Torbjörn Blomdahl

Torbjörn Blomdahl

Medal record
Representing  Sweden
Men's Three-cushion billiards
UMB World Three-cushion Championship
	Cairo 1987	Three-cushion
	Tokyo 1988	Three-cushion
	Tokyo 1991	Three-cushion
	Grubbenvorst 1997	Three-cushion
	Bordeaux 2015	Three-cushion
	Las Vegas 1986	Three-cushion
	Tokyo 1989	Three-cushion
	Tokyo 1990	Three-cushion
	Rezé 1998	Three-cushion
	Bogotá 1999	Three-cushion
	Sankt Wendel 2008	Three-cushion
	Seoul 2014	Three-cushion
	Valladolid 2003	Three-cushion
CEB European Three-cushion Championship
	Amersfoort 1985	Three-cushion
	Mondorf-les-Bains 1986	Three-cushion
	Vejle 1988	Three-cushion
	Vienna 1965	Three-cushion
	Lisbon 1966	Three-cushion
	Norrköping 1990	Three-cushion
	Dordrecht 1991	Three-cushion
	Aubagne 1998	Three-cushion
	Odense 2001	Three-cushion
	Dunkirk 1983	Three-cushion
	Waalwijk 1987	Three-cushion
	Florange 2008	Three-cushion
	Viersen 1989	Three-cushion
	Izmir 2002	Three-cushion
	Ölüdeniz 2004	Three-cushion
	Odense 2009	Three-cushion
	Porto 2011	Three-cushion
World Games
	2009 Kaohsiung	Individual

Torbjörn Blomdahl (born 26 October 1962 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player from Helsingborg, Sweden. He is a five time World Champion in Three Cushion, the most difficult and mathematical game of all cue sports. He won the titles in 1986, 1987, 1991, 1997 and in 2015.

Background

Torbjörn Blomdahl was born in Gothenburg but at age 11 he moved to Helsingborg. He is the son of three-cushion player Lennart Blomdahl, who was a driving force behind the local billiards club Borgen på Söder. It was here Blomdahl learned to play three-cushion with his father as the teacher. His international breakthrough was at the European championships in Copenhagen in 1984. Starting in 1989 he was ranked the best three-cushion player in the world.

Blomdahl has been a resident of Backnang, Germany since 1994.

Cue sports career

Blomdahl has won a total of 15 world three-cushion titles, 5 from UMB and 10 from BWA, placing him second to only Raymond Ceulemans who won 24. He is also the only Swede to ever be world champion. He's made 6 successful defenses, won 8 CEB European three-cushion titles which he defended successfully 4 times, and won 18 Swedish titles. His highest run is 24 and once made 50 points in 9 innings (5.555 Kill- Death Ratio ).

Other tournaments Blomdahl won include the 2004 Carom Café International Tournament against Ramon Rodriguez^[1] and the first Sang Lee International Open by defeating Turkey's Semih Saygıner.^[2] In 2008 Blomdahl won the money-rich Agipi Masters tournament at the expense of Dick Jaspers.

Blomdahl has also excelled at pocket billiards, once defeating Korean pro Young-Hwa Jeong and Filipino pro pool player Efren Reyes in both three-cushion, nine ball, and eight ball. He's also run 100 in straight pool.^[3]

References

External links

• Great shots by Torbjörn Blomdahl
• Torbjörn Blomdahl's High Run of 15 Points at 2007 Sang Lee International Open