Mean Machine Choi fittingly bags the title

45^th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup Men’s Final

Korea’s Choi Yong-Kyu who lead from day one, fittingly won the men's title this evening beating challenger Michael Schmidt from Canada in the final.

Choi, 23, who also fired the only perfect 300 in the last eight round earlier in the morning, has been the most consistent player the whole week.

The title certainly was won by the most deserving player who was like a machine on the lanes with his consistency.

The win was also Korea's first triumph in the 45 years history of the championship.

Korea made a last-minute change to their entries when their pro bowlers, Jim Seok Kong and Reyong Heui Kim could not make the trip because of their pro tournament commitments. It was then that Korean national bowlers Choi and Baek Seung-ja were named as their representative.

Choi was a member of the men's team for the World Championship in Thailand last year where he won a gold in the trios and a silver in the team event.

Schmidt, on the other hand, conceded that he lost to a better bowler.

Schmidt's failure to wrest the title also meant that Canada failed to become the second country in the history of the championship to bad a double.

Canada's Caroline Lagrange, had earlier bagged the women's title defeating England's Zara Giles.

The only other time that a country won both the men and women's title was in 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, when Sweden's Peter Ljung and Annette Hagre won the titles.

Men's Finals

Rnk	Bowler	Country		M1	M2	M3	Ave	Wins
1	Choi Yong-Kyu	Korea		236	227		231.50	2
2	Michael Schmidt	Canada		173	208		190.50	0

Men's Final Matches

Name	Ctry	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10			Scr
Choi Yong-Kyu Korea		S7	2		X		X		X		X		X	9	/		X	9	/	X	X	8	236
		9		39		69		99		128		148		168		188		208
			X		X		X	8	/		X		X	9	/		X
		30		58		78		98		127		147		167
Wins																							1
Michael Schmidt Canada			X		X		X	9	/		X	S7	2	7	2		X	S8	1	S8	1		173
		30		59		79		99		118		127		136		155		164
			X	9	/		X	9	/		X	9	/		X	S7	2		X
		20		40		60		80		100		120		139		148
Wins																							0

Men's Semifinals

Rnk	Bowler	Country		M1	M2	M3	Ave	Wins
2	Michael Schmidt	Canada		202	247		224.50	2
3	Ryan Leonard Lalisang	Indonesia		180	217		198.50	0