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11- 14 JUNE 2010-06-15

ROME-ITALY

LITUS ROMA HOSTEL

Results and Ranking available through the SoL website.

SINGLE: http://sol.arstecnica.it/lit/tourney?idtourney=111

DOUBLES:http://sol.arstecnica.it/lit/seasonranking?idseason=31

A double click on each round number will give you results for each round.

After that a double click on player name will give individual player marche and scores.

Italian players at Eurocup 2009

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 

Arif Naqvi

Chairman

ICF Media Commission

13 EUROPEAN CUP - LENK IM SIMMENTHAL - SWITZERLAND

Press Release (Media Commission of ICF)
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 plus a Final Match of best of three. Jonathan Leau and Fabian Pereira (both France) came on second and third places.
A total number of 84 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 and Stefano Fabiano 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. Naqvi appreciated 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 Championship in 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.
The 14th Carrom Euro Cup in 2010 was allotted to Italy and the 15th Euro Cup in 2011 to France. The Polsih Carrom Association which officially joined the ECC offered to host a Eurocup tournament in Poland in coming years.


Risults of 13th Carrom Euro Cup:
Teams Event
Ranking Winning points Coins difference 1. United Kingdom 36 459: 153 + 306
2. France 24 376: 267 + 106
3. Germany 18 306: 309 -3
4. Italy 18 310: 330 - 20
5. Switzerland 18 276: 345 -69
6. Poland 6 127: 450 -323

Doubles Event
Fabian Pereira & Radjou Venou (France) beaten Murshad Khan & Ala Miah in Final by 25 : 11
Ranking:
1. Fareira & Rodjou Venou (France)
2. Murshad Khan & Ala Miah (UK)
3. Steffen Eder & Jan Geister (Germany)
4. A. Rahman Khan & Abdul Malik (UK)
5. Stefano Stucchi & Amitha Ubha (Italy)
6. Gabrielle Pellegatta & Paolo Ometto (Italy)
7. Anders Illi & Mervin Kalinga (Switzerland)
8. Andreas hurtig & Abdullah Neuandish (Germany)
9. Rajesh Chilveri & Abdul Khan (UK)
10. Elisa Martinelli(Zucchiati) & Sriyantha Weerasinghe (Italy)
11. Shuab Ahmed & Anhar Ali (UK)
12. Giorgio Balicchi & Vittorio Canis (Italy)
13. Bernhard Sander & Frank Fehr (Germany)
14. Fabien Vicart & Kevin Seiger (France)
15. Nitesh Sinha & Ajay Pal (Poland)
16. Kurt Scherrer & Stefano Eigenmann (Switzerland)
17. Gunter Seibert & Ingo Frauenrath (Germany)
18. Rolf Schmid & Robert Durrer (Switzerland)
19. Harvey Gomes & Azir Uddin (UK)
20. Stefano Fabian & Ricardo Maurizi (Italy)
21. Stephane Cano & Norbert Mothe (France)
22. Armin Schneider & Uwe Schneider (Germany)
23. Jalal Ahmed & Ahad Miah (UK)
24. Marcel Egli & Barbara Thomas ( Switzerland)
25. Fabio Tomasi & Andrea Croci (Italy)
26. Armin Steiner & Hans Faller (Germany)
27. Jonas Hurlimann & Noam Mayer (Switzerland)
28. Walter Buchmann & Riz Careem (Switzerland)


Singles Event
In final best of three Karnal Abdin beat Jonathan Leau 2-0.
Ranking Player Nation Winning pt. Bucholz Pt. C/m pt.
1. Karnal Abedin UK 24 186 242
2. Jonathan Leau Fr. 20 188 148
3. Fabian Pereira Fr. 18 195 110
4. Amitha Ubhayathunga It. 18 181 66
5. Abdul Malik UK. 18 179 117
6. Sriyantha Weerasinghe It. 16 194 24
7. Nazrul Islam UK 16 190 42
8. Pierre Dubois Fr. 16 187 108
9. Mouraly Venou Fr. 16 184 99
10. Heiko Wurst Ger. 16 177 65
11. Abdul Wahid UK 16 176 95
12. Thomas Scheuerl Ger. 16 172 71
13. Gianluca Cristiani It. 16 168 75
14. Kevin Seiger CH 16 153 44
15. Cornel D´Silva Pol. 16 151 83
16. Steeve Collard Fr. 16 144 62
17. Carlito Bollin CH 15 165 99
18. Mervin Kalinga CH 14 172 10
19. Shuab Ahmed UK 14 171 56
20. Lorenzo Hurlimann CH 14 171 30
21. A Rahman Khan UK
22. Claudio Motta It.
23. Murshid Khan UK
24. Rajesh Chilveri UK
25. Rodjou Venou Fr. (solo 12 anni!)
26. Anders Illi CH
27. Tobias Krueger Ger.
28. Marcel Egli CH
29. Ish Kumar Gupta UK
30. Abdul Khan UK
31. Vottorio Canisi It.
32. Rafi Dewangso It.
33. Wolfgang Peter Ger.
34. Stefano Stucchi It.
35. Andreas Hurtig Ger.
36. Paolo Martinelli It.
37. Ingo FRauenrath Ger.
38. Gabriele Pallegatta It.
39. Alfred Rajadurai Fr.
40. Armin Steiner Ger.
41. Nitesh Sinha Pol.
42. Francesco Pedicini It.
43. Stefan Eigmann CH
44. Ala Miah UK
45. Jonas Hurlimann CH
46. Patrice Dumas Fr.
47. Elisa Martinelli (Zuchiatti) It.
48. Bernhard Sander Ger.
49. Jalal Ahmed UK
50. Steffen Eder Ger.
51. Ahad Miah UK
52. Viktor Baumgartner CH
53. Jan Geister Ger.
54. Stephane Cano Fr.
55. Anhar Ali UK
56 Gunter Seibert Ger.
57. Armin Schneider Ger.
58. Stefano Fabiano It.
59. Giorgio Balicchi It.
60. Ricardo Maurizi It.
61. Norbert Mothe Fr.
62. Jakub Nowakowski Pol.
63. Paolo Ometto It.
64. Harvey Gomes UK
65. Sylwester Pogorozelski Pol.
66. Andrea Croci It.
67. Frank Fehr Ger.
68. Walter Buchmann CH
69. Rolf Schmidt CH
70. Fabio Tomasi It
71. Hans Faller Ger.
72. Abdullah Naudish Ger.
73. Kurt Scherrer CH
74. Fabian Vicart Fr.
75. Uwe Schneider Ger.
76. Robert Durrer CH
77. Ajay Pal Pol.
78. Riz Careem CH
79 Noam Mayer CH
80. Michael Helbling CH
81. Azir Uddin UK
82. Barbara Thomas CH
83. Cezary Kubicki Pol.
84. Laura Zava It.

12th EUROPEAN CARROM CUP SUTTON UK

The 12th Carrom Euro Cup was held under the Authority of the European Carrom Confederation from 1st to 3rd. August 2008 at Sutton, Uk. It was hosted by the UK Carrom Federation. The tournament was a fantastic display of the growing standard of the game of Carrom in Europe. While UKCF President Mr. Vijay Sharma welcomed the guests, the Opening Ceremony of the 12th Euro Cup was addressed by the President of the European Carrom Federation Mr. Arif Naqvi (who is also President of the International Carrom Federation)who announced that the next Euro Cup will be held in Switzerland in 2009 and informed that Carrom organisation have been formed in Poland, Czech Republic and Sweden als. Mr. SK Sharma, Secretary General of the International Carrom Federation, who attended as guest conveyed greetings from ICF and a former Mayor of Sutton Councillor Mrs. Meckenzy wlcomed the players in Sutton.
The first days matches on 1st August were concentrated in three disciplines: Team Event, Doubles Event and Women Singles Event. While UK team dominated from the very begining, the German and French had to fight hard for the second position in Team Event,having equal points. However the difference of the coins favoured the French Team.
In Doubles Event the French pair Fabian Pareira and Jonathan Leau was the most successful.
In the Women's single, held for the first time , there was an excellent performance of a sixteen year old UK player Ruhen Begum, who beat all senior players .
On the second day the singles event was held which went on for ten rounds of Swiss System on 2nd and 3rd August and saw the top favourite Karnal Abdin of UK who was unbeaten, while the other UK, German, French and Italian players struggled hard to reach Final. People were delighted to see an exiting and high standard final match between Sonahar Ali and Karnal Abdin (both UK). While Sonahar Ali dominated in the first match beating Karnal Abdin clearly, Karnal won the 2nd match without any trouble. The deciding game of the final was draw after 8 boards (16:16). Finally the fate was decided with an extra board, which Karnal Abdin snatched with great difficulties.
During the whole tournament three white slams (break to finish) were scored by different players.
The Prize Distribution Ceremony was held on 3rd.August evening, in which Mr. Arif Naqvi, hoped that the European players will give very impressive performances at the International Carrom Federation Cup in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in October this year, which will be held as part of the Golden Jubilee of the carrom Federation of Sri Lanka and 20th Anniversary of the foundation of International Carrom Federation. Elisa Martinelli, Secretary General of the European Carrom Confederation, Mr. Paul Scally a Councillor of Sutton and UKCF President Mr. Vijay Sharma also spoke at the closing ceremony. The tournament was conducted in a very friendly and cordial atmosphere and all players, coming from different parts of Europe, appreciated it.
Following are the results of the 12th Carrom Euro Cup at Sutton, 31st July - 3rd. August 2008
Singles Event: (69 players) Winner: Abdin Karnal Runner-up: Ali Sunahar 3rd: Miah Shomsu
Final Match between Karnal Abdin and Sunhar Ali: 2:1 (Best of three)
Doubles Event Winner: Fabian Pereira & Jonathan Leau (France) Runner-up: Sunahar Ali & Shaheen Miah (UK) 3rd. Chandan Narkar & Ish Kumar (UK)
Teams Event: Winner: U.K. 2nd.: France 3rd. : Germany
Women Singles Event Winner: Begum Ruhena Runner-up: Martinelli Elisa 3rd.: Emilie Neuhauser
White Slams: 3
A. Naqvi Chairman Media Commission of the ICF

II WORLD CUP NEW DELHI - 17-21 NOVEMBER 2006

The All India Carrom Federation, as part of its Golden Jubilee celebrations, organised Rajiv Gandhi 2nd World Cup Carrom Tournament from 17th to 21st November, 2006 at Tivoli Garden Resorts Hotel, Chattarpur Mandir Road, New Delhi. The World Cup is organized under the authority granted by the International Carrom Federation. The Federation has decided to dedicate the prestigious international event to the former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi.
16 countries took part U.S.A., UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Switzerland, Netherlands, UAE, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and India. Sadly Pakistan at the last minute was unable to make it.
SWiss System Singles open event results:
Yogesh Pardeshi defeated compatriot M. Nataraj 17-13 to clinch the title . P. Nirmala also of India won the best Women player medal with 5th position overall.
The placings: 1. Yogesh Pardeshi, 2. M. Nataraj, 3. Ravinder Gaud, 4. Ali Nathar (UAE), 5. P. Nirmala, 6. Kubendra Babu, 7. Chamail Coora (Sri) and 8. Humayun Kabir (Ban).
Results Open Doubles : M Natraj and D Kubendra Babu beat their Indian compatriots Yogesh Pardeshi and Ravinder Goud in a well contested finals 25-16, 25-22.
Sri Lanka got the bronze when WDN Fernando and Chamil Cooray beat H Rahaman and KGH Kabir of Bangladesh 25-2, 25-4.
Open Doubles Female: The women doubles final was a marathon affair lasting nearly three hours. I Ilavazhaki and Ayesha Mohammad were in the lead through the first game at 15-6 at one stage and at 23-15 at another stage. But Nirmala and Rashmi made it 23 all and went to a notional lead of 24-23 in the next board. But the break advantage was for Ila and Ayesha who took the first game at 25-24. In the second game Nirmala and Rashmi had a stranglehold throughout winning at 25-11 with relative ease before going on to take third easily to emerge champions.

Singles Results: Yogesh Pardeshi (India) defeated compatriot Ravinder Gaud (India) in two straight games, 25-15 and 25-16, to clinch the title. The top four: 1. Yogesh Pardeshi (India) 2. Ravinder Gaud (India) 3. Kubendra Babu (India) 4. M. Nataraj (India). The women's finals saw I. Ilavazhaki (India) beat Ayesha Mohammad (India) to lift the women's title. Rashmi Kumari in 3rd place and P. Nirmala 4th.

Of all the European players the best result was obtained by Pierre Dubois who ranked 24/76 in the Swiss system Singles. Of the Italian players Claudio Motta had best poition 45/76.

During the ICF Congress and BOM meetings the following international events were assigned: International Open 2007 to be held in november in Malaysia, IV World Championships in February 2008 in France and III World cup 2010 in USA.

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X EUROCUP FRANCE 2006

Saint Rome de Dolan FROM 29 TO JUNE to 3 JULY

PROGRAMME COUPE D’EUROPE DE CARROM 2006 : St Rome de Dolan (Gorges du Tarn) - France

This year, France has this honour to organise the 10th Eurocup. Here are main elements set up at this time.
Organising team, helped by our partner Carrom Art and all voluntaries are proposing you the following program, under the auspices of the European Carrom Confederation:
- from monday June 26 to thursday 29: coaching given by Arun Deshpande, the famous international champion that everybody knows
- thursday 29 and friday 30th of June: international umpire examination. Exact dates and times for writing, oral and practice will be given by ECC
- friday 30: opening ceremony, followed by double and team events
- saturday July 1rst and sunday 2: single event (11 rounds)
- sunday evening: prize distribution and closing ceremony, followed by the gala dinner and, depending on budget, magician show, fireworks and orchestra
- monday 3: end of Eurocup after having cleared everything before 11.30 am for school group arriving at 12 am
- housing reserved until monday morning, but if some players (/families) want to stay longer we'll have to be informed for booking
- several activities will be proposed during the week before competition. See "other features" in the "tourism" section
A detailed program will be available on our web site before June 15, and a booklet will be given to each participant at arrival, including rules, organisation, housing, etc.
. Maximum number of participants will be:
- 120 for double and single tournament. Number of French players can not be over half of total competitors
- 20 for Arun's coaching
- 10 for umpire examination
Booking
Booking list is opened since today 6 March, until May 22
The number of competitors for each country is given in the following table and has been based on number of players in Eurocup 2005. This table needs to be validated by ECC to be official.
By the end of May, this list will be adjusted depending on waiting lists for each country after regular contacts with European Federations and ECC. Priority to adjustment will be given to countries that are given now less than 15 participants.
Italia 20
Germania 20
UK 20
CH 17
NL 5
CAT 5
Francia 30
Due date for receiving registrations and payments is on June 1rst
After that day, non validated (payed) registrations will open waiting list. For French players the order will be the national official ranking.

MEALS AND HOUSING
Two buildings ("Grande Maison" and "Les Cèdres") plus two lodges for 6 people will be available. See web pages for more details at http://www.carrom.net/eurocup/
All meals will be taken in the Main House
Ticket will be given at arriva land required for each meal

PRICES
The folllowing prices are full board, until monday morning:
170 EUROS INCLUDES:
- Required registration to CEI Pierre Monestié
- housing
- breakfasts
- lunches
- week diners
- gala dinner
- gala evening and show
- Eurocup fees
fOR discounts and training/exam prices contact Elisa at FIC
The campground is just 100 meter from competition site (see slides on web site), dominating the Gorges du Tarn. Negociation are on the way for discount pricesThe campground is just 100 meter from competition site (see slides on web site), dominating the Gorges du Tarn. Negociation are on the way for discount prices

Warning
Breakfasts, lunches and gala dinner cannot be retrieved from payment
Due to sensitive smoke detectors in all buildings, smoking is strictly forbidden inside any building. Respect of site and cleanness will be greatly appreciated (papers, plastic, cigarettes, bottles …)
Geographical site :
• Dominating the river and the Gorges du Tarn, the Pierre Monestier center is ideal for our competition:
- unique site for all activities: this small typical stone houses village is wonderful. All buildings for Eurocup are close to each other among the village, only one small touristic road passes close to it. No cars are needed during the whole stay.
- no noise, a large room with a great view over the river will be a magic place for the competition
- the restaurant is downstairs the main building with real meals made by professionals
- an easy access by road (motorway exit not far from village), plane or train
- lots of facilities on site: washing and drying machines, pay phone …
• lots of leasure equipment:
- large swimming pool by th main house with a wonderful view over the gorges du Tarn
- foot-ball ground, tennis, badminton, pétanque, kids place …
- TV, foot table, electronic darts game, video games, flipper …
• the best time in the year:
- days are the longest in the year, with beautiful sunsets and very warm weather
- the world football cup that we will share together
TOURISM
You'll see on web site a lot of various activities if you want to stay for some vacation in the area.
We will propose you some activities during the week before competition:
- "acrobranche" circuit
- rafting over the Tarn
- some visits (château de Séverac, pont de Millau, caves de Roquefort, ...)
- walking excursion
All the organisation team members will do their best to offer you a memorable Eurocup. Many thanks to all those who will join us and help us making it a great jubilee competition.
All best Laurent Prost French Federation President

9th EUROCUP IN ITALY

Please see the web pages on this link eurocup 2005

autori: claudia gianfriglia & elisa zucchiatti
realizzazione a cura della F.I.C.
info@carromitaly.com