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Five-pins or five-pin billiards (Italian cinque birilli) is a carom billiards cue sport, popular in Italy, Switzerland, Spain and parts of Latin America, with international, televised professional tournaments.

Five-pins table, showing the location of the pins.


History

Until 1980, the game (with some rules differences) was played on a pocket billiards table, but professional and regulated amateur play today exclusively uses pockless tables. Also, in former periods, it was common for the object ball to be smaller than the cue balls. Professional competition began in 1965.

Equipment

The game is played on a pocketless billiards table, with standardized dimensions of 284 cm (approximately 9-1/3 ft.) by 142 cm (approx. 4-2/3 ft.) Like most other carom games, it requires three billiard balls of equal diameter, a red object ball, a plain white cue ball for the first player or team, and a yellow or spotted-white cue ball for the second player or team.

Rules

Though there are variants in Central and South America, the Italian five-pins rules are the best codified. Because the Italian-rules championships are international, televised events, and often hosted outside of Italy, these rules are the global de facto standard..

World Five-pins Championship

Organized by the Italian Federation of Billiard Sport (FIBiS), and inaugurated in 1965, the World Five-pins Championship (Albo d'Oro Campionato del Mondo "5 Birilli") is an international event, hosted to date in various places in Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, and Switzerland and Spain. It is semi-annual; many years since its inception have not featured such a tournament. As of early 2007, there have been nineteen such tournaments. There are various divisions, including youth, women, men, teams, and a one-on-one open championship.[1]

World Champions

Winners of the overall one-on-one tournament. By year, city, country — winner (nationality):[1]

Five-pins Pro World Cup

Also organized by FIBiS, the Five-pins Pro World Cup (Albo d’Oro World Cup Pro “5 Birilli”), was a semi-annual event begun in 1993, and discontinued in 1997. In only one year 1993 were both the Pro World Cup and the World Championships held. The event was a one-on-one invitational championship, without other divisions.[1]

Pro World Cup Champions

By year, city, country — winner (nationality)[1]

Five-pins is a major plot-point of the Italian-produced, English-language film Bye Bye Baby, which stars Brigitte Nielsen as a professional player.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Sezione Stecca: Organigramma della Sezione - Attività agonistica - Calendari - Regolamento Tecnico Sportivo, 2004-2005, Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo, 2004, Italy. Template:It

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