Antonio Oddo

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Antonio Oddo
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Personal details
birthday January 7, 1939
place of birth Palermo, Sicily
nationality ItalyItaly Italy
Nickname (s) Il Re della Carambola
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Other tournaments:
s. successes

Antonio Oddo (born January 7, 1939 in Palermo , Italy ) is an Italian carambola player and multiple national champion.

Career

Oddo, who is also called "il Re della Carambola" (the king of the carom) in Italy, is national champion in all disciplines of the carom. He won his first title in 1964 in Padova in three cushion . 1969 in Trieste in the free game , which he won a total of seven times. In the same year he won the championship in Cadre 47/2 in his native Palermo, which is also known as the "capital of the carom" (Capitale della Carambola) in Italy. A year later he was able to repeat this success in Modena Oddo won until the last tournament in Sant'Agata li Battiati in 2012, he was already 73 years old there, in this discipline a total of 14 titles, seven of them in a row in 1985 until 1992. Before 1985, Oddo's series victories were only interrupted by the only 18-year-old talent from Bolzano, Marco Zanetti , who won the tournament five times without interruption between 1980 and 1985, but then withdrew from the classic disciplines and switched to three-cushion. Both players dominated the Italian billiards scene from the early 1980s until Oddo retired after his last title win in 2012. With 12 gold medals, Oddo is the most successful three-cushion player in Italy after Zanetti (29 to 2019).

Oddo's heyday coincided with that of the overpowering Belgian Raymond Ceulemans , Ludo Dielis or Rini van Bracht , so Oddo could not celebrate any successes on the international crash scene . In his first participation in the three-cushion European championship in 1971 in Geel , Belgium , he only came second to last, a year later in Dortmund he was tenth and thus last. 1974 in Valencia again only the last place. In Vejle , Denmark , Oddo finished second in the group stage behind Ceulemans, but then lost just 3-2 to him in the quarter-finals and finished 8th behind Sweden's Lennart Blomdahl . In 1994 he was defeated by Austrian Andreas Efler 1: 3 sets in the round of 16 and came in 16th, again behind Lennart Blomdahl. In the 1998/8 three-cushion World Cup in Oosterhout , the Netherlands , Oddo beat Martin Horn in the qualifying round , but then failed the final round on the young Danish talent Dion Nelin . In 2002 he defeated Jean Reverchon from France in 2-0 sets, then retired in the final round of the last 32 against the Colombian Jaime Bedoya with 2: 3.

successes

  • Italian three-cushion championship : gold1964, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1988, 1996, 2007 silver1982, 1983, 1986, 1994, 2005, 2006 bronze1985, 2004
  • Italian Free Game Championship: gold1969, 1974, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1992, 1996
  • Italian Cadre 47/2 Championship: gold1969, 1970, 1985-1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2012
  • Italian binding championship: gold1971, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1997
  • Italian Biathlon Championship (Free Game & 47/2): gold1996

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biografia. Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo (FIBIS), archived from the original on February 4, 2020 ; accessed on February 4, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed February 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Oddo, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian billiards player
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo , Italy