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1998 Crucible Contest Results

Congratulations to Martin Schamaun from Switzerland!

He scored an amazing 76 points from the maximum 80 and thereby won the 1998 Crucible Contest. It's also a new all-time high as he broke the record of 70 points set in 1996.

Iivo Vehvil�inen from Finland grabbed second place with a total of 74 points. Marco Slikker (Netherlands) came third with 71. Scores for all the 354 contestants can be found below.

Thanks for taking part, and I hope to see you all again next year!

Top 100 | The rest | Stats | Point system explained

Top 100

Pos	Name	Country	Score
1.	Martin Schamaun	Switzerland	76
2.	Iivo Vehvil�inen	Finland	74
3.	Marco Slikker	Netherlands	71
4.	Gregory Udvari	Ireland	70
5.	Stephen Glenton	Australia	69
	Wim Haan	Netherlands	69
7.	Kees van Meer	Netherlands	68
8.	Ivo Beuken	Netherlands	67
	Martti M�ki-Torkko	Finland	67
10.	Niall Fitzgerald	Ireland	66
	Chris Godfred-Spenning	Australia	66
	Kees de Vroege	Netherlands	66
13.	A Powell	England	65
14.	Panu Chaichanavong	Thailand	64
	Bernhard H Heidemann	England	64
16.	Anne van der Stoel	Netherlands	63
17.	Markku Utti	Finland	62
18.	Peter Flynn	England	61
19.	Tinnakorn C.	Thailand	60
	Burendei Gaadamba	Mongolia	60
	Son Thanh Tran	Denmark	60
22.	Eric Lee	Hong Kong	59
	Virgin Net Sport	England	59
24.	Andreas Beinsen	Germany	58
	Bill Purdon	England	58
26.	Sajed Khaliq	England	57
27.	Jorg Jansen	Netherlands	56
28.	Bhaven Patel	England	54
	Jos Vermeulen	Netherlands	54
30.	Dominic Leung	Hong Kong	53
31.	Tim Davis	England	52
32.	Salvatore Amico	England	51
	Paul Arnold	Ireland	51
	Andrew Robert Batchelder	England	51
	Akapon Ua-arak	Thailand	51
	Tjeerd van der Zee	Netherlands	51
37.	Lieven Bauters	Belgium	50
	Patrick Van den Bemt	Belgium	50
	Kristel Huysegems	Belgium	50
40.	Ruud Brekelmans	Netherlands	49
	Ricardo Castanha	Portugal	49
	Frederic Hebert	Canada	49
	Lutz Koch	Germany	49
	Francois Montmayeur	France	49
	Tore Skagestein	Norway	49
	Sally Smith	England	49
	Ronny van Wissen	Netherlands	49
48.	Ubuto Gorge	Algeria	48
	Thomas Hulshof	Netherlands	48
	Darren Joseph Kelly	Ireland	48
	Vesa Kuula	Finland	48
	Paul O'Sullivan	Ireland	48
	Tim Sandle	England	48
54.	Khwaja Hasan Bilal	Pakistan	47
	Matthew Downes	England	47
	Peter Gallimore	England	47
	Walter Markus	Netherlands	47
	Martin Reuvers	Netherlands	47
	Yura Alexander Sevcenco	United States	47
	Bj�rn Str�m	Sweden	47
61.	Erza Anas	Malaysia	46
	Nicolas de Biolley	Belgium	46
	John Day	England	46
	Rozalie Jumaludin	Singapore	46
	Kent Ng Say Kiat	Singapore	46
	James Power	Canada	46
	Rob van Stee	Netherlands	46
	Riissanen Tony	Finland	46
	Paul Wilsoncroft	England	46
70.	Thomas Beil	Germany	45
	Benjamin Cooke	England	45
	Damian Cullen	Ireland	45
	Michael McNamara	Canada	45
	Carl Whearity	United States	45
	Danielle Wijnen	Netherlands	45
	Jonas �dman	Sweden	45
77.	Holger Brehm	Germany	44
	Jonathan Dillon	Ireland	44
	Nicolas Dury	Belgium	44
	Hannu Eronen	Finland	44
	Richard Goodchild	England	44
	Thomas Goranson	Sweden	44
	Klas Lindblom	Sweden	44
	Francois Mikael	Belgium	44
	Tommy Olsen	Norway	44
86.	Joseph Barnard	England	43
	Riva Barnard	England	43
	Wan-Chun Chen	Taiwan	43
	Paul van Kampen	Ireland	43
	Jukka Lassila	Finland	43
	Homero Osvaldo Magajewski	Brazil	43
	Kees Meijer	Netherlands	43
	Mr.Robert Murphy	Ireland	43
94.	Katie Brook	England	42
	Vanessa Cheung	England	42
	Charles Cowan	Scotland	42
	Rob Fitzpatrick	Canada	42
	Kayasidh Kasyapanun	Thailand	42
	Qamar Khaliq	England	42
	Stu Knight	Wales	42
	Tunay Mehmet	England	42
	Maire Rodgers	Afghanistan	42
	Amit Seth	United States	42
	Fozia Tabassam	England	42
	Petri Antero Vihel�	Finland	42
	Matt Walter	France	42
	Lixun Wang	China	42

No. 108 -

Pos	Name	Country	Score
108.	Dave Brocatus	Belgium	41
	Wei-chuan Cheng	Thailand	41
	Rick Chong	Canada	41
	Dirk Coppens	Belgium	41
	Mrs Surbjit Dass	England	41
	Mike Goetz	England	41
	J. Helander	Finland	41
	Mohammad Husain	Kuwait	41
	David Jackson	Australia	41
	Henning Kelch	Germany	41
	Altaf Moledina	England	41
	Jon O'Rourke	England	41
	Dan Paquette	Canada	41
	Phil Staples	England	41
	John Tsang	Hong Kong	41
	Rogier Wachters	Netherlands	41
	Miro Wahlberg	Finland	41
	Aaron Yip	Canada	41
126.	Martin Bell	Ireland	40
	Rene Chevalier	Canada	40
	Yasir Chowdhury	England	40
	Carl W. Deem	Canada	40
	Pepijn Dekker	Netherlands	40
	Mathias Fetting	Germany	40
	Richard Fountain	England	40
	Ryan Ip	Netherlands	40
	Jussi Jalkanen	Finland	40
	Jose Lourtie	England	40
	Christopher Mann	England	40
	Dieter Rogiers	Belgium	40
	Andr� Seiler	Switzerland	40
	Maximilian T. H. Suchy	Austria	40
	Phongpat Vanichjakvong	Thailand	40
	Hans de Vetten	Netherlands	40
	Sipke Visser	Netherlands	40
143.	Fintan Aylward	Ireland	39
	Matt Braithwaite	England	39
	Youssef Bricha	Morocco	39
	Tom Bruinink	Netherlands	39
	Sarah Churchill	England	39
	Lesley A Cole	England	39
	Isto Helin	Finland	39
	Craig Hirst	England	39
	Thomas Josepeit	Germany	39
	Spyros Katsoufris	Greece	39
	Eetus Keuriahcnroma	Thailand	39
	Michael Lui	Hong Kong	39
	Tony Mikkola	Finland	39
	Kenneth Murphy	Ireland	39
	Bart Neyens	Belgium	39
	Evonne Chiebonam Ngozika Okafor	England	39
	Glenn Rhodes	England	39
	Robson Schmidt	Brazil	39
	Lennaert Speijker	Netherlands	39
	Darren Stevens	Wales	39
	Chang Tongwa	China	39
164.	Max Breaker	Canada	38
	Eugene Clermonts	Netherlands	38
	Paul Fallon	Ireland	38
	Donald Graff	United States	38
	James Kong	Singapore	38
	Johan Krols	Belgium	38
	John McBride	Ireland	38
	Adriaan Mulder	Netherlands	38
	W.T. Oosterveld	Netherlands	38
	Nicolas Sterckx	Belgium	38
	Andrew Richard Tallon	England	38
	Fred Wagner	Belgium	38
	Andrew Waring	England	38
	Martin Weenink	Netherlands	38
	Gert Zaat	Netherlands	38
179.	Michael Bingmert	Sweden	37
	Kenneth Brufladt	Norway	37
	H�kon Hjelstuen	Norway	37
	Robin Johnson	England	37
	Joaquim Manuel Nicolau	Macau	37
	John van Rutten	Netherlands	37
	Pekka Saila	Finland	37
	SatJew SutChao	Thailand	37
	Vesa Vanninen	Finland	37
	Arnt Veenstra	Netherlands	37
189.	Arne Bakker	Netherlands	36
	Gerard Barclay	England	36
	David Boreham	United States	36
	Peter Bouw	Netherlands	36
	Iain Broxup	England	36
	Terence Lee, Cheuk-Yin	Canada	36
	Joost Halenbeek	Netherlands	36
	Gordon Halnon	Ireland	36
	Carin Houwing	Netherlands	36
	Magnus Johansson	Sweden	36
	Ashley Jones	Wales	36
	Primoz Kosi	Slovenia	36
	Colin Macleod	Canada	36
	Wellington Mubatanhema	Zimbabwe	36
	Rosie Patten	England	36
	Peter Quinlivan	Australia	36
	Lars Bernhard Schoene	Germany	36
	Eng Tian Sin	Malaysia	36
	Stijn Vervaet	Belgium	36
	Wei Wang	United States	36
	Tjerk	Afghanistan	36

No. 210 -

Pos	Name	Country	Score
210.	Kaye Adams	England	35
	Rudy Bertels	Belgium	35
	Joevane Cheung	Canada	35
	Floris Dogterom	Netherlands	35
	Raymond Farley	England	35
	Vanessa Joy Kingwell	England	35
	Dr. Edward Koo	United States	35
	Robert Levins	Ireland	35
	Robert Maaskant	Netherlands	35
	Wing Man	Hong Kong	35
	Charles Brian Alexander Musselwhite	England	35
	Graham Parker	Australia	35
	Greg Pietrykiewicz	Canada	35
	George Scerri	Malta	35
	Mike Vandoren	Belgium	35
	Frederik De Vos	Belgium	35
	Dave Williams	Canada	35
	W.G.E.R. Woodham	Netherlands	35
	Anthony Wu	Hong Kong	35
229.	Greg Boyko	Canada	34
	Alvin Cook	Canada	34
	Mervin Crawford	Ireland	34
	Igor Curlin	Yugoslavia	34
	Patrick Eleveld	Netherlands	34
	Dirk Paul Flach	Netherlands	34
	Bruno Fleurackers	Belgium	34
	John Gray	Canada	34
	Bob Hargrove	Canada	34
	Kittisak Kulvichit	Thailand	34
	Brian Moulton	Canada	34
	Andy Quah	Australia	34
	Clive Rose	Canada	34
	Detlef Schink�th	Germany	34
	Haydar Shah	Belgium	34
	Mr. Prasert Suwanjitaree	Thailand	34
	Satit Tayati	Thailand	34
	Stephan Wong	Netherlands	34
	Maarten van Zuidam	Netherlands	34
248.	Jeremy Andrew	United States	33
	Tom Aspinall	England	33
	Victor Baker	England	33
	Peter Chan	Australia	33
	Bart Groenendijk	Netherlands	33
	Darren Hoy	England	33
	Ville Kotiaho	Finland	33
	Rolands Kumpins	Latvia	33
	Frank Kupich	Germany	33
	Martin O	Australia	33
	Sam Pachoud	New Zealand	33
	Ronald Schuurmans	Netherlands	33
	Philip Thoms	England	33
	Hans Tielens	Netherlands	33
	Sami Viitanen	Finland	33
	Sofie De Vos	Belgium	33
	Christoph Woittequand	France	33
	* Hermund �rdalen	Norway	33
	Sarah	Wales	33
267.	Teemu Antti-Poika	Finland	32
	Thomas Fischer	Switzerland	32
	Gareth Mc Ginley	Ireland	32
	Andreas Kuebarth	Germany	32
	Paul Sharp	England	32
	Bill Wareing	United States	32
273.	Ahmed Alhilali	United Arab Emirates	31
	Mario J.S. Di Carlo	England	31
	Ruth McAvinia	Ireland	31
	Eddie Pang	Hong Kong	31
	Alex Render	Australia	31
	Tessa Slingerland	Netherlands	31
279.	Rory Thomas Fowler	England	30
	Elisa Grandi	Italy	30
	Allan Hiah	Singapore	30
	Prashant Kalidindi	United States	30
	Neil Martin	Hong Kong	30
	Ian York	England	30
285.	Mr. Tragoolchitr Chittasaiyapan	Thailand	29
	Bj�rn Engh	Norway	29
	Andrew Hamelink	Netherlands	29
	Dong Hao	China	29
	Ken Harries	Canada	29
	Birgitta Lindahl	Sweden	29
	Yong Chee Meng	Singapore	29
	Steve Ricketts	Other	29
	Lao San	China	29
	Sandy Ward	Canada	29
	Bouk de Water	Netherlands	29
	Wacharin Wichiramala	Thailand	29
	Nick Woodruff	England	29
	Amirzah	Singapore	29
299.	Walter E. Ackland	Canada	28
	Mario Buteau	Canada	28
	Natalie Olivia Darby	Wales	28
	Norbert Erkeland	Netherlands	28
	Jacky Lau	Malaysia	28
	Ben Song	United States	28
	John Westensee	Denmark	28

No. 306 -

Pos	Name	Country	Score
306.	Philip S Miller	Australia	27
	Sompong Putivisutisak	Thailand	27
	Peter Schollbach	Germany	27
	Lai Xi	China	27
310.	Gu�j�n Broddi Backman	Iceland	26
	Lionel Sunil D'Souza	India	26
	Willem Heylen	Belgium	26
	Bas Kammenga	Netherlands	26
	Markku Lahti	Finland	26
	Wang Liren	Canada	26
	Csaba M�rkus	Hungary	26
	Amnart Rumpoeypong	Thailand	26
	Tioe Hak Yong	Malaysia	26
319.	Molly Cooke	England	25
	Paul Harris	England	25
	Pierre Paquette	Canada	25
	Alex Richtsfeld	Austria	25
	Mr. Krailast Vongsurakrai	Thailand	25
324.	Laszlo Stefan Barath	Sweden	24
	Norma Darby	Wales	24
	Fritz Herrmann	Switzerland	24
	J. van Rijswijk	Netherlands	24
	Kevin Seetoh	Singapore	24
329.	Ivar Bekker	Netherlands	23
	Patrick De Jonck	Belgium	23
	Fred Neil	Canada	23
332.	Chou Bao	China	22
	Wang Haijun	China	22
	Derek Johnston	Scotland	22
	Andy Orange	England	22
336.	Donald Cowper	Canada	21
	Mikey Goh	Singapore	21
	Harry de Groot	Netherlands	21
	Juliet Harrison	England	21
	Amit Nissim	England	21
	Paul Yaworski	Canada	21
342.	James Andrew Storey	England	20
343.	J.P. Hectors	Netherlands	19
344.	Sabine de Bosscher	Belgium	18
	Derek Melnychuk	United States	18
346.	Greg Robinson	Canada	17
347.	Fan Kok Hong	Malaysia	16
	Tom Phillips	England	16
349.	Jose Tarcisio Csta	Brazil	15
	Nick Hammond	England	15
351.	Trung Lam	Canada	14
	Veikko Saaranen	Finland	14
353.	Lloyd Spencer Clark	England	7
354.	William 'Whirlwind' Jenkins	Malta	3

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Stats

Points:	13512
Players:	354
Average:	38.169

Point System Explained

In the Crucible Contest points are awarded for correct matchwinners. The point score for each "hit" starts at one point in the first round and increases throughout the tournament. You can get a maximum of 16 points in each round and 80 for the whole competition.

Points for correct matchwinners in each round:

Round	Points
Round 1	1
Round 2	2
Quarter-finals	4
Semi-finals	8
Final	16

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