The Kremlin Cup (Russian: Кубок Кремля, romanized: Kubok Kremlja) is an annual pool tournament held in the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia which has been held since 2011. Ruslan Chinachov has won the most times, winning the event in both 2014 and 2015. The tournament takes place in parallel to a Russian pyramid event of the same name also held in Moscow. The event was a nine-ball tournament in the inaugural 2011 edition, but changed to ten-ball in 2012.[1]

Winners

Year Winner Score Finalist Semi-finalists Discipline
2011[2] Albania Nick Malai 11–8 Finland Mika Immonen Greece Alexander Kazakis Nine-ball
Russia Ruslan Chinachov
2012[3] Poland Mateusz Śniegocki 8–6 Estonia Denis Grabe Greece Nikos Ekonomopoulos Ten-ball
Greece Alexander Kazakis
2013[4] Germany Thorsten Hohmann 9–7 Russia Konstantin Stepanov Estonia Denis Grabe
Albania Nick Malai
2014[5] Russia Ruslan Chinachov 8–7 Russia Evgeny Stalev Russia Fedor Gorst
Netherlands Niels Feijen
2015[6] Russia Ruslan Chinachov 9–8 Finland Mika Immonen Bosnia and Herzegovina Sanjin Pehlivanović
Germany Thorsten Hohmann
2016[7] Greece Alexander Kazakis 9–6 Germany Thorsten Hohmann Belarus Dsmitryj Tschuprou
Germany Ralf Souquet
2017[8] Spain David Alcaide 9–6 Greece Alexander Kazakis Netherlands Nick van den Berg
Albania Eklent Kaçi
2018[9] Netherlands Niels Feijen 8–7 Greece Alexander Kazakis Austria Albin Ouschan
Russia Fedor Gorst
2019[10] United States Tyler Styer 8–7 Spain David Alcaide United States Shane Van Boening
Serbia Aleksa Pecelj
2021 Armenia Babken Melkonyan 9–7 Russia Konstantin Zolotilov Greece Dimitris Loukatos
Russia Konstantin Stepanov

Top Performers

Name Nationality Winner Runner-Up Semi-final
or better
Ruslan Chinachov  Russia 2 0 3
Alexander Kazakis  Greece 1 2 5
Thorsten Hohmann  Germany 1 3
Nick Malai  Albania 0 2
Niels Feijen  Netherlands

References

  1. ↑ "THE KREMLIN CUP & NATIONAL BILLIARDS LEAGUE JOIN MATCHROOM NINEBALL WORLD RANKINGS". Matchroom Pool. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля 2011», пул". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля 2012», пул «10»". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля» 2013 (Пул10)". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "IX Международный турнир по бильярдному спорту "Кубок Кремля", пул-10". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "X Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля», Пул 10". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "XI Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля», Пул 10". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "XII Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля», Пул 10". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "XIII Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля». Пул". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "XIV Международный бильярдный турнир «Кубок Кремля». Пул". tournamentservice.net (in Russian). Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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