2012 Wroclaw, Poland

When it came to the position round of the round robin, Marshall Kent of the USA and Andres Gomez of Colombia were already assured of their place in the stepladder finals of the 48th QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in the Sky Bowling Centre, Wroclaw, Poland. But it was a tight race to see who would make it in 3rd place.

Before this final match, Hareb Al Mansoori of the UAE was 48 pins up on Syafiq Ridwhan Abdul Malek of Malaysia which meant Syafiq needed to win by 19 pins to go through. He shot 209 to Hareb’s 161, hence he will be playing in this afternoon’s TV finals.

The top three for the women were set before the position round and it was just a question of the order they would finish in. Aumi Guerra of the Dominican Republic, bidding to become the first bowler to win the World Cup three years in a row, is in pole position, with Kirsten Penny of England in 2nd and Shayna Ng of Singapore in 3rd.

Again, the women scored higher than the men. Top man’s score for the 8 games of the round robin was 1788, by Syafiq. Six of the women beat that, with five of them shooting over 1800. Overall average for the men in the round robin was 220.18, for the women it was 224.47.

The round robin results have also assured the USA of the trophy for top country.