EBT 2010 / 12

Gery Verbruggen did it again; won a stop in the European Bowling Tour.

In the highly estimated 32 Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona, the tour veteran and 4 times tour winner 2000-2003, defeated England’s super talented Dominic Barrett 224 - 196 in the one game final. In the foregoing step of the final, Verbruggen defeated Brian Voss from USA 206 – 197.

By this victory, Verbruggen became the highest ranked in a tour stop for the 12^th time in his career, a number which leaves him alone atop of the men’s list of tour stop winners.

Nina Flack from Sweden became, from a position 6 in the tournament, the highest ranked women for the 7^th time in her career.

Both steps in the final was, thanks to the efforts of the hard working Catalan Bowling Federation, broadcasted live on Eurosport.

Nina Flack from Sweden obviously kept the leading position in the women’s division with 602 points (150 points in Barcelona) followed by a Dutch quartet consisting of Nicole Sanders at position 2 with 473 points (39 points in Barcelona), Wendy Kok at position 3 with 440 points (105 points in Barcelona), Ghislaine van der Tol at position 4 with 416 points (66 points in Barcelona) and Priscilla Maaswinkel at position 5 with 413 points (60 points in Barcelona).

The top of the men’s division remained unchanged with Dominic Barrett from England in a comfortable leading position with 779 points (12 points in Barcelona) in front of Mika Koivuniemi from Finland with 627 points (33 points in Barcelona) and Osku Palermaa from Finland with 621 points (63 points in Barcelona).

The tour will take a break while the World Men Championships will be ongoing in Munich, but just after the championships in Munich, the very first tour stop in Slovakia will be played; the BNC Open in Bratislava to be conducted on 23-29 August.

18 July 2010
Kim Thorsgaard Jensen