In the National Teams 3-Cushion Billiards World Championship, the National Team represented by Semih Saygıner and Tayfun Taşdemir faced Sweden in the final.
In the championship held in Viersen, Germany and where 16 countries competed, the 3-Cushion Turkish National Team faced the USA, Greece and Japan, respectively. Having beaten the USA and Japan and drawn with Greece, the national team left Greece in the quarter-finals and the Netherlands in the semi-finals out of the championship and advanced to the final. Turkey faced Sweden in the final. Semih Saygıner defeated Blomdahl and Tayfun Taşdemir defeated Nilsson 40-29 with the same scores and became world champions. This victory in national teams became Turkey’s 3rd consecutive world championship, and 7th in total.