Adolfo Suárez Perret

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Adolfo Suárez Perret
Suarez at the 1961 three-cushion world championship award ceremony
Personal details
birthday	October 27, 1930
place of birth	Lima, Peru
date of death	April 14, 2001
Place of death	Lima, Peru
nationality	Peru
Nickname (s)	La Vieja, La Bruja
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 1.640
1964
Maximum series (HS): 19
1953
Best Game: 2,500 (60 points in 24 records)
World Championships:
1 ×
Continental Championships:
3 ×
Other tournaments:
s. successes
Societies)
Club La Union de Lima Club National

Suarez at the 1965 three-cushion World Cup in Hilversum, Netherlands

Adolfo Amaro Suárez Perret , or Adolfo Suarez for short (born October 27, 1930 in Lima , † April 14, 2001 ibid) was a Peruvian billiards player and world champion. Together with Humberto Suguimitzu and Sixto Jáuregui , he belonged to the top Peruvian billiards with international success in the 1960s and 1970s .

biography

Suarez was the only son of Luis Suárez, an Argentine from Córdoba and captain of a merchant ship, and the Peruvian Lorenza Perret. His father died a month before he was born and so he was born a half-orphan. His mother was a piano teacher in the conservatory that his grandfather Don Adolfo Perret founded. During his youth he was a stage worker and extra at the municipal theater near La Aurora.

His beginnings in billiards go back to 1944 when he was 14 years old. He performed his first shots in the "Cuzco billiard hall" in downtown Lima. The people who guided him at the beginning were Amador Benítez and Jorge Urbina Polo as well as Manuel Montesinos (the first president of the Peruvian billiards association FPB), as well as the former president of the FPB Amadeo Grados Penalillo and Augusto Nanetti Borda.

At the age of 17 he won his first national championship in the free game (1947), the youngest player in Peruvian billiards history. In 1951 he won the gold medal at the "Bolivarian Games" in Caracas , also in the free game. On March 8, 1953, he set a new record in three cushion with 19 collisions ( maximum series , HS). 1954 Suarez was Peruvian champion in Cadre -47/2. In 1956 he set a new series record in the free game with 13,756 billiards and in 1964 a record in three cushion with a general average (GD) of 1.640. In addition to five South American three- cushion titles , a title as Latin American champion and two gold medals at the “Champion of Champions of America”, Suarez also won 24 different national titles.

He was an exceptional player and mastered all billiards disciplines. He was characterized by a powerful thrust that was comparable to that of the Argentine Enrique Navarra , who was considered the strongest player of his time and had a great capacity for solutions. Suarez was considered one of the most popular athletes in Peru because of his simplicity, charisma and humility.

In the mid-1960s he married his girlfriend Grimanesa, with whom he had three children.

After his active career, Suarez worked as a billiards teacher in the "Club Nacional" and gave private lessons.

World title

On April 23, Adolfo Suarez was named world champion at the 1961 three-cushion world championship at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam . He lost his first two matches to two games against the Spaniard Joaquín Domingo and the French Bernard Siguret. Suarez started his winning streak with a win over Belgian Raymond Ceulemans with 60:44, then he defeated the local Henny de Ruijter one after the other and then eliminated Enrique Miró (Argentina), Johann Scherz (Austria) and Bert Teegelaar (Netherlands) until he reached the final reached. His opponent there was the Portuguese Egidio Vieira, whom he could then also defeat. To this day (as of 2019) Suarez is the only Peruvian who could win a world championship in the "premier class" three cushion. When he arrived from the World Cup, he was celebrated by 5,000 people in Lima and escorted through the city in a car parade.

death

He died nine days after his 40th World Cup anniversary in a hospital in Lima, where he had been admitted with brain problems and put into an artificial coma.

Trivia

• For the three-cushion world championship in 1965 in Hilversum, the Netherlands, he was not allowed to start. He drove there at his own expense and risk, with the aim of persuading the responsible officials to start, but without success. So he had to watch the World Cup from the stands (see picture).
• When Suarez lived in a small village near Venice in the early 1960s, word of his talent for billiards quickly spread. One day, four "important" looking people came up to him and told him that someone wanted to speak to him. When he met this man, he introduced himself as " Lucky Luciano " and asked for a pool lesson.

successes

• Three-cushion world championship : 1961
• Three Cushion South American Championship : 1958, 1963, 1970 1960, 1969
• Peruvian Championships: 24 × (national title record)
• National championship in Cadre 47/2: 1954
• Champion of Champions of America: 1974 (Ecuador), 1976 (México)
• Three-Cushion Pan American Championship for national teams: 1986 (Ecuador)
• "Confraternidad" - International three-band tournament: 1986 (Peru)

Swell:

Honors, awards and recognitions

• Laureles Deportivos in the “Gran Cruz” grade, the highest distinction of the Peruvian government.
• The national three-cushion billiards tournament of Peru bears his name.
• For twelve years he was considered the best Peruvian national athlete.
• Honorary member: "Club La Union de Lima" and "Club National".
• Gold Medal and Diploma of Honor awarded by the Pueblo Libre District Council in recognition of his brilliant sports career.
• Certificate of honor and commemorative plaque awarded by the Peruvian Sports Institute for his brilliant sports career.
• Gold medal and honorary diploma, awarded by the Peruvian Sports Journalists' Circle for his outstanding sports career.

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Adolfo Suárez Perret  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Adolfo Suarez - Ex-Billarista on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Eloy Jáuregui: Adolfo Suárez - Taco, Tabaco y Ron. Cangrejo Negro, March 11, 2016, archived from the original on October 25, 2019 ; Retrieved October 25, 2019 (Spanish).  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lili Córdova: Adolfo Amaro Suárez Perret. “La Vieja” Suarez: 50 años de la gloria en el billar. El Comercio, April 19, 2011, archived from the original on October 25, 2019 ; Retrieved October 25, 2019 (Spanish).  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Roberto Salinas Benavides: Jugador de fantasía. Hace 55 años, el limeño Adolfo Suárez Perret se coronó campeón mundial de billar a tres bandas en Ámsterdam, con lo que impuso nuevos récords. Seertrio de nuestro primer título mundial. El Peruano, April 17, 2016, archived from the original on October 25, 2019 ; Retrieved October 25, 2019 (Spanish).  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Luis Valverde Pando: Adolfo Suárez Perret. Portalzhejumigu.com, July 2008, archived from the original on March 19, 2019 ; Retrieved October 25, 2019 (Spanish).  
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} José Carlos Serván Meza: Adolfo Suárez Perret. El Mas Grande Billarista del Perú. Pelotadetrapo, May 20, 2010, archived from the original on October 25, 2019 ; Retrieved October 25, 2019 (Spanish).  
6. ↑ Muerte de Adolfo Suárez Perret. Obituary. Deportes.Terra, April 2001, archived from the original on October 22, 2004 ; Retrieved October 25, 2019 (Spanish).  
7. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 815 .
8. ↑ Player profile - Adolfo Suarez. Kozoom , accessed October 25, 2019 .