Nati Volpart and Tali Itzhak (l-r) won the Israeli World Cup Qualifier Saturday at "Bola" bowling center in Holon. For the first time in their career, the duo will represent Israel at the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Wroclaw, Poland. 42 players participated in the 23rd running of the Israeli BWC Qualifier. All players, men and women, bowled 18 games of qualifying over three days to determine the top 8 men and top 8 women for the single-elimination finals.
Champions to represent the Netherlands at the 2012 QubicaAMF World Cup in Poland
The finals of the 2011-12 NBF Federation Bowling Tour were held this past weekend at Claus Event Center in Hoofddorp. Daniëlle van der Meer and Michell Stinissen (r-l) won the women's and men's title in the highest division and will represent their country at the 2012 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Poland. In the women's title match, Van der Meer defeated defending champion Wendy Kok, 2-1, while Stinissen topped Sven Steenbekkers, 2-1, for the men's title.
Wendy Bartaire and Thierry Sacco won the French World Cup Qualifying Tournament Sunday in La Rochelle to earn berths into the 2012 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. In the women's title match, Bartaire swept Isabelle Derynck, two-games-to-none, in the best-of-three games format to claim her first berth into the BWC. Sacco will represent his country for the fourth time after 2005 (Slovenia), 2006 (Venezuela) and 2009 (Malaysia) thanks to a 2-1 victory over Jonathan Lefevre.
Winners will represent Kazakhstan in the 2012 Bowling World Cup
Yelena Grishinenko (l.) and Yuriy Sazonov (r.) captured the titles in the 14th Kazakhstan Cup which was held May 12-13 at Bowling Club Olimp in Almaty. The winners will represent Kazakhstan in the 2012 Bowling World Cup in Poland.
Sazonov led the men's division with 4148 pinfall total including 135 bonus pins to earn his first career BWC berth. Grishinenko dominated the women's field and finished 442 pins ahead of her nearest competitor.
Competition takes place at 24-lane Sky Bowling Center Nov. 24 - Dec. 2, 2012
Anne-Marie Board, QubicaAMF BWC manager, has announced today that the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup will be held from November 24th to December second, 2012, at Sky Bowling Center in Wroclaw, Poland. The bowling center is part of a larger complex within Fitness Academy group and is located in the Sky Tower. It has 24 brand new lanes with the latest scoring equipment from QubicaAMF.
Australia's reps decided at Australian Open and Vic 150
Melbourne's AMF Keon Park bowling center hosted a hectic schedule of bowling action over Easter as top bowlers from around the country battled for the coveted berths as Australia's representatives at the 2012 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. Ben Coupland from Melbourne's Brighton East won the Australian Open, while former World Cup Ann-Maree Putney from Newcastle took the title in the Vic 150 event to qualify for the 48th BWC (dates and venue tbd).
Defeats Kalika and Jones to win his first career World Cup title
Jason Belmonte (center) of Australia capped off a highly successful year with his first career victory in the 2011 Bowling World Cup in South Africa after defeating fellow PBA champion Tommy Jones (l.), United States, in the men's title match, two-games-to-one. The two-hander from Down Under, who averaged 255 against Jones, averaged over 250 in the semifinal match against Mykhaylo Kalika (r.) to eliminated the Ukrainian in the deciding third game.
Becomes the second player in BWC history to successfully defend the title
Aumi Guerra (center) of the Dominican Republic captured her second consecutive women's World Cup title when she defeated Diandra Asbaty (left), United States, 202-199, in the deciding third game to win the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, two-games-to-one. Asbaty, who was targeting for her second career World Cup title after her victory in 2006 ousted Sandra Andersson (right), Sweden, in the semifinal, 2-1.
United States secure Bent Petersen Award for the top country
Aumi Guerra (l.), Dominican Republic, is one game away from winning her second consecutive Bowling World Cup title. The defending women's champion averaged 231.25 and compiled a 3-4-1 won-loss-tie record Tuesday to easily earn the No. 1 seed for tomorrow's stepladder finals in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the semifinal match starting at 10 a.m. local time, second place Diandra Asbaty , and third place Sandra Andersson, Sweden, will square off.
Jones averages 261 in Round Robin to earn top seed for Wednesday's stepladder finals
Tommy Jones (l.), United States, averaged 261 for eight games round robin to earn the No. 1 seed for the men's stepladder finals in the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. Jason Belmonte (r.), Australia and Mykhaylo Kalika, Ukraine, will clash in the opening match Wednesday at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Jonas and his team mate Diandra Asbaty have already secured the Bent Petersen Award for the top country.
Top 8 qualifiers advance to Round of 8; Rivera, Belmonte achieve perfection
The top eight qualifiers survived the second cut in the men's division of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup Monday afternoon in Johannesburg, South Africa. Team USA's Tommy Jones (l.) averaged 229.50 for the eight-game block to maintain a 37 pin lead over fellow PBA champion Jason Belmonte (r.) of Australia. Jones led the top eight players into the Round of 8 with 6739 total and an average of 240.68 for 28 games.
Defending champions is 549 pins ahead of fourth place with only eight games to go
Defending women's champion Aumi Guerra, will get a chance to become just second woman in the Bowling World Cup history to win back-to-back titles as the Dominican Republic representative has practically secured berth into the stepladder finals though the top 8 women still have to bowl another eight games before the cut to the top 3. Guerra averaged 235.63 over eight games in the Round of 24 to easily maintain her lead with 6748 pinfall total and an average of 241 for 28 games.
High definition slow-motion studies of strike balls filmed during the men's qualifying of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, featuring PBA star Jason Belmonte, Australia; two-time World Cup champion Michael Schmidt, Canada; world champion Biboy Rivera, Philippines, as well as players from Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain and Switzerland.
Defending champion averages 243.15 for twenty games; cut for 24th place is 3976 (198.80 average)
Aumi Guerra (l.) of the Dominican Republic dominated the women's qualifying of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup which concluded its four-day run Sunday evening at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The defending champion led the 69-player field by 335 pins with 4863 total and an average of 243.15 for twenty games. Katrien Goossens (r.), Belgium, took the 24th and last place to advance with 3976 total and an average of 198.
Leads top 24 qualifiers into next round; cut for 24th place is 4272 (213.60 average)
Tommy Jones (l.), United States, averaged 240.4 on the last qualifying day in the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup en route to lead the top qualifiers into the Round of 24 Monday at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 13-time PBA champion used a 1202 five-game series to overtake the lead with 4903 total and an average of 245.15 for 20 games. Thomas Gross (r.), Austria, took the 24th and last place to advance with 4272 (213.60).
Lucas Legnani shoots third perfecto of the tournament; cut for 24th place is 3237 (215.80 average)
Jason Belmonte (l.) rolled one of eight 1200-plus series (a 240 average) on the third day of qualifying in the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup Saturday at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa and continued to lead the 81-player men's division with 3755 total and an average of 250.33 for 15 games. Lucas Legnani (r.) of Argentina started his third block with a bang by rolling the third 300 game of the tournament.
Defending women's champion widens her lead to 299 pins; cut for 24th place is 2997 (199.80)
The scores in the women's division of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup went through the roof on the third day of qualifying at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Leading the 69-player field by 127 pins and an average of 241.7 after ten games, defending champion Aumi Guerra (pictured) of the Dominican Republic averaged over 260 in the third five-game block to widen her lead to an enormous 299 pins with five more qualifying games to go. Guerra had games of 278, 234, 267, 246 and 279.
The 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup got underway on Wednesday morning, Nov. 30, 2011 with the men's and women's official practice at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the second time after 1993 that South Africa hosts the BWC. Northcliff Bowling Center, which belongs to the chain of Let's Go Bowling South Africa, is 24-laner with QubicaAMF equipment.
Defending champion averages over 241 for ten games; cut for 24th place is currently 1990 (199 average)
Defending champion Aumi Guerra (pictured), Dominican Republic, added an huge 1272 five-game series to the 1145 of the first block to overtake the lead in the women's preliminaries as qualifying has reached the halfway mark at the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in South Africa. Guerra rolled games of 244, 280, 279, 190 and another 279 Friday at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg to pace the field of 69 women with 2417 ten-game total (241.7 average).
150 players - 81 men and 69 women - from 82 countries participate in the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7, 2011 at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Opening Ceremonies was held in the 'World of Beer' and featured Zulu dancers before all the bowlers marched in. The center, situated in the heart of the Johannesburg Newtown Cultural Precinct, reveals the history of beer. It was opened by former President Nelson Mandela more than 16 years ago, on May 15, 1995.
Nati Volpart and Tali Itzhak (l-r) won the Israeli World Cup Qualifier Saturday at "Bola" bowling center in Holon. For the first time in their career, the duo will represent Israel at the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Wroclaw, Poland. 42 players participated in the 23rd running of the Israeli BWC Qualifier. All players, men and women, bowled 18 games of qualifying over three days to determine the top 8 men and top 8 women for the single-elimination finals.
The finals of the 2011-12 NBF Federation Bowling Tour were held this past weekend at Claus Event Center in Hoofddorp. Daniëlle van der Meer and Michell Stinissen (r-l) won the women's and men's title in the highest division and will represent their country at the 2012 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Poland. In the women's title match, Van der Meer defeated defending champion Wendy Kok, 2-1, while Stinissen topped Sven Steenbekkers, 2-1, for the men's title. 
Wendy Bartaire and Thierry Sacco won the French World Cup Qualifying Tournament Sunday in La Rochelle to earn berths into the 2012 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. In the women's title match, Bartaire swept Isabelle Derynck, two-games-to-none, in the best-of-three games format to claim her first berth into the BWC. Sacco will represent his country for the fourth time after 2005 (Slovenia), 2006 (Venezuela) and 2009 (Malaysia) thanks to a 2-1 victory over Jonathan Lefevre.
Yelena Grishinenko (l.) and Yuriy Sazonov (r.) captured the titles in the 14th Kazakhstan Cup which was held May 12-13 at Bowling Club Olimp in Almaty. The winners will represent Kazakhstan in the 2012 Bowling World Cup in Poland.
Sazonov led the men's division with 4148 pinfall total including 135 bonus pins to earn his first career BWC berth. Grishinenko dominated the women's field and finished 442 pins ahead of her nearest competitor.
Anne-Marie Board, QubicaAMF BWC manager, has announced today that the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup will be held from November 24th to December second, 2012, at Sky Bowling Center in Wroclaw, Poland. The bowling center is part of a larger complex within Fitness Academy group and is located in the Sky Tower. It has 24 brand new lanes with the latest scoring equipment from QubicaAMF. 
Melbourne's AMF Keon Park bowling center hosted a hectic schedule of bowling action over Easter as top bowlers from around the country battled for the coveted berths as Australia's representatives at the 2012 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. Ben Coupland from Melbourne's Brighton East won the Australian Open, while former World Cup Ann-Maree Putney from Newcastle took the title in the Vic 150 event to qualify for the 48th BWC (dates and venue tbd).
Jason Belmonte (center) of Australia capped off a highly successful year with his first career victory in the 2011 Bowling World Cup in South Africa after defeating fellow PBA champion Tommy Jones (l.), United States, in the men's title match, two-games-to-one. The two-hander from Down Under, who averaged 255 against Jones, averaged over 250 in the semifinal match against Mykhaylo Kalika (r.) to eliminated the Ukrainian in the deciding third game.
Aumi Guerra (center) of the Dominican Republic captured her second consecutive women's World Cup title when she defeated Diandra Asbaty (left), United States, 202-199, in the deciding third game to win the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, two-games-to-one. Asbaty, who was targeting for her second career World Cup title after her victory in 2006 ousted Sandra Andersson (right), Sweden, in the semifinal, 2-1.
Aumi Guerra (l.), Dominican Republic, is one game away from winning her second consecutive Bowling World Cup title. The defending women's champion averaged 231.25 and compiled a 3-4-1 won-loss-tie record Tuesday to easily earn the No. 1 seed for tomorrow's stepladder finals in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the semifinal match starting at 10 a.m. local time, second place Diandra Asbaty , and third place Sandra Andersson, Sweden, will square off.
The top eight qualifiers survived the second cut in the men's division of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup Monday afternoon in Johannesburg, South Africa. Team USA's Tommy Jones (l.) averaged 229.50 for the eight-game block to maintain a 37 pin lead over fellow PBA champion Jason Belmonte (r.) of Australia. Jones led the top eight players into the Round of 8 with 6739 total and an average of 240.68 for 28 games.
Defending women's champion Aumi Guerra, will get a chance to become just second woman in the Bowling World Cup history to win back-to-back titles as the Dominican Republic representative has practically secured berth into the stepladder finals though the top 8 women still have to bowl another eight games before the cut to the top 3. Guerra averaged 235.63 over eight games in the Round of 24 to easily maintain her lead with 6748 pinfall total and an average of 241 for 28 games.
High definition slow-motion studies of strike balls filmed during the men's qualifying of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, featuring PBA star Jason Belmonte, Australia; two-time World Cup champion Michael Schmidt, Canada; world champion Biboy Rivera, Philippines, as well as players from Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain and Switzerland.
Aumi Guerra (l.) of the Dominican Republic dominated the women's qualifying of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup which concluded its four-day run Sunday evening at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The defending champion led the 69-player field by 335 pins with 4863 total and an average of 243.15 for twenty games. Katrien Goossens (r.), Belgium, took the 24th and last place to advance with 3976 total and an average of 198. 
Tommy Jones (l.), United States, averaged 240.4 on the last qualifying day in the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup en route to lead the top qualifiers into the Round of 24 Monday at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 13-time PBA champion used a 1202 five-game series to overtake the lead with 4903 total and an average of 245.15 for 20 games. Thomas Gross (r.), Austria, took the 24th and last place to advance with 4272 (213.60). 
Jason Belmonte (l.) rolled one of eight 1200-plus series (a 240 average) on the third day of qualifying in the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup Saturday at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa and continued to lead the 81-player men's division with 3755 total and an average of 250.33 for 15 games. Lucas Legnani (r.) of Argentina started his third block with a bang by rolling the third 300 game of the tournament. 
The scores in the women's division of the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup went through the roof on the third day of qualifying at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Leading the 69-player field by 127 pins and an average of 241.7 after ten games, defending champion Aumi Guerra (pictured) of the Dominican Republic averaged over 260 in the third five-game block to widen her lead to an enormous 299 pins with five more qualifying games to go. Guerra had games of 278, 234, 267, 246 and 279.
Defending champion Aumi Guerra (pictured), Dominican Republic, added an huge 1272 five-game series to the 1145 of the first block to overtake the lead in the women's preliminaries as qualifying has reached the halfway mark at the 47th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in South Africa. Guerra rolled games of 244, 280, 279, 190 and another 279 Friday at Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg to pace the field of 69 women with 2417 ten-game total (241.7 average).
