World Bowling Singles Championships

The World Bowling Singles Championships is a Ten-pin bowling event open to members of World Bowling. This new event gives World Bowling a World Championship event every year, filling a void left from previous years.[1] Each member federation can send up to two men and two women to compete.

Event Details and history

The first WB Singles Championships was held on September 18–26, 2012 in Limassol, Cyprus at the Galactica Bowling Center and subsequently will be held every four years.[1] The next edition will be held December 3–12, 2016 at Qatar Bowling Center in Doha and Tokyo will host the third edition in 2020.[2][3] The event is split up into two separate tournaments, one for men and one for women.

Format

In the 2012 WB Singles Championships, each bowler (men and women) bowled 12 games of qualifying split into two six game blocks.[1] The top 24 men and women, by total pinfall, advanced to single-elimination match play. The first round of match play consisted of bowlers who qualified 9-24. The second round of match play consisted of the first round winners and bowlers who qualified 1-8 that received a first round bye. Quarterfinals consisted of second round winners. First round, second round, and quarterfinals were best of five game matches.[1] Quarterfinal winners advanced to the semi-finals, which were one game matches. Semi-final winners advanced to the finals, while semifinal losers receive a bronze medal.[1] The finals is a one game match to determine the gold medalist and the silver medalist for both the men and women.[1]

For the upcoming 2016 WB Singles Championships, WB announced changes to the qualifying round and the final rounds. The qualifying rounds are still 12 games, but now split into three four game blocks.[4] The top 32 men and women, by total pinfall, advanced to the next round. Instead of single-elimination match play, the next round now has 32 bowlers (men and women) divided into four groups of eight bowlers bowling eight games starting from scratch.[4] Each of the eight games is a match between all the bowlers in the group, with the bowler who had the highest score receiving seven points, second highest score receiving six points all the way to zero points for the lowest score in the game.[4] The two bowlers with the highest number of points after eight games from each of the four groups will advance to play in one group of eight bowlers with a similar format from the previous round.[4] After eight games in the final group, the top 4 point scorers will advance to the semi-finals. The semi-final winners advance to the final, while the semi-final loser receive a bronze medal. The finals will determine the gold and silver medalists.[4]

Lane Pattern

For the 2012 WB World Singles Championships, all games were played on one lane condition,[1] which was determined to be a medium pattern of 41 feet.[5]

Medal History

Men's Medal table[6]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States 1 1 0 2
=2  Colombia 0 0 1 1
=2  Finland 0 0 1 1

Women's medal table[7]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States 1 0 0 1
2  Latvia 0 1 0 1
=3  Malaysia 0 0 1 1
=3  Mexico 0 0 1 1

Medal Winners

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2012 Limassol United States Chris Barnes United States Tommy Jones Colombia Andrés Gómez
Finland Osku Palermaa

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
2012 Limassol United States Kelly Kulick Latvia Diana Zavjalova Malaysia Esther Cheah
Mexico Aseret Zetter

Previous & future championships

Year City Country Women Men Total
2012 Limassol  Cyprus
57
71
128
2016 Doha  Qatar
2020 Tokyo  Japan

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Bulletin for 2012 WTBA World Singles Championships".
  2. ↑ Upcoming WB Singles Championships
  3. ↑ Tokyo to host 2020 World Bowling Singles Championships
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Last World Tenpin Bowling Association Congress approves several rules changes". Bowlingdigital. December 22, 2015.
  5. ↑ WTBA Lane Patterns
  6. ↑ Men's medal standings
  7. ↑ Women's medal standings

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