Thomas Larsen achieves perfection; leads top 16 men into match play

22 July, 2017

World Games

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Thomas Larsen of Denmark had a slow start into the men’s singles bowling competition at the World Games in Wroclaw, Poland, Saturday morning at Sky Bowling, but closed out strong to earn the No. 1 seed for the match play finals in best-of-three games bracket system.

Larsen (above) started his six-game series with 214, 213 and 168 and closed with 279, 300 and 246 to tie Ricardo Lecuona (right) of Mexico at 1420, an average of 236.67. Larsen led the top 16 players into the Round of 16 and the Mexican earned the No. 2 seed due to the higher-last-game rule, which breaks the tie.

Ildemaro Ruiz of Venezuela had high games of 279 and 277 and finished just six pins behind in third place with 1414. Rounding out the top 4 was Kuek Qi En (left) of Singapore with 1401.

Cho Youngseon of Korea hit 1400 on the nose, good for fifth place overall. Defending World Games champion Osku Palermaa was further three pins behind to make the first cut in sixth place.

His compatriot and fellow World Champion in the five-player team event in 2013, Juhani Tonteri closed his set with back-to-back 248 games to weather a strong charge by Jeffrey van de Wakker, Netherlands, and to take the 16th and final spot to advance with 1353 and an average of 225.50.

Van de Wakker closed his series with 261, but fell short with 1339.

The 32 competitors bowled six games of qualifying to determine who advanced to match play. The top 16 bowlers return this afternoon to begin best-of-three match play single-elimination, bracket format.

The field is cut to eight and then for players who bowl for the medals. The winners of the semifinal matches bowl in the gold medal match and the losers meet in the bronze medal match.

The World Games is a multi-sport event staged every four years since 1981 by the International World Games Association under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee for sports, disciplines or events within a sport that are not contested in the Olympic Games.

The 10th edition of the World Games will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, 20–30 July 2017. More than 3,000 athletes from 31 sports and 111 countries will take part in the biggest sport event ever staged in Poland.

Bowlingdigital.com will provide onsite coverage of the bowling events from July 21 through July 24, including reports, results and photos of each event.

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X World Games 2017 – Men’s Singles Qualifying

Top 16 advance to match play in best-of-three games format

Pos	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	G4	G5	G6	Pins	Avg.
1.	Thomas Larsen	Denmark	214	213	168	279	300	246	1420	236.67
2.	Ricardo Lecuona	Mexico	236	268	215	245	234	222	1420	236.67
3.	Ildemaro Ruiz	Venezuela	246	213	165	277	279	234	1414	235.67
4.	Kuek Qi En	Singapore	236	223	258	236	204	244	1401	233.50
5.	Cho Youngseon	Korea	258	238	269	259	211	165	1400	233.33
6.	Osku Palermaa	Finland	265	215	241	244	207	225	1397	232.83
7.	Tobias Börding	Germany	238	229	221	216	234	257	1395	232.50
8.	Salvatore Polizzotto	Italy	210	226	245	266	202	240	1389	231.50
9.	Arturo Quintero	Mexico	212	203	224	258	256	236	1389	231.50
10.	Michael Mak	Hong Kong	269	226	213	218	212	248	1386	231.00
11.	Dan MacLelland	Canada	223	203	257	247	238	210	1378	229.67
12.	Massimiliano Fridegotto	Venezuela	261	219	191	226	206	266	1369	228.17
13.	Tommy Jones	United States	218	196	263	219	232	240	1368	228.00
14.	Shogo Wada	Japan	254	240	225	204	217	226	1366	227.67
15.	Massimiliano Celli	Italy	236	259	244	223	207	197	1366	227.67
16.	Juhani Tonteri	Finland	214	161	258	224	248	248	1353	225.50
17.	Jeffrey van de Wakker	Netherlands	247	191	235	223	182	261	1339	223.17
18.	Francois Lavoie	Canada	280	204	236	190	187	236	1333	222.17
19.	Yuhi Shimbata	Japan	228	277	213	158	222	224	1322	220.33
20.	Kang Heewon	Korea	211	214	206	237	228	221	1317	219.50
21.	Hung Kun-Yi	Chinese Taipei	206	176	231	257	237	202	1309	218.17
22.	Andres Gomez	Colombia	193	278	170	207	197	258	1303	217.17
23.	Andreas Gripp	Germany	214	212	203	223	232	219	1303	217.17
24.	Wu Siu Hong	Hong Kong	221	268	197	210	236	171	1303	217.17
25.	Marcus Kiew	Singapore	257	192	207	225	209	191	1281	213.50
26.	Jesper Agerbo	Denmark	226	190	163	225	213	234	1251	208.50
27.	Alessandro Silletti	Poland	211	192	185	220	192	229	1229	204.83
28.	Patryk Preus	Poland	174	232	181	254	191	192	1224	204.00
29.	Marshall Kent	United States	180	202	193	194	224	225	1218	203.00
30.	Hsieh Chin-Liang	Chinese Taipei	187	182	236	246	194	169	1214	202.33
31.	Johnny Spil	Netherlands	245	169	208	181	196	172	1171	195.17
32.	Oscar Rodriguez	Colombia	195	203	187	197	175	195	1152	192.00