Adnan Yüksel

Adnan Yüksel
Personal details
birthday	April 6, 1962
place of birth	Istanbul
nationality	Turkey
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 3.750
2010 Matosinhos (WC)
Best GD: 2.083
2013 Antalya (toilet)
Maximum series (HS): 21
2013 Hurghada (WC)
World Championships:
1 ×
Continental Championships:
1 ×
Societies)
Eurasia Billiard Club Bahçelievler Belediye Spor Kulübü

Adnan Yüksel (born April 6, 1962 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish three- cushion carom player and winner of the three-cushion World Cup .

Career

Yüksel, like Serdar Gümüş , belongs to the older guard of Turkish billiards, which was only able to achieve international success at the age of over 40. He made his first international appearance in 1999 at the Three Cushion World Championship in Bogota, Colombia, together with Semih Saygıner . There he finished the group stage with a 2nd place behind the German Christian Rudolph and moved into the final round. In the last sixteen he was clearly defeated by the multiple world champion Torbjörn Blomdahl from Sweden with 0: 3. From then on he took part regularly in the World Cup tournaments, where he won the silver medal in 2006 in Sluiskil, the Netherlands. In 2011 he won a World Cup for the first time in Hurghada, Egypt . With his club “Bahçelievler Belediye Spor Kulübü”, Yüksel and his teammates Tayfun Taşdemir , Lütfi Çenet and Murat Naci Çoklu won the Coupe d'Europe in 2013 in Schiltigheim and 2015 in Istanbul . 2015 was his most successful year so far. First he won the bronze medal with Taşdemir in February at the three-cushion world championship for national teams in Viersen and in May again bronze at the three-cushion European championships in Brandenburg an der Havel , behind Blomdahl and the Belgian Eddy Merckx .

UMB lock 2019

In spring 2019 he signed a contract with the newly formed Professional Billiards Association (of Korea) PBA. Since the PBA is not a member of the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB), players who take part in PBA tournaments are banned from participating in the tournament for one year, but no longer than three years. This ended his UMB season at the end of the 2018/19 season.

successes

• Three-cushion world championship for national teams : 2015
• Three Cushion European Championship : 2015

• Three Cushion European Championship (club teams): 2013 (Bahcelievler Belediye Spor Kulubu)
• Three Cushion World Cup : 2011, 2006
• Coupe d'Europe : 2013, 2014

Web links

Commons : Adnan Yüksel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Adnan Yüksel vs. Semih Saygıner , Three Cushion World Cup 2005; YouTube video (1:39 h)
• Photos from various tournaments , Kozoom.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom, accessed December 6, 2016 .  
2. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: UMB officially publishes the locks. Kozoom , June 10, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: UMB is serious - locks are through! Kozoom, July 15, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .