Jason Belmonte

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Jason Belmonte (born 29 July 1983 in Orange, New South Wales) is one of Australia's and the world's leading ten-pin bowlers.

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[edit] Today

His parents own the Orange Ten Pin Bowl. Because of this Jason started rolling a ball at 18 months and he started competing at the age of three and won his first event at the age of four. At the age of five, Jason had a League Average of 117 and a high game of 179.

Jason has won 1 European Bowling Tour title, the Brunswick Euro Challenge, held in Greece.

Jason has to date bowled 26 Perfect Games[1]

[edit] Achievements

[edit] 2000

During his final year at Kinross Wolaroi School, Belmonte became the first Junior Australian to bowl a 300 game overseas and in the same year, he took out five Gold medals at the Junior National Championships. He was also selected in the Youth Australia team, and also held a place in this team in 2002 and 2004.

[edit] 2001

Jason was the Australia Day 'Orange Junior Sportsperson of the Year' and he took out the Senior Award in 2002 along with the 'Orange Sportsperson of the Year' award, which he repeated in 2003.

[edit] 2002

Jason won one Gold, one Silver and two Bronze medals at the Commonwealth Championships in Scotland and a Silver medal at the WTBA World Youth Championships in Thailand. In that year, Jason was selected in the Australian Open men's team, where he remains to the present time.

[edit] 2004

Jason took three gold, one silver and one bronze in the Asian Youth FIQ in Hong Kong and he followed this up in the World Youth FIQ titles in Guam with a gold in the Singles and a gold in all events.
2004 also saw Jason compete in the AMF World Cup in Singapore where he was lead qualifier and never lost the lead in five days of qualifying events, finishing in 5th place after being knocked out in the quarter final. Jason won the very prestigious 2004 'Bowler of the Year' award, voted by the Board of Directors of the World Bowlers Writers Association.

[edit] 2005

Jason was invited to participate in the World Tenpin Masters in England where he was a beaten semi-finalist. In this event, Jason made history by bowling the first ever 300 game in the event, which was filmed by Matchroom Sport.

[edit] 2006

Jason represented Australia in the World Youth Championships in Berlin. He was part of the team to take the gold medal in the Team Event and went on to make the Masters after finishing in sixth place in the All Events. He was defeated in the second step of the Masters by the eventual winner, Mads Sandbaekken from Norway.

[edit] 2007

Jason was once again invited to take part in the World Tenpin Masters, held at the Barnsley Metrodome. Jason went on to win the tournament, and in the process bowled the events second ever 300 game against England's Paul Moor in the final. Jason rolled 23 out of a possible 24 strikes to win the event with a 566 score for two games, against Moor's 524.

Jason participated in the 2007 World Ranking Masters [1] and after qualifying in 2nd position, was defeated in the quarter finals by the runner-up of the tournament Peter Ljung from Sweden, 2-0 (190-258, 158-279). Jason finished in 6th place.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Jason is known for his two-handed style with only two fingers to produce more revolutions on the bowling ball than most other bowlers.

He appeared as a guest of the Fox Sports television program The Back Page on 4 June 2007.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Back Page. Fox Sports. 2007-06-04.

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Persondata
NAME Belmonte, Jason
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian ten-pin bowling player
DATE OF BIRTH 29 July 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH