Edmond Soussa
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Edmond Soussa (11 October 1898 – 29 May 1989) was an Egyptian carom billiards player in various disciplines and 11-time world champion. To date, Soussa was the only African to win world titles in the sport.
Career
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Edmond Soussa was the first major amateur billiards star of the late 1920s and mid-30s after the end of the professional world championships in the United States of America. Born in Egypt, he immigrated in the mid-1920s to France. There he met Roger Conti, one of the best billiards coaches at that time. He quickly proved his great talent as an all-rounder. At the 1927 balkline 47.1 World Championship in Paris he finished third place. The following year he won three-time world championship titles in the disciplines three-cushion billiards, straight rail and balkline 47.1. He dominated the carom scene during the upcoming years and has won a total of eleven world and two European titles. [1]
In the mid 1930s, he withdrew from active billiards play and worked as a freelance artist in Paris.[1] With the beginning of the Three-Cushion World Cup in 1986, he returned to the big carom stage. Werner Bayer, founder of the World Cup convinced him to design a trophy for this tournament series. He attended various three-cushion World Cups in his old age.[2]
Achievements
Soussa was an eleven-time world and two-time European champion.[3]
- Winner: 1928, 1929
- Runner-up: 1930, 1931, 1933
- Third place: 1936
- UMB World Straight-Rail Championship
- Winner: 1928, 1929, 1930
- Runner-up: 1931, 1932
- UMB World Balkline 47.1 Championship
- Winner: 1928, 1929, 1931
- Runner-up: 1930, 1932, 1933
- UMB World Balkline 47.2 Championship
- Winner: 1933
- Runner-up: 1930
- Third place: 1927, 1928, 1929, 1932
- UMB World Balkline 71.2 Championship
- Winner: 1930, 1931
- CEB European Balkline 47.2 Championship
- Winner: 1932, 1933
- Third place: 1928, 1929
References
- ^ a b Weingartner, Heinrich (1989). "Billard Magazine (Austria)". Vienna: Weingartner: 8.
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(help) - ^ Bayer, Werner (2004). "The Blue Square - Fascination Billiards". Dr. Werner Bayer-Foundation: 40, 268.
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(help) - ^ "Edmond Soussa". Kozoom. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
External links
Media related to Edmond Soussa at Wikimedia Commons
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- 1928-29: Soussa (EGY)
- 1930: Robijns (NED)
- 1931: Miró (ESP)
- 1932-33: Robijns (NED)
- 1934: Puigvert (ESP)
- 1935: Lagache (FRA)
- 1936: Lee (USA)
- 1937: Lagache (FRA)
- 1938: Vergez (ARG)
- 1939-47: not held
- 1948: Vingerhoedt (BEL)
- 1949-51: not held
- 1952: Carrera (ARG)
- 1953: Navarra (ARG)
- 1954-57: not held
- 1958: Navarra (ARG)
- 1959: not held
- 1960: Vingerhoedt (BEL)
- 1961: Suarez (PER)
- 1962: not held
- 1963-73: Ceulemans (BEL)
- 1974: Kobayashi (JPN)
- 1975-80: Ceulemans (BEL)
- 1981: Dielis (BEL)
- 1982: Van Bracht (NED)
- 1983: Ceulemans (BEL)
- 1984: Kobayashi (JPN)
- 1985: Ceulemans (BEL)
- 1986: Rico (ESP)
- 1987-88: Blomdahl (SWE)
- 1989: Dielis (BEL)
- 1990: Ceulemans (BEL)
- 1991: Blomdahl (SWE)
- 1992-93: not held
- 1994: Van Bracht (NED)
- 1995: Philipoom (BEL)
- 1996: Rudolph (GER)
- 1997: Blomdahl (SWE)
- 1998: Sánchez (ESP)
- 1999: Caudron (BEL)
- 2000: Jaspers (NED)
- 2001: Ceulemans (BEL)
- 2002: Zanetti (ITA)
- 2003: Saygıner (TUR)
- 2004: Jaspers (NED)
- 2005: Sánchez (ESP)
- 2006: Merckx (BEL)
- 2007: Umeda (JPN)
- 2008: Zanetti (ITA)
- 2009: Kasidokostas (GRE)
- 2010: Sánchez (ESP)
- 2011: Jaspers (NED)
- 2012: Merckx (BEL)
- 2013: Caudron (BEL)
- 2014: Choi (KOR)
- 2015: Blomdahl (SWE)
- 2016: Sánchez (ESP)
- 2017: Caudron (BEL)
- 2018: Jaspers (NED)
- 2019: Torbjörn Blomdahl (SWE)
- 2020: Not held
- 2021: Dick Jaspers (NED)
- 2022: Tayfun Taşdemir (TUR)