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Torbjörn Blomdahl

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Torbjörn Blomdahl, born in Gothenburg in 1962, is a Swedish carom billiards player who also plays pool to a lesser extent. He moved to Helsingborg at eleven, learned three-cushion from his father Lennart, and is a seven-time UMB three-cushion world champion, winning in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2015 and 2019, second only to Raymond Ceulemans and the only Swede ever to be world champion. He has also won eight European three-cushion titles and eighteen Swedish titles. In cue sports beyond carom he has excelled at pocket billiards, having defeated Efren Reyes and the Korean professional Young Hwa-jeong across three-cushion, nine-ball and eight-ball games, and he has run 100 balls in straight pool.

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1962 1
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is a Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player
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1. Torbjörn Blomdahl (Wikipedia)
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    born 26 October 1962 in Gothenburg
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    He is a seven time World Champion in three-cushion billiards
  • Lead, nationality
    is a Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player
  • Plays: Pool (cue sports), Lead, sport played
    Blomdahl has also excelled at pocket billiards
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