Bowling
Ten pin bowler Jason Belmonte was voted Player of the Year for the fourth time in five years following an incredible 2017 season.
The Australian (who delivers his bowls two handed) became the first PBA player to win three majors in one year with his victories in the PBA Players Championship and USBC Masters, and culminating with his first PBA World Championship triumph.
Billiards
Snooker player Kyren Wilson has continued his fine form of late 2017 by reaching for the first time the final of the prestigious Masters tournament which together with the English Open and World Championship makes up the Triple Crown of snooker.
Wilson whose gold medal in Wroclaw helped to earne a nomination for The World Games Athlete of the Year, lost a tense final 10-7 to Northern Irishman Mark Allen. Wilson can take consolation that his improved consistency has seen him reach a career milestone of 100 century breaks (a score of 100+ in a frame of snooker, where the player is successful with twenty five shots in succession.)
Netball
There was more sporting joy for Northern Ireland when their netballers came through the European qualifying tournament to book their place at the 2019 Netball World Cup.
The sports fans of the island finally have something to celebrate, after seeing their footballers fail in their bid to reach this year’s World Cup in Russia, thanks to a controversial mistakenly awarded penalty in their play-off game against Switzerland. Host nation Scotland also confirmed their qualification. Both nations will not have far to travel for the World Cup, as the action will unfold in the English port city of Liverpool.
Floorball
In December, the floorball teams of Australia and Singapore will get the chance to wander around the beautiful Christmas markets of Prague.
However they will not want to linger too long, as there is serious work to be done, with both teams having successfully negotiated the Asia/Oceania qualifying tournament to ensure their participation in the 2018 Men’s Floorball World Championship.
DanceSport
What is the meaning of this curious picture? For DanceSport it is very significant, because it will be the pictogram used to represent Break Dancing at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
Break Dancing’s inclusion as one of the Buenos Aires’ sports means that DanceSport will feature in an Olympics programme for the very first time. The pictograms for each sport were all designed by local school children from the Argentinean capital.
