Qualifying leader Frank Börner (center) and his wife Melanie (l.) finished the 34th Grand Prix Zurich atop the leaderboard Sunday June 5 at Bowling Center BeSeCo in Rümikon, Switzerland. The former German national team member and national champion averaged 248.71 for seven games in the final Round of 14 to cruise to the title with 116 point total. Melanie Börner was second with 100 points with Tanya Cuva (r.), Germany in third with 99 points.
German averages over 250 and shoots the tournament's first 300 game
Former German national team member Frank Börner (l.) averaged 250.63 to win the qualifying of the 34th Grand Prix Zurich Saturday at Bowling Center BeSeCo in Rümikon, Switzerland, an to lead the to 42 players into Sunday's finals. Börner toppled 2005 pins including the tournamen's first 300 game. Trailing Börner by 131 pins was Carlo Greulich, Germany, with Andreas Bösiger (r.), Switzerland, in third with 1822 total including one pin handicap each game.
Bruno Hediger holds on to the lead; cut for 42nd place is 1470
Brothers Daniel and Martin HĂĽrlimann set the pace in the second qualifying squad of the 34th Grand Prix Zurich Thursday at Bowling Center BeSeCo in RĂĽmikon, Switzerland. Daniel (left) and Martin (right) used the tournament's high game of 289 to lead the squad and to move into second and third place in the overall qualifying standings with 1771 and 1759. Squad 1 leader Bruno Hediger held on to the lead with 1776.
Bowling Center BeSeCo in RĂĽmikon, Switzerland (May 29 - June 5, 2011)
The 34th Grand Prix Zurich got underway on Sunday at Bowling Center BeSeCo in RĂĽmikon, Switzerland with the first of six qualifying squads. Bruno Hediger (l.) had a 1624 scratch series and added 19 pins handicap each game to overtake the early lead in the tournament with 1776 total. Hediger holds a 39-pin lead over second-place Adi Maridas (r.), who had the highest scratch series with 1729 and added eight pins handicap for 1737.
22-year-old Norwegian Svein Ă…ke Ek (pictured) defeated Mattias Wetterberg, Sweden, in the title match of Ă–IS International in Gothenburg, Sweden, 258-179, to claim his first title on the Swedish Super Six Tour. The young Norwegian, who has won his first major international title in the 2010 European Champions Cup in Ankara, Turkey, received 40.000 Swedish Kronor for the victory (approx. $6,590). Wetterberg was consoled with 25.000 SEK.
Defeats top seeded Lars Pejstrup, 253-152, for his fifth win on the Swedish Tour
Multiple World and European champion Tomas Leandersson (pictured right with the tophy) claimed his fifth title on the Swedish Super Six Tour and the third in the last two years in O'Learys Super Six, the second stop of the 2011 Tour at O'Learys Bowling in Skövde, Sweden. In the title match, Leandersson easily defeated No. 1 seed Lars Pejstrup (left), 253-152, to secure the title and the 40.000 Swedish Kronor or approximately 6,630 U.S. Dollar.
Aussie Cassie Staudinger goes wire-to-wire to win women's division
Dominic Barrett, England, and Cassie Staudinger, Australia (r-l), dominated the men's and women's division of the 23rd Irish Open Championships 2011 en route to win the 3.000 and 1.000 Euro top prizes, respectively. Barrett, the 2010 European Bowling Tour ranking champion, captured his third career IO title after 2008 and 2008 and a runner-up finish in 2009. Staudinger, a member of the Australian women's national team, became just the second bowler from the Asian Bowling Federation to win the women's division.
Swedish bowling legend Tomas Leandersson (l.) has won numerous medals during his long and highly successful career. The multiple World and European champion recently was awarded a medal completely different to those he has received in the past. Leandersson became the second recipient of the Magnus Johnson Medal, an annual award which has been established by the former Swedish national team coach Magnus Johnson (r.).
Roos, Larsen Jr. win 2010 Swedish Super Six Tour finals
2010 European Bowling Tour ranking champion Dominic Barrett, England (l.) started the year 2011 with victory in the 31st AIK International Tournament held at Bowl-O-Rama in Stockholm, Sweden from Jan. 2-6, 2010. The tournament was the first stop of the 2011 Swedish Super Six Tour. In the title match, Barrett defeated hometown favorite and defending champion Tomas Leandersson, 224-217. Rebecka Larsen Jr. and Mikael Roos, both Sweden, won the women's and men's finals of the 2010 Swedish Super Six Tour.
Lehtonen, Dorin-Ballard, Tonteri lead squads 7-9 on Thursday; cut for 44th place 1288
Finnish standout Osku Palermaa (l.) continued to lead the qualifying of the 41st Brunswick Ballmaster Open for the fifth consecutive day at Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland. The two-handerd PBA champion had a 1467 six-game series on Jan. 1st to lead the field of now 297 players from 14 countries.Petri Lehtonen (r.) led Squad 7 and Thursday's qualifying with 1396 to jump into seventh place. Qualifying continues on Friday with Squads 10-12.
Leandersson, Ljung and Larsson to serve as men's women's and youth coaches
Tomas Leandersson (pictured with Peter Ljung, left) will continue as head coach of the Swedish men's national team for another three years. The Swedish Bowling Federation has announced that it has signed Leandersson as men's coach and Ljung as women's coach through the 2013 Combined World Championships. Eva Larsson (r.) will serve as youth national team coach until 2012.
Swedish national team member Dennis Eklund has been selected Bowler of the Year by the Swedish Bowling Federation. Eklund had an outstanding first six months in the year 2010 when he captured a total of four titles including the prestigious national championships. "It is an honor to be selected bowler of the year in Sweden as the competition is very tough," Eklund said. "2010 was the best year in my career. The streak I had during the first half was unbelievable."
Defeats three opponents to capture his second title of the year
The 2010 Swedish Super Six Tour ended the same way as it started, with a victory of Tomas Leandersson (l.). The long-time Swedish international, a multiple world and European champion, who is now the head coach of the Swedish national team, won three consecutive matches to win the Kulladal Super Six at Baltiska Bowling Center in Malmö, Sweden. In the title match Leandersson, seeded third, topped tournament leader, Mattias Wetterberg, 234-217, to seal the victory.
25-time PBA champion and PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (center), United States captured the title and the 2.000 Euro top prize in the 2010 Bucharest International Sunday at IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania. The No. 1 seed swept No. 2 Takis Karetsos (l.), Greece in the title match in best-of-three games format, two-games-to-none. Stuart Williams (r.), England, and Marius Piticariu, Romania, who were eliminated in the semifinals, finished third and fourth.Â
Leads 24 players into Sunday's finals at IDM Club in Bucharest
A pair of PBA exempt players finished the qualifying of the 2010 Bucharest International atop the leaderboard. 2007 World Ranking Masters champion Stuart Williams (l.), England, posted a 1333 six-game series Saturday at IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania, to lead the field of 81 players from 12 countries with an average of 222.17. PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (r.), United States, was 22 pins behind in second place with 1311.
International bowlers take control of the leaderboard in Romania
PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (l.), United States, became the first player who cracked the 1300-bar en route to overtake the qualifying lead in the 2010 Bucharest International with 1311 pinfall total and an average of 218.50. Voss held a 39-pin lead over Paul Stott (r.), Ireland, who moved into second place with 1272. Qualifying ends on Saturday with a total of 24 players advancing to the finals on Sunday at IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania.
Viorel Simut, Romania, set the pace in the qualifying of the 2010 Bucharest at the IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania. Simut had led the field with 1254 pinfall total and an average of 209. Long-time Greek international Takis Karetsos (pictured) was second with 1234 followed by Florian Mihailescu and Romeo Gagenoiu, both Romania, with 1218 and 1216, resp. The top 4 of the squads conducted until Thursday, who will not finish among the top 18 in the overall qualifying standings, will be awarded a wildcard for the finals on Sunday.
Long-time England international Jo Cundy (pictured with the trophy) won her first major event, becoming the 2010 English Open champion Sunday Nov. 21 at Lakeside Superbowl Nuneaton in Nuneaton, England. The five-player stepladder final was an All-English affair. Cundy, who
was one of three women in the stepladder, was the No. 1 seed and watched the first three games from the sidelines. In the title match Cundy defeated fellow national team member Zara Giles, 257-219, to wrap up the title.
Defeat U.S. Team after 30 matches, 17-13, for fifth victory
Team Europe's Osku Palermaa, Mika Koivuniemi (both Finland), Paul Moor and Dominic Barrett (both England) retained the 11th Weber Cup holding off a come backing U.S. Team featuring Tim Mack, Chris Barnes, Tommy Jones and Pete Weber to record a 17-13 victory, the fifth for Europe in the 11 year history of the competition. It was down to lPaul Moor to bring the trophy home for
the Europeans and he lsealed the victory with 265-190 win over Pete
Weber.Â
Team Europe maintained their four-point lead after the fourth session in the 11th Weber Cup at Barnsley Metrodome. The session was shared three matches each which means the Europeans need three points for victory while the USA must win seven to win the competition. The final match of the session turned out to be the best of the
Weber Cup to date as Palermaa & Moor, defated Weber
& Mack, 39-28, in roll-off after a 278-278 tie.
Qualifying leader Frank Börner (center) and his wife Melanie (l.) finished the 34th Grand Prix Zurich atop the leaderboard Sunday June 5 at Bowling Center BeSeCo in Rümikon, Switzerland. The former German national team member and national champion averaged 248.71 for seven games in the final Round of 14 to cruise to the title with 116 point total. Melanie Börner was second with 100 points with Tanya Cuva (r.), Germany in third with 99 points.
Former German national team member Frank Börner (l.) averaged 250.63 to win the qualifying of the 34th Grand Prix Zurich Saturday at Bowling Center BeSeCo in Rümikon, Switzerland, an to lead the to 42 players into Sunday's finals. Börner toppled 2005 pins including the tournamen's first 300 game. Trailing Börner by 131 pins was Carlo Greulich, Germany, with Andreas Bösiger (r.), Switzerland, in third with 1822 total including one pin handicap each game. 
Brothers Daniel and Martin HĂĽrlimann set the pace in the second qualifying squad of the 34th Grand Prix Zurich Thursday at Bowling Center BeSeCo in RĂĽmikon, Switzerland. Daniel (left) and Martin (right) used the tournament's high game of 289 to lead the squad and to move into second and third place in the overall qualifying standings with 1771 and 1759. Squad 1 leader Bruno Hediger held on to the lead with 1776.
The 34th Grand Prix Zurich got underway on Sunday at Bowling Center BeSeCo in RĂĽmikon, Switzerland with the first of six qualifying squads. Bruno Hediger (l.) had a 1624 scratch series and added 19 pins handicap each game to overtake the early lead in the tournament with 1776 total. Hediger holds a 39-pin lead over second-place Adi Maridas (r.), who had the highest scratch series with 1729 and added eight pins handicap for 1737.
22-year-old Norwegian Svein Ă…ke Ek (pictured) defeated Mattias Wetterberg, Sweden, in the title match of Ă–IS International in Gothenburg, Sweden, 258-179, to claim his first title on the Swedish Super Six Tour. The young Norwegian, who has won his first major international title in the 2010 European Champions Cup in Ankara, Turkey, received 40.000 Swedish Kronor for the victory (approx. $6,590). Wetterberg was consoled with 25.000 SEK.
Multiple World and European champion Tomas Leandersson (pictured right with the tophy) claimed his fifth title on the Swedish Super Six Tour and the third in the last two years in O'Learys Super Six, the second stop of the 2011 Tour at O'Learys Bowling in Skövde, Sweden. In the title match, Leandersson easily defeated No. 1 seed Lars Pejstrup (left), 253-152, to secure the title and the 40.000 Swedish Kronor or approximately 6,630 U.S. Dollar. 
Dominic Barrett, England, and Cassie Staudinger, Australia (r-l), dominated the men's and women's division of the 23rd Irish Open Championships 2011 en route to win the 3.000 and 1.000 Euro top prizes, respectively. Barrett, the 2010 European Bowling Tour ranking champion, captured his third career IO title after 2008 and 2008 and a runner-up finish in 2009. Staudinger, a member of the Australian women's national team, became just the second bowler from the Asian Bowling Federation to win the women's division.
Swedish bowling legend Tomas Leandersson (l.) has won numerous medals during his long and highly successful career. The multiple World and European champion recently was awarded a medal completely different to those he has received in the past. Leandersson became the second recipient of the Magnus Johnson Medal, an annual award which has been established by the former Swedish national team coach Magnus Johnson (r.).
2010 European Bowling Tour ranking champion Dominic Barrett, England (l.) started the year 2011 with victory in the 31st AIK International Tournament held at Bowl-O-Rama in Stockholm, Sweden from Jan. 2-6, 2010. The tournament was the first stop of the 2011 Swedish Super Six Tour. In the title match, Barrett defeated hometown favorite and defending champion Tomas Leandersson, 224-217. Rebecka Larsen Jr. and Mikael Roos, both Sweden, won the women's and men's finals of the 2010 Swedish Super Six Tour. 
Finnish standout Osku Palermaa (l.) continued to lead the qualifying of the 41st Brunswick Ballmaster Open for the fifth consecutive day at Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland. The two-handerd PBA champion had a 1467 six-game series on Jan. 1st to lead the field of now 297 players from 14 countries.Petri Lehtonen (r.) led Squad 7 and Thursday's qualifying with 1396 to jump into seventh place. Qualifying continues on Friday with Squads 10-12. 
Tomas Leandersson (pictured with Peter Ljung, left) will continue as head coach of the Swedish men's national team for another three years. The Swedish Bowling Federation has announced that it has signed Leandersson as men's coach and Ljung as women's coach through the 2013 Combined World Championships. Eva Larsson (r.) will serve as youth national team coach until 2012. 
Swedish national team member Dennis Eklund has been selected Bowler of the Year by the Swedish Bowling Federation. Eklund had an outstanding first six months in the year 2010 when he captured a total of four titles including the prestigious national championships. "It is an honor to be selected bowler of the year in Sweden as the competition is very tough," Eklund said. "2010 was the best year in my career. The streak I had during the first half was unbelievable."
The 2010 Swedish Super Six Tour ended the same way as it started, with a victory of Tomas Leandersson (l.). The long-time Swedish international, a multiple world and European champion, who is now the head coach of the Swedish national team, won three consecutive matches to win the Kulladal Super Six at Baltiska Bowling Center in Malmö, Sweden. In the title match Leandersson, seeded third, topped tournament leader, Mattias Wetterberg, 234-217, to seal the victory.
25-time PBA champion and PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (center), United States captured the title and the 2.000 Euro top prize in the 2010 Bucharest International Sunday at IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania. The No. 1 seed swept No. 2 Takis Karetsos (l.), Greece in the title match in best-of-three games format, two-games-to-none. Stuart Williams (r.), England, and Marius Piticariu, Romania, who were eliminated in the semifinals, finished third and fourth. 
A pair of PBA exempt players finished the qualifying of the 2010 Bucharest International atop the leaderboard. 2007 World Ranking Masters champion Stuart Williams (l.), England, posted a 1333 six-game series Saturday at IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania, to lead the field of 81 players from 12 countries with an average of 222.17. PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (r.), United States, was 22 pins behind in second place with 1311.
PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (l.), United States, became the first player who cracked the 1300-bar en route to overtake the qualifying lead in the 2010 Bucharest International with 1311 pinfall total and an average of 218.50. Voss held a 39-pin lead over Paul Stott (r.), Ireland, who moved into second place with 1272. Qualifying ends on Saturday with a total of 24 players advancing to the finals on Sunday at IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania. 
Viorel Simut, Romania, set the pace in the qualifying of the 2010 Bucharest at the IDM Club in Bucharest, Romania. Simut had led the field with 1254 pinfall total and an average of 209. Long-time Greek international Takis Karetsos (pictured) was second with 1234 followed by Florian Mihailescu and Romeo Gagenoiu, both Romania, with 1218 and 1216, resp. The top 4 of the squads conducted until Thursday, who will not finish among the top 18 in the overall qualifying standings, will be awarded a wildcard for the finals on Sunday.
Long-time England international Jo Cundy (pictured with the trophy) won her first major event, becoming the 2010 English Open champion Sunday Nov. 21 at Lakeside Superbowl Nuneaton in Nuneaton, England. The five-player stepladder final was an All-English affair. Cundy, who
was one of three women in the stepladder, was the No. 1 seed and watched the first three games from the sidelines. In the title match Cundy defeated fellow national team member Zara Giles, 257-219, to wrap up the title.
Team Europe's Osku Palermaa, Mika Koivuniemi (both Finland), Paul Moor and Dominic Barrett (both England) retained the 11th Weber Cup holding off a come backing U.S. Team featuring Tim Mack, Chris Barnes, Tommy Jones and Pete Weber to record a 17-13 victory, the fifth for Europe in the 11 year history of the competition. It was down to lPaul Moor to bring the trophy home for
the Europeans and he lsealed the victory with 265-190 win over Pete
Weber. 
Team Europe maintained their four-point lead after the fourth session in the 11th Weber Cup at Barnsley Metrodome. The session was shared three matches each which means the Europeans need three points for victory while the USA must win seven to win the competition. The final match of the session turned out to be the best of the
Weber Cup to date as Palermaa & Moor, defated Weber
& Mack, 39-28, in roll-off after a 278-278 tie.