Cees van Oosterhout

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Cees van Oosterhout
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Van Oosterhout at the National Championships in Cadre 71/2 on March 20, 1955
Personal details
birthday August 31, 1930
place of birth Rotterdam NetherlandsNetherlandsNetherlands 
date of death July 7, 2015
Place of death Uithoorn NetherlandsNetherlandsNetherlands 
nationality NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
see achievements

Cees van Oosterhout (born August 31, 1930 in Rotterdam , † July 7, 2015 in Uithoorn ) was a Dutch carom player and sports official.

Career

Van Oosterhout comes from a family of restaurateurs. In the Netherlands, too, the strict youth protection laws only allowed access to restaurants from the age of 16. As the owner's son, the young Cees was not affected by this and so it was possible for him to devote himself to billiards at a young age.

Van Oosterhout was considered an ambassador for billiards in the Netherlands. From the 1950s to 1968 he played (almost) all types of collision (except for art kick ) and was successful in doing so. He won national titles in all variants, except in Cadre 47/2. Hans Vultink was his worst competitor. After the national titles, van Oosterhout also played in international tournaments and also won titles there. He did not finish first, but he won three 2nd places ( cover : 1955 and 1957, free game : 1957) and two 3rd places (Cadre 47/2: 1956 and cover: 1957). From 1978 to 1985 he also practiced billiards artistique.

In addition to active billiards, he also held a number of positions in the area of ​​billiards. He was technical advisor to the Koninklijke Nederlandse Biljartbond (KNBB) (1962–1963) and a member of the top sports committee of this association (1993). He wrote columns in the magazine "Biljart" (1985–1991), commented regularly on television programs and traveled as a billiard ambassador to Indonesia, Poland, Curaçao and Japan to promote billiards. In 1992 he was appointed "Knight of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Biljartbond" (honorary member). He was also active in leading positions internationally. From 1989 to 2001 he organized tournaments for the Billiards Worldcup Association (BWA).

On July 15, 1963, Cees van Oosterhout took over one of the oldest billiard factories in the Netherlands. In addition to his active gaming life , he now also managed the Wilhelmina billiard factory in the “Stadhouderskade 127” in Amsterdam with 20 employees. In various tournaments he therefore played on his own tables. During a break-in in May 1965, all cues and billiard clocks, as well as his trophies and awards, including the “Gerrit Heese Cup”, were stolen. In 1970 van Oosterhout saved the European championship held in Apeldoorn because the billiards players complained about the quality of the Belgian billiard balls. Van Oosterhout suggested using German billiard balls after the first games so that the tournament could continue. He later made these balls himself in his factory. When he left the company, he passed it on to his three sons.

The Limburgs Dagblad also called Cees van Oosterhout the Jan Jongbloed of billiards because he has a similarly long history of success.

successes

International

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National

  • Dutch championship (free game): gold1 ×
  • Dutch championship (Cadre 47/2): gold1 ×
  • Dutch championship (Cadre 71/2): gold1 ×
  • Dutch championship (cover): gold3 ×
  • Dutch championship (three cushion) : gold2 ×
  • Dutch championship (art push): gold3 ×

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Web links

Commons : Cees van Oosterhout  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Haase: Cees van Oosterhout . Obituary. Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape 7 , no. 276 . Self-published, 2015, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 12 ({{{Comment}}}).
  2. ↑ a b c d Cees van Oosterhout. Profile. Biljardvereiniging Geertruidenberg, archived from the original on March 1, 2019 ; Retrieved September 23, 2019 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ a b Biljartambassadeur Cees van Oosterhout overleden. Obituary of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Biljartbond (KNBB). KNBB, July 2015, archived from the original on August 10, 2015 ; Retrieved September 23, 2019 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Woedende Ceulemans: "Dit maakt me belachelijk!" Drama rond speelballen in Appeldoorn. De Telegraaf , February 20, 1970, p. 27 , accessed September 23, 2019 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed September 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oosterhout, Cees van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch carom player and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2015
Place of death Uithoorn