Can Çapak

Can Çapak
Personal details
birthday	3rd March 1985 (age 35)
nationality	Turkey
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Continental Championships:
1 ×
Societies)
Ravensburger BC BC Stuttgart 1891

Can Çapak (born March 3, 1985 ) is a Turkish three- cushion player and European champion.

Career

Çapak began at the age of eight years with the Karambolagebillard on. In 2000 he became the first Turkish junior champion. He was able to secure the title again in the following year and was therefore voted "Most Talented Player". Until 2004 he repeated this success three times. At the age of only 16, he took part in the World Cup for the first time in 2001 , was able to qualify for the final round, but was defeated in the first round by the Belgian Francis Fortan with 1: 3 sets. In 2003, Çapak won the bronze medal at the three-cushion European junior championships. From 2004 to 2008 he worked as a teacher / trainer at Akdeniz University Sports Academy . In 2005 he again won a bronze medal, this time at the Turkey Cup , and a fifth place in the three-cushion world junior championship . In 2009 he won the Turkey Cup again . He won his first major title at an international tournament in 2017 with Tayfun Taşdemir at the three-cushion European championship for national teams. In April 2017 he won the Dutch 1st Division Finals .

successes

• European three-cushion championship for national teams : 2017
• Turkish Junior Champion: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
• Turkish Club Championship: 2008

Web links

Commons : Can Çapak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The derby is clear again
• BC Stuttgart, 1st team in the 2nd Bundesliga of the 2017/18 season

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} player profile. Kozoom , accessed April 29, 2018 .  
2. ↑ Sal Bello: Tayfun Tasdemir & Can Capak of Turkey 2017 European Team Champions. (No longer available online.) 3-Cushion Billiards, May 8, 2017, archived from the original on April 29, 2018 ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (English).  
3. ↑ Can Capak. (No longer available online.) Longoni, archived from the original on April 29, 2018 ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (English).