IBF World Cup

The IBF World Cup is an amateur ten-pin bowling tournament that follows the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup, with individual and team events for men and women, backed by the International Bowling Federation and its sponsor QubicaAMF. Amateurs from around the world take part and the winners of every competition are recognised worldwide. The Bowling World Cup was created by AMF's European promotions director Victor Kalman and Gordon Caie, and the first one was held in Dublin in 1965 under the name International Masters, with twenty male bowlers, and was won by Lauri Ajanto of Finland. Women first competed in 1972 at the eighth edition in Hamburg, where Irma Urrea of Mexico won. It became the AMF Bowling World Cup in 1969 and was rebranded the QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in 2005. The 55th edition, in Palembang, Indonesia in 2019, was won by Francois Louw of South Africa and Rebecca Whiting of Australia.