Mads Sandbaekken from Norway, the reigning World Youth Championships Masters champion, swept four-time European champion
Petteri Salonen, Finland, two-game-to-none to end the 2007 Men's European Championships at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria, with victory in the Masters competition. Sandbaekken, who turned 20 during the MEC last week, won the first game 230-226 and sealed the victory when she struck eight times in the first nine frames of game #2, 229-209. Salonen earned the silver medal while Mike Quarry, England and Dennis Eklund, Sweden shared the bronze.
Bowlingdigital in co-operation with Flavio Cuva has produced a videocast from the five-player Team finals in the 2007 Men's European Championships at Plus Bowling in Vienna. The video clip shows the 10th and final frame of the title match between Sweden and Norway . 
Multiple World and European Champion Sweden triumphed in the five-player Team event in the 2007 Men's European Championships when they defeated Norway in the title match, 1049-971, at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria. Peter Ljung, Dennis Eklund, Tobias Karlsson, Robert Andersson, Martin Larsen, Magnus Andersson and coach Tomas Leandersson earned the first EC team gold medal since 1997. Norway got silver while Finland and Greece shared the bronze medal.
Finland targets to defend yet another title in the Men's European Championships in Vienna, Austria. The Finns, who won the Trios title yesterday took the No. 1 seed for the Team finals later this afternoon. In addition anchor Osku Palermaa (pictured) won the All Events gold ahead of 2. Martin Larsen, Sweden and 3. Darren Cundy, England. Larsen and his team mates qualified in second place to bowl No. 3 Greece in the semis. Finland takes on Day One leader Norway, in the other semi-final match.
Norway with Mads Sandbaekken, Per Kristian Eide, Svein Roger Olsen, Lasse Ingebrigtsen and Petter Hansen took the lead in the 2007 Men's European Championships Team event after three games on short oil (35 ft.) with 3349 pinfall total and an average of 223.27. Trailing Norway by 83 pins to sit in second place is Sweden with 3266. Their Scandinavian rivals, defending team champion Finland (pictured), led Squad #2 to move into third place with 3262. Fourth place belonged to the players from the host country of Austria, who were five pins behind with 3257.
Mads Sandbaekken, Per Kristian Eide, Svein Roger Olsen, Lasse Ingebrigtsen and Petter Hansen from Norway rolled games of 1121, 1079 and 1149 in Squad 1 to overtake the lead in the 2007 Men's European Championships Team event after three games on short oil (35 ft.) with 3349 pinfall total and an average of 223.46. World Youth Masters champion Sandbaekken closed out his set with the third 300 game of the championships. Second place belonged to Sweden (3266), with Greece in third (3243) and Denmark in fourth place (3101).
No. 1 seed Finland with Jari Ratia, Joonas Jehkinen and Kimmo Lehtonen (l-r) defeated No. 2 England with Dominic Barrett, Mike Quarry and Darren Cundy in the titles match of the Trios event in the 2007 Men's European Championships at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria, to win the gold medal and to successfully defend the title. The Englishmen earned the silver medal. Denmark and Finland 2 shared the bronze medal. 
Danes Bo Winther Pedersen, Jesper Agerbo and Thomas Larsen moved into the top 4 in Squad 3 to set up a semi-final match against No. 2 seed England with Dominic Barrett, Darren Cundy and Mike Quarry (pictured left). The other semi-final match will be an all-Finnish affair in which No. 1 seed Joonas Jehkinen, Jari Ratia and Kimmo Lehtonen clash with team mates and No. 4 seed Petteri Salonen, Osku Palermaa and Timo Alho. 
Joonas Jehkinen, Jari Ratia and Kimmo Lehtonen from Finland (l-r with coach Sami Konsteri on the far left) posted the squad-best 1973 3-game series on the short oil pattern, a 219.22 average, to widen their lead in the Trios event at the 2007 Men's European Championships at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria. Sweden and Norway stayed in second and third position. 
Robert Andersson and Martin Larsen, the reigning World Champions in Doubles were targeting another Doubles title at the 2007 Men's European Championships in Vienna, Austria. However, local favorites Thomas Tybl and Thomas Gross had other plans as they defeated the Swedes, 495-446, in the title match to claim the first gold medal of the event. Sweden won the silver medal and Germany and Denmark shared the bronze medal. 
Reigning World Champions in Doubles, Robert Andersson and Martin Larsen (r-l) from Sweden, earned the No. 1 seed for the Doubles finals in the 2007 Men's European Championships at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria. The duo posted a new championship record on long oil (45 ft.) with 2818 (243.83 average) en route to finish with 5450 12-game total and an average of 227.08.
Multiple Austrian champion Thomas Gross and former national coach Thomas "TT" Tybl averaged 226.58 for their final six games on the long oil pattern (45 ft.) to set the pace in the Doubles event at the 2007 Men's European Championships in Vienna, Austria. With 26 duos having completed their 12 games Tom-Tom lead the field with 5280 pinfall total and an average of 220.00. England's Mike Quarry and Mark Smith led Squad two with 5063 pinfall total to move into second place. Squads 3 and 4 will bowl their final block on Wednesday.
