World Championship 5-Pins Milan
The new World Champion of 5-Pins is the 28 years old Matteo Gualemi from Italy, who blew the audience and all his opponents away with a fascinating and fearless style that shook the world stars Torregiani, Quarta, Maggio, Aniello and Lopez – and left them and many others behind wondering: “What happened?”. Gualemi and his opponent in the final Sandro Giachetti both showed world classs 5-Pins performances and it was only with a few point Gualemi was able to win 4-3 in sets.
The final was played at the Auditorium Testori at the Piaza di Lombardia in the city center of Milano where the 250 VIP tickets were ripped away. Millions of spectators worldwide followed the final games through RAI Sport.
Torsten Danielsson – UMB Delegate:” This World Championship was the first under UMB where we tried out playing a qualification tournament right up to the main event. With 1115 players – it was a great success for FIBIS (Italien Billiard Federation). Not only the amount of players but the fact that the two finalist where players qualified from the qualification tournament and were not among the 40 seeded players! UMB will evaluate this form in the near future. At the end of the day Mr. Andrea Mancino (President FIBIS) and his team of many hard working voluntaries performed a fantastic event that will go into the history. UMB is delighted to have such a dedicated federation like FIBIS, who is working with great professionality and dedication – that one only can do it you love what you are doing! UMB also thanks CEB and the delegate Mr. Gabrio Volante for the impressing organization and work to make this World Championship a great success”.
UMB is happy that already two candidates have shown interest in organizing the next 5-Pins World Championship in 2017.
The ranking of the final:
- Matteo Gualemi
- Sandro Giachetti
- Michelangelo Aniello and Andrea Quarta. Torsten Danielsson, UMB