- Torbjörn Blomdahl
Torbjörn Blomdahl (born
26 October 1962 ) is a Swedish professionalcarom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player fromHelsingborg ,Sweden .Cue sports career
Blomdahl has won a total of 15 world three-cushion titles; 5 from UMB and 10 from BWA. With these, he only places behind
Raymond Ceulemans who won 24. He also has made 6 successful defenses. So far, he's the only Swede ever to become world champion. He also won 9 CEB European Three-cushion titles and defended it 4 times. He has 18 Swedish titles. His highest Cuegloss|Run|run is 24 and once made 50 Cuegloss|Point|points in 9 Cuegloss|Inning|innings (5.555 average).Other tournaments Blomdahl won include; the 2004 Carom Cafe International Tournament against Ramon Rodriguez, [cite web
url=http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?id=2002
title=Torbjorn Blomdahl wins the 2004 Carom Café International Tournament
publisher=AZ Billiards.com
accessdate=2007-08-11] and the firstSang Lee International Open by defeating Turkey'sSemih Saygıner . [ [http://www.sfbilliards.com/BD2005_10_SLMtxt.pdf 2005 Sang Lee International Open (PDF)] ]In 2008, he won the money-rich Agipi Masters tournament at the expense of
Dick Jaspers . Despite winning the title, Jaspers earned more money for achieving the highest run and the highest game average. [cite web
url=http://www.professorqball.com/displaystory.php?RecordID=422
title=Torbjorn Blomdahl wins the first Agipi Masters
publisher=Professorqball.com
accessdate=2008-08-01]Aside of being a world-class player in carom, Blomdahl also has professional talent when it come to pocket billiards which he started practicing more. In one occaision, defeated Korean pro
Young-Hwa Jeong not just in three cushion but also innine ball and ineight ball . He also once ran a hundred balls instraight pool after learning the game, checking theWorld Straight Pool Championship in the internet. [cite web
url=http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?id=4517
title=Blomdahl is King of Pool & Billiards in Korea
publisher=AZ Billiards.com
accessdate=2007-08-11]References
External links
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQ4Z08djXM0 Great shots by Torbjörn Blomdahl]
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