Augusto Vergez

Augusto Vergez


Personal details
birthday	April 14, 1896
date of death	July 26, 1963
nationality	Argentina Argentina
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 1.162
1938, World Cup Buenos Aires Argentina
Best GD: 0.884
1938, World Cup Buenos Aires Argentina
World Championships:
1 ×

Augusto Vergez (born April 14, 1896 in Argentina , † July 26, 1963 ibid) was an Argentine carom player in the three- cushion discipline .

Career

Vergez won his first championship in 1917 and 9 more before founding the Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar (FAAB) in 1937. He won the 1st Argentine Championship in 1937, the 11th Three Cushion World Championship in 1938 and the Xth Argentine Championship in 1946. Under consideration of all sports, he is the first Argentine world champion. He won his first world title in front of a home crowd in Buenos Aires, in the final he beat his brother Jean Francisco Vergez in the Maravillas Theater, which is located on the corner of San Jose and Victoria, today Hipólito Yrigoyen, and defeated last year's French winner Alfred Lagache , who World Cup third was. The World Cup was extremely attractive, with 15,000 spectators. From that moment on, billiards became a popular and major sporting event in the country and the golden age of Argentine billiards, with players such as Pedro Leopoldo Carrera , Enrique Navarra and Osvaldo Berardi , began. He won his second World Cup medal ten years later, also in Buenos Aires. Vergez was third behind the Belgian René Vingerhoedt and his compatriot José Bonomo.

Honors

In 1980 Vergez was posthumously awarded the Argentine cultural prize Premios Konex in the “Diploma al Mérito” class for his athletic achievements.

successes

Three-cushion world championship : 1938 1948
Argentine three-cushion championship: 1937, 1946

other Argentine championships: 10 ×

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Augusto Vergez - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 791-809 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Augusto Vergez. Premio Konex 1980: Billar. Konex Foundation , archived from the original on December 7, 2019 ; accessed on December 7, 2019 (Spanish).
↑ player profile. Kozoom , December 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
↑ Team: Billiards . The Official Rules And Records Book. Ed .: Billiard Congress of America . The Lyons Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Guilford, Connecticut 2005, ISBN 978-1-59228-744-4 (232 pages, WM 1938 in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Vergez, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentinian carom player and world champion
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Argentina
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1963
Place of death	Argentina

[EdB-1] A ^b Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 791-809 .

[Konex-2] Augusto Vergez. Premio Konex 1980: Billar. Konex Foundation , archived from the original on December 7, 2019 ; accessed on December 7, 2019 (Spanish).

[Spielerprofil-3] player profile. Kozoom , December 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .

[Billiards-4] Team: Billiards . The Official Rules And Records Book. Ed .: Billiard Congress of America . The Lyons Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Guilford, Connecticut 2005, ISBN 978-1-59228-744-4 (232 pages, WM 1938 in the Google book search).