Cue sports at the 2022 World Games
Cue sports at the 2022 World Games | |
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Venue | Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex |
Dates | 13–17 July 2022 |
No. of events | 5 |
Competitors | 64 from 35 nations |
The 2022 World Games had four cue sports events, which took place in July 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama in United States, at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex.[1] Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
Qualification
[edit]Participating nations
[edit]- Argentina (1)
- Austria (2)
- Bahrain (1)
- Belgium (1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
- Brazil (1)
- Canada (2)
- Chinese Taipei (2)
- Colombia (2)
- Costa Rica (2)
- Ecuador (1)
- Egypt (2)
- Germany (5)
- Great Britain (3)
- Hong Kong (1)
- India (2)
- Italy (1)
- Japan (2)
- Kuwait (1)
- Netherlands (1)
- New Zealand (2)
- Pakistan (1)
- Peru (1)
- Philippines (2)
- Poland (3)
- Qatar (2)
- Singapore (1)
- South Africa (1)
- South Korea (2)
- Spain (2)
- Sweden (1)
- Thailand (1)
- Turkey (2)
- United States (8)
- Vietnam (1)
Medal table
[edit]* Host nation (United States)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
2 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
5 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Colombia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Egypt | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
9 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Singapore | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (11 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Medalists
[edit]Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's 3-cushion carom | Dick Jaspers Netherlands | Jose Juan Garcia Colombia | Eddy Merckx Belgium |
Men's 9-ball pool | Joshua Filler Germany | Sanjin Pehlivanović Bosnia and Herzegovina | Aloysius Yapp Singapore |
Women's 9-ball pool | Kelly Fisher Great Britain | Chou Chieh-yu Chinese Taipei | Yuki Hiraguchi Japan |
Men's snooker | Cheung Ka Wai Hong Kong | Abdelrahman Shahin Egypt | Darren Morgan Great Britain |
References
[edit]- ^ "The World Games 2022 Sports programme". Retrieved 2020-08-29.
- ^ "2021 WORLD GAMES POSTPONED TO 2022 TO AVOID TOKYO OLYMPIC CLASH". reuters.com. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-29.