Arnim Kahofer

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Arnim Kahofer
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Kahofer at the European Carom Championships 2015 in Brandenburg / Havel
Personal details
birthday September 25, 1974
place of birth Vienna
nationality AustriaAustria Austria
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Maximum series (HS): 16 (three-cushion)
Continental Championships:
2 × (Free game: 1997, Cadre 47/2: 2004)
Other tournaments:
64 × Austrian national champion
World rankings
Current WRL location: 31 (three-cushion)
(as of February 22, 2016)
Societies)
  • Vienna Billiards Association (WBA) AustriaAustria

Arnim Kahofer (born September 25, 1974 in Vienna ) is an Austrian carambola player and two-time European champion.

Career

Kahofer started playing billiards in 1987 at the age of 12. His father, a typical Viennese coffeehouse player, took him with him back then and sparked his fascination for the game. After a month the young Kahofer wanted his own cue . His father took him to Heinrich Weingartner's famous billiards shop in Vienna . Ms. Weingartner sent him to the billiard club "Wiener Billard Association" (WBA), where Weingartner was just setting up a youth group. The initial two days of training a week soon turned into seven days, on which Arnim trained three hours a day. After half a year he switched from small pool to match pool . It developed quickly, which was not least due to Heinrich Weingartner's training. In addition, the strong competition with Patrick Andre spurred him on to keep working on himself.

The first European Junior Championships were rather disappointing for him. He gained international attention in 1991 at the Cadre 47/2 European Championship in Athens . There he beat the reigning European champion Johan Claessen from Belgium in the first round and finished with a respectable sixth place. A total of four medals followed. In a team with Patrick Andre and Andreas Kronlachner , he became European youth club champion. An international individual title in the juniors was denied him.

Kahofer then exploited this notch in the general class by winning the 1997 Free-Game European Championship in Chemnitz . He won his second title in the 2004/05 season at the Cadre 47/2 European Championship in Mataró . That also helped him to win the "Classic Masters Trophy", an overall ranking of the European championships for one season in the classic series disciplines.

In addition to Weingartner, his coaches included multiple European champions Franz Stenzel and Andreas Horvath. He also owes his leap to the top of the world to his training partners Marco Zanetti and Tony Schrouwen.

After his great international success in the series disciplines, Kahofer turned more intensively to the three- cushion discipline (which he previously neglected) . There he was initially for years away from the world-class level achieved in all other five disciplines ( Free Game , Cadre 47/2 , Cadre 71/2 , Cadre 47/1 and Einband ), which he naturally also strived to achieve in three-cushion play. He took a clear step in this direction in January 2014 by winning the 71st Austrian State Championship three cushion with 1.363 GD . He confidently defended this title in January 2015 . In February 2016 he and Andreas Efler finished third in the three-cushion world championship for national teams in Viersen, and in 2018 the two finished second there .

Others

Kahofer is an architect full-time.

successes

  • Classic Masters Trophy: gold 2004/05
  • European Championship: gold 1997 (Free game), 2004 (Cadre 47/2), silver 2002 (Cadre 71/2), 2004 (Cadre 47/2), 2008 (Cadre 47/2) • bronze 2006 (Cadre 71/2), 2006 (Cadre 47/2)
  • Three Cushion Team World Cup : silver 2018 • bronze 2016
  • European Junior Championship: silver 1996 ( three cushion ) • bronze 1991 (free game), 1995 (cadre 47/2)
  • Austrian state championship three cushion : gold2014, 2015, 2017, 2019 silver2003, 2007, 2013 bronze2009, 2016, 2018
  • Austrian individual national champion: 64 ×
  • ANAG Billard Cup (Triathlon): bronze 2011, 2013

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Arnim Kahofer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player ranking. ( Memento of January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) On: WorldCup3CushionVienna.com. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ World Players Ranking. Edition 06/2016. UMB world ranking, accessed on February 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ biography. Beginning. On: Arnim-Kahofer.com. Retrieved on January 21, 2013.
  4. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1562 .
  5. ↑ biography. Development. On: Arnim-Kahofer.com. Retrieved on January 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ biography. Influences. On: Arnim-Kahofer.com. Retrieved on January 21, 2013.
  7. ↑ 71. ÖSTM three volume - MB - 2013/14. ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: bsvoe.com. Accessed January 29, 2014.
  8. ↑ Three cushion ÖSTM match billiards. On: bsvoe.com. Accessed on January 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ ÖSTM three-volume (MB). ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) On: WBA.at. Accessed on January 21, 2015.
  10. ^ Markus Schönhoff: Three-cushion state championship in Austria. Kozoom , January 27, 2018, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Arnim Kahofer. On: Kozoom.com. Successes. Retrieved on January 21, 2013.
  12. ↑ Achievements. General class. On: Arnim-Kahofer.com. Retrieved on January 21, 2013.
  13. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1011-1045 .
personal data
SURNAME Kahofer, Arnim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian carom player
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna