Three-Cushion World Cup

Three-Cushion World Cup

Tournament information
Organisation(s)	Union Mondiale de Billard
Format	Round Robin / single-elimination
Recent edition	2024
Current champion	Dick Jaspers (2023)

The Three-Cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in three-cushion billiards, which is held every year since 1986 between three and ten times a year.

History

The World Cup was founded in 1985 by German Werner Bayer, a carom billiards enthusiast and patron. He called the association "Billiards World Cup Association" (BWA) and in 1986 the first tournament was held in Paris. As a patron he had excellent contact to sponsors, and quickly the tournament grew into a popular meeting place for players and spectators. At the time, the World-Cup had one of the highest monetary prizes. Between 1986 and 1989, the prize money per tournament was approximately 100,000 DM, with the winner receiving 50,000 DM. The BWA organized the World-Cup along with the world governing body, the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB).

Between 1988 and 1993, the UMB no longer hosted any world championships themselves, therefore, for four years, the BWA World-Cup became the default world championship. In 1994 there were disagreements between the two associations. The UMB thus blocked players, including players wives, referees and organizers who took part in the World Cup, from participating in the tournaments of the UMB and CEB (Confédération Européenne de Billard). Thus, between 1994 and 1997, there were two parallel World-Cup championships. The BWA, as usual, played for 3rd place (the only exception was the tournament 1997/7 ), whereas the UMB did not, and therefore had two 3rd-place finishers. (With few exceptions, since the acquisition of the tournament in 1999, this is the rule up to now) .

After settling the disputes, the UMB and the BWA led the tournament together until early 1999 (Berlin Cup). After 1999, Mr. Bayer withdrew from the BWA for health reasons, and the UMB took over the organization of the tournament series from then on and the BWA broke up due to succession problems.

From 1994, the UMB tournaments were organized in collaboration with the European member association “Confédération Européenne de Billard” (CEB). Since 2004, the World-Cup has been organized as UMB/CEB (in Europe), UMB/CPB (in America), UMB/(in Amerika), UMB/ACBC World-Cup (in Asia), and since 2014, as UMB/ACC in Africa. The prize money amounts to approximately 35,000 € per tournament. The prize money has been €106,500 per tournament since 2018.

All detailed results are listed on the german Three-Cushion World Cup page.

The individual results of the World Cup 1997/1 were lost directly following the tournament and, up to now, have been unable to be reconstructed, even through research by the well-known billiards archivists Heinrich Weingartner and Dieter Haase (both editors of the three-volume "Encyclopedia of Billiards Sports").

In 2012, only three tournaments were held for the overall winner appointment, instead of the required four, thus the year remains the first year without a title award. On 26 January 2013 it was announced that the Greek shipping magnate, Thanos Athanasiou, until 1995 a player himself, would finance a total of five tournaments in the coming three years. These include the three World-Cup tournaments until 2015, as well as the Junior World Championships in 2013 and the Women's World-Cup in 2014. All tournaments will be played in Athens.

Media Report Transmission

Until the 2019/20 season, the French billiards portal Kozoom broadcast all UMB tournaments on the Internet and some of them were also taken over by the national broadcasters that hosted them. From the 2021/22 season, this task will be taken over by the Korean partner of Kozoom Five&Six.

Modus

Initially, the game was played in a set system of up to 15 points, with two winning sets to be completed in the qualification and then three winning sets in the final round. In 2013 they switched to the points system, with up to 30 points being played in the qualification and up to 40 points in the final round. At the change of season in 2019, the first final round will also be held as a group round (8 ×) of 4 players each.

Records

• Torbjörn Blomdahl is record winner with 46 single and 11 total victories.
• The best general average (GA) was achieved by Daniel Sánchez with 2,777 points (1. April 2017 in Luxor). This is a new official world record.
• The best single average (SA) was achieved by Semih Sayginer in the match against Dick Jaspers in La Baule (27. Oktober 2018) with 6,666 points (40 points in 6 runs).
• The highest run in World Cup tournaments has been 28 points since November 8, 2024, set by Kim Jun-tae in the match against Glenn Hofman at the World Cup tournament in Seoul, South-Korea.
• One set, 15 points, in one run in a World-Cup tournament (which until 2012 was also the highest series) was achieved so far by:
  • Nobuaki Kobayashi (Valkenburg 1986)
  • Torbjörn Blomdahl (Gent 1991, Istanbul 1995)
  • Marco Zanetti (Halle 1997, Antwerp 2004, Sluiskil 2007, Alcalá de Guadaira 2008)
  • Semih Saygıner (Antwerp 1997)
  • Eddy Leppens (Oosterhout 1998)
  • Raymond Ceulemans (Oosterhout 1999)
  • Frédéric Caudron (Sevilla 2004, Hurghada 2007)
  • Daniel Sánchez (Sevilla 2004, Hurghada 2009, Antalya 2012)
  • Dick Jaspers (Sluiskil 2005)
  • Peter de Backer (Barendrecht 2005)
  • Choi Jae-dong (Barendrecht 2005)
  • Jérémy Bury (Hurghada 2006, Antalya 2009)
  • Kim Kyung-roul (Hurghada 2009, Hurghada 2011)
  • Kim Bong-soo (Suwon 2010)
  • Murat Naci Coklu (Hurghada 2010)
  • Antonio Ortiz Torrent (Suwon 2011)
  • Dave Christiani (Vienna 2011)

Prize money and ranking points

Prize money (€) Ranking points Winner (1×) 16.000 80 Finalist (1×) 10.000 54 Semi-finalists (2×) 6.000 38 5. – 8. (4×) 3.500 26 9. – 16. (8×) 2.500 16 17. – 32. (16×) 1.500 8 Quali (21×) 500 5 P-Quali – 4 PP-Quali – 3 PPP-Quali – 2 Overall 106.500 –

Prize money for overall winner Place € 1 30.000 2 15.000 3 10.000 Overall 55.000

Date of issue: 20 December 2017

Tournament records timeline

With the set system, the best individual average (SA) is only counted in the game with 3 winning sets. This also applies to the GA, where at least five games must be played. Since the maximum streak of 15 points was achieved a total of 42 times in the days of the set system, players who have reached this number of points several times are only mentioned with their first streak. The numbers in brackets indicate the frequency.

General Average (GA) GA Name Year 1,257 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/1 1,516 Raymond Ceulemans 1986/2 1,643 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4 1,728 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1987/2 1,891 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/2 1,947 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/6 2,204 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1992/5 2,250 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1994/4 2,308 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1995/9 2,420 Frédéric Caudron 2011/4 2,465 Dick Jaspers 2013/1 2,739 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2013/3 2,777 Daniel Sánchez 2017/2

Special Average (SA) SA Name Year 1,956 Allen Gilbert 1986/1 1,960 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4 2,093 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1987/2 2,142 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1988/1 2,812 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1988/2 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1991/1 2,312 Dick Jaspers 1994/3 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1994/4 5,000 Frédéric Caudron 1996/6 5,714 Eddy Merckx 2013/1 Frédéric Caudron 2017/1 Eddy Leppens 2017/4 6,666 Semih Saygıner 2018/5

High Run (HR) HR Name Year 13 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/1 15 Nobuaki Kobayashi 1986/4 Torbjörn Blomdahl (4) 1991/1 Semih Saygıner 1997/8 Eddy Leppens (2) 1998/8 Raimond Burgman 1999/2 Raymond Ceulemans 1999/5 Daniel Sánchez (3) 2004/3 Marco Zanetti (4) 2004/5 Dick Jaspers (2) 2005/1 Peter de Backer 2005/3 Choi Jae-dong 2005/3 Paul Stroobants 2006/2 Jérémy Bury (3) 2006/2 Tayfun Taşdemir 2006/5 Jean Paul de Bruijn 2007/6 Barry van Beers 2008/1 Andreas Efler 2008/5 Eddy Merckx 2009/3 Kim Kyung-roul (2) 2009/5 Kim Bong-soo 2010/2 Murat Naci Çoklu 2010/4 Roland Forthomme 2010/4 Antonio Ortiz-Torrent 2011/3 Dave Christiani 2011/4 Adnan Yüksel 2011/5 Kim Hyun-suk 2012/2 Um Sang-pil 2012/2 17 Eddy Merckx 2013/1 24 Jérémy Bury 2013/2 Cho Myung-woo 2018/6 Dick Jaspers 2019/5 26 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2023/3 28 Kim Jun-tae 2024/6

Statistics

• The general average (GA) refers respectively to the entire tournament.

Colour key

  BWA World Cups

  UMB/CEB ParallelWorld Cups (1994 to 1997)

  considered as World Championship by UMB

  jointly organized World Cup (UMB/BWA)

  UMB World Cups

  Current official world record in the GA (date of issue: 1. April 2017)

List of single winners

No.	Year	Venue	Winner	GA	Second	GA	Third	GA
001	1986/1	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1,157	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,257	Allen Gilbert	1,029
002	1986/2	Brussels	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,515	Raymond Ceulemans	1,516	Rini van Bracht	1,198
003	1986/3	Berlin	Egidio Vieira	1,098	Raymond Ceulemans	1,116	Luis Mario Doyharzabal	1,250
004	1986/4	Valkenburg	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,643	Raymond Ceulemans	1,430	Junichi Komori	1,305
005	1987/1	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1,303	Marco Zanetti	1,145	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,213
006	1987/2	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,728	Raymond Ceulemans	1,253	Ludo Dielis	1,409
007	1987/3	Berlin	Junichi Komori	1,364	Raymond Ceulemans	1,726	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,496
008	1987/4	Valkenburg	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,500	Marco Zanetti	1,130	Junichi Komori	1,142
009	1988/1	Paris	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,360	Dieter Müller	1,168	Raymond Ceulemans	1,442
010	1988/2	Antwerp	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,507	Junichi Komori	1,724	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,891
011	1988/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,764	Junichi Komori	1,380	Raymond Ceulemans	1,375
012	1988/4	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,298	Junichi Komori	1,212	Ludo Dielis	1,404
013	1988/5	Valkenburg	Laurent Boulanger	1,395	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,318	Raymond Ceulemans	1,267
014	1988/6	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,947	Akio Shimada	1,145	Raymond Ceulemans	1,180
015	1989/1	Deurne	Richard Bitalis	1,311	Ludo Dielis	1,406	Rini van Bracht	1,238
016	1989/2	Berlin	Ludo Dielis	1,466	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,311	Yoshihiko Mano	1,170
017	1989/3	Palma	Raymond Ceulemans	1,280	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,275	Ludo Dielis	1,352
018	1989/4	Las Vegas	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,558	Junichi Komori	0,971	Raymond Ceulemans	1,406
019	1989/5	Yokohama	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,406	Ludo Dielis	1,310	Junichi Komori	1,342
020	1990/1	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,671	Raymond Ceulemans	1,500	Dick Jaspers	1,266
021	1990/2	Paris	Raymond Ceulemans	1,521	Richard Bitalis	1,356	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,503
022	1990/3	Berlin	Ludo Dielis	1,644	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,909	Raymond Ceulemans	1,330
023	1990/4	Norrköping	Raymond Ceulemans	1,648	Richard Bitalis	1,425	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,484
024	1990/5	Palma	Marco Zanetti	1,760	Raymond Ceulemans	1,603	Richard Bitalis	1,447
025	1990/6	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,632	Ludo Dielis	1,284	Raymond Ceulemans	1,584
026	1991/1	Gent	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,758	Sang Lee	1,482	Richard Bitalis	1,315
027	1991/2	Berlin	Sang Lee	1,492	Raymond Ceulemans	1,570	Richard Bitalis	1,335
028	1991/3	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,616	Raymond Ceulemans	1,857	Dick Jaspers	1,579
029	1991/4	Seoul	Raymond Ceulemans	1,356	Yoshihiko Mano	1,024	Ludo Dielis	1,106
030	1991/5	Tokyo	Dick Jaspers	1,712	Marco Zanetti	1,587	Ludo Dielis	1,161
031	1992/1	Oosterhout	Rini van Bracht	1,488	Frédéric Caudron	1,215	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,756
032	1992/2	Gent	Sang Lee	1,578	Ludo Dielis	1,505	Raymond Ceulemans	1,469
033	1992/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,796	Dick Jaspers	1,413	José Paniagua	1,181
034	1992/4	Orléans	Raymond Ceulemans	1,492	Junichi Komori	1,248	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,432
035	1992/5	Tokyo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,204	Raymond Ceulemans	1,396	Richard Bitalis	1,424
036	1992/6	Palma	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,658	Sang Lee	1,648	Raymond Ceulemans	1,441
037	1993/1	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,462	Raymond Ceulemans	1,540	Sang Lee	1,516
038	1993/2	Istanbul	Sang Lee	1,524	Raymond Ceulemans	1,539	Ludo Dielis	1,224
039	1993/3	Berlin	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,681	Marco Zanetti	1,401	Semih Saygıner	1,566
040	1993/4	Tokyo	Raymond Ceulemans	1,461	Nobuaki Kobayashi	1,485	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,472
041	1993/5	Bolzano	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,904	Tonny Carlsen	1,678	Dick Jaspers	1,621
042	1994/1	Gent	Sang Lee	1,181	Frédéric Caudron	1,358	Marco Zanetti	1,539
043	1994/2	Cairo	Koen Ceulemans	1,231	Daniel Sánchez	1,265	Christian Rudolph	1,095
044	1994/3	Istanbul	Dick Jaspers	1,758	Raymond Ceulemans	1,590	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,576
045	1994/4	Oosterhout	Christoph Pilss	1,402	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,250	Sang Lee	1,666
046	1994/5	Halle (Saale)	Dick Jaspers	2,007	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,660	Raimond Burgman	1,432
047	1994/6	Dongen	Jorge Theriaga	1,409	Daniel Sánchez	1,363	John Tijssens	1,176
048	1994/7	Gent	Semih Saygıner	1,567	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,672	Ludo Dielis	1,428
049	1995/1	Vejle	Andreas Efler	1,377	Rini van Bracht	1,160	John Tijssens	1,347
050	1995/2	Athen	Daniel Sánchez	1,456	Jorge Theriaga	1,282	Eddy Merckx	1,484
051	1995/3	Mondorf-les-Bains	Rini van Bracht	1,376	Christian Rudolph	1,513	Jorge Theriaga	1,335
052	1995/4	Porto	Daniel Sánchez	1,366	Leon Smolders	1,142	Eddy Merckx	1,215
053	1995/5	Hooglede	Hans Laursen	1,247	Rini van Bracht	1,111	Dion Nelin	1,236
054	1995/6	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1,807	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,842	Sang Lee	1,316
055	1995/7	Halle (Saale)	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,824	Raymond Ceulemans	1,388	Tonny Carlsen	1,431
056	1995/8	Antwerp	Raymond Ceulemans	1,757	Marco Zanetti	1,473	Louis Havermans	1,258
057	1995/9	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,308	Raymond Ceulemans	1,535	Raimond Burgman	1,170
No.	Year	Venue	Winner	GA	Second	GA	Semi- finalists	GA
058	1996/1	Antalya	Jorge Theriaga	1,295	Eddy Leppens	1,324	Daniel Sánchez	1,288
							Koen Ceulemans	1,187
059	1996/2	Porto	Dion Nelin	1,489	Jozef Philipoom	1,270	Daniel Sánchez	1,300
							Hans Laursen	1,069
060	1996/3	Hooglede	Ludo Dielis	1,347	Daniel Sánchez	1,581	Eddy Merckx	1,410
							Peter de Backer	1,244
061	1996/4	Athen	Francis Forton	1,228	Christian Rudolph	1,327	Jorge Theriaga	1,246
							Egidio Vieira	1,244
062	1996/5	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1,690	Marco Zanetti	1,704	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,914
063	1996/6	Daegu	Raimond Burgman	1,379	Sang Lee	1,433	Marco Zanetti	1,573
064	1996/7	Antwerp	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,524	Semih Saygıner	1,375	Raymond Ceulemans	1,488
065	1996/8	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,651	Tonny Carlsen	1,285	Dick Jaspers	1,532
066	1997/1	Seoul	Christian Rudolph	?,???	Jorge Theriaga	?,???	Daniel Sánchez	?,???
							Kim Chul-min	?,???
067	1997/2	Salsomaggiore Terme	Yilmaz Özcan	1,376	Martin Horn	1,327	Dion Nelin	1,093
							Stefan Galla	1,248
068	1997/3	Porto	Dion Nelin	1,575	Daniel Sánchez	1,685	Eddy Leppens	1,268
							Stefan Galla	1,137
069	1997/4	Hooglede	Eddy Merckx	1,343	Martin Horn	1,389	Yilmaz Özcan	1,356
							Eddy Leppens	1,423
070	1997/5	Herne	Christian Rudolph	1,410	Eddy Leppens	1,189	Fonsy Grethen	1,073
							Peter de Backer	1,385
071	1997/6	Oosterhout	Frédéric Caudron	1,662	Dick Jaspers	1,685	Semih Saygıner	1,244
072	1997/7	Antalya	Dick Jaspers	1,805	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,964	Daniel Sánchez	1,605
							Andreas Efler	1,324
073	1997/8	Antwerp	Dick Jaspers	1,583	Gerwin Valentijn	1,500	Frédéric Caudron	1,475
074	1998/1	Barendrecht	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,089	Dion Nelin	1,296	Marco Zanetti	1,692
							Sang Lee	1,482
075	1998/2	Bussum	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,983	Dick Jaspers	2,150	Marco Zanetti	1,598
							Henk Habraken	1,239
076	1998/3	Lisbon	Dick Jaspers	1,660	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,704	Dion Nelin	1,518
							Semih Saygıner	1,366
077	1998/4	Hooglede	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,033	Dick Jaspers	2,314	Frédéric Caudron	1,321
							Christian Rudolph	1,475
078	1998/5	Corfu	Dick Jaspers	1,568	Jorge Theriaga	1,244	Ben Velthuis	1,230
							Raimond Burgman	1,456
079	1998/6	Bogotá	Frédéric Caudron	1,523	Carlos Hallon	1,153	Raimond Burgman	1,363
							Semih Saygıner	1,224
080	1998/7	Torremolinos	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,486	Eddy Leppens	1,318	Raymond Ceulemans	1,516
							Semih Saygıner	1,218
081	1998/8	Oosterhout	Daniel Sánchez	1,773	Dick Jaspers	2,094	Semih Saygıner	1,906
082	1998/9	Antalya	Semih Saygıner	1,649	Gerwin Valentijn	1,503	Marco Zanetti	1,331
							Christian Rudolph	1,311
083	1998/10	Roermond	Frédéric Caudron	1,658	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,503	Marco Zanetti	1,551
							Dion Nelin	1,544
084	1999/1	Seoul	Dick Jaspers	1,103	Tonny Carlsen	1,491	Semih Saygıner	1,608
							Christian Rudolph	1,437
085	1999/2	Las Vegas	Sang Lee	1,625	Semih Saygıner	1,712	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,813
							Raimond Burgman	1,550
086	1999/3	Berlin	Marco Zanetti	2,082	Martin Horn	1,289	Sang Lee	1,512
							Eddy Leppens	1,331
087	1999/4	Kemer	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,055	Sang Lee	1,461	Jakob Haack-Sörensen	1,586
							Dick Jaspers	1,757
088	1999/5	Oosterhout	Dick Jaspers	1,815	Jorge Theriaga	1,288	Sang Lee	1,954
089	2000/1	Bogotá	Semih Saygıner	1,404	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,672	Frédéric Caudron	1,381
							Dion Nelin	1,466
090	2000/2	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,893	Dion Nelin	1,379	Daniel Sánchez	1,513
091	2001/1	Bogotá	Semih Saygıner	1,452	Dick Jaspers	1,660	Frédéric Caudron	1,626
							Jaime Bedoya	1,337
092	2001/2	Las Vegas	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,050	Dick Jaspers	1,891	Marco Zanetti	1,397
							Tonny Carlsen	1,317
093	2001/3	Kuşadası	Dick Jaspers	1,497	Daniel Sánchez	1,429	Semih Saygıner	1,615
							Marco Zanetti	1,441
094	2001/4	Lugo	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,794	Dick Jaspers	1,546	Semih Saygıner	1,572
							Eddy Merckx	1,431
095	2001/5	Oosterhout	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,538	Semih Saygıner	1,321	Marco Zanetti	1,368
	2002	Not held
096	2003	Las Vegas	Semih Saygıner	1,606	Dick Jaspers	1,719	Daniel Sánchez	1,623
							Marco Zanetti	1,286
097	2004/1	Barendrecht	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,076	Dick Jaspers	2,058	Semih Saygıner	1,464
No.	Year	Venue	Winner	GA	Second	GA	Semi- finalists	GA
098	2004/2	Athen	Semih Saygıner	2,000	Frédéric Caudron	1,404	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,794
							Eddy Merckx	1,457
099	2004/3	Seville	Frédéric Caudron	1,668	Daniel Sánchez	1,570	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,626
							Semih Saygıner	1,525
100	2004/4	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1,277	Murat Naci Coklu	1,494	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,546
							Brian Knudsen	1,211
101	2004/5	Antwerp	Daniel Sánchez	1,938	Semih Saygıner	1,838	Dick Jaspers	1,918
							Martin Horn	1,589
102	2005/1	Sluiskil	Dick Jaspers	2,181	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,754	Semih Saygıner	1,570
							Daniel Sánchez	1,566
103	2005/2	Hurghada	Roland Forthomme	1,636	Frédéric Caudron	1,553	Semih Saygıner	1,478
							Choi Jae-dong	1,324
104	2005/3	Barendrecht	Eddy Merckx	2,062	Frédéric Caudron	2,058	Marco Zanetti	1,368
							Raimond Burgman	1,651
105	2005/4	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,786	Frédéric Caudron	2,032	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1,405
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1,694
106	2006/1	Sluiskil	Dick Jaspers	1,925	Adnan Yüksel	1,656	Daniel Sánchez	1,678
							Roland Forthomme	1,569
107	2006/2	Porto	Daniel Sánchez	1,505	Dick Jaspers	1,810	John Tijssens	1,109
							Frédéric Caudron	1,790
108	2006/3	Volos	Roland Forthomme	1,907	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,946	Marco Zanetti	1,542
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,488
109	2006/4	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1,741	Peter de Backer	1,342	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1,474
							Mikael Nilsson	1,424
110	2006/5	Istanbul	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,787	Semih Saygıner	1,690	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,672
							Martin Horn	1,568
111	2007/1	Sluiskil	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,925	Dick Jaspers	2,032	Roland Forthomme	1,517
							Martin Horn	1,715
112	2007/2	Manisa	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,862	Daniel Sánchez	1,783	Dick Jaspers	1,966
							Semih Saygıner	1,571
113	2007/3	Corfu	Frédéric Caudron	1,755	Semih Saygıner	1,736	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,612
							Daniel Sánchez	1,410
114	2007/4	Porto	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,153	Roland Forthomme	1,443	Frédéric Caudron	1,800
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,595
115	2007/5	Hurghada	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,468	Martin Horn	1,612	Dick Jaspers	2,259
							Frédéric Caudron	1,910
116	2007/6	Mexico City	Frédéric Caudron	1,880	Dick Jaspers	1,955	Roland Forthomme	1,600
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,519
117	2007/7	Seoul	Daniel Sánchez	1,992	Tran Chi Thanh	1,322	Frédéric Caudron	2,074
							Ramon Rodriguez	1,640
118	2008/1	Sluiskil	Frédéric Caudron	1,948	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,642	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,847
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,610
119	2008/2	Porto	Dick Jaspers	1,992	Daniel Sánchez	1,755	Kim Kyung-roul	1,645
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,716
120	2008/3	Irapuato	Dick Jaspers	1,729	Daniel Sánchez	1,535	Marco Zanetti	1,697
							Frédéric Caudron	1,760
121	2008/4	Suwon	Dick Jaspers	1,782	Kim Kyung-roul	1,494	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,564
							Frédéric Caudron	1,471
122	2008/5	Hurghada	Daniel Sánchez	1,779	Eddy Merckx	1,544	Jean Paul de Bruijn	1,273
							Peter de Backer*1	–
123	2008/6	Alcalá de Guadaíra	Dick Jaspers	1,770	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,786	Martin Horn	1,722
							Daniel Sánchez	1,787
124	2009/1	Sluiskil	Frédéric Caudron	1,695	Jozef Philipoom	1,685	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,710
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,649
125	2009/2	Antalya	Martin Horn	1,626	Dick Jaspers	1,600	Frédéric Caudron	1,713
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,343
126	2009/3	Matosinhos	Eddy Merckx	1,751	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,592	Cho Jae-ho	1,656
							Jérémy Bury	1,483
127	2009/4	Suwon	Frédéric Caudron	1,950	Marco Zanetti	1,892	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,712
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,585
128	2009/5	Hurghada	Jozef Philipoom	1,443	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,654	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,589
							Ruben Legazpi	1,544
129	2010/1	Antalya	Kim Kyung-roul	1,601	Dick Jaspers	1,815	Martin Horn	1,744
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,532
130	2010/2	Suwon	Dick Jaspers	2,153	Filippos Kasidokostas	1,715	Jérémy Bury	1,533
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1,891
131	2010/3	Matosinhos	Frédéric Caudron	1,476	Martin Horn	1,550	Jérémy Bury	1,620
							Dick Jaspers	1,729
132	2010/4	Hurghada	Filippos Kasidokostas	1,860	Frédéric Caudron	1,802	Jérémy Bury	1,853
							Kouji Funaki	1,686
133	2011/1	Trabzon	Eddy Merckx	1,655	Kim Kyung-roul	1,800	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,911
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,639
134	2011/2	Matosinhos	Daniel Sánchez	1,834	Frédéric Caudron	1,825	Dick Jaspers	1,953
							Cho Jae-ho	1,573
135	2011/3	Suwon	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,736	Cho Jae-ho	1,908	Jérémy Bury	1,402
							Xuan Cuong Ma	1,756
136	2011/4	Vienna	Frédéric Caudron	2,420	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,867	Dick Jaspers	2,216
							Lütfi Çenet	1,523
137	2011/5	Hurghada	Adnan Yüksel	1,757	Jérémy Bury	1,701	Kim Kyung-roul	1,669
							Eddy Leppens	1,707
138	2012/1	Antalya	Choi Sung-won	1,581	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,637	Frédéric Caudron	2,195
							Daniel Sánchez	1,657
139	2012/2	Suwon	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,370	Marco Zanetti	1,746	Dick Jaspers	2,053
							Eddy Merckx	1,639
140	2012/3	Hurghada	Frédéric Caudron	1,826	Lütfi Çenet	1,684	Dick Jaspers	1,676
							Jérémy Bury	1,500
141	2013/1	Antalya	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,834	Jérémy Bury	2,076	Dick Jaspers	2,465
							Eddy Merckx	2,276
142	2013/2	Guri	Kang Dong-koong	2,000	Daniel Sánchez	2,000	Jérémy Bury	1,756
							Ngo Dinh-Nai	1,622
143	2013/3	Corinth	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,739	Ruben Legazpi	2,011	Filippos Kasidokostas	1,857
							Tayfun Taşdemir	1,693
144	2013/4	Medellín	Frédéric Caudron	1,941	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,532	Eddy Leppens	2,283
							Filippos Kasidokostas	1,892
145	2013/5	Hurghada	Eddy Merckx	2,222	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,876	Frédéric Caudron	1,985
							Choi Sung-won	1,704
146	2014/1	Istanbul	Cho Jae-ho	2,150	Choi Sung-won	1,351	Eddy Merckx	2,025
							Kim Kyung-roul	1,817
147	2014/2	Luxor	Frédéric Caudron	2,272	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,482	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,709
							Lee Choong-bok	1,547
148	2014/3	Porto	Dick Jaspers	1,923	Roland Forthomme	1,825	Choi Sung-won	1,678
							Peter Ceulemans	1,589
149	2014/4	Guri	Eddy Merckx	1,980	Frédéric Caudron	2,091	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,264
							Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	1,923
150	2014/5	Hurghada	Marco Zanetti	1,834	Kang Dong-koong	1,867	Hwang Hyung-bum	1,915
							Javier Palazon	1,816
151	2015/1	Luxor	Dick Jaspers	2,247	Kim Haeng-jik	2,000	Daniel Sánchez	1,740
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,734
152	2015/2	Porto	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,000	Hwang Hyung-bum	1,453	Daniel Sánchez	2,390
							Dick Jaspers	1,790
153	2015/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,298	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,108	Cho Jae-ho	2,191
							Eddy Merckx	1,807
154	2015/4	Guri	Daniel Sánchez	2,739	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,160	Dick Jaspers	2,942
							Frédéric Caudron	1,818
155	2015/5	Istanbul	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,612	Roland Forthomme	1,576	Dick Jaspers	1,666
							Eddy Merckx	1,500
156	2015/6	Hurghada	Frédéric Caudron	2,197	Marco Zanetti	2,217	Lütfi Çenet	1,866
							Daniel Sánchez	1,851
157	2016/1	Bursa	Dick Jaspers	2,325	Frédéric Caudron	2,063	Eddy Merckx	2,260
							Pedro Piedrabuena	1,462
158	2016/2	Luxor	Eddy Merckx	1,801	Jérémy Bury	1,520	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,764
							Cho Jae-ho	1,470
159	2016/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Frédéric Caudron	1,980	Dick Jaspers	1,935	Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	2,173
							Marco Zanetti	2,000
160	2016/4	Porto	Frédéric Caudron	2,197	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1,989	Daniel Sánchez	1,986
							Marco Zanetti	1,869
161	2016/5	Guri	Jérémy Bury	2,020	Tran Quyet Chien	1,900	Dick Jaspers	2,181
							Cho Myung-woo	1,726
162	2016/6	La Baule	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,980	Daniel Sánchez	1,636	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,795
							Marco Zanetti	1,632
163	2016/7	el-Gouna	Heo Jung-han	1,680	Dick Jaspers	1,852	Martin Horn	1,678
							Tran Quyet Chien	1,644
164	2017/1	Bursa	Frédéric Caudron	2,105	Dick Jaspers	2,636	Jérémy Bury	2,274
							Kang Dong-koong	1,536
165	2017/2	Luxor	Daniel Sánchez	2,777	Dick Jaspers	2,540	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,343
							Cho Myung-woo	2,073
166	2017/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Eddy Merckx	1,923	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,959	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,773
							Marco Zanetti	1,728
167	2017/4	Porto	Kim Haeng-jik	1,680	Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	1,747	Lütfi Çenet	2,052
							Heo Jung-han	1,590
168	2017/5	Cheongju	Kim Haeng-jik	1,923	Murat Naci Çoklu	2,021	Dick Jaspers	2,112
							Lütfi Çenet	1,562
169	2017/6	La Baule	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,020	Frédéric Caudron	1,947	Cho Myung-woo	1,855
							Ma Xuan Cuong	1,707
170	2017/7	el-Gouna	Eddy Merckx	2,272	Roland Forthomme	1,887	Marco Zanetti	1,764
							Frédéric Caudron	1,666
171	2018/1	Antalya	Frédéric Caudron	2,739	Murat Naci Çoklu	1,906	Cho Jae-ho	2,393
							Daniel Sánchez	1,563
172	2018/2	Ho Chi Minh City	Tran Quyet Chien	2,000	Ngô Đinh Nai	2,072	Nguyen Quoc Nguyen	1,876
							Frédéric Caudron	1,709
173	2018/3	Blankenberge	Dick Jaspers	2,061	Semih Saygıner	2,010	Eddy Merckx	2,465
							Nikos Polychronopoulos	2,208
174	2018/4	Porto	Frédéric Caudron	2,380	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,320	Heo Jung-han	1,750
							Choi Sung-won	1,584
175	2018/5	La Baule	Martin Horn	2,020	Cho Jae-ho	1,970	Frédéric Caudron	2,053
							Semih Saygıner	1,921
176	2018/6	Seoul	Eddy Merckx	2,000	Filippos Kasidokostas	2,057	Dick Jaspers	1,949
							Kim Bong-chul	1,888
177	2018/7	Hurghada	Dick Jaspers	2,040	Frédéric Caudron	2,086	Kim Haeng-jik	2,239
							Semih Saygıner	2,038
178	2019/1	Antalya	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,758	Cho Jae-ho	1,516	Tran Quyet Chien	1,963
							Murat Naci Çoklu	1,746
179	2019/2	Ho Chi Minh City	Frédéric Caudron	2,368	Roland Forthomme	1,717	Marco Zanetti	2,257
							Eddy Merckx	1,770
180	2019/3	Blankenberge	Javier Palazón	1,666	Martin Horn	1,954	Heo Jung-han	2,090
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,580
181	2019/4	Porto	Dick Jaspers	2,029	Kim Haeng-jik	1,935	Lütfi Çenet	1,818
							Cho Myung-woo	1,773
182	2019/5	Veghel	Kim Haeng-jik	1,956	Lütfi Çenet	1,707	Nguyễn Đức Anh Chiến	1,697
							Antonio Montes	1,685
183	2019/6	Guri	Eddy Merckx	2,044	Jérémy Bury	1,640	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,018
							Kim Jun-tae	1,331
184	2019/7	Sharm El Sheikh	Marco Zanetti	2,718	Dick Jaspers	2,078	Martin Horn	1,691
							Jérémy Bury	1,791
185	2020/1	Antalya	Daniel Sánchez	1,879	Dick Jaspers	2,276	Kim Haeng-jik	1,827
							Murat Naci Çoklu	1,605
186	2021/1	Veghel	Daniel Sánchez	1,757	Heo Jung-han	2,012	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,768
							Kim Jun-tae	1,556
187	2021/2	Sharm El Sheikh	Semih Saygıner	1,839	Dick Jaspers	1,967	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,875
							Choi Sung-won	1,753
188	2022/1	Ankara	Dick Jaspers	1,842	Tran Quyet Chien	1,703	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,968
							Marco Zanetti	1,729
189	2022/2	Las Vegas	Dick Jaspers	1,807	Sameh Sidhom	1,701	Jérémy Bury	1,726
							Kim Haeng-jik	1,694
190	2022/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Eddy Merckx	1,898	Marco Zanetti	1,802	Dick Jaspers	2,101
							Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,703
191	2022/4	Seoul	Daniel Sánchez	2,206	Cha Myeong-jong	1,505	Dick Jaspers	1,921
							Gwendal Marechal	1,604
192	2022/5	Veghel	Torbjörn Blomdahl	1,860	Lee Choong-bok	1,515	Daniel Sánchez	2,084
							Dick Jaspers	1,914
193	2022/6	Sharm El Sheikh	Cho Myung-woo	2,081	Daniel Sánchez	2,212	Marco Zanetti	2,064
							Seo Chang-hoon	1,632
0–	2023/1	Ankara	Canceled due to earthquake in Turkey after ppp-qualification
194	2023/2	Las Vegas	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,849	Kim Haeng-jik	1,628	Marco Zanetti	1,739
							Kim Jun-tae	1,792
195	2023/3	Ho Chi Minh City	Torbjörn Blomdahl	2,025	Cho Myung-woo	1,839	Kim Jun-tae	1,695
							Martin Horn	1,668
196	2023/4	Porto	Tran Quyet Chien	1,775	Sameh Sidhom	1,510	Jérémy Bury	1,578
							Thai Hong Chiem	1,597
197	2023/5	Veghel	Dick Jaspers	2,480	Martin Horn	1,870	Eddy Merckx	1,892
							Jean Paul de Bruijn	1,598
198	2023/6	Seoul	Eddy Merckx	1,896	Cho Myung-woo	2,426	Marco Zanetti	1,923
							Jeong Ye-sung	1,639
199	2023/7	Sharm El Sheikh	Dick Jaspers	2,130	Kim Jun-tae	1,703	Tolgahan Kiraz	1,893
							Glenn Hofman	1,463
200	2024/1	Bogota	Tran Quyet Chien	1,693	Sameh Sidhom	1,598	Glenn Hofman	1,562
							Robinson Morales	1,473
201	2024/2	Ho Chi Minh City	Tran Duc Minh	1,661	Kim Jun-tae	2,046	Tolgahan Kiraz	1,578
							Burak Hashas	1,820
202	2024/3	Ankara	Heo Jung-han	1,839	Bao Phương Vinh	2,090	Sameh Sidhom	1,610
							Martin Horn	1,715
203	2024/4	Porto	Dick Jaspers	1,916	Cho Myung-woo	2,048	Tayfun Taşdemir	2,000
							Frédéric Caudron	1,814
204	2024/5	Veghel	Trần Quyết Chiến	1,916	Frédéric Caudron	1,913	Peter Ceulemans	1,701
							Nguyen Tran Thanh Tu	1,734
205	2024/6	Seoul	Dick Jaspers	2,091	Tayfun Taşdemir	1,636	Cho Myung-woo	2,046
							Kim Jun-tae	2,040
206	2024/7	Sharm El Sheikh	?	?	?	?	?	?
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World Cup overall champions

Single years Year Winner 1986 Raymond Ceulemans 1987 Raymond Ceulemans 1988 Torbjörn Blomdahl (UMB) 1989 Ludo Dielis (UMB) 1990 Raymond Ceulemans (UMB) 1991 Torbjörn Blomdahl (UMB) 1992 Torbjörn Blomdahl (UMB) 1993 Sang Lee (UMB) 1994 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1995 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1995 Daniel Sánchez (UMB) 1996 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1996 Jorge Theriaga 1997 Dick Jaspers 1997 Christian Rudolph 1998 Torbjörn Blomdahl 1999 Dick Jaspers 2001 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2002 not held 2003 – *2

Single years Year Winner 2004 Daniel Sánchez 2005 Frédéric Caudron 2006 Daniel Sánchez 2007 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2008 Dick Jaspers 2009 Frédéric Caudron 2010 Dick Jaspers 2011 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2012 – *2 2013 Torbjörn Blomdahl 2014 Frédéric Caudron 2015 Daniel Sánchez 2016 Dick Jaspers 2017 Kim Haeng-jik 2018 Frédéric Caudron 2019 Dick Jaspers 2020 – 2021 – 2022 Dick Jaspers 2023 Dick Jaspers

Eternal list

Place	Name	No.	Years
1	Torbjörn Blomdahl	11	1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013
2	Dick Jaspers	8	1997, 1999, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023
3	Daniel Sánchez	4	1995, 2004, 2006, 2015
	Frédéric Caudron		2005, 2009, 2014, 2018
5	Raymond Ceulemans	3	1986, 1987, 1990
6	Ludo Dielis	1	1989
	Sang Lee		1993
	Jorge Theriaga		1996
	Christian Rudolph		1997
	Kim Haeng-jik		2017

List of World Cup single event winners

Date: 10. November 2024

Name Wins Torbjörn Blomdahl 46 Dick Jaspers 31 Frédéric Caudron 21 Daniel Sánchez 15 Eddy Merckx 13 Raymond Ceulemans 9 Semih Saygıner 7 Sang Lee 5 Marco Zanetti 4 Tran Quyet Chien 4 Nobuaki Kobayashi 3 Ludo Dielis 3 Tayfun Taşdemir 3 Kim Haeng-jik 3 Rini van Bracht 2 Jorge Theriaga 2 Dion Nelin 2 Christian Rudolph 2 Roland Forthomme 2 Murat Naci Çoklu 2 Martin Horn 2 Heo Jung-han 2

Name Wins Egidio Vierat 1 Junichi Komori 1 Laurent Boulanger 1 Richard Bitalis 1 Koen Ceulemans 1 Christoph Pilss 1 Andreas Efler 1 Hans Laursen 1 Francis Forton 1 Raimond Burgman 1 Yilmaz Özcan 1 Jozef Philipoom 1 Kim Kyung-roul 1 Filippos Kasidokostas 1 Adnan Yüksel 1 Choi Sung-won 1 Kang Dong-koong 1 Cho Jae-ho 1 Jérémy Bury 1 Javier Palazón 1 Cho Myung-woo 1 Tran Duc Minh 1

The best Worldcup-Players (by Ranking-Points)

Date: 10. November 2024

Rank	Name	WRP	World- cups	1st	2nd	3rd	Matches	W	T	L	MP	Pts.	Inn.	GA	SA	HR
01.	Torbjörn Blomdahl	6103	183	46	19	27	635	472	1	162	945:325	28937	17312	1,671	4,000	26
02.	Dick Jaspers	5631	168	31	22	23	596	440	4	152	884:308	27123	15290	1,773	5,000	24
03.	Frédéric Caudron	4147	136	21	13	18	424	303	2	118	608:238	19834	11850	1,673	5,714	19
04.	Daniel Sánchez	3696	146	15	12	17	444	303	3	137	609:277	20036	12415	1,613	4,444	19
05.	Marco Zanetti	3518	186	4	10	23	504	294	3	207	591:417	21960	14282	1,537	3,636	18
06.	Eddy Merckx	2854	133	13	1	14	361	222	5	134	449:273	14880	9365	1,588	5,714	21
07.	Semih Saygıner	2343	112	7	7	16	299	188	4	108	380:220	13527	8821	1,533	6,666	17
08.	Tayfun Taşdemir	2061	115	3	4	11	275	153	10	112	316:234	10300	6858	1,647	4,444	20
09.	Martin Horn	1861	106	2	7	9	269	154	3	112	311:227	11631	7857	1,480	3,076	18
10.	Roland Forthomme	1760	124	2	5	3	215	112	1	102	225:205	8737	5888	1,483	4,000	18
11.	Jérémy Bury	1676	106	1	4	11	234	117	5	112	239:229	9260	6141	1,507	4,444	24
12.	Raymond Ceulemans	1656	74	9	15	11	222	150	0	72	300:144	10713	7606	1,408	2,647	15
13.	Nikos Polychronopoulos	1580	122	0	3	3	225	111	2	112	224:226	9437	6426	1,468	4,444	25
14.	Murat Naci Çoklu	1448	96	2	3	3	190	90	5	95	185:195	7269	4813	1,510	3,333	15
15.	Heo Jung-han	1273	79	2	1	3	191	92	5	94	189:193	7079	4296	1,647	4,444	18
16.	Choi Sung-won	1266	73	1	1	5	166	89	0	77	178:154	6343	4156	1,526	3,636	19
17.	Trần Quyết Chiến	1261	61	4	2	2	171	105	4	62	214:128	6613	3896	1,697	4,444	22
18.	Eddy Leppens	1185	119	0	3	5	173	76	0	97	152:194	7353	5487	1,340	5,714	20
19.	Kim Heang-jik	1204	69	3	3	3	172	91	6	75	188:156	6381	3733	1,709	3,333	19
20.	Sang Chun Lee	1131	49	5	4	6	142	94	0	48	188:96	7382	5283	1,397	2,812	14
21.	Cho Jae-ho	1084	62	1	3	5	131	68	2	61	138:124	4883	2873	1,699	4,444	21
	Kim Kyung-roul	1084	50	1	2	7	116	68	0	48	136:96	5671	3715	1,526	3,105	15
23.	Lütfi Çenet	1058	77	0	2	5	136	64	2	70	130:142	5088	3375	1,507	4,000	17
24.	Filipos Kasidokostas	1039	66	1	2	5	111	58	0	53	116:106	5275	3452	1,528	2,857	18
25.	Sameh Sidhom	1016	81	0	3	1	165	70	7	88	147:183	6011	4089	1,470	3,076	19
26.	Christian Rudolph	1005	94	2	2	4	153	83	0	70	166:140	6826	5538	1,232	2,944	13
27.	Tonny Carlsen	955	91	0	3	3	145	75	0	70	150:140	6659	5144	1,307	3,750	14
28.	Dion Nelin	937	67	2	2	5	151	95	1	65	171:131	6580	4805	1,369	2,666	17
29.	Cho Myung-woo	941	58	1	3	5	141	77	6	58	160:122	5246	2975	1,763	4,000	24
30.	Jean Paul de Bruijn	830	83	0	0	4	90	37	0	53	74:106	3608	2741	1,316	2,666	15
31.	Ludo Dielis	824	51	3	4	7	139	81	0	58	162:116	6540	5200	1,257	2,176	14
32.	Kang-Doong-kong	817	54	1	1	1	87	43	0	44	86:88	3189	2031	1,570	3,636	15
33.	Raimond Burgman	776	61	1	0	7	120	66	0	54	132:108	5518	4063	1,358	2,368	15
34.	Adnan Yüksel	772	94	1	1	0	94	30	0	64	60:128	3884	3001	1,294	3,076	21
35.	Javier Palazón	713	66	1	0	1	70	32	1	37	65:75	2837	2018	1,405	3,333	16
36.	Peter de Backer	658	62	0	1	3	101	50	0	51	100:102	4502	3612	1,246	2,208	12
37.	Richard Bitalis	657	52	1	2	5	117	61	0	56	122:112	5538	4494	1,232	2,304	13
38.	Rubén Legazpi	644	61	0	1	1	80	34	4	42	72:88	3145	2133	1,474	2,857	20
39.	Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện	602	43	0	1	3	82	38	0	44	76:88	2765	1758	1,572	4,000	20
40.	Kim Jun-tae	596	33	0	2	5	102	64	3	35	131:73	4078	2412	1,690	5,000	028
41.	Jozef Philipoom	595	56	1	2	0	71	35	0	36	70:72	3350	2557	1,310	2,400	13
42.	Jorge Theriaga	550	54	2	4	2	104	58	0	46	116:92	5084	4277	1,188	2,368	14
43.	Lee Choong-bok	549	50	0	1	1	64	28	2	34	58:70	2510	1623	1,546	2,857	15
44.	Gerhard Kostistansky	495	80	0	0	0	63	21	0	42	42:84	2658	2302	1,154	2,105	13
45.	Junichi Komori	486	65	1	5	3	124	60	0	64	120:128	6282	5274	1,191	2,045	13
46.	Andreas Efler	483	64	1	0	1	82	38	0	44	76:88	3932	3405	1,154	2,142	15
47.	Peter Ceulemans	474	58	0	0	2	62	31	2	29	64:60	2281	1517	1,503	3,076	19
48.	Ryūji Umeda	456	56	0	0	0	70	20	0	50	40:100	2859	2374	1,204	2,250	12
49.	Hwang Hyung-bum	455	50	0	1	1	35	18	0	17	36:34	1245	937	1,328	2,666	14
50.	Can Çapak	447	60	0	0	0	44	15	0	29	30:58	1837	1366	1,344	3,076	14

Other 3 best active UMB World Cup participants (according to ranking points)

Rank	Name	WRP	World- cups	1st	2nd	3rd	Matches	W	T	L	MP	Pts.	Inn.	GA	SA	HR
53.	Tolgahan Kiraz	431	54	0	0	2	53	23	4	26	50:56	1904	1300	1,464	2,857	17
54.	Kostas Papakonstantinou	426	60	0	0	0	47	17	0	30	034:600	2028	1744	1,162	3,076	16
55.	Ma Xuan Cuong	391	49	0	0	2	32	12	0	20	24:40	1084	780	1,343	3,636	11

Annotation 1: WRP: Are the world ranking points (formerly only ranking points) (also the points from the qualification)
Annotation 2: GA: Only the results of the final round were counted
Annotation 3: Different world ranking points were awarded up to the 2004/2 three-cushion World Cup tournament. This puts the players in the first 98 tournaments at a disadvantage

References

• "Tournament rules with update prize money as of December 2017" (PDF). UMB. 2017-12-20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2017-12-19.