UMB World Three-cushion Championship

The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB).

Until 1953 it was organized by the UIFAB (Union Internationale des Federations d'Amateurs de Billard).

From 1994 to 2011 the tournament was played in a set-system, the winner achieving the best of five.

Since 2012 it has been changed back to a single frame with the run to 40 points.

[2][3] This is the list of UMB three-cushion billiards world champions, from 1928 to present.

Henk Robijns from the Netherlands shows some of his caramboles from the 1933 championship in Cairo , and two trick shots.
2013 Award ceremony.
Ludo Dielis hands over the diamant-cue to the winner Frederic Caudron .
From Left to right: Vice world champion Filippos Kasidokostas, Caudron, Bronze medal winners Alexander Salazar and Dick Jaspers .