Sport | Ten-Pin Bowling |
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Founded | 1965 |
Singles entrants | 133 (73 men, 60 women) from 75 countries [1] |
Most recent champion(s) | Men: Francois Louw Women: Rebecca Whiting |
Sponsor(s) | QubicaAMF Worldwide |
Official website | QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup |
The QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, previously known as the International Masters and AMF Bowling World Cup, is an annual Ten-pin bowling championship sponsored by QubicaAMF Worldwide, and the largest in bowling in terms of number of participating nations. Each nation chooses one male and/or one female bowler to represent them in the tournament, and in the majority of cases, this is done by running a qualifying tournament, the winners of which (male and/or female) are chosen.
The Bowling World Cup was created by AMF's European Promotions Director at the time, Victor Kalman, and Gordon Caie, AMF's Promotions Manager in the UK at the time. [2] Dublin, Ireland in 1965 hosted the first-ever Bowling World Cup, then called the International Masters. 20 bowlers, all men, participated. Lauri Ajanto became the first-ever winner of the BWC. Women first competed in 1972, the 8th edition of the AMF Bowling World Cup in Hamburg, West Germany where Irma Urrea became the first-ever woman to win the BWC.
13 countries have participated in every Bowling World Cup since its inception: Australia, Belgium, England (as Great Britain from 1965 to 1995), Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and United States. [3]
As of 2019, the Bowling World Cup has visited 42 different cities in 31 different countries.
Currently the men's champion is Francois Louw and the women's champion is Rebecca Whiting. [4] On March 9, 2020, World Bowling and QubicaAMF announced a merger of the World Bowling Singles Championships and the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup into one annual event, that will continue to be called the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup from 2020 onwards. [5] The 56th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was to be held in Salmiya, Kuwait at the Kuwait Bowling Sporting Club [4] in November 2020, but was postponed to March 2021 and then further postponed to October 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic [6] and then canceled all together.
Qualifying Rounds
Knockout Finals
For the 2019 BWC, all games are bowled on one pattern, typically a 41 foot pattern unless lane topography at the host site dictates that the pattern be adjusted one foot less or one foot more. [8]
Source: [9]
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Category | Record | Player | Year/Venue |
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Qualifying Rounds [lower-alpha 1] | |||
Men's Individual Game | 59 300s have been bowled in the qualifying rounds. [lower-alpha 2] | ||
Women's Individual Game | 15 300s have been bowled in the qualifying rounds. [lower-alpha 3] | ||
Men's 3 Game Series | 896 | Paul Trotter [18] | 2002, Riga, Latvia |
Women's 3 Game Series | 803 | Aumi Guerra [lower-alpha 4] | 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Men's 5 Game Block | 1307 | Ahmed Shaheen [19] | 2002, Riga, Latvia |
Women's 5 Game Block | 1304 | Aumi Guerra [19] | 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Men's 6 Game Block | 1599 | Mats Maggi [20] | 2013, Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
Women's 6 Game Block | 1531 | Lynda Barnes [21] | 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Men's 8 Game Block | 2088 | Tommy Jones [22] | 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Women's 8 Game Block | 1948 | Clara Guerrero [23] | 2014, Wroclaw, Poland |
Men's High Average [lower-alpha 5] | 246.22 | Osku Palermaa [24] | 2006, Caracas, Venezuela |
Women's High Average [lower-alpha 5] | 244.03 | Caroline Lagrange [25] | 2013, Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
Finals - Arena "Knockout" Rounds (2000-2005), (2016-) [lower-alpha 6] and Stepladder | |||
Men's Individual Game | Kai Virtanen [26] | 2004, Singapore | |
Chris Barnes [13] | 2014, Wroclaw, Poland | ||
Women's Individual Game | 298 | Jasmine Yeong-Nathan [27] | 2008, Hermosillo, Mexico |
Men's 2 Game Series | 536 | Petter Hansen [26] | 2004, Singapore |
Women's 2 Game Series | 561 | Jasmine Yeong-Nathan [27] | 2008, Hermosillo, Mexico |
Men's 3 Game Series | 778 | Derek Eoff [27] | 2008, Hermosillo, Mexico |
Women's 3 Game Series | 747 | Clara Guerrero [28] | 2014, Wroclaw, Poland |
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