Finland starts 31st European Youth Championships with victory in Boys’ Doubles

27 March, 2018

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In a high-scoring gold medal match, Finland’s Pyry Puharinen and Jesse Ahokas defeated Lukas Sevelin and Oskar Wirefeldt of Sweden, 474-458, to start the 31st European Youth Championships with victory in Boys’ Doubles.

The Finns, who finished the preliminaries in second place ousted third-seeded Clément Bernard and Darren Pellegroms of Belgium in the semi-final round, 421-363, while the Swedes, seeded fourth stunned tournament leader Germany with Felix Hübner and Tim Lindacher in the other match, 433-395.

Puharinen and Ahokas (featured photo, l-r with coach Sami Konsteri) took the gold medal, Sweden (right) received silver and Germany and Belgium shared the bronze medal.

The field of 90 boys from 26 countries was divided into two squads to roll six games of qualifying on Monday before the cut to the top 4 who advance to the one-game medal round on Tuesday afternoon. All four finalists came out of the first squad.

Germany led the way with 2655 total, averaging 221.25 as a pair, including Hübner’s 1340 series, who took the early lead in all-events (total pinfall in singles, doubles and team event). Finland was 20 pins behind in second place with 2635 and was followed by Belgium in third place with 2619 and Sweden in fourth place with 2613.

Action shifts to the boys’ and girls’ four-player team competitions on Wednesday (first block of three games) and Thursday (second block and medal rounds).

The 31st European Youth Championships will be held from March 24 to April 2 at 30-lane Lovvang Bowling Center in Aalborg, Denmark.

The championships drew 156 players, 90 boys and 66 girls, from 28 member countries of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation (ETBF) – Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the host country Denmark.

Up to four boys and four girls per country who must not be born before September 1, 1999 will bowl in separate divisions for gold, silver and bronze medals in five disciplines: Singles, Doubles and four-player Teams, All-Events and Masters.

The 2018 EYC will be played on a 39-foot lane conditioning pattern with 26.73 mL volume oil total.

Singles, Doubles and Team preliminaries feature six games with the top 4 advancing to the medal round. No. 1 bowls No. 4 and No. 2 takes on No. 3 in the semi-finals. The winners bowl for gold and silver while the losers share the bronze medal. All matches will be decided in one game.

The three players with highest 18-game total of the Singles, Doubles and Teams preliminaries earn the medals in All-Events. The top 24 in All-Events determine the Masters champion in single-elimination match play in best-of-three games format. The top 8 players receive a first-round bye.

Photos courtesy of Markus Hegnelius and Valgeir Guðbjartsson.

Germany earns the No. 1 seed for Boys’ Doubles finals
28 countries to participate in 31st European Youth Championships

31st EYC 2018 – Boys Doubles Medal Round

Lovvang Bowling Center in Aalborg, Denmark (March 27, 2018)

Championship Round:
1. Finland (Pyry Puharinen, Jesse Ahokas), 895 (2 games)
2. Sweden (Lukas Sevelin, Oskar Wirefeldt), 891 (2 games)
3. Germany (Felix Hübner, Tim Lindacher), 395 (1 game)
(tie) Belgium (Clément Bernard, Darren Pellegroms), 363 (1 game)

Playoff Results:
Semifinal Match 1:
No. 4 Sweden (Sevelin 220, Wirefeldt 213) def.
No. 1 Germany (Hübner 225, Lindacher 170), 433-395
Semifinal Match 2:
No. 2 Finland (Puharinen 200, Ahokas 221) def.
No. 3 Belgium (Bernard 210, Pellegroms 153), 421-363
Gold Medal Match:
Finland (Puharinen 239, Ahokas 235) def.
Sweden (Sevelin 209, Wirefeldt 249), 474-458.

31st EYC 2018 – Boys Doubles Preliminaries

Top 4 advance to the medal round.

Pos	Country/Players	G1	G2	G3	G1-3	G4	G5	G6	G4-6	Total	Ave.
1.	Germany 1	368	456	491	1315	494	393	453	1340	2655	221.25
	Felix Hübner	178	219	269	666	257	178	247	682	1348	224.67
	Tim Lindacher	190	237	222	649	237	215	206	658	1307	217.83
2.	Finland 1	437	433	407	1277	501	446	411	1358	2635	219.58
	Pyry Puharinen	235	206	208	649	236	214	221	671	1320	220.00
	Jesse Ahokas	202	227	199	628	265	232	190	687	1315	219.17
3.	Belgium 1	473	388	457	1318	474	397	430	1301	2619	218.25
	Clément Bernard	278	215	236	729	230	181	173	584	1313	218.83
	Darren Pellegroms	195	173	221	589	244	216	257	717	1306	217.67
4.	Sweden 1	384	432	459	1275	384	494	460	1338	2613	217.75
	Lukas Sevelin	192	254	214	660	180	237	246	663	1323	220.50
	Oskar Wirefeldt	192	178	245	615	204	257	214	675	1290	215.00
5.	Germany 2	414	459	369	1242	450	427	451	1328	2570	214.17
	Patrick Weichert	210	238	191	639	233	223	225	681	1320	220.00
	Sidney Schroschk	204	221	178	603	217	204	226	647	1250	208.33
6.	Norway 1	377	475	399	1251	459	394	445	1298	2549	212.42
	Georg Skryten	208	278	188	674	200	191	235	626	1300	216.67
	Jonas Dammen	169	197	211	577	259	203	210	672	1249	208.17
7.	Finland 2	441	441	361	1243	482	361	454	1297	2540	211.67
	Lassi Aalto	226	219	148	593	223	200	224	647	1240	206.67
	Onni Riikonen	215	222	213	650	259	161	230	650	1300	216.67
8.	Iceland 1	339	448	432	1219	482	451	365	1298	2517	209.75
	Steindor Mani Björnsson	191	245	210	646	234	238	212	684	1330	221.67
	Agust Ingi Stefansson	148	203	222	573	248	213	153	614	1187	197.83
9.	Sweden 2	459	416	375	1250	430	461	337	1228	2478	206.50
	Adam Hultgren	225	232	192	649	211	224	144	579	1228	204.67
	William Svensson	234	184	183	601	219	237	193	649	1250	208.33
10.	Denmark 1	453	408	426	1287	377	431	374	1182	2469	205.75
	Andreas Andreasen	230	190	221	641	196	206	193	595	1236	206.00
	Mathias Ankerdal	223	218	205	646	181	225	181	587	1233	205.50
11.	Netherlands 1	397	409	412	1218	382	448	404	1234	2452	204.33
	Nick de Gelder	216	201	195	612	173	224	205	602	1214	202.33
	Mike Bergmann	181	208	217	606	209	224	199	632	1238	206.33
12.	Slovenia 1	451	408	358	1217	402	411	406	1219	2436	203.00
	Zan Haramina	190	232	190	612	194	174	159	527	1139	189.83
	Tim Cerkvenik Muzafirovic	261	176	168	605	208	237	247	692	1297	216.17
13.	Norway 2	379	441	343	1163	408	397	443	1248	2411	200.92
	Alexander Beck	212	180	171	563	197	215	237	649	1212	202.00
	Jörgen Mathiesen	167	261	172	600	211	182	206	599	1199	199.83
14.	France 1	389	392	376	1157	453	397	401	1251	2408	200.67
	Enzo Bergamino	226	189	176	591	230	221	215	666	1257	209.50
	Hugo Bonnefoy	163	203	200	566	223	176	186	585	1151	191.83
15.	Ukraine 1	405	409	385	1199	364	425	404	1193	2392	199.33
	Oleksandr Nechypaiev	218	223	212	653	148	214	239	601	1254	209.00
	Danil Pervukhin	187	186	173	546	216	211	165	592	1138	189.67
16.	France 2	377	383	415	1175	397	398	407	1202	2377	198.08
	Enzo Franco	185	172	199	556	188	205	148	541	1097	182.83
	Maxime Dubois	192	211	216	619	209	193	259	661	1280	213.33
17.	England 1	387	389	385	1161	411	398	395	1204	2365	197.08
	Robert Bowden	184	246	190	620	166	193	166	525	1145	190.83
	Oliver Spindley	203	143	195	541	245	205	229	679	1220	203.33
18.	Ukraine 2	451	410	371	1232	411	304	376	1091	2323	193.58
	Yaroslav Pokutnii	257	185	149	591	187	130	171	488	1079	179.83
	Mykola Sielin	194	225	222	641	224	174	205	603	1244	207.33
19.	Czech Republic 1	334	371	459	1164	363	409	367	1139	2303	191.92
	Filip Demuth	155	179	232	566	169	197	214	580	1146	191.00
	Lukas Jelínek	179	192	227	598	194	212	153	559	1157	192.83
20.	Italy 2	336	372	408	1116	421	335	413	1169	2285	190.42
	Giorgio Gragnaniello	172	226	196	594	195	175	186	556	1150	191.67
	Emanuele Camponesco	164	146	212	522	226	160	227	613	1135	189.17
21.	Malta 1	369	352	403	1124	394	367	391	1152	2276	189.67
	Miguel Xuereb	181	177	171	529	203	167	180	550	1079	179.83
	Edward Xuereb	188	175	232	595	191	200	211	602	1197	199.50
22.	Denmark 2	373	376	360	1109	324	436	391	1151	2260	188.33
	Marcus Christensen	199	199	215	613	147	205	212	564	1177	196.17
	Jonas Dons	174	177	145	496	177	231	179	587	1083	180.50
23.	Netherlands 2	352	374	385	1111	336	393	419	1148	2259	188.25
	Brent de Ruiter	183	165	210	558	159	172	247	578	1136	189.33
	Ronan van der Loo	169	209	175	553	177	221	172	570	1123	187.17
24.	Scotland 2	407	380	338	1125	402	358	371	1131	2256	188.00
	Chris Thomson-Nairne	209	157	160	526	178	155	216	549	1075	179.17
	Martyn Jones	198	223	178	599	224	203	155	582	1181	196.83
25.	Czech Republic 2	386	370	376	1132	356	359	394	1109	2241	186.75
	Jan Triska	198	183	186	567	196	211	235	642	1209	201.50
	Jakub Vlachovic	188	187	190	565	160	148	159	467	1032	172.00
26.	Belgium 2	405	407	347	1159	358	353	358	1069	2228	185.67
	Johnny Fleer	190	192	189	571	179	169	177	525	1096	182.67
	Renz Philipsen	215	215	158	588	179	184	181	544	1132	188.67
27.	Iceland 2	271	366	423	1060	392	415	352	1159	2219	184.92
	Olafur Por Olafsson Hjaltalin	132	180	211	523	215	215	161	591	1114	185.67
	Johann Arsäll Atlason	139	186	212	537	177	200	191	568	1105	184.17
28.	Russia 2	335	387	427	1149	365	363	340	1068	2217	184.75
	Maksim Eremenko	159	164	266	589	184	171	196	551	1140	190.00
	Maksim Landau	176	223	161	560	181	192	144	517	1077	179.50
29.	Malta 2	362	269	434	1065	381	410	358	1149	2214	184.50
	Kurt Attard	184	141	229	554	181	208	163	552	1106	184.33
	Matthew Magro	178	128	205	511	200	202	195	597	1108	184.67
30.	Scotland 1	348	425	358	1131	393	370	318	1081	2212	184.33
	Connor Parry	170	211	190	571	191	164	164	519	1090	181.67
	Euan Coote	178	214	168	560	202	206	154	562	1122	187.00
31.	England 2	333	385	370	1088	367	350	394	1111	2199	183.25
	Jay Goodwin	177	212	209	598	237	158	234	629	1227	204.50
	Josephus Van Vilsteren	156	173	161	490	130	192	160	482	972	162.00
32.	Russia 1	322	299	373	994	434	369	388	1191	2185	182.08
	Aleksei Sofinskii	147	135	194	476	224	201	204	629	1105	184.17
	Andrey Badin	175	164	179	518	210	168	184	562	1080	180.00
33.	Ireland 1	371	326	401	1098	387	311	363	1061	2159	179.92
	Lorcan Staines	197	183	211	591	215	140	166	521	1112	185.33
	Sean Farren	174	143	190	507	172	171	197	540	1047	174.50
34.	Italy 1	350	326	381	1057	300	358	422	1080	2137	178.08
	Leonardo Zingales	156	170	183	509	156	170	178	504	1013	168.83
	Mario Del Gaudio	194	156	198	548	144	188	244	576	1124	187.33
35.	Poland 1	385	282	361	1028	348	364	364	1076	2104	175.33
	Bartosz Sowinski	170	137	149	456	169	130	159	458	914	152.33
	Alex Szczepaniak	215	145	212	572	179	234	205	618	1190	198.33
36.	Lithuania 1	384	338	287	1009	309	403	376	1088	2097	174.75
	Laurynas Narusis	209	182	139	530	205	222	201	628	1158	193.00
	Kipras Kriauciunas	175	156	148	479	104	181	175	460	939	156.50
37.	Romania 1	324	407	359	1090	344	345	312	1001	2091	174.25
	Jeno-Roland Suciu	177	189	201	567	181	148	121	450	1017	169.50
	Cosmin-Marian Ilies	147	218	158	523	163	197	191	551	1074	179.00
38.	Romania 2	318	310	397	1025	398	284	358	1040	2065	172.08
	Alexandru-Valentin Grecu	169	137	214	520	188	138	202	528	1048	174.67
	Cezar Constantin Feliu	149	173	183	505	210	146	156	512	1017	169.50
39.	Switzerland 1	340	365	327	1032	327	326	323	976	2008	167.33
	Mika Gerla	166	176	140	482	172	159	168	499	981	163.50
	Jonah Louvrier	174	189	187	550	155	167	155	477	1027	171.17
40.	Turkey 2	398	290	334	1022	358	316	306	980	2002	166.83
	Mehmet Gökhan Bilgin	183	146	199	528	199	142	168	509	1037	172.83
	Mustafa Kara	215	144	135	494	159	174	138	471	965	160.83
41.	Slovakia 2	320	304	312	936	355	354	312	1021	1957	163.08
	David Barak	169	183	192	544	196	214	177	587	1131	188.50
	Simon Hrusovsky	151	121	120	392	159	140	135	434	826	137.67
42.	Turkey 1	317	296	291	904	352	342	308	1002	1906	158.83
	Tolga Can Gülec	173	144	146	463	167	160	144	471	934	155.67
	Mustafa Agah Isik	144	152	145	441	185	182	164	531	972	162.00
43.	Slovakia 1	328	311	288	927	297	322	274	893	1820	151.67
	Daniel Janos	146	120	142	408	137	149	157	443	851	141.83
	Timotej Kozík	182	191	146	519	160	173	117	450	969	161.50

Individual High Game/High Series
1 Game – Clément Bernard, Belgium and Georg Skryten, Norway – 278
3 Games – Clément Bernard, Belgium – 729
6 Games – Felix Hübner, Germany – 1348

Doubles High Game/High Series
1 Game – Pyry Puharinen/Jesse Ahokas, Finland – 501
3 Games – Felix Hübner/Tim Lindacher, Germany – 1340
6 Games – Felix Hübner/Tim Lindacher, Germany – 2655

31st EYC 2018 – Boys’ All-Events after 6/18 games

Top three will earn the medals in All-Events; top 24 advance to Masters match play, top 8 will earn one bye

Pos	Player	Country	Games	Doubles	Team	Singles	Total	Ave.
1.	Felix Hübner	Germany	6	1348			1348	224.67
2.	Steindor Mani Björnsson	Iceland	6	1330			1330	221.67
3.	Lukas Sevelin	Sweden	6	1323			1323	220.50
4.	Patrick Weichert	Germany	6	1320			1320	220.00
5.	Pyry Puharinen	Finland	6	1320			1320	220.00
6.	Jesse Ahokas	Finland	6	1315			1315	219.17
7.	Clément Bernard	Belgium	6	1313			1313	218.83
8.	Tim Lindacher	Germany	6	1307			1307	217.83
9.	Darren Pellegroms	Belgium	6	1306			1306	217.67
10.	Georg Skryten	Norway	6	1300			1300	216.67
11.	Onni Riikonen	Finland	6	1300			1300	216.67
12.	Tim Cerkvenik Muzafirovic	Slovenia	6	1297			1297	216.17
13.	Oskar Wirefeldt	Sweden	6	1290			1290	215.00
14.	Maxime Dubois	France	6	1280			1280	213.33
15.	Enzo Bergamino	France	6	1257			1257	209.50
16.	Oleksandr Nechypaiev	Ukraine	6	1254			1254	209.00
17.	Sidney Schroschk	Germany	6	1250			1250	208.33
18.	William Svensson	Sweden	6	1250			1250	208.33
19.	Jonas Dammen	Norway	6	1249			1249	208.17
20.	Mykola Sielin	Ukraine	6	1244			1244	207.33
21.	Lassi Aalto	Finland	6	1240			1240	206.67
22.	Mike Bergmann	Netherlands	6	1238			1238	206.33
23.	Andreas Andreasen	Denmark	6	1236			1236	206.00
24.	Mathias Ankerdal	Denmark	6	1233			1233	205.50
25.	Adam Hultgren	Sweden	6	1228			1228	204.67
26.	Jay Goodwin	England	6	1227			1227	204.50
27.	Oliver Spindley	England	6	1220			1220	203.33
28.	Nick de Gelder	Netherlands	6	1214			1214	202.33
29.	Alexander Beck	Norway	6	1212			1212	202.00
30.	Jan Triska	Czech Republic	6	1209			1209	201.50
31.	Marin Vedris	Croatia	6	1206			1206	201.00
32.	Jörgen Mathiesen	Norway	6	1199			1199	199.83
33.	Edward Xuereb	Malta	6	1197			1197	199.50
34.	Alex Szczepaniak	Poland	6	1190			1190	198.33
35.	Agust Ingi Stefansson	Iceland	6	1187			1187	197.83
36.	Martyn Jones	Scotland	6	1181			1181	196.83
37.	Marcus Christensen	Denmark	6	1177			1177	196.17
38.	Laurynas Narusis	Lithuania	6	1158			1158	193.00
39.	Lukas Jelínek	Czech Republic	6	1157			1157	192.83
40.	Conor Fetherston	Ireland	6	1152			1152	192.00
41.	Hugo Bonnefoy	France	6	1151			1151	191.83
42.	Giorgio Gragnaniello	Italy	6	1150			1150	191.67
43.	Filip Demuth	Czech Republic	6	1146			1146	191.00
44.	Robert Bowden	England	6	1145			1145	190.83
45.	Maksim Eremenko	Russia	6	1140			1140	190.00
46.	Zan Haramina	Slovenia	6	1139			1139	189.83
47.	Danil Pervukhin	Ukraine	6	1138			1138	189.67
48.	Brent de Ruiter	Netherlands	6	1136			1136	189.33
49.	Emanuele Camponesco	Italy	6	1135			1135	189.17
50.	Matteo Corazza	San Marino	6	1135			1135	189.17
51.	Renz Philipsen	Belgium	6	1132			1132	188.67
52.	David Barak	Slovakia	6	1131			1131	188.50
53.	Mario Del Gaudio	Italy	6	1124			1124	187.33
54.	Ronan van der Loo	Netherlands	6	1123			1123	187.17
55.	Euan Coote	Scotland	6	1122			1122	187.00
56.	Olafur Por Olafsson Hjaltalin	Iceland	6	1114			1114	185.67
57.	Lorcan Staines	Ireland	6	1112			1112	185.33
58.	Matthew Magro	Malta	6	1108			1108	184.67
59.	Kurt Attard	Malta	6	1106			1106	184.33
60.	Aleksei Sofinskii	Russia	6	1105			1105	184.17
61.	Johann Arsäll Atlason	Iceland	6	1105			1105	184.17
62.	Enzo Franco	France	6	1097			1097	182.83
63.	Johnny Fleer	Belgium	6	1096			1096	182.67
64.	Connor Parry	Scotland	6	1090			1090	181.67
65.	Jonas Dons	Denmark	6	1083			1083	180.50
66.	Andrey Badin	Russia	6	1080			1080	180.00
67.	Miguel Xuereb	Malta	6	1079			1079	179.83
68.	Yaroslav Pokutnii	Ukraine	6	1079			1079	179.83
69.	Maksim Landau	Russia	6	1077			1077	179.50
70.	Chris Thomson-Nairne	Scotland	6	1075			1075	179.17
71.	Cosmin-Marian Ilies	Romania	6	1074			1074	179.00
72.	Alexandru-Valentin Grecu	Romania	6	1048			1048	174.67
73.	Sean Farren	Ireland	6	1047			1047	174.50
74.	Mehmet Gökhan Bilgin	Turkey	6	1037			1037	172.83
75.	Jakub Vlachovic	Czech Republic	6	1032			1032	172.00
76.	Jonah Louvrier	Switzerland	6	1027			1027	171.17
77.	Andrej Storozev	Lithuania	6	1023			1023	170.50
78.	Cezar Constantin Feliu	Romania	6	1017			1017	169.50
79.	Jeno-Roland Suciu	Romania	6	1017			1017	169.50
80.	Leonardo Zingales	Italy	6	1013			1013	168.83
81.	Mika Gerla	Switzerland	6	981			981	163.50
82.	Mustafa Agah Isik	Turkey	6	972			972	162.00
83.	Josephus Van Vilsteren	England	6	972			972	162.00
84.	Timotej Kozík	Slovakia	6	969			969	161.50
85.	Mustafa Kara	Turkey	6	965			965	160.83
86.	Kipras Kriauciunas	Lithuania	6	939			939	156.50
87.	Tolga Can Gülec	Turkey	6	934			934	155.67
88.	Bartosz Sowinski	Poland	6	914			914	152.33
89.	Daniel Janos	Slovakia	6	851			851	141.83
90.	Simon Hrusovsky	Slovakia	6	826			826	137.67