Albert Corty

Albert Corty
Corty 1919
Personal details
birthday	1893 or 1898
place of birth	Marseille
date of death	1970
nationality	France
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
2 ×
Other tournaments:
5 × French champion

Short biography from L'athlège 1949–51 - different information on the encyclopedia of billiards

Albert Corty (* 1893 or 1898 in Marseille ; † 1970 ) was a French industrialist, billiards player and two-time world champion in cadre .

Career

Corty first became known internationally in 1921 when he took part in the Cadre 45/2 World Championship in Paris by winning the bronze medal. In 1924 with fifth place in the midfield of the participants, a year later he won another bronze medal behind Théo Moons (gold) and Charles Faroux (silver). In 1924 he won his first gold medal in Paris. In the final he was able to beat the Dutchman Jan Dommering . The world association decided in 1923 to play so-called challenge matches based on the American model. Participants were the finalists of the previous World Cup. It took place in front of a home crowd in Marseille and Corty won all three sets of 500 points each. At the official World Cup he then lost to Dommering and Moons and came third. After another bronze medal in 1930, he took part in this World Cup for the last time in 1932

In the more difficult discipline in Cadre 45/1, he first took part in the 1930 World Cup in Lyon and was fifth, in 1931 sixth in front of a home crowd in Marseille, before he was able to beat the Egyptian Edmond Soussa in the final in Paris in 1932 . With this gold medal he completed his international billiards career and from then on devoted himself to his main occupation as an industrialist.

Others

Corty was a member of the billiards academy of Marseille, founded in 1914, which produced the vice world champion Barthelemy Maure (1905, 1908) and world champion Jacques Davin (1935). In 1921 he founded the local billiards association "SAB Marseille" ( S ociété of A mateurs de B illard).

As was customary at the time, players often still held positions in associations. In the early 1930s, Corty was vice-president of the world amateur association FFAB and delegate of the Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard (UIFAB).

successes

• Cadre 45/2 World Championship : 1924 1921, 1923, 1925, 1930
• Cadre 45/1 World Championship : 1932
• Cadre 45/2 European Championship : 1925 1932
• French championship Cadre 45/1: 1929
• French championship Cadre 45/2: 1926, 1929, 1931, 1932

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Albert Corty  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Information on Albert Corty in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on 29 August 2019.
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 157 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} successes. Kozoom , accessed August 29, 2019 .  
4. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 180-189 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 387-395 .
6. ^ Bienvenue sur le site de l'académie de billard de Marseille. Marseille Billiards Academy, archived from the original on June 29, 2018 ; accessed on August 29, 2019 (French).  
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kleber (Ed.): L'athlège 1949–51 . (biographies des plus grands champions français de tous les sports). 1st edition. France 1949, p. 116 (French).
8. ↑ Union Internationale des Fédérations d'Amateurs de Billard (ed.): Annuaire 1931 . Annual report UIFAB. 1st edition. Own print, Paris 1931.