At the Dynamic Billard European Championships in St. Johann i.Pg., teams Germany and Poland won the Gold Medals in the team competition.
In the men’s division, the final match turned out to be a thriller. Germany played Russia. Sebastian Staab won the 8-ball match over Maksim Dudanets quite comfortably with 8:4. That match was the first one over. When it was finished, the score in 9-ball between Ralf Souquet and Konstantin Stepanov was 4:5 in favor of Stepanov and the 10-ball match between Joshua Filler and Ruslan Chinakhov was 6:6. In both matches, the Russians had a high lead. Chinakhov was up 5:1 on Filler while Stepanov also lead 5:1 over Souquet. But the Germans fought back. At 7:7, Joshua Filler was at the table and he was running the rack. No problems were on the table. But suddenly he played a bad position for the 9-ball, positioning the 10-ball in between the cue ball and the 9-ball. What an unnecessary mistake in that situation. He went for a jump-shot but he missed it, leaving two tremendously tough shots for Chinakhov. The „Siberian Express“ went for both of them and made both shots under unbelievable pressure. That gave him the 8:7 victory over Filler and the 9-ball match had to be the decider. The score was 6:6 at that point in time between Souquet and Stepanov. Souquet went on the hill first with 8:6 but Stepanov pulled one back to make it 8:7. Then Ralf Souquet won the final rack and took the match which brought the first Gold Medal this week to Germany.
Team Germany reached the final match by ousting team Sweden 2:0 in the semi-final. Team Russia defeated team Finland in the semi-final.
In the women’s division, team Poland reached out for Gold today. They defeated team Russia in the final match. Oliwia Czuprynska was able to get the first point into the Polish account with a 7:2 victory over Nataliya Seroshtan. But Anna Mazhirina was able to tie the match, defeating Katarzyna Wesolowska 6:2 in 8-ball. A shootout had to decide the final match. The first shots were all missed by the players. It was Czuprynska who pocketed the first shot and put the Russians under pressure. But the Russians could not stand the heat. They missed too many shots and in consequence, team Poland won the shootout and took the title with 2:1 over Russia. On third place in the women’s competition were teams Norway and Germany.
2016歐錦賽團體賽爭奪全部結束。最終，德國隊2-1力克俄羅斯隊，摘得男子團體賽金牌，這也是德國隊在本屆比賽收獲的首枚金牌。而女子團體賽桂冠則被波蘭隊收入囊中，她們同樣以2-1的比分擊敗俄羅斯隊。
團體賽共分8球、9球以及10球3個項目。男子組比賽，德國隊在半決賽中2-0輕取瑞典隊後與淘汰芬蘭的俄羅斯隊會師決賽。在率先結束的8球比賽中，Sebastian Staab 8-4 輕鬆擊敗俄羅斯隊的Maksim Dudanets為德國隊先得一分。而在10球比賽中，德國的 Joshua Filler 與俄羅斯新星 Ruslan Chinakhov 一路戰至7-7平，二人不得不通過決勝局決出勝負。Filler 原本可以讓金牌歸屬提前揭曉，但就在他即將清光台面僅剩的簡單9號和10號球時，他出人意料出現了母球走到10號球後面的低級失誤。迫不得已之下，Filler 選擇跳球，卻未能擊打到目標9號球。Chinakhov 笑納大禮，為俄羅斯隊扳平比分。這樣，Ralf Souquet 與 Konstantin Stepanov 的9球較量便成為了關鍵戰。最終，Souquet 在4-5落後的不利局面下，頑強地以9-7的比分成功逆轉，為德國隊摘下開賽以來的首枚金牌。
女子組方面，Oliwia Czuprynska 7-2輕取 Nataliya Seroshtan 為波蘭隊先拔頭籌。而俄羅斯的 Anna Mazhirina 則6-2大勝 Katarzyna Wesolowska 還以顏色。決勝局中，俄羅斯隊在壓力之下失誤頻頻，反觀波蘭隊則越打越順，很快便贏下比賽。這樣，波蘭隊便以2-1的比分擊敗俄羅斯隊斬獲金牌。
獎牌榜方面，東道主奧地利隊以3枚金牌的佳績高居榜首，波蘭隊則以1金1銀3銅的成績位居次席，而芬蘭隊則以1枚銅牌之差位列第三。
Medal table after 3 of 5 events 三項項賽事後 獎牌榜::
The Dynamic Billard European Championships will continue tomorrow morning at 09:00 local time with matches in the 8-ball individuals.
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