Christian Rudolph (carom player)

Christian Rudolph
Personal details
birthday	January 14, 1965
place of birth	Cologne
nationality	Germany
Active time	since 1985
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 2.778
2009 Dutch championships
Maximum series (HS): 17
2011 Belgian Championships
World Championships:
1 × 3-cushion World Cup 1996 - Hattingen 4 × Team World Cup 1993/1994/1997/2002
Other tournaments:
3 × Coupe d'Europe (1994/96/97) 11 × DM (1994/96/98/99, 2000/01/05/11/13/14/15) 1 × three- cushion World Cup (overall winner 1997) 2 × Three-cushion World Cup (individual tournament 1997/1 & 1997/5)
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	15th
Current WRL location:	23
Societies)
BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959 Bottroper BA

Ernst Christian Rudolph (born January 14, 1965 in Cologne ) is a German carom player and three- cushion world champion. In March 2019, Rudolph was appointed as the successor to the resigned national coach Wolfgang Zenkner .

Life

His father Ernst Rudolph was a 17-time German champion and two-time vice European champion and an important German billiard player of the fifties and sixties. At the christening, Christian Rudolph received a billiard cue from the then President of the German Billiards Association , Herbert Fassbender . At the age of nine he began to train billiards in the billiards salon in Cologne that his father ran.

In addition to the classic introduction to billiards, free play , cadre and binding , he played three cushion from the start, which he specialized in early on. Rudolph studied plant engineering and process engineering and lives on the Lower Rhine .

Career

In 1988, 1989 and 1992 he won the German Cup team championships in Bottrop with his club BF Horster-Eck Essen in 1959 . In the individual disciplines he won the German Grand Prix (GGP) in 1990, 1992 and 1993. In 1994 he won his first German three-cushion championship in Backnang and was able to defend the title of team world champion in Viersen together with his teammate Maximo Aguirre . In the final against the Netherlands he defeated it Dick Jaspers , where he ended the game with a 12-series. In 1990 and 1992 the two had already finished third there. Also in 1994 he won the European Cup with Horster-Eck as the first German club in 34 years, also in 1996 and 1997.

In the 1996/97 season he won the world championship in three cushion against Daniel Sánchez in Hattingen at the start of the season . The Spaniard missed match point in the fifth and decisive set, and Rudolph was able to score the last two points to win. It was the first victory of a German in the 68-year history of this tournament. In 1997, with Johann Schirmbrand as a partner in Viersen, he won the team world championship held there since 1990 . At the end of the 1997 season, he was the first German to win the overall World Cup tournament series by winning the World Cup in Herne . This hat trick (overall World Cup winner, individual and team world champion) hadn't been achieved by anyone before him. In 2002 he won the World Team Championship in Viersen together with Martin Horn . Rudolph had to withdraw from the 2011 national team championship due to problems with his cervical spine .

In 2013 he and Horn became vice world champion at the World Cup for national teams. At the European Championships in April, Rudolph was in the final with Marco Zanetti and became vice European champion. At the beginning of June he and Markus Galla finished third in the first edition of the German three-cushion masters . In July he took part in the World Games as the reigning German champion and was defeated by the eventual winner Zanetti in the quarter-finals.

successes

Christian Rudolph (2012)

• Three Cushion World Championship : Winner: 1996 • Third 1998 (UMB / BWA)
• Three-cushion World Cup for teams : Winner 1993, 1994, 1997, 2002 • Second 2001, 2006, 2013 • Third 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
• Three-cushion European Championship : runner-up in 2013
• Three-cushion World Cup : overall winner 1997 (UMB / CEB) • individual winner 1997/1, 1997/5
• Coupe d'Europe Winner 1994, 1996, 1997
• German champion (three-cushion, individual) 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
• German Cup Champion (three cushion, team): 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2010, 2015, 2016
• German Grand Prix : Overall winner 1990, 1992 • Individual winner 1990/3, 1990/5, 1991/2, 1991/6, 1992/2, 1992/6, 1993/4, 1994/1, 1994/5, 2008/1, 2008/4, 2012/3, 2010/5
• German three-cushion masters : third in 2013

source

Christian Rudolph in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 29, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Christian Rudolph  - Collection of Images

• The supreme discipline. Article in RP-online from September 13, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Match results from Christian Rudolph on: Kozoom.com. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
2. ↑ Current UMB world rankings (PDF; 770 kB) at: UMB-carom.org. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
3. ↑ Player profile on: Worldgames2013.sportresult.com. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
4. ^ Markus Schönhoff: Markus Dömer new sports manager, Christian Rudolph national coach. Kozoom, March 10, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .