The 2009 Women's World Championships will conclude on Sunday with the Masters competition featuring the top 16 players in the All Events standings. 10 countries of the 45 present in Las Vegas will be represented in the finals which will be held in best-of-five match play format: 4 players from Doubles and Team World Champion Korea, 3 players from the host country United States including Singles World Champion Stefanie Nation, two players from Denmark, and one each from Colombia, Finland, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Sweden. The No. 1 seed, All Events World Champion Clara Guerrero (pictured left), Colombia, will meet No. 16, Siti Safiyah Amirah, Malaysia
Kegel Company and Bowlingdgital.com have come to an agreement on Live Coverage of the 2010 World Tenpin Bowling Association Men's World Championships. The third Men's World Championships will be staged from Aug. 11-22 at Dream-Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany. The state-of-the-art 52-laner is the biggest bowling center in Europe. The championships will feature almost 400 players from record 69 countries competing for gold, silver and bronze medals in Singles, Doubles, Trios, Team, All Events and Masters, 
The president of World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA, Kevin Dornberger (pictured right), United States, and the President of World Ninepin Bowling Association (WNBA), Ludwig Kocsis, Austria, have made discussions in several conversations and meetings about the future of the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) and/or Tenpin and Ninepin. The result of these conversations is a proposal which was sent to all WTBA and WNBA member federations. 
The United States Bowling Congress has announced its "Dream Team" for the 2010 World Tenpin Bowling Association Men's World Championships Aug. 12-21 at Dream Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany. Selected to compete for Team USA are Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour stars Chris Barnes (l.), Tommy Jones (r.), Wes Malott, Bill O'Neill, Rhino Page and Patrick Allen.
The World Tenpin Bowling Association Presidium has announced that it has withdrawn the award of the Women's World Championships 2011 to Malaysia as it has not been possible to agree on a written contract about the championship and the Congresses. Because the WTBA Presidium had to withdraw the WWC 2011 from Malaysia it now invites all WTBA member federations to apply to host the world championship and the WTBA/FIQ Congresses in conjunction with the championship.
Just 175 days after the ground-breaking ceremony, Dream-Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany, celebrated its Grand Opening on Monday evening, Dec. 14, 2009 with a couple of hundred guests from politics, business, media and the world of bowling The 52-laner equipped with Brunswick Anvilane Pro Lane with Vector plus scoring system is the largest bowling center in Europe with all 52 lanes on a single floor with no supporting pillars.
The 2010 Men's World Championship is exactly eight months away (Aug. 11-22, 2010) but Swedish national team coach Tomas Leandersson (l.) has already nominated the six players for the Swedish national team for Munich, Germany. "It has never happened before that we decided the team eight months ahead," stated Leandersson,. "However, this is a project where we want to see the outcome when the players get the possibility of a much longer time for preparation before the championship."
The 2009 Women's World Championships, which were held on 60 specially constructed lanes inside Cashman Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, drew record 228 women from record 45 World Tenpin Bowling
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Like in the 2008 Men's World Championship, the teams from Korea and the United States faced off in the gold medal match of the 2009 Women's World Championships in Las Vegas. Ditto for the position after preliminaries. Korea was the No. 1 and Team USA the No. 2. The question was: Would the U.S. team win its first team gold (doubles, trios and team) since 1987 or would the Koreans extend the winning streak for Asian women teams at World Championships to sixth in a row??
In the very last game of the 2009 Women's World Championships in Las Vegas, the Masters gold medal was decided between Clara Juliana Guerrero from Colombia and Hwang Sun-Ok, Korea. Guerrero had won the gold medal in All Events while Hwang had already two gold medals in Doubles and Team. Guerrero averaged over 232 on her way to the championship match including a record 805 3-game series but Hwang could even top this averaging over 237. After being tied at 2-2, the deciding fifth game determined the champion. To watch the decision
Top seeded Clara Juliana Guerrero (pictured left), won her second individual gold in the 2009 Women's World Championships at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas when she defeated Doubles and Team World Champion Hwang Sun-Ok (right), Korea, in the Masters final, three-games-to-two. Trailing 2-1 after three games, Guerrero was able to level the match and secured the title with a 203-182 win in the decider. Hwang earned silver, while her team mates Son Yun-Hee and Gang Hye-Eun shared the bronze.
It's Colombia vs. Korea in the Masters semifinals the 2009 Women's World Championships. All Events champion Clara Juliana Guerrero topped Putty Armein (left), 3-1, to set up a semi-final match vs. Son Yun-Hee, who eliminated Rikke Rasmussen, 3-0. In the other semifinal, Doubles champions Hwang Sun-Ok and Gang Hye-Eun face off. Hwang swept Liz Johnson, which leaves the U.S. without a medal in the Masters. Gang eliminated the fourth Korean, Jeon Eun-Hee (right) , 3-1.
Great comeback by All Events champ Clara Juliana Guerrero, who came back from being down 0-2 to defeat Siti Safiyah, 3-2, in best-of-three format. All four Koreans advanced to the Round of 4 after eliminating two Americans, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard and Stefanie Nation as well as Krista Pöllänen and Maki Nakano. Liz Johnson (right) swept Mai Ginge Jensen, while Rikke Holm Rasmussen (pictured) went the distance to beat Cherie Tan. No. 2 seed Helen Johnson lost to Putty Armein.
Asia's No. 1 women bowling team is now the best in the world. Korea (pictured left) put on a show in the title match of the five-player Team World Championships defeating the host country United States (right), 1175 - 1071. In the semifinals, Team USA flew past Singapore's Bernice Lim, Shayna
Ng, Cherie Tan, Jazreel Tan and Jasmine Yeong-Nathan, 1035-934, while
Korea eliminated Sweden with Nina Flack, Malin Glendert, Victoria Johansson,
Helen Johnsson and Veronica Lantto, 1041-974.
The five-player teams from Korea (left), the United States (right), Singapore and Sweden will determine the champions in the Team event at the 2009 Women's World Championships in Las Vegas. Clara Juliana Guerrero (r.) from
Colombia won the prestigious All Events title averaging 222.08 over 24 games. Helen Johnsson, Sweden, claimed the silver medal and Carolyn Dorin-Ballard,
United States, got the bronze.
Team USA's Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, Liz Johnson and World Singles Champion Stefanie Nation fired the highest game of the Trios event at the Women's World Championships to defeat Japan, 742-659 in the semifnals. Yang Hao-Ting, Tsai Hsin-Yi and Tang Ya-Chun from Chinese Taipei set up a title match against the Americans when they topped Denmark in the other semifinal, 610-605. To watch the title match 