1953 nine-pin bowling World Championships

The 1953 nine-pin bowling World Championships was the first edition of the championships and were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, from 21-24 June 1953. Germany sent a united team composed of players from the GDR and the FRG.

1st nine-pin bowling
World Championships
Host cityBelgrade
CountrySFR Yugoslavia
Nations participating7
Athletes participating48
Events4
Opening ceremonyJune 21, 1953 (1953-06-21)
Closing ceremonyJune 24, 1953 (1953-06-24)
Officially opened byHeinz Kropp
Main venueKK Partizan

In the men's competition the title was won by Yugoslavia in the team competition and by Alfred Baierl (Austria) in the individual event. In the women's competition the title was won by Austria in the team competition and by Jelena Šincek (Yugoslavia) in the individual event.

Participating teams

Results

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Austria (AUT)2215
2 Yugoslavia (YUG)*2114
3 Germany (GER)0112
Totals (3 nations)44311

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team  Yugoslavia
Dujam Smoljanović
Stanko Hladnik
Vlado Martelanc
Dušan Denić
Eugen Kobal
Stanko Pogelšek
 Austria
Friedrich Beschl
Hans Portadar
Wilhelm Donath
Hans Haidvogel
Anton Czech
Karl Fehr
 Germany
Hans Sonntag
Philipp Noll
Günther Lehmann
Hans Dammann
Adolf Wigger
Ludwig Schmid
Individual Alfred Beierl
 Austria
Ludwig Schmid
 Germany
Zvonimir Kružić
 Yugoslavia

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team  Austria
Anna Reitzer
Anna Heinzel
Rosa Kesselgruber
Maria Zimmel
Steffi Weiss
Maria Schmoranzer
 Yugoslavia
Ljerka Prezelj
Anika Jakovec
Ruža Vaštag
Jelena Šincek
Franciška Erjavec
Barbara Bulić
Individual Jelena Šincek
 Yugoslavia
Maria Schmoranzer
 Austria
Maria Zimmerl
 Austria

Footnotes

  1. The Saar team has only five players. Therefore it was completed by Swiss player.

References

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