collard |
 |
16 |
144 |
62 |
| 17. |
Carlito Bollin |
 |
15 |
165 |
99 |
| 18. |
Mervin Kalinga |
 |
14 |
172 |
10 |
| 19. |
Shuab Ahmed |
 |
14 |
171 |
56 |
| 20. |
Lorenzo Hürlimann |
 |
14 |
171 |
30 |
| 21. |
A Rahman Khan |
 |
14 |
168 |
48 |
| 22. |
Claudio Motta |
 |
14 |
165 |
57 |
| 23. |
Murshad Khan |
 |
14 |
162 |
53 |
| 24. |
Rajesh Chilveri |
 |
14 |
160 |
42 |
| 25. |
Radjou Venou |
 |
14 |
160 |
38 |
| 26. |
Anders Illi |
 |
14 |
158 |
37 |
| 27. |
Tobias Krüger |
 |
14 |
158 |
22 |
| 28. |
Marcel Egli |
 |
14 |
158 |
5 |
| 29. |
Ish Kumer Gupta |
 |
14 |
155 |
58 |
| 30. |
Abdul Khan |
 |
14 |
155 |
-1 |
| 31. |
Vittorio Canisi |
 |
14 |
148 |
20 |
| 32. |
Rafi Dewangso |
 |
14 |
144 |
31 |
| 33. |
Wolfgang Peter |
 |
12 |
180 |
5 |
| 34. |
Stefano Stucchi |
 |
12 |
164 |
15 |
| 35. |
Andreas Hurtig |
 |
12 |
157 |
3 |
| 36. |
Paolo Martinelli |
 |
12 |
152 |
6 |
| 37. |
Ingo Frauenrath |
 |
12 |
150 |
-22 |
| 38. |
Gabriele Pellegatta |
 |
12 |
150 |
-42 |
| 39. |
Alfred Rajadurai |
 |
12 |
144 |
34 |
| 40. |
Armin Steiner |
 |
12 |
144 |
-11 |
| 41. |
Nitesh Sinha |
 |
12 |
143 |
-40 |
| 42. |
Francesco Pedicini |
 |
12 |
140 |
-17 |
| 43. |
Stefan Eigenmann |
 |
12 |
139 |
-10 |
| 44. |
Ala Miah |
 |
12 |
138 |
67 |
| 45. |
Jonas Hürlimann |
 |
12 |
138 |
-1 |
| 46. |
Patrice Dumas |
 |
12 |
137 |
-60 |
| 47. |
Elisa Zucchiatti |
 |
12 |
134 |
29 |
| 48. |
Bernhard Sander |
 |
12 |
134 |
-13 |
| 49. |
Jalal Ahmed |
 |
12 |
134 |
-19 |
| 50. |
Steffen Eder |
 |
12 |
134 |
-64 |
| 51. |
Ahad Miah |
 |
11 |
161 |
-66 |
| 52. |
Viktor Baumgartner |
 |
10 |
160 |
-38 |
| 53. |
Jan Geister |
 |
10 |
152 |
-32 |
| 54. |
Stéphane Cano |
 |
10 |
140 |
-36 |
| 55. |
Anhar Ali |
 |
10 |
136 |
28 |
| 56. |
Gunter Seibert |
 |
10 |
132 |
-1 |
| 57. |
Armin Schneider |
 |
10 |
132 |
-2 |
| 58. |
Stefano Fabiano |
 |
10 |
132 |
-63 |
| 59. |
Giorgio Balicchi |
 |
10 |
131 |
-42 |
| 60. |
Riccardo Maurizi |
 |
10 |
128 |
5 |
| 61. |
Norbert Mothe |
 |
10 |
127 |
-29 |
| 62. |
Jakub Nowakowski |
 |
10 |
124 |
-5 |
| 63. |
Paolo Ometto |
 |
10 |
123 |
15 |
| 64. |
Harvey Gomes |
 |
10 |
121 |
-18 |
| 65. |
Sylwester Pogorzelski |
 |
10 |
121 |
-78 |
| 66. |
Andrea Croci |
 |
10 |
120 |
-1 |
| 67. |
Frank Fehr |
 |
10 |
118 |
-36 |
| 68. |
Walter Buchmann |
 |
10 |
118 |
-54 |
| 69. |
Rolf Schmid |
 |
10 |
117 |
-38 |
| 70. |
Fabio Tomasi |
 |
10 |
110 |
-17 |
| 71. |
Hans Faller |
 |
10 |
102 |
-18 |
| 72. |
Abdullah Nauandish |
 |
8 |
136 |
-19 |
| 73. |
Kurt Scherrer |
 |
8 |
127 |
-36 |
| 74. |
Fabien Vicart |
 |
8 |
121 |
-39 |
| 75. |
Uwe Schneider |
 |
8 |
121 |
-44 |
| 76. |
Robert Durrer |
 |
8 |
115 |
-72 |
| 77. |
Ajay Pal |
 |
8 |
97 |
-113 |
| 78. |
Riz Careem |
 |
8 |
94 |
-86 |
| 79. |
Noam Mayer |
 |
7 |
87 |
-128 |
| 80. |
Michael Helbling |
 |
6 |
100 |
-123 |
| 81. |
Azir Uddin |
 |
6 |
99 |
-109 |
| 82. |
Barbara Thomas |
 |
4 |
98 |
-153 |
| 83. |
Cezary Kubicki |
 |
3 |
89 |
-205 |
| 84. |
Laura Zava |
 |
0 |
100 |
-263 |
|
Doubles Championship
Fabian Pareira and Radjou Venou of France beaten Mursha Khan and Ala Miah of UK in Final by 25 : 11 points
| 1. |
Fabian Pereira + Radjou Venou |
 |
10 |
50 |
52 |
| 2. |
Murshad Khan + Ala Miah |
 |
10 |
41 |
63 |
| 3. |
Steffen Eder + Jan Geister |
 |
10 |
40 |
31 |
| 4. |
A Rahman Khan + Abdul Malik |
 |
10 |
39 |
102 |
| 5. |
Stefano Stucchi + Amitha Ubhayathunga |
 |
8 |
44 |
35 |
| 6. |
Gabriele Pellegatta + Paolo Ometto |
 |
8 |
43 |
10 |
| 7. |
Anders Illi + Mervin Kalinga |
 |
8 |
35 |
22 |
| 8. |
Andreas Hurtig + Abdullah Nauandish |
 |
8 |
34 |
31 |
| 9. |
Rajesh Chilveri + Abdul Khan |
 |
7 |
47 |
32 |
| 10. |
Elisa Zucchiatti + Sriyantha Weerasinghe |
 |
7 |
47 |
12 |
| 11. |
Shuab Ahmed + Anhar Ali |
 |
6 |
44 |
13 |
| 12. |
Giorgio Balicchi + Vittorio Canisi |
 |
6 |
40 |
10 |
| 13. |
Bernhard Sander + Frank Fehr |
 |
6 |
38 |
-2 |
| 14. |
Fabien Vicart + Kevin Seiger |
 |
6 |
37 |
-24 |
| 15. |
Nitesh Sinha + Ajay Pal |
 |
6 |
34 |
4 |
| 16. |
Kurt Scherrer + Stefan Eigenmann |
 |
6 |
30 |
-8 |
| 17. |
Gunter Seibert + Ingo Frauenrath |
 |
6 |
29 |
6 |
| 18. |
Rolf Schmid + Robert Durrer |
 |
6 |
24 |
-26 |
| 19. |
Harvey Gomes + Azir Uddin |
 |
4 |
42 |
-39 |
| 20. |
Stefano Fabiano + Riccardo Maurizi |
 |
4 |
36 |
-10 |
| 21. |
Stéphane Cano + Norbert Mothe |
 |
4 |
36 |
-33 |
| 22. |
Armin Schneider + Uwe Schneider |
 |
4 |
34 |
-25 |
| 23. |
Jalal Ahmed + Ahad Miah |
 |
4 |
32 |
4 |
| 24. |
Marcel Egli + Barbara Thomas |
 |
4 |
28 |
-31 |
| 25. |
Fabio Tomasi + Andrea Croci |
 |
4 |
26 |
-50 |
| 26. |
Armin Steiner + Hans Faller |
 |
4 |
24 |
-18 |
| 27. |
Jonas Hürlimann + Noam Mayer |
 |
2 |
26 |
-42 |
| 28. |
Walter Buchmann + Riz Careem |
 |
0 |
28 |
-119 |
13th EUROCUP LENK SWITZERLAND JULY 20
Kuspo the great Eurocup venue
Pedicini & Croci pracricing
Relaxing outside
Stucci & Friend
Carlito and others trying out new skills
Gunter vs Riz
Frank vs Rolf
Jakub vs Jan
Laura vs Barbara
Players checking the score board
The final - Karnal Abdin vs Jonathan Leau
Team event - Italy vs Switzerland, Germany vs France
UK vs Poland
Elisa & Paolo enjoyong the beautiful mountains
Roger with the prizes
Prize giving ceremony
3rd place France
UK Team - the winners
Jan & Steffen from Germany 3rd place Doubles
Murshad Khan & Ala Miah runners up
Fabian Pereira and Radjou Venou 1st place Doubles
Elisa best woman player
The winners - Karnal. Jonathan and Fabian
Swiss organizers relaxing after the successful weekend
12th Euro Cup 2008, Sutton, U.K.
Results:
Singles Event:
Winner: Abdin Karnal
Runner-up: Ali Sunahar
3rd: Miah Shomsu
Teams Event:
Winner: U.K.
2nd.: France
3rd. : Germany
4th.: Italy
Final Match between Karnal Abdin and Sunhar Ali: 2:1 (Best of three)
White Slams: 3


Singles Event
(Ranking after 10 rounds)
Name, Points, Bucholz, Diff.Coins
1. Abdin, Karnal 18 132 82
2. Ali, Sunahar 16 133 81
3. Miah, Shomsu 16 120 66
4. Pereira Fabian 16 108 132
5. Leau Jonathan 14 129 82
6. Cristiani, Gianluca 14 120 64
7. Malik, Abdul 14 119 125
8. Hussein, Altaf 14 119 40
9. Weerasinghe, Sriyantha 14 105 10
10. Khan, Mar 14 100 94
11. Boecker, Peter 13 129 83
12. Wahid, Abdul 12 127 21
13. Dubois, Pierre 12 124 86
14. Polchow, Dirk 12 118 61
15. Mumit Abdul 12 117 -18
16. Miah Shaheen 12 115 70
17. Wurst Heiko 12 114 8
18. Nessakh, Karim 12 108 61
19. Venou Mouraly 12 106 49
20. Abdin, Ansar 12 104 24
21. Narkar, Chandan 12 100 57
22. Wolfgang, Peter 12 100 32
23. Stucchi, Stefano 12 93 29
24. Hussein, Mukith 12 84 -3
25. Islam, Nazrul 11 121 35
26. Ubhayathunga, Amitha 10 123 -30
27. Rajadurai, Alfred 10 113 13
28. Khan, Abdul 10 113 11
29. Miah, Ala 10 113 -25
30. Krueger, Tobias 10 112 16
31. Kumar, Ish 10 107 23
32. Martinelli, Paulo 10 105 12
33. Khan Murshad 10 105 -17
34. Sander, Bernhard 10 100 -50
35. Liyange, Ari 10 99 -24
36. Frauenrath, Ingo 10 97 12
37. Steiner, Armin 10 95 -8
38. Ciepli, Jeremy 10 94 60
39. Seibert, Gunter 10 94 -27
40. Balicci, Giorgio 19 93 7
41. Dumas; Patrice 10 83 17
42. Venou, Radjou 10 80 6
43. Shuab Ahmed 9 109 -13
44. Martinelli, Elisa 9 101 -42
45. Kurera, Susil 8 102 -35
46. Begum, Ruhena 8 101 -12
47. Niandish, Abdullah 8 100 11
48. CarbralRosawald 8 98 -81
49. Hurtig Andreas 8 96 -12
50. Shahid, Abdus 8 96 -13
51. Rahman, Moklisur 8 88 16
52. Bonsang, Alain 8 85 -76
53. Philips, Patrick 8 84 14
54. Nowakowski, Jakub 8 82 -20
55. Nowakowska, Paulina 8 78 -72
56. Fabiano, Stefano 8 74 -3
57. Venou, Randjit 8 74 -57
58. Schneider, Armin 7 79 -54
59. Faller, Hans 7 74 -63
60. Cano, Stephane 6 103 -28
61. Donnini, Rodolfo 6 93 -33
62. Neuhauser, Emilie 6 86 -69
63. Mothe, Norbert 6 86 -73
64. Tomasi, Fabio 6 65 -75
65. Banerjee, Suve 5 71 -125
66. Glasberg, Joseph 5 66 -83
67. Pizzinat, Flavio 4 64 -136
68. Banerjeb Dipal 0 71 -233