Asian Petanque Championship

The Asian Petanque Championship 2010 was

held in Vientiane, Laos from 5^th to 8^th December 2010.              

Thailand has always been the champion

in the Shooting competition in the Asian championship and SEA games . During the 14^th  Asian championship, Thailand was knocked out in the quarter final by our very own Cheng Zhi Ming, who went on to knock China out in the semi final and Laos in the Final. So for the first time we are proud to have a Shooting Champion.
Ms Vicki Heo won the Ladies shooting Bronze.

She lost to Cambodia in the semi final.

 

The next Asian Championship will be held in 2011 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Pan Pacific Petanque championship

This 5^th edition of the championship will be held in Pattaya, Thailand from 18^th to 19^th June 2011. The sponsor will pay for the accommodation of 4 players for 3 nights.

 

Port Authority of Thailand

This annual event will be held on 7^th May at the Port Authority of Thailand ground. A team from Singapore is invited to participate.

Senior League

The senior league which started on 20 February at the Toa Payoh Petanque courts with 9 teams.

The next venue will be at Taman Jurong, Block 111 on 06 March at 9 am and on 20^th March in Toa Payoh.

 Due to the lack of wash rooms at  Admiralty, we will in future make use of the Chua Chu Kang CC petanque courts as one of our venue.

 

SEA Games

This bi-annual games will be held in Indonesia

from 11^th to 22^nd November 2011. Petanque is expected to be one of the discipline. It will be held in Palembang, South Sumatra.

Changes to the Rules of Petanque

There are various changes to the rules, some of the more important ones will be listed below:

Article 5: Area of play and terrain rules

Petanque is played on any terrain. A playing area contains an indeterminate number of terrains defined by strings, the size of which must not interfere with the course of play. These strings marking separate terrains are not dead boule line except for those at the end and around the exterior.

Some competitions can be organised within time limits. These must always be played within a marked terrain. In this case, all lines marking that terrain are dead boule lines.

Article 7:

“For competitions intended for younger players shorter distance may be applied”.

Article 11:

If the jack comes to be moved by the wind or the slope of the terrain, for example or by the Umpire, a player or spectator accidentally treading on it, a boule or a jack coming from another game, an animal or any other mobile object, it is returned to it’s original position, provided this was marked.