The youth teams from Korea dominated the 16th Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships, which was held in Cairo, Egypt, from Feb. 1-10, 2012. In the Boys division Hwang Dong-Jun, Choi Tae-Seung, Ryu Ji-Hoon and Cha In-Ho turned in an outstanding performance and left Egypt with all five gold medals plus one silver and four bronze. In the Girls Division, Kang Su-Jin, Son Hye-Rin, Lim So-Hyun and Hwang Yeon-Ju won all but the gold medal in Masters and added three silver and two bronze medals to the Korean medal haul.
In an all-Finnish affair, Osku Palermaa (l.) topped Perttu Jussila (r.), 289-255, in the deciding game to win the 10th Kingdom of Bahrain International Open Saturday at Ozone Entertainment Center in Manama, Bahrain. The two-hander received the 7,500 Bahraini dinar or $19,500 top prize. The top 16 Asian in the finals standings made the cut for the 2012 ABF Tour Bahrain leg. 
Six-time world champion Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno (pictured) reached another milestone in his bowling career last Sunday by winning his 124th Masters title in a 40-year span. Maintaining the form he displayed in 1972 when he recorded his first Masters victory, the 55-year-old Nepomuceno toppled former world titlist and Asian Games gold medalist Biboy Rivera, 2-0 (255-211 and 226-208), to capture the first ABC-Boysen Open crown at the E-Lanes Bowling Center in Greenhills, San Juan.
Kim Bolleby won two consecutive tournaments in Arabia, the 3rd Dubai International Bowling Tournament and the H.H. The Emir's Cup 2012, which earned the Swede almost $50,000 prize money. Bolleby won the tournament in Dubai on Feb. 25th, worth $16,300, from top seed and also finished second in the Under-23 division to pocket another $3,540. One week later in Doha, Bolleby defeated England's PBA champions, Dominic Barrett and Stuart Williams, on his way to the title and the $27,000 top prize.
The Hong Kong Tenpin Bowling Congress will host the 22nd Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships from Sept. 2-11, 2012 at Hong Kong Bowling City, a 48-laner in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong. The championships will feature maximum six male and six female players per country. Men and women will compete in separate divisions for gold, silver and bronze medals in six disciplines: Singles, Doubles, Trios, 5-player Team, All Events and Masters.
During the 2011 AMF Australian Masters, a WTBA World Bowling Tour event, five Australian standouts took on a team of five international stars in a made-for-television competition series. The AMF Australian Masters International Challenge was held Thursday, Oct. 20 at AMF Bowling, Rooty Hill in Sydney. These shows are currently televised via the digital TV platforms of TVS Sydney, QCTV Brisbane, C31 Melbourne/Geelong, C44 Adelaide and WTV Perth, and will be available to a global audience online, 24 hours after being televised, via Youtube.
Tomie Kawaguchi (l.) and Hiromi Matsunaga (r.) closed out the 2011 Japan PBA Ladies Tour with victories in the JLBC Prince Cup and the third and last "major" of the season, the 43rd All Japan Pro Bowler Championships a.k.a. Handa Cup. Matsunaga, who won three titles this sason, led the 2011 JPBA Ladies Tour in two of the three major categories (points and averages), while Kawaguchi, who captured two titles, led the Ladies pros in earnings. 
The world-beating achievements of tenpin bowling champion Jason Belmonte were acknowledged this week at an impressive Civic Reception hosted by the Mayor of Orange City Council, Cr. John Davis (l.). Before a large audience of Orange citizens and distinguished guests including New South Wales MP, the Hon. Andrew Gee, Mayor Davis commended Belmonte (r.) on the combination of hard work, determination, natural talent and passion that has led to his outstanding success.
Mubarak Al-Muraikhi (pictured) of Qatar capped off the bowling competition in the Arab Games 2011 at Qatar Bowling Center in Doha with victory in match play. It was the second gold medal for the Qatari veteran, who also won two silver medals, to become the most winningest players of the Games. Five of the seven countries, who sent a bowling team to the Arab Games
2011, shared the medals. The host country Qatar led the medal table with
two gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals. 
Tomie Kawaguchi (l.) and amateur Natsuki Sasaki (r.) captured two of the three "major" titles on the 2011 Japan Professional Bowlers Association Ladies Tour. Kawaguchi reached the title matches in both events. She defeated Wendy Macpherson, United States, to win the Round 1 Cup, the richest women's tournament on the tour, but fell to Natsuki Sasaki, who became the first amateur bowler ever to win the Ladies Japan Open.
Cherie Tan from Singapore and Malaysia's Adrian Ang captured the coveted Masters titles on the final day of the bowling competition of the 26th Southeast Asian Games Sunday in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the women's final, top seeded Tan flew past Sharon Koh, Malaysia, 497-372, to claim her third gold medal of the Games. Ang, seeded second, defeated top seeded Frederick Ong, Philippines, in the men's final, 431-390, for his fourth gold medal.