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The QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup is a singles event within the sport of ten-pin bowling, sanctioned by World Bowling and sponsored by QubicaAMF Worldwide. It is the largest annual international sports championship in terms of participating nations.
1965: The QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup began as a tournament called the International Masters, held at the 12-lane Stillorgan Bowl, Dublin, Ireland. The tournament's three-day format (eventually becoming week-long) was modeled loosely after that used by the Professional Bowlers Association. Players had to bowl a total of 38 games which was based on the complicated Petersen Points system, which was one point per pin scored, 50 bonus pins for a game won.
20 players, all men, took part in the inaugural tournament. The first ever winner was a dental technician from Helsinki, Finland, Lauri Ajanto finished with an average (191) less than the runner up
1966: The second International Masters was staged at the grounds of world-famous Wembley Stadium, at Wembley Stadium Bowl in London, England. The tournament used the Petersen Points system from the previous year. 24 nations were represented, among them last year's champion Lauri Ajanto and last year's 3rd-place finisher Vittorio Noveletto. Ajanto finished 17th this time, while Noveletto was in contention for the title. Noveletto came up short but not without giving 19-year-old
1967: The third International Masters was held at Bowling de Paris, an elegant 12-lane center in the French capital's massive central park known as Bois de Boulougne. 30 nations were represented, split into three squads of 10 players each. In each squad, all the players faced each other in two game matches with bonus pins to determine the top four. 12 bowlers would advance to a semifinal round, where the top four in pinfall here would advance to the final round.
1968: The fourth International Masters was staged for the first time outside Europe, in Guadalajara, Mexico. 35 nations participated. The U.S. was going for a three peat, but their representative, Jerry Steere finished 9th after leading earlier in the week. A locksmith,
1969: The fifth edition had a new name, called the AMF Bowling World Cup. This was also the first staging in Asia, in Tokyo, Japan. Fritz Blum was back to defend his title, but would be a non-factor this time around, finishing 14th.
1970: The 6th edition of the AMF Bowling World Cup was held at Rodovre Bowling Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. There was a record 43 entries, meaning the number of participating nations more than doubled in the six-year history of the AMF Bowling World Cup.
1971: The 7th AMF Bowling World Cup was held at Four Seas Bowling Center, in Hong Kong. Klaus Mueller was back to defend his title and would make the semifinals, finishing fourth. The winner was
1972: Women bowlers made their debut in the 8th AMF Bowling World Cup held in Hamburg at St. Pauli's Astrid Bowl, with
On the men's side, defending champion Roger Dalkin returned for a chance of a repeat title and would make the final four, finishing fourth. The winner was
1973: The 9th AMF Bowling World Cup was held in Singapore at Jackie's Bowl. Bernie Caterer became the first British bowler to win the Bowling World Cup, though he almost didn't get a chance due to Singapore's policy that long hair below the neckline (which Caterer had) was very suspicious. Thankfully for Caterer, he was allowed to enter Singapore. Caterer eked past
1974: The AMF Bowling World Cup visited South America for the first time, the 10th edition held at Prados del Este in Caracas, Venezuela. Fittingly, the first BWC held in South America produced the first ever BWC winner from South America.
1975: The tenth anniversary of the AMF Bowling World Cup was held at Magellanes Village, Philippines.
1976: The 12th AMF Bowling World Cup was held at the Persopelis Bowling Center in Tehran, Iran. After finishing runner-up in 1975, Carlos Lovera returned for another run at the title and would make the finals. His opponent in the finals was a shy, 19-year-old lefty
1977: The 13th AMF Bowling World Cup returned to England in 1977, held in Tolworth.
1978: The 14th AMF Bowling World Cup returned to South America, this time held in Bogota, Colombia. A lot of bowlers couldn't get used to Bogota's elevation, nearly 9,000 feet above sea level. A few, like
1979: The 15th AMF Bowling World Cup held in Bangkok, Thailand will be remembered for Philippe Dubois finally winning the elusive BWC title. In his third consecutive final, he had to go against a hometown favorite, Montree Vipitsini, for the championship. Dubois outlasted Vipitsini, 567–549, to take the men's title. This would be France's only BWC title to date. The women, particularly
1980: The 16th AMF Bowling World Cup was held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
1981: Sixteen years after beginning life as the International Masters, the AMF Bowling World Cup was hosted in the United States for the first time. Adding to the excitement was the fact that the 17th edition was held in New York City's Madison Square Garden, the most famous sports citadel in the world at the time. Bob Worrall, the U.S. men's representative, had actually witnessed the first Bowling World Cup in Dublin. His father, a chief warrant officer in the U.S. Army, had been stationed there at the time. The 7-year-old Bob watched virtually every frame of the tournament, adopting Tom Hathaway as his personal favorite and becoming a bowling fanatic in the process.
Worrall bowled in the 1980 AMF Bowling World Cup after winning the ACU-I that year, but he finished a distant 17th in Jakarta. He won the ACU title again in 1981, getting himself another chance at the BWC. This time, the American qualified first and in front of TV cameras, crushed
1982: The AMF Bowling World Cup visited the Netherlands for the first time, in Scheveningen for the 18th edition. Jeanette Baker, an Australian secretary, captured the media's fancy with her stylishly short skirts, sassy haircut and uninhibited body language during the week-long tournament. She also captured the No. 1 position for the stepladder finals in the women's division and eventually the title, dropping
Norwegian psych-master and 1977 BWC champion Arne Stroem qualified second and was all but conceded his second BWC title. After trundling out in a red jump suit, Stroem went into his patented routine: snorting, pacing about wildly, adjusting his equipment, ignoring his opponents. It worked, of course; Stroem dispatched
1983: Jeanette Baker arrived to defend her title in Mexico City after what can only be described as a horrific year. Following her victory in Scheveningen, Baker took an office job with AMF in Australia. The Australian Tenpin Bowling Congress took exception, saying that the paid employment with a bowling company made Baker a 'professional'. (Remember, these were still the days of Avery Brundage-inspired 'pure' amateurism.) An appeal to the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs, bowling's international governing body, restored Baker's amateur status but not before she had missed out on the 1983 FIQ World Championships. Baker arrived in Mexico City hoping to make a point. She had embarked on a furious training program prior to winning Australia's BWC qualifier; once in Mexico City, she cloistered herself in her hotel room when not competing. Her asceticism and dedication were rewarded, as she trounced
1984: The Rushcutter Bowling Center in Sydney, Australia, host of the 20th anniversary edition of the AMF Bowling World Cup, delivered some of the most demanding lane conditions that tournament bowlers had ever experienced. Despite the grueling lane conditions,
1985: The 21st AMF Bowling World Cup came to Seoul's Bang 10, a four-story host center. British representative Judy Howlett led most of the way and looked like a tournament lock. For this year, the top seed in the stepladder finals had to be defeated twice. Thus Howlett needed only one win to claim the title, but couldn't overcome the luck of the Irish in the championship match. Tall, red-haired Marjorie McEntee, a barmaid from Dublin, walloped her British neighbor, 205-171 and 196–167, to become the first Irish bowler to win the BWC. McEntee had won three stepladder matches to reach the final and carried that momentum in the finals against Howlett. It was McEntee's first and only moment on the international stage; she drifted from sight after Seoul and was not heard of again. This is Ireland's only AMF Bowling World Cup title to date.
In the men's division,
1986: Prior to 1986,
Annette Hagre, a 34-year-old secretary from Malmö, led the field at Rodovre Bowling Center every day but one, with a 200-plus average. Hagre dispatched
Peter Ljung, a 19-year-old rookie from Sweden's north, would be the one to deny Paeng Nepomuceno his third BWC crown, by a score of 413–392. Ironically enough, Ljung was the same age - 19, as Nepomuceno when the Filipino star won his first BWC. [22]
1987: The 23rd AMF Bowling World Cup visited Malaysia for the first time, held at Mirama Bowl in Kuala Lumpur. The eventual winners,
Gronert cruised into the finals as the top seed. She then convincingly doused
Fornasari was reportedly so angry after he was dropped from the Italian team that he stopped bowling for a year and a half. "But I decided to come back and prove something to the federation," he said. He won the Italian national championships and, thus, a trip to Malaysia. Fornasari's three-step delivery and hole-ridden rental shoes were enough to stop 'helicopter pilot' spinner
1988: The AMF Bowling World Cup's third visit to Mexico, and its second to Guadalajara, was heralded in spectacular fashion, as horse-drawn carriages paraded the contestants through the city streets on their way to the opening ceremonies at Teatro Delgado. An unusual pairing of a Swedish coach and Arab protege introduced yet another milestone to the classic event.
Tony Rosenqvist had enjoyed running his family's bowling center in Malmö, Sweden. But when sports leaders from the United Arab Emirates offered him a huge salary and rent-free apartment to come down and train their bowlers, Rosenqvist headed to Dubai, where he met Mohammed Khalifa Al-Qubaisi. The 22-year-old Khalifa already had a rich bowling background. During his five years of college study in the U.S., he had worked out with several PBA players. Rosenqvist helped refine the raw talent, and Khalifa won the UAE World Cup qualifier and, eventually, the pole position for the Guadalajara finals. His opponent was
1989: Where else could the Silver Anniversary edition of the AMF Bowling World Cup be held but at its birthplace Stillorgan Bowl in Dublin, Ireland. Stillorgan bowl was much bigger now, thanks to the addition of more lanes and a big billiard parlor over the years. The fields were much bigger, too, the talent much deeper, and the celebrations more intense. Yet the celebrations could not dull the brilliance of the athletes competing for this special title. Salem Al-Monsuri became the first ever Qatari and second Persian Gulf bowler in a row to capture the title when he edged
1990: The balmy, exotic resort town of Pattaya, Thailand, on the Gulf of Siam, was the site of the World Cup's biggest controversy, and possibly its greatest international newsbreak.
The seeds had been sown several months earlier, when a mild-mannered electronics salesman named Guy Merhavy won Israel's national qualifying tournament. No Israeli had ever done very well in the international finals of the AMF Bowling World Cup, but Merhavy managed to advance to match play. The bowlers from predominantly Muslim countries not only were amazed by Merhavy's performance, they were angered and frightened. They announced that they were going to withdraw from the tournament. 'The government will close down our bowling federation if we bowl head-to-head matches with the Israeli', said
Merhavy eventually placed 13th, and Dunne, one of the last-minute replacements, advanced to the stepladder and finished fourth. Hawaiian Adam Apo was the only man to average 200 for the tournament, but he tied
Despite suffering a painful knee injury, Linda Graham made it three in a row for U.S. women by defeating
1991: The 27th AMF Bowling World Cup visited China for the first time, held at Beijing in a bowling center housed in a massive Holiday Inn complex, actually a city-within-a-city. There were a dozen restaurants, a grocery store, numerous retail outlets, even luxury apartments. The bowlers and their entourages explored Tienanmen Square, the Great Wall of China, and countless other tourist and cultural attractions between rounds at the lanes.
A gangly young American from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
1992: The 28th AMF Bowling World Cup returned to France for the first time in 25 years, held in Le Mans. The stepladder finals were held for the first time 'arena style'. This was the idea of Jean Jacques Le Terrec, who figured that his modest sized bowling center, which had held the earlier rounds of the BWC, would not be able to accommodate all the people who wanted to witness the stepladder finals.
1993: The opening ceremonies of the first AMF Bowling World Cup to be held on the African continent featured a traditional Zulu welcoming dance, replete with spears and shields. That, however, was the last thing that could be labeled "traditional" about the 29th edition of the tournament.
The AMF BWC, held at Gerald Paluzzi's Northcliff Bowl in suburban Johannesburg, featured the World Cup's first 'rain delay', when an exceptionally heavy downpour one day caused water to leak onto the lanes. Free-time activities included trips to nearby Sun City (a mini Las Vegas) and game parks, but only if the athletes had taken their precautionary malaria pills well ahead of time. (
None of this affected Pauline Smith, winner of the 1981 AMF BWC in New York City and 1991 finalist. Similar to 1981 when she plowed through the four player stepladder finals as a fourth seed, Smith was the fourth seed again, this time in a five player stepladder finals. Smith plowed through four straight stepladder foes and won her second crown with a 178-177 heart-stopper over Rosalind Greiner, a Dutch national player who had been born in Johannesburg. Smith became the second woman to win two AMF BWCs. Nor did it matter to
1994: For many years, Fernando Gutierrez was the best bowler in the host city of Hermosillo, in northwest Mexico. Whenever he went to the US for business or on holiday, he visited every bowling center he could find. He finally decided to build his own center in his hometown, a beautiful edifice called Bol Satellite that would become the venue for the 30th AMF Bowling World Cup.
The 1994 AMF BWC was marked with sadness, as both the mother of tournament director Bernard Gibbons and the founder of the tournament, Vic Kalman, died that week. But it spawned unparalleled joy, as well, when colorful Canadian Jack Guay rolled the first perfect game in the tournament's history. Dutch star Annemiek van den Boogaart put up the new women's single-game mark as well at the time, with 280.
The surprise of the women's field that year was
The men's title went to
1995: Sponsored by Pin 1, AMF's distributor in the northern half of South America, the 31st AMF Bowling World Cup was held at 50-lane, bi-level Planet Bowl, Sao Paulo. The high-tech edifice was one of the favorite after-hours spots of Sao Paulo's newly rich, and it provided some remarkable scoring. For the second year in a row, Canada's Jack Guay shot a 300, a perfect game. America's Patrick Healey, Jr. also shot 300 to set the scoring pace for the 57-nation field.
Healey, the U.S. national amateur champion, went on to win the pole position in the stepladder, from whence he defeated second-seeded
1996: Bowling champions from 71 countries gathered somewhat cautiously at Dundonald's Ice Bowl in Belfast for the 32nd AMF Bowling World Cup, the sectarian violence that had plagued Northern Ireland for generations not far from their minds. But thanks to tight security, both visible and undercover, there wasn't a hint of unpleasantness at Northern Ireland's first international sports championship of any kind.
Scoring was decidedly torrid, especially for a couple of lefthanders from the other side of the world. Cara Honeychurch, a treasury analyst from Melbourne, Australia, placed third in the women's qualifying but was unstoppable in the stepladder finals. She dispatched defending champion Gemma Burden, 1992 champion Martina Beckel, and then Malaysian phenomenon, Shalin Zulkifli, possibly the most-hyped young bowler on the international scene. But Honeychurch, who has won her share of medals in Asia, was obviously unimpressed. She reeled off a 253 to Zulkifli's 204, making her three-game total an overwhelming 761.
Paeng Nepomuceno had been experiencing severe pain in his bowling wrist for months prior to Belfast, and it didn't seem likely that he could endure the strain of the weeklong BWC format. However, he managed to nail the top seed in the stepladder format by averaging 218 in the match play phase, better than eight pins more than runner-up
1997: The first AMF Bowling World Cup staged in the Middle East racked up a lot of other 'firsts': the first perfect game in the World Cup by a woman (
The setting for the 1997 finale in Cairo, Egypt could only be described as incredible. Two lanes were built about three feet off the desert floor, positioned so that the players faced the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx while bowling. Though a canopy provided some relief from the sun, the breeze constantly blew sand on to the synthetic surface. 'It's the first time I've seen a brown track on a ball', said
Despite these formidable distractions, and the intense security presence necessitated by the Luxor tourist massacre that occurred earlier that week, the bowlers performed admirably.
1998: The AMF Bowling World Cup has enjoyed some sensational opening ceremonies during its 34 years, but nothing could possibly match the show in Kobe, Japan. A long parade of floats, called danjiri and carried aloft by dozens of people, drifted between Kobe's gleaming high rises. The people of Nada Ward, the neighborhood in which Grand Rokko Bowl resides, threw a huge outdoor "block party" to greet the bowlers. The Kobe Volunteer Fire Department belted out American march tunes.
The 34th AMF BWC was visiting Japan for the first time since 1969. Sixty-eight nations sent their best to Kobe, an impressive feat in view of the financial and monetary crisis that had so recently swept throughout Asia. When spinner
Also noteworthy was 1998 was the year that AMF bid a fond farewell to Bent Petersen who retired after 36 years with the company. Petersen joined the company in 1962 as a financial controller in Scandinavia and spent more than a decade in Japan before head up AMF's International operations. [34]
1999: The 35th AMF World Cup and last of the millennium made its second visit to the United States, held in Las Vegas. For the third time in four years, the women's title went to an Australian. Amanda Bradley, who demolished the women's 48-game record by toppling 10725 pins and averaging 223.4 (including bonus pins earned in matchplay) to earn the top seed in the stepladder finals, defeated 1997 champion and 1998 finalist
The men's title went to Ahmed Shaheen, becoming the third Arabic bowler, and the second from Qatar, to win the AMF Bowling World Cup. Shaheen, a 30-year-old entrepreneur from Doha who rolled a perfect game in the 1997 AMF Bowling World Cup in Egypt, defeated
2000: The 36th annual AMF Bowling World Cup welcomed a record 88 nations to host center Bowling Internacional de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal. The total was five more than the previous record set in 1997 in Cairo, Egypt.
The 2000 AMF BWC introduced a new best-of-three-games, single-elimination format to replace the matchplay and stepladder formats of previous BWCs. The single-elimination phase was held over two days on specially installed lanes in the Atlantic Pavilion in Lisbon's Nations Park, site of the 1998 World Expo.
Women's champion
2001: The 37th AMF Bowling World Cup visited Pattaya, Thailand for the second time in eleven years and the third time overall in Thailand.
Nachimi Itakura became the first Japanese bowler to win the Bowling World Cup. The 26-year-old barber shop assistant from Wakayama City defeated
2002: The 38th AMF Bowling World Cup was held in eastern Europe for the first time, at Toss Boulinga Halle in Riga, Latvia. Two lefties,
Pluhowsky dominated the women's division in leading wire-to-wire en route to the title. In qualifying, she averaged 232.31, on average 12 pins better than her nearest competitor, to clinch the top seed for the knock-out match play. In the knock-out rounds, Pluhowsky only lost once in her three matches (quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals) to capture the title, eventually defeating
Luoto barely squeaked into the knock-out match play rounds by two pins. He took full advantage of the change in format to best of three knock-out match play. Luoto swept
Despite losing to eventual champion Luoto in the knock out quarterfinals, what Paul Trotter did in the first three games of qualifying was simply incredible. His very first game in qualifying was a 300 game. He didn't stop striking there, as his next two games were 298 and 298, for an incredible AMF BWC record high three-game series of 896! [38] To put the 896 three game score in perspective, Trotter threw 34 out of a possible 36 strikes.
2003: The 39th AMF Bowling World Cup visited Central America for the first time, held at Planeta Sipango bowling centre in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. For the second time after 1993, both defending champions, Mika Luoto and Shannon Pluhowsky, returned for a chance to defend their title.
Last year, Luoto qualified in the 8th and last spot for the knock-out match play rounds by two pins and then went on to win the title. The player who came up two pins short last year was
The women's title went to
2004: The 40th AMF Bowling World Cup was held in Singapore at newly built Super Bowl SAFRA Mount Faber. This was Singapore's second time hosting the AMF BWC, having previously hosted the 1973 edition. A record that still stands today, 95 nations (a record 93 men, and 73 women) competed. This edition of the AMF BWC saw 8 perfect games thrown, 10 years after the first 300 was thrown. Only the 2013 edition had more thrown in a single BWC year.
No. 8 seed
Kerrie Ryan-Ciach, who won the AMF World Cup the previous year in Tegucigalpa, barely made the knock-out rounds, bowling a 290 game in the last game of qualifying to sneak in as the No. 8 seed by 3 pins. Ryan-Ciach eliminated Zulkifli, then won her semifinal match over
2005: From 2005, the Bowling World Cup officially became known as the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, following the joint partnership between Qubica and AMF. The 41st BWC visited a new location, Ljubljana, Slovenia. For the first time since the introduction of knock-out stages (introduced in 2000), both top seeds won the title.
2006: The 42nd QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup visited Caracas, Venezuela for the second time, previously having hosted in 1974. The BWC saw the return of stepladder finals for the first time since 1999. The top three after 40 games qualified for the stepladder finals, where No. 2 bowler meets No. 3 bowler in the semifinals in best-of-three format. The semifinal winner would then face No. 1 bowler also in a best-of-three format for the title.
For the second year in a row, the winner of the men's division led the tournament wire to wire. Last year in Slovenia, it was Michael Schmidt. This year it was the human pin-shredding machine
2007: The 43rd QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup visited Russia for the first time, held at Kontinent Bowling Centre in St Petersburg. This BWC reintroduced round robin matchplay format (30 bonus pins for a win, 15 bonus pins for a tie), which consisted of 8 games and narrowed the top 8 down to the top 3 who advanced to the stepladder finals. Ann-Maree Putney became the fifth Australian woman to win the Bowling World Cup, defeating
2008: The 44th QubicaAMF World Cup was held in the newly built Bol 300 in Hermosillo, Mexico. This was Hermosillo's second time hosting the BWC, the first coming in 1994. 20-year-old student Jasmine Yeong-Nathan became the first Singaporean bowler to win the BWC title defeating defending champion Ann-Maree Putney 2-0 (263-222, 298-215). The men's title went to
2009: The 45th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was held at Melaka International Bowling Center in Melaka, Malaysia. This was the first time in 22 years that Malaysia hosted the BWC. In the women's division,
2010: The 46th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was held for the third time in France, at Bowling de Provence centre in Toulon. A record 167 bowlers (91 men and a record 76 women) from 92 nations competed. Day 2 saw the cancellation of the rest of the day's schedule due to a crack in one of the support columns that supports the second floor of the bowling center. This led to qualifying being reduced from 20 games to 16 games. In the women's division, Aumi Guerra became the first bowler from Dominican Republic to win the BWC, defeating tournament leader
2011: For the second time after 1993, Northcliff Bowling Center in Johannesburg, South Africa hosted the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. The champions from 2010, Michael Schmidt and Aumi Guerra, were back for a chance of a repeat title. Incidentally, the 1993 AMF BWC in Johannesburg also featured both defending champions.
2012: The 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup visited Poland for the first time, held at Sky Bowling Center in Wroclaw.
2013: The 49th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup visited Russia for the second time in six years, this time in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. In the women's division,
This BWC was a high scoring affair, particularly in the men's division. It took a 227.71 average to make the top 24 and 237.88 average to make the top 8. There was 16 perfect games , doubling the previous record of 8 in 2004. Both of this year's champions bowled 300s in qualifying, with Aviram bowling two 300s.
2014: The 50th anniversary of the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was held at Sky Bowling Centre in Wroclaw, Poland. Sky Bowling Centre previously hosted the BWC in 2012. In the women's division,
In the men's division,
2015: The 51st QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was held in the United States for the third time. Sam's Town bowling lanes in Las Vegas was hosting for the second time, previously hosting in 1999. In the women's division, there were four former champions in the field: Shannon Pluhowsky (2002, 2004), Kerrie Ryan-Ciach (2003), Aumi Guerra (2010, 2011), and defending champion Clara Guerrero. Ryan-Ciach finished 15th, Guerra finished 11th having earlier led the tournament after 8 games. Guerrero took the overall lead after 24 games, held it after 32 games, and eventually clinched the top seed after 40 games. Pluhowsky, who led after 16 games, made the stepladder finals as the third seed and defeated
In the men's division, unlike the women's division, there were no previous champions in the field.
2016: The 52nd QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup returned to China for the second time, held at Hao's Bowling in Shanghai's Luwan Sports Complex. The semifinals and finals were held on specially constructed pair of lanes inside a basketball arena which is part of the Luwan Sports Complex. For this year, 4 bowlers from each division advanced to the semifinals. The semifinals were one game matches, winners advancing to the finals, which were one game matches as well.
In the women's division, Clara Guerrero was attempting to become the first bowler in QubicaAMF BWC history to win three consecutive BWC titles. She made the cut to the top 24 but missed the cut to the top 8, finishing 12th.
In the men's division,
2017: The 53rd QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was held in Hermosillo, Mexico, for a record third time, having previously hosted in 1994 and 2008. As it did in 2008, Bol 300 was the host site for this BWC. In the women's division, 2016 BWC champion
2018: The 54th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was held at Sam's Town bowling lanes in Las Vegas, thereby becoming the first bowling center to host the BWC three times (1999, 2015, 2018). In the women's division,
2019: The 55th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup was held at Jakabaring Sport City in Palembang, Indonesia. This was the second time Indonesia hosted the BWC, the first coming in 1980 when Jakarta was the host city. In the women's division,
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Michael Schmidt is a Canadian Ten-pin bowler, best known for his performances in the QubicaAMF World Cup.
Bill Hoffman, also widely referred to as The Joker, of Columbus, Ohio, United States, is a Ten-pin bowler.
The PBA Tour is the major professional tour for ten-pin bowling, operated by the Professional Bowlers Association. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, over 3,000 members worldwide make up the PBA. While most of the PBA members are Regional professionals, a small percentage of the bowling membership competes at the national and international level, forming the PBA Tour.
Aura Mireya Guerra López is a Dominican ten-pin bowler who won back to back Qubica AMF Bowling World Cup Titles.
Or Aviram is an Israeli ten-pin bowler. He finished runner-up in the 2005 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. Eight years later, he would become the first Israeli to win the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup. He became the first Israeli to win the European Champions Cup, when he won in 2006. This would be the only medal Israel has won in European Champions Cup history.
Lita dela Rosa was a Filipino 4-time World champion in Tenpin Bowling from Cebu, Philippines.
The Philippine Bowling Congress Inc. or more popularly known as PBC was the governing body for the sport of tenpin bowling in the Philippines until it was replaced by the Philippine Bowling Federation Inc. "PBF" as the new appointed member of the international bowling federation World Bowling, Asian Bowling Federation and the Philippine Olympic Committee.
The World Bowling Singles Championships is a Ten-pin bowling event open to members of World Bowling. This gives World Bowling a World Championship event every year, filling a void left from previous years. Each member federation can send up to two men and two women to compete. The event is split up into two separate tournaments, one for men and one for women.
The Philippine Bowling Federation (PBF) is a duly-accredited governing body of Tenpin Bowling in the Philippines. PBF is currently recognized by the Philippine Olympic Committee, Philippine Sports Commission, Asian Bowling Federation, and World Bowling.
The PWBA Players Championship is one of the four major tournaments on the Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) Tour. Unlike the U.S. Women’s Open and USBC Queens, which allow qualifying amateurs to participate, the PWBA Players Championship is open to PWBA members only.
Jakob Butturff is a left-handed American ten-pin bowler from Chandler, Arizona and a member of the Professional Bowlers Association. He competes in events on the PBA Tour and in global events as a member of Team USA. He has won seven national PBA Tour titles and 22 PBA Regional Tour titles.