40th European Champions Cup kicks off today in Vienna, Austria

24 October, 2017

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The European Champions Cup 2017, which will take place from October 23-29 at 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria, features men’s and women’s national champions or point ranking leaders of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation (ETBF) member federations.

The 40th edition of the event drew 43 men from 42 countries and 39 women from 38 countries, including defending ECC champions Cajsa Wegner of Sweden and Czech Republic’s Jaroslav Lorenc (pictured right).

Men and women compete in separate divisions. All players will roll two eight-game blocks of qualifying on Wednesday and Thursday before the cut to the top 16 men and 16 women.

The Round of 16 will consist of an additional eight games to determine the top 8 players who will bowl four more games to cut to the top 4 who advance to the match play finals in best-of-three games format. In the semi-finals, No. 1 will meet No. 4 and No. 2 will take on No. 3. The winners of the semi-final matches will bowl for the title.

Full European Champions Cup rules can be found in the ETBF Constitution (Chapter 7; pages 47 and 48). For more details on the 40th ECC 2016 read the Bulletin.

Cajsa Wegner, Jaroslav Lorenc win 2016 European Champions Cup

40th ECC 2017 – Participating countries, players and coaches

Pos	Countries	Women	Men	Coaches
1	Austria	Jaqueline Witura	Patrick Freudl	Thomas Tybl
2	Azerbaijan		Ramil Hamidov
3	Belarus		Sergey Tazin
4	Belgium	Katrien Goossens	Bram Van Meerbergen	Marc Beaufays
5	Bulgaria	Didi Ilieva	Yavor Milanov
6	Croatia	Ivana Krajacic	Marin Vedris
7	Cyprus	Panayiota Pastou	Philipp Kargotis
8	Czech Republic	Miluse Novakova	Jaroslav Lorenc (DC), Marek Talpa	Ivan Burian
9	Denmark	Sascha Wedel	Jan Andersen
10	England	Vicki Harman	Lee Chatfield	Ian Oakley, Kimberly Oakley
11	Estonia	Eli Haga	Carl Kinnunen	Veikko Parikka
12	Finland	Elice Piksilä	Riku-Petteri Kivelä	Markku Veijanen
13	France	Solene Goron	Gaetan Mouveroux	Armand Lavrux
14	Germany	Laura Beuthner	Tobias Beier	Peter Lorenz
15	Greece	Panagiota Antonopoulous
16	Hungary	Sarolta Dosztaly	Zoltan Skorbrics
17	Iceland	Dagny Edda Thorisdottir	Gustav Smari Bjornsson	Theodora Olafsdottir
18	Ireland	Carol Catchpole	Alan Bride	David English
19	Israel	Adva Eliave	Ron Berlov	Shimon Yishay
20	Italy	Elga Biagia Di Benedetto	Antonino Fiorentino	Francesco Bellomonte
21	Kosovo		Rrhaman Ademi
22	Latvia	Marija Tkacenko	Janis Zemitis
23	Lithuania	Daiva Seleniene	Aidas Daninuas
24	Luxembourg	Nora Turci	Romain Oberweis	Claude Legrand
25	Malta	Sue Abela	Mauro Anastasi	Rick Vogelsang
26	Netherlands	Nicole Sanders	Xander Van Mazijk
27	Northern Ireland	Lauren Dugan	Paul Mccauley
28	Norway	Ase Jacobsen	Sven Ake Ek	Peter Engstrom
29	Poland	Anna Blaszczyk	Michał Brachaniec
30	Portugal	Cristina Soares	Paulo Lopes
31	Romania	Ibolya Karaman	Gheorghe Catalin
32	Russia	Ksenia Apanyakina	Alexey Vasilenko
33	San Marino	Ettore Bacchiocchi	Luca Corazza
34	Scotland	Alison Williamson	Brian Gillespie
35	Serbia	Danica Vijatovic	Orfej Haliti
36	Slovakia	Petra Stankova	Michal Jakobei
37	Slovenia	Ljuba Ceglar	Nino Stenko
38	Spain	Monika Jimenez	Javier Moreno	Jose Estevez
39	Sweden	Cajsa Wegner (DC), Filippa Persson	Mattias Wetterberg
40	Switzerland	Doris Schneider	Andreas Bösiger
41	Turkey	Ebru Özogluuntur	Firat Coskun	Recep Cinar
42	Ukraine	Nika Komarova	Oleksandr Nechypaiev	Ievgen Petrovskyi
43	Wales	Rhian Jones	Philip Wellsteed

European Champions Cup – Previous Champions

No.	Year	City	Country	Men’s Champion	Women’s Champion
1.	1979	s’Hertogenbosch	Netherlands	Lorenzo Monti, Italy	Daniela Gruber, Germany
2.	1980	Frankfurt	Germany	Meo Caffaratti, Italy	Irene Gronert, Netherlands
3.	1981	Helsinki	Finland	Jose Ignacio Estevez, Spain	Irene Gronert, Netherlands
4.	1982	Boraas	Sweden	Arne Svein Ström, Norway	Shelagh Leonard, England
5.	1983	Aalborg	Denmark	Martti Koskela, Finland	Birgitte R. Jensen, Denmark
6.	1984	Geneva	Switzerland	Ton Plummen, Netherlands	Doris Speckheuer, Germany
7.	1985	Madrid	Spain	Jose Ignacio Estevez, Spain	Daniela Lana, Italy
8.	1986	Oslo	Norway	Freddy Johansen, Norway	Margot Simon, Germany
9.	1987	Rome	Italy	Giovanni Ercolani, San Marino	Monica Boldo, Spain
10.	1988	Dublin	Ireland	Tapani Peltola, Finland	Helle B. Christensen, Denmark
11.	1989	Vienna	Austria	Norbert Griesert, Germany	Daniela Lana, Italy
12.	1990	San Marino	San Marino	Norbert Griesert, Germany	Daniela Lana, Italy
13.	1991	Tours	France	Norbert Griesert, Germany	Angelique de Win, Netherlands
14.	1992	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Tapani Peltola, Finland	Ann Nyström, Sweden
15.	1993	Rishon LeZion	Israel	Kostas Sakellariou, Greece	Pauline Smith, England
16.	1994 (April)	Vienna	Austria	Jouko Kuossari, Finland	Asa Larsson, Sweden
17.	1994 (Sept.)	Rome	Italy	Philippe Dubois, France	Asa Larsson, Sweden
18.	1995	Scheveningen	Netherlands	Mika Koivuniemi, Finland	Eva Häggquist, Sweden
19.	1996	Bracknell	England	Wayne Greenall, England	Jaana Strömberg, Finland
20.	1997	Tampere	Finland	Kai Virtanen, Finland	Jody Ellis, South Africa
21.	1998	Odense	Denmark	Achim Grabowski, Germany	Katriina Kukkula, Finland
22.	1999	Netanya	Israel	Tomas Leandersson, Sweden	Sue Abela, Malta
23.	2000	Bergen	Norway	Francois Sacco, France	Isabelle Saldjian, France
24.	2001	Moscow	Russia	Nick Froggatt, England	Lisa John, England
25.	2002	Schiedam	Netherlands	Jouni Helminen, Finland	Tanya Petty, Germany
26.	2003	Vienna	Austria	Anders Öhman, Sweden	Heta Allen, Finland
27.	2004	Ankara	Turkey	Domenico Righi, San Marino	Tanya Petty, Germany
28.	2005	Böblingen	Germany	Anders Öhman, Sweden	Tanya Petty, Germany
29.	2006	Riga	Latvia	Or Aviram, Israel	Annika Kilander, Sweden
30.	2007	Foetz	Luxembourg	Marco Reviglio, Italy	Ingunn Øien, Norway
31.	2008	Duisburg	Germany	Thomas Gross, Austria	Zara Glover, England
32.	2009	Chania	Greece	Giannis Stathatos, Greece	Kirsten Penny, England
33.	2010	Ankara	Turkey	Svein Åke Ek, Norway	Krista Pöllänen, Finland
34.	2011	Lahti	Finland	Thomas Gross, Austria	Krista Pöllänen, Finland
35.	2012	Zoetermeer	Netherlands	James Gruffman, Sweden	Daria Kovalova, Ukraine
36.	2013	Bratislava	Slovakia	Kimmo Lehtonen, Finland	Sanna Pasanen, Finland
37.	2014	Reykjavik	Iceland	Tom van der Vliet, Netherlands	Birgit Pöppler, Germany
38.	2015	Serravalle	San Marino	Joonas Jähi, Finland	Maria Bulanova, Russia
39.	2016	Olomouc	Czech Republic	Jaroslav Lorenc, Czech Republic	Cajsa Wegner, Sweden