Torbjörn Blomdahl

Torbjörn Blomdahl

Medal record
Men's three-cushion billiards
Representing  Sweden
World Championship
1987 Cairo Three-cushion
1988 Tokyo Three-cushion
1991 Tokyo Three-cushion
1997 Grubbenvorst Three-cushion
2015 Bordeaux Three-cushion
1986 Las Vegas Three-cushion
1989 Tokyo Three-cushion
1990 Tokyo Three-cushion
1998 Rezé Three-cushion
1999 Bogotá Three-cushion
2008 Sankt Wendel Three-cushion
2014 Seoul Three-cushion
2003 Valladolid Three-cushion
European Championship
1985 Amersfoort Three-cushion
1986 Mondorf-les-Bains Three-cushion
1988 Vejle Three-cushion
1965 Vienna Three-cushion
1966 Lisbon Three-cushion
1990 Norrköping Three-cushion
1991 Dordrecht Three-cushion
1998 Aubagne Three-cushion
2001 Odense Three-cushion
1983 Dunkirk Three-cushion
1987 Waalwijk Three-cushion
2008 Florange Three-cushion
1989 Viersen Three-cushion
2002 Izmir Three-cushion
2004 Ölüdeniz Three-cushion
2009 Odense Three-cushion
2011 Porto Three-cushion
World Games
2009 Kaohsiung Individual

Torbjörn Blomdahl (born 26 October 1962 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player from Helsingborg, Sweden. He is a five time World Champion in Three Cushion, the most difficult and mathematical game of all cue sports. He won the titles in 1986, 1987, 1991, 1997 and in 2015.

Background

Torbjörn Blomdahl was born in Gothenburg but at age 11 he moved to Helsingborg. He is the son of three-cushion player Lennart Blomdahl, who was a driving force behind the local billiards club Borgen på Söder. It was here Blomdahl learned to play three-cushion with his father as the teacher. His international breakthrough was at the European championships in Copenhagen in 1984. Starting in 1989 he was ranked the best three-cushion player in the world.

Blomdahl has been a resident of Backnang, Germany since 1994.

Cue sports career

Blomdahl has won a total of 15 world three-cushion titles, 5 from UMB and 10 from BWA, placing him second to only Raymond Ceulemans who won 24. He is also the only Swede to ever be world champion. He's made 6 successful defenses, won 8 CEB European three-cushion titles which he defended successfully 4 times, and won 18 Swedish titles. His highest run is 24 and once made 50 points in 9 innings (5.555 Kill- Death Ratio ).

Other tournaments Blomdahl won include the 2004 Carom Café International Tournament against Ramon Rodriguez[1] and the first Sang Lee International Open by defeating Turkey's Semih Saygıner.[2] In 2008 Blomdahl won the money-rich Agipi Masters tournament at the expense of Dick Jaspers.

Blomdahl has also excelled at pocket billiards, once defeating Korean pro Young-Hwa Jeong and Filipino pro pool player Efren Reyes in both three-cushion, nine ball, and eight ball. He's also run 100 in straight pool.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Torbjorn Blomdahl wins the 2004 Carom Café International Tournament". AZ Billiards.com. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
  2. ↑ 2005 Sang Lee International Open (PDF) Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Blomdahl is King of Pool & Billiards in Korea". AZ Billiards.com. Retrieved 2007-08-11.


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