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28.Team World Cup: USA men and Canada women new World Champions |
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This year's World Cup took place in Hohenroda from August 1st – August 8th 2010 and for the fist time the number of players competing in one team was cut in half. Therefore, Australia, Brazil (men) and Japan (men) were able to take part with their own teams and did not have to play for the UN-Team.
Another innovation: for the first time in history,...
...two UN-Youth teams were established, who convinced from the get-go. UNY1 (a.o. with German Adrian Gepel, Marcel Hinkel and Lukas Tischer) and CAN2 shared fourth place. UNY2 (a.o. with Torben Hussmann, Philipp Schloegl and Marius Runge) straightaway placed third, thus winning the bronze medal. This time, last World Cup's champions from Canada had to settle with silver (CAN1), since USA1 (Jim Bailey, George Adkins, Dwayne Cross, Dan Smith, Gus Bondi, Rich Phifer) took home gold with 44 victories and 1 tie out of 60 games. Both German teams made (the not unexpected) places 10 and 12, while GER2 still beat JAP1.
The German ladies team expectedly proved to be good hosts by leaving it up to the other 8 teams to win a medal.The legendary fight for the crown was decided between titleholder Japan, the US-team and Canada. At the end of 17 rounds, CAN1 (Glenna Earle, Pam Hill, Erika Berg, Durelle Kowacz, Rosemary Otmar and Jane McWillie) won with 40 points out of 60 games. JAP1 took silver over USA1.
This time, the only one winning all the games was David Earle (Canada.) Therefore he is now eligible to be inducted to the “Hall of Fame” located in Clearwater/Florida/USA. Not to forget Dwayne Cross (USA,) who was left unbeaten, but scored a tie right at his first game (against John Korevaar from Australia.) Best finisher in the women's competition was World Champion Sachiyo Takada, who only lost one out of 13 games.
All important information, as well as the Team standings, all results and the top players can be looked up on http://worldcup2010.shuffleboarder.de .
The GSA congratulates all winners!
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