Albin Ouschan

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Albin Ouschan
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Albin Ouschan
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday August 14, 1990
place of birth Klagenfurt , Austria
societies

0000–2011 Eintracht Klagenfurt
2011–2012 Billiard Temple Linz
2012-2013 Eintracht Klagenfurt
2013-2014 Billiard Temple Linz
2013– BSV Dachau
Medal table
Austrian championship 11 × gold 4 × silver 8 × bronze
Euro tour 2 × gold 2 × silver 5 × bronze
European Championship 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
9-ball world championship 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Pool world rankings

Highest WRL place 1 (Jul-Sep 2015)
Current WRL location 11 (as of June 11, 2021)

Albin Alois Ouschan (also: Albin Ouschan junior ; born August 14, 1990 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian pool player . He became world champion in the 9-ball discipline in 2016 and 2021 and European champion in 14/1 endless in 2016 .

Childhood and family

Ouschan was born in 1990 as the son of the multiple Austrian pool master Albin Ouschan senior in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , where he also grew up. His parents ran an inn there, which was also the venue for the PBC Eintracht Klagenfurt , and where he began to play billiards . His older sister Jasmin is also a pool player and became 10-ball world champion in 2010 .

Albin Ouschan is the father of a daughter (* 2015).

Career

singles

Ouschan achieved his first major success in the youth field in 1999 when he won the Austrian toddler championship in the 8-ball discipline . From 2001 to 2003, five more championship titles followed in this age group. In 2001 he won his first medal at the European Youth Championship with third place in the pupils' 9-ball . He was in the final against 2002 Kevin Becker student European champion in endless 1/14 and won his first Austrian of four league titles with the students. At the 2003 European Youth Championship , he defended his title in the final against Hubert Łopotko .

In 2004 Ouschan became Austrian men's champion for the first time in 9-ball . He also won his first two national junior titles and was third in the junior world championship and European student champion with the Austrian team. A year later he won five titles at Austrian championships; He was twice Austrian champion with the students, in 8-ball with the juniors and won the titles in the men in 8-ball and 14/1 endlessly. At the European Youth Championships in 2005 he won gold in 14/1, his last medal among the students.

In 2006 Ouschan became Austrian men's master in all three disciplines. In April 2006 he made it into the finals of a Euro Tour tournament at the Italy Open for the first time , where he was eliminated in the round of sixteen against Ralf Souquet . At the Austria Open 2007 he reached the round of 16 for the first time and lost it with 9:10 against Tomasz Kapłan from Poland . In 2007 he was also the national champion in men's 9-ball as well as in 8-ball and 14/1 endless for juniors and won the gold medal in 14/1 endless and with the team at the Junior European Championship .

In August 2008 Albin Ouschan took part in the men's European championship for the first time and reached the quarter-finals in 14/1 endlessly, which he only narrowly lost to the eventual European champion Ivica Putnik . With the Austrian team he was also again junior European champion . In September 2008 he took part in a world championship for the first time. However, the 10-Ball World Cup ended for him with only one win after the preliminary round. At the Austrian championship in 2008 Ouschan managed to defend his title among the men. In the 9-ball he was also the Austrian junior champion for the last time. In 2009 Ouschan reached the European Championship eighth-finals in 14/1 endlessly and became Austrian 9-ball champion . At the EM 2010 , Ouschan did not get past the round of 32. In October 2010 he won the title in the 14/1 endless against Maximilian Lechner at the Austrian championship in the final .

In March 2011, Ouschan reached the quarter-finals in 8-ball at the European Championships and was defeated by the Estonian Denis Grabe . In July 2011 Ouschan made it to the round of 16 of the Austria Open and a few days later won the Austrian championship in 14/1 in the final against Mario He endlessly. After Ouschan was eliminated in the round of 16 at the Hungary Open 2011 , he came past the round of 16 for the first time on the Euro Tour at the Bosnia & Herzegovina Open 2012 ; After victories against the former world champions Darren Appleton and Chris Melling , he finally reached the final, in which he defeated the Swiss Dimitri Jungo 9: 3 and thus won an international billiards tournament for the first time. A few weeks later he reached the quarter-finals in 9-ball at the European Championships . In October 2012 he made it into the final of the North Cyprus Open , which he lost to Albanian Nick Malai 5-9 . He also finished 33rd at the 2012 China Open and 17th at the US Open .

In February 2013, Ouschan won his third medal on the Euro Tour with bronze at the Italy Open after he was eliminated in the semifinals against Jungo. At the EM 2013 , Ouschan reached the quarter-finals endlessly in both 9-ball and 14/1, but lost to later European champions Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg . A month later, he finished 17th at the China Open. At the World Games 2013 he was eliminated in the round of 16 against the American Johnny Archer . In November 2013 he lost in the semifinals of the Castel Brando Open against the Italian Daniele Corrieri . In 2013, Ouschan finished ninth in the Ultimate 10-Ball Championship.

In April 2014 Ouschan reached the semi-finals of the European Championship in 9-ball and was defeated there by the eventual winner Niels Feijen. After he was eliminated in the preliminary round in the previous year , he managed to move into the final at the 9-Ball World Cup in 2014 after victories against Oliver Ortmann and Roman Hybler , which he lost to the Dutchman Feijen at 10:13.

In January 2015, Ouschan was eliminated from the 10-Ball World Championship in the round of 64. At the European Championships he reached the quarter-finals in 8-ball and lost this against the later European champion Niels Feijen. In July 2015, Ouschan won the China Open with an 11: 8 victory in the final against the Canadian John Morra and was the first Austrian to make it to first place in the world rankings . At the 9-Ball World Cup 2015 , Ouschan narrowly escaped the preliminary round with a 9: 8 win over Irsal Nasution . He then defeated Satoshi Kawabata before knocking out Wu Jiaqing in the round of 32 . After the World Cup, he fell back to fifth place in the world rankings. A few days later he was third in the International Challenge of Champions . In October 2015 he won the Dutch Open 2015 with a 9-2 win in the final against Imran Majid and thus a Euro Tour tournament for the second time.

At the 2016 European Championships in St. Johann im Pongau , Ouschan entered the final for the first time in 14/1 with a semi-final victory against defending champion Nick van den Berg. There he defeated the Russian Konstantin Stepanow in a recording with 125: 0 and won his first European title. In the 9-ball competition, he reached the quarter-finals, which he lost 3: 9 against the eventual runner-up European champion Joshua Filler .

In August 2016, he reached the final of the 9-ball World Cup for the second time in Doha . In the final he defeated the American Shane van Boening 13: 6 and became the first Austrian 9-ball world champion. Overall, it was Austria's third world championship title in pool after his sister Jasmin became world champion in 10-ball in 2010 and Gerda Hofstätter won the title at the women's 9-ball world championship in 1995 .

A few days after winning the World Cup, Ouschan was eliminated from the Albanian Open in the round of 16. At the China Open 2016 and the Dutch Open 2016 , he was eliminated as defending champion in the round of 32. At the tournament in Shanghai he was defeated by the Taiwanese Ko Pin-yi 6:11, in Heeze-Leende he lost 5: 9 to Mark Gray . In addition, he reached the quarter-finals at the Kuwait Open and the Treviso Open in 2016 .

In January 2017 Ouschan finished thirteenth at the World Chinese 8-Ball Masters . In February he took part in the World Pool Masters for the first time and reached the semifinals, in which he was defeated 6: 8 by the eventual tournament winner David Alcaide . A little later he reached the quarter-finals at the Italian Open . At the 2017 European Championship he lost endlessly as defending champion in the last 16 against the eventual European champion Niels Feijen in the 14/1 and did not get past the round of 32 in the three following European Championship competitions. At the Portugal Open , which took place after the EM , he was eliminated in the preliminary round. At the Austrian Open 2017 he won a Euro Tour medal for the first time since 2015, his sixth overall: After defeating Ruslan Tschinachow and David Alcaide, among others , he made it to the semifinals, in which he won the eventual tournament winner Mario He only just defeated 8: 9. At the three other Euro Tour events of the year he won another bronze medal ( Dutch Open ) and made it to the quarter-finals twice. In addition, he reached the quarter-finals of the China Open , where he was defeated by the eventual winner Joshua Filler, and was seventeenth at the US Open .

At the 2018 Euro Tour kick-off, the Treviso Open , Ouschan made it into the final, where he had to admit defeat to Albanian Eklent Kaçi 5: 9. At the EM 2018 he made it to the finals twice, losing endlessly to Niels Feijen (73: 125) in 14/1 and losing to Joshua Filler (5: 8) in 10-ball. While he secured another medal on the Euro Tour after a semi-final defeat by Eklent Kaçi at the Leende Open , he did not get past the second round of the World Pool Series and was eliminated at the China Open in the round of 16. At the end of the year he reached the quarter-finals of the 9-ball World Cup and was defeated by the eventual world champion Joshua Filler.

At the beginning of 2019, Ouschan reached the quarter-finals at the Leende Open , which remained his best Euro Tour result until the end of the year. A little later he was invited to the World Pool Masters for the second time , where he won against Joshua Filler and was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Skyler Woodward . At the EM 2019 he did not get beyond the round of 16 in the 14/1 endlessly. A little later he came in 25th place at the US Open and failed in the preliminary round at the 10-Ball World Cup . After he had finished third in the American Straight Pool Championship , he reached the round of 16 at the 9-ball World Cup , in which he was defeated by the Finn Casper Matikainen .

At the Treviso Open 2020 , which was the only Euro Tour tournament of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Ouschan was eliminated in the round of 32. In October 2020, he won the online Poison Cues VG 10-Ball Championship with a 13:10 final win over Tyler Styer .

In early 2021, Ouschan came ninth in the second edition of the Poison Cues VG 10-Ball Championship . A little later he won the Championship League with a 5-1 final win over the Spaniard David Alcaide . At the World Pool Masters , however, he suffered an opening defeat in the round of 16 against Denis Grabe. In June 2021, Ouschan became world champion in 9-ball for the second time with a 13: 9 final victory against Kuwait Omar al-Shaheen .

Team career

With the PBC Eintracht Klagenfurt , Ouschan was Austrian champion in the 2005/06 season . After he had achieved second place in the 2. Bundesliga in 2009 and 2010 and third place in 2011 with the club , he moved to PBC Billardtempel Linz , with whom he was third in the Bundesliga in the 2011/12 season . He then returned to Eintracht, with which he took first place in the second division, now renamed Regionalliga , in the 2012/13 season . In the following season he was Austrian runner-up with the PBC Billardtempel Linz.

Since 2013 he has been playing for the German Bundesliga club BSV Dachau , with whom he was runner- up in 2014 and 2015 and German champions in 2016 , 2017 and 2018 .

Ouschan has represented Austria eight times at the World Cup of Pool ; In 2012 he reached the round of 16 with Mario He as a doubles partner, in 2013 he lost together with his sister Jasmin Ouschan in the first round. He then formed the team again with He and reached the semi-finals in 2014 and the quarter-finals in 2015 . In 2017 , He and Ouschan became the first Austrians to win the tournament with a 10: 6 final victory against the Americans Shane van Boening and Skyler Woodward . After a 3:10 defeat in the final against the Chinese Wu Jiaqing and Liu Haitao in 2018 , He and Ouschan won the World Cup of Pool again in 2019 , this time by beating the Filipinos Carlo Biado and Jeffrey de Luna 11: 3 . Two years later the Austrians had to admit defeat to the Slovak doubles ( Jakub Koniar , Jaroslav Polach ) in the first round .

With the Austrian national team, Ouschan was European champion in 2014 and 2017 , vice European champion in 2019 and third place in the European Championship in 2012 and 2015 . At the team world championship he was eliminated in the preliminary round in 2010 and reached the round of 16 in 2014 .

In 2015 Ouschan was the first Austrian to be nominated for the Mosconi Cup , which he won with the European team 11: 7 against the USA. He won four of his five singles and doubles games, including the decisive match in which he defeated Skyler Woodward 5-4. In 2016 he was part of the European team for the second time. In the 11: 3 victory of the Europeans he was used five times, won all five games and was named Most Valuable Player for his performance . After not being nominated in 2017 , he won four of his six games in 2018 when the European team lost 9:11. In Ouschan's fourth participation, 2020 , the European team won 11: 3, with Ouschan victorious in three of his six games.

successes

Single successes
Result year competition Final opponent Final score
winner 2002 European Schoolchildren Championship (14/1 endless) GermanyGermany Kevin Becker nb
winner 2003 European Schoolchildren Championship (14/1 endless) PolandPoland Hubert Łopotko nb
winner 2005 European Schoolchildren Championship (14/1 endless) GermanyGermany Nico Wehner nb
winner 2007 Junior European Championship (14/1 endless) GermanyGermany Nico Wehner nb
winner 2012 Bosnia & Herzegovina Open SwitzerlandSwitzerland Dimitri Jungo 9: 3
finalist 2012 North Cyprus Open AlbaniaAlbania Nick Malai 5: 9
finalist 2014 World Championship (9-Ball) NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 10:13
winner 2015 China Open CanadaCanada John Morra 11: 8
winner 2015 Dutch Open EnglandEngland Imran Majid 9: 2
winner 2016 European Championship (14/1 endless) RussiaRussia Konstantin Stepanov 125: 0
winner 2016 World Championship (9-Ball) United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 13: 6
finalist 2018 Treviso Open AlbaniaAlbania Eklent Kaçi 5: 9
finalist 2018 European Championship (14/1 endless) NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 73: 125
finalist 2018 European Championship (10-Ball) GermanyGermany Joshua Filler 5: 8
winner 2020 Poison VG 10-Ball Championship United StatesUnited States Tyler Styer 13:10
winner 2021 Championship League SpainSpain David Alcaide 5: 1
winner 2021 World Championship (9-Ball) KuwaitKuwait Omar al-Shaheen 13: 9
Further successes (individual)
Team successes

Participation in world championships

discipline 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
8 ball - n / A. - - ? not carried out
9-ball n / A. - - ? R. F. L32 S. A. V A. n / A. S.
10 ball R. - n / A. ? n / A. L64 n / A. R. n / A.
14/1 endless - n / A. - not carried out
Legend
S. winner
F. finalist
H Semi-finalist
V Quarter finalist
A. Round of 16
LX Lost in the round of the last X
R2 Round 2 defeat
R. Preliminary round out / defeat in round 1
- not participated
n / A. not carried out

Awards

  • Carinthian Sportsman of the Year 2016

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Ouschan, Albin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ouschan, Albin Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pool player
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee