Australia Tops Boys' Team Qualifiers at 2024 World Youth Championships

Jul 15, 2024 | By Erikas Jansonas

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Australia's Boy' Team | Picture source: Tenpin Bowling Australia

Australia Tops Boys' Team Qualifiers at 2024 World Youth Championships

Jul 15, 2024 | By Erikas Jansonas

Australia's Boy' Team | Picture source: Tenpin Bowling Australia

International

On Monday at the Fiesta Bowling Center in Incheon, Korea, two Boys' Team qualification squads took place for the 2024 World Youth Championships.

Sixteen top teams advanced to the match-play round after ten qualification games in the Baker format.

Team Australia - Seth Gray, Blake Walsh, Justin Dinham, and Jackson Buckingham - scored 2257 (225.7 avg.), outpacing their competitors and finishing in the top position. Korea, whose girls dominated the Girls' Team event, finished second with a score of 2236 (223.6 avg.), followed closely by Poland with 2229 (222.9 avg.). Germany, with a total of 2212, and Finland, with 2201, rounded out the top five.

Alongside Teams Poland, Germany, and Finland, four more teams from Europe advanced to the match-play round. The Netherlands finished in eighth place with a total of 2151, Slovakia took ninth with 2145, Norway ended in eleventh with 2130, while the Czech Republic finished in twelfth with 2126.

In the match-play rounds, the qualifiers will be divided into two groups of eight. They will engage in seven round-robin matches, with each win earning 3 points and a draw earning 1 point. The top two pairs from each group will advance to the semi-finals based on their accumulated points.

Teams match-play will kick off tomorrow at 9 AM local.

Full standings can be found here.

All championship activities will be held from the 7th to 18th of July 2024.

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