Mai Ginge Jensen wins gold medals in All-Events and Masters in Brussels

17 June, 2018

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Mai Ginge Jensen of Denmark, who won the gold medal in all-events in the Women’s European Championships Friday to take the no. 1 seed for match play masters, went on to defeat four opponents to capture her second gold medal of this Championships.

Featured photo from left: Eliisa Hiltunen, Mai Ginge Jensen, Nicole Sanders and Amandine Jacques.

Jensen (left) received one bye to the round of 16 after finishing all-events in the top 8 and started her road to victory by sweeping Becky Daly of England, Tina Hulsch of Germany and Amandine Jacques of France in best-of-three games format, two-games-to-none.

In the gold medal match against Eliisa Hiltunen (right) of Finland, Jensen won the first game, 224-214, but the no. 18 seed rebounded with a 237-198 win in game two to force a deciding third game, which Jensen won comfortably, 256-191.

Hiltunen, who came back from a 1-0 deficit to defeat Dutch Nicole Sanders in the semi-final round, 2-1, earned her third silver medal after trios and team. Jacques (left) and Sanders (below right) shared the bronze medal.

Though the Swedish women’s national team failed to medal in masters, Nina Flack, Isabelle Hultin, Ida Andersson, Cajsa Wegner, Victoria Johansson and Jenny Wegner dominated the Championships winning 4 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals. Denmark and Mai Ginge Jensen, respectively, took the remaining gold medals. Other medalists included Finland, Germany, France, Netherlands and Austria.

The 2018 Women’s European Championships was held from June 6-17 at bowling center Bowling Stones, a 36-laner in Brussels, Belgium. The nine-day competition started on Friday, June 8, and culminated with the masters finals on Saturday, June 16.

132 athletes from 26 countries – Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the host country Belgium – – participated in the event.

Each team consisted of maximum six women, who competed for gold, silver and bronze medals in singles, doubles, trios, five-player teams, all-events and masters.

Singles, doubles, trios and team events featured six games preliminaries with the top 4 advancing to the playoffs in one-game format, seeded 1 to 4 according to their position in qualifying. No. 1 bowled No. 4 and No. 2 took on No. 3. The winners bowled for gold and silver and the losers shared the bronze medals.

The top three players with the highest 24-game total (combined results of the singles, doubles and team preliminaries) received the medals in all-events.

The top 24 in all-events advanced to single-elimination masters match play in best-of-three games format. The top 8 received one bye.

In each round, the highest seeded player bowled the lowest seeded player, the second-highest seeded player bowled the second-lowest seeded player, and so on. Winners advanced and losers were eliminated. The remaining two players bowled for gold and silver and the losers of the semifinals shared the bronze medals.

Photos courtesy of Gisela Göbel (DBU).

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2018 WEC Masters – Championship

Singles-elimination, best-of-three-games format

Seed	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	Win-Loss
#1	Mai Ginge Jensen	Denmark	224	198	256	2
#18	Eliisa Hiltunen	Finland	214	237	191	1

2018 WEC Masters – Semi-finals

Seed	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	Win-Loss
#8	Nicole Sanders	Netherlands	268	194	176	1
#18	Eliisa Hiltunen	Finland	218	197	262	2
#1	Mai Ginge Jensen	Denmark	244	193		2
#20	Amandine Jacques	France	164	185		0

2018 WEC Masters – Quarterfinals

Seed	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	Win-Loss
#6	Isabelle Hultin	Sweden	202	239	191	1
#18	Eliisa Hiltunen	Finland	214	193	195	2
#1	Mai Ginge Jensen	Denmark	191	279		2
#21	Tina Hulsch	Germany	180	243		0
#5	Ksenia Apanyakina	Russia	241	194	192	1
#20	Amandine Jacques	France	213	241	255	2
#7	Saskia Malz	Germany	183	170		0
#8	Nicole Sanders	Netherlands	237	243		2

2018 WEC Masters – Round of 16

Seed	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	Win-Loss
#5	Ksenia Apanyakina	Russia	183	225	197	2
#17	Sanna Pasanen	Finland	255	203	175	1
#8	Nicole Sanders	Netherlands	217	213		2
#9	Victoria Johansson	Sweden	195	190		0
#6	Isabelle Hultin	Sweden	196	197	195	2
#14	Ellen Jansen	Netherlands	192	203	169	1
#2	Nina Flack	Sweden	195	259	227	1
#21	Tina Hulsch	Germany	200	217	236	2
#4	Cajsa Wegner	Sweden	192	223	216	1
#18	Eliisa Hiltunen	Finland	224	196	226	2
#1	Mai Ginge Jensen	Denmark	191	247		2
#23	Becky Daly	England	175	169		0
#7	Saskia Malz	Germany	223	182	212	2
#11	Reija Lundén	Finland	174	203	202	1
#3	Ida Andersson	Sweden	165	183	216	1
#20	Amandine Jacques	France	230	182	243	2

2018 WEC Masters – Round of 24

Seed	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	Win-Loss
#14	Ellen Jansen	Netherlands	203	202	224	2
#19	Lynne Fishler	Israel	287	191	202	1
#12	Maxime de Rooij	Netherlands	224	184		0
#21	Tina Hulsch	Germany	257	227		2
#15	Solène Goron	France	234	148		0
#18	Eliisa Hiltunen	Finland	255	170		2
#10	Jenny Wegner	Sweden	178	181		0
#23	Becky Daly	England	192	217		2
#11	Reija Lundén	Finland	178	192	213	2
#22	Kseniia Kulikova	Russia	189	182	193	1
#13	Martina Schütz	Germany	198	222		0
#20	Amandine Jacques	France	202	238		2
#16	Sandra Matz	Germany	193	203		0
#17	Sanna Pasanen	Finland	229	222		2
#9	Victoria Johansson	Sweden	259	228		2
#24	Wendy Bartaire	France	232	184		0