The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards

Three-cushion billiards

Three-cushion billiards is a form of carom billiards, and one of the most popular and challenging cue sports in the world.The object of the game is to the off both and contact the at least 3...

, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard

Union Mondiale de Billard

The Union Mondiale de Billard is the world governing body for carom billiard games. The organization was founded in Madrid, Spain on 1 June 1959, and is dedicated to promoting the modern carom billiards games...

. Years ago, there were similar world championships held by other organizations in different places, but they were short-lived, leaving the UMB event as the only remaining event of its kind.

Prize money for the 2007 event totalled €

Euro

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35,200 (US$

United States dollar

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49,600), with 1st place taking €4,800 ($6,750).

List of champions

This is the list of UMB World Three-cushion billiards Champions, from 1928 to 2007 (years not shown are years in which the event was not held). The winners have mainly been Europeans, most commonly Belgians.

Year	Champion	Nationality
1928	Edmound Sousa	Egypt
1929
1930	Henk Robijns	Netherlands
1931	Henrique Miro	Spain
1932	Henk Robijns	Netherlands
1933
1934	Claudio Puigvert	Spain
1935	Alfred Lagache Alfred Lagache Alfred Lagache was a French professional three-cushion billiards player.A number of players from France have won world championships in different disciplines of carom billiards, but Lagache has been the only Frenchman to ever win the UMB World Three-cushion Championship, taking the title in 1935...	France
1936	Edward Lee	United States
1937	Alfred Lagache	France
1938	Augusto Vergez	Argentina
1949	Rene Vingerhoedt	Belgium
1952	Pedro Carrera	Argentina
1953	Enrique Navarra	Argentina
1958
1960	Rene Vingerhoedt	Belgium
1961	Adolfo Suárez	Peru
1963	Raymond Ceulemans Raymond Ceulemans Raymond ridder Ceulemans is a three-cushion billiards player and possibly the most dominant single figure in any one sport, having won 35 World Championship titles , 48 European titles and 61 national titles...	Belgium
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974	Nobuaki Kobayashi Nobuaki Kobayashi is a Japanese professional three-cushion billiards player and 2-time world champion.After placing 2nd to Belgium's Raymond Ceulemans three times in the UMB World Three-cushion Championship, Kobayashi turned things around and defeated Ceulemans for the world title in 1974. With this win, he ended...	Japan
1975	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981	Ludo Dielis Ludo Dielis Ludo Dielis is a Belgian professional carom billiards player.When Raymond Ceulemans, the reigning champion, opted not to participate in the world championship in 1981 over some circumstances, Dielis was selected as a temporary replacement. Rising to the occasion, he won the title besting Nobuaki...	Belgium
1982	Rini van Bracht	Netherlands
1983	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
1984	Nobuaki Kobayashi	Japan
1985	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
1986	Avelino Rico	Spain
1987	Torbjörn Blomdahl Torbjörn Blomdahl Torbjörn Blomdahl is a Swedish professional carom billiards player from Helsingborg, Sweden.-Background:...	Sweden
1988
1989	Ludo Dielis	Belgium
1990	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
1991	Torbjörn Blomdahl	Sweden
1992
1993	Rini van Bracht	Netherlands
1995	Jozef Philipoom	Belgium
1996	Christian Rudolph	Germany
1997	Torbjörn Blomdahl Torbjörn Blomdahl Torbjörn Blomdahl is a Swedish professional carom billiards player from Helsingborg, Sweden.-Background:...	Sweden
1998	Daniel Sánchez	Spain
1999	Frédéric Caudron Frédéric Caudron Frédéric Caudron is a Belgian professional three-cushion billiards player, nicknamed "L'Extraterrestre" . He won the UMB World Three-cushion Championship in 1999...	Belgium
2000	Dick Jaspers Dick Jaspers Dick Jaspers is a Dutch professional carom billiards player who specializes in the three-cushion event.-Early life:...	Netherlands
2001	Raymond Ceulemans	Belgium
2002	Marco Zanetti Marco Zanetti Marco Zanetti is an Italian professional three-cushion billiards player and a two-time world champion from Bolzano, Italy. He was ranked 7th in the world as of 2007 by the Confédération Européenne de Billard....	Italy
2003	Semih Saygıner Semih Sayginer Semih Saygıner nicknamed Mr. Magic and the Turkish Prince, is a Turkish professional carom billiards player....	Turkey
2004	Dick Jaspers	Netherlands
2005	Daniel Sánchez	Spain
2006	Eddy Merckx	Belgium
2007	Ryuuji Umeda Ryuuji Umeda is a Japanese professional three-cushion billiards player.In 1998, Umeda finished 2nd to fellow Japanese Akio Shimada in the three-cushion event of the Asian Games. He later won it against Duong Anh Vu of Vietnam in 2006....	Japan
2008	Marco Zanetti Marco Zanetti Marco Zanetti is an Italian professional three-cushion billiards player and a two-time world champion from Bolzano, Italy. He was ranked 7th in the world as of 2007 by the Confédération Européenne de Billard....	Italy
2009	Filipos Kasidokostas	Greece
2010	Daniel Sánchez	Spain
2011	Dick Jaspers	Netherlands