Daniel Sánchez (carom player)

Daniel Sánchez Gálvez
Personal details
birthday	March 3, 1974
place of birth	Santa Coloma de Gramenet
nationality	Spain
Nickname (s)	Dani
Active time	since 1989
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 5,000
Best GD: 2.739
(2015)
Maximum series (HS): 23
(2016)
World Championships:
4 (1998, 2005, 2010, 2016)
Continental Championships:
2 (1997, 2000)
Other tournaments:
11 (three-cushion world cup)
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	1
Current WRL location:	15 (as of January 2020)
Societies)
CB Barcelona (ESP) Courbevoie (FRA) FC Porto (POR) Billiard Carambol Club Munich eV

Daniel Sánchez (actually Daniel Sánchez Gálvez , born March 3, 1974 in Santa Coloma de Gramenet ) is a Spanish , professional carom player .

His first big success was reaching the final of the three-cushion world championship in 1996 in Hattingen , Westphalia , which he lost to Christian Rudolph from Cologne . In 1997 he won the three-cushion European championship against Jean-Christophe Roux . In 1998 he made it to the final of the World Cup for the second time and won the tournament against the Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl .

In 2000 he won the European Championship for the second time against the then defending champion Semih Saygıner from Turkey. In 2005 he won the World Cup for the second time, this time against Jean Paul de Bruijn from the Netherlands. In 2007 he made it to the final of the World Cup again, but was defeated by the Japanese Ryūji Umeda . His third three-cushion European title followed in 2009 and his third world title in 2010.

Sánchez also won gold medals in three cushion at the 2001 and 2005 World Games (both in the final against Dick Jaspers ). After winning the Spanish three-cushion championship for the first time in 1994, he drew level with previous record holder Joaquín Domingo in 2006 (10 times champion between 1940 and 1960) and won all titles from 1998 to 2009, 12 times in a row. In 2010 and 2011 he then had to admit defeat to up-and-coming young players Javier Palazón and Antonio Ortiz, but won his crown back on July 1, 2012 in Madrid .

He won his fourth world title in 2016 against four-time youth world champion Kim Haeng-jik from Korea in Bordeaux . Shortly afterwards, he won the Lausanne Billard Masters invitation tournament against Frédéric Caudron for the first time , having won the bronze medal in 2014. In October, Sanchez won his 11th silver medal at the World Cup in La Baule , France , when he lost 20:40 in the final against Murat Naci Çoklu from Turkey.

After three years of abstinence from the tournament, Sanchez won his 19th Spanish three-hand title in Los Narejos ( Murcia ) at the end of January 2020 with a new tournament record of 2,410. At the beginning of the year he switched to his new sponsor “Predator” and played with a new cue.

successes

• Junior European Championship: 1992, 1995
• Three-cushion European Championship: 1997, 2000 2006, 2007
• Three-cushion World Cup: 1998, 2005, 2010, 2016, 1996, 2007
• Three-cushion World Cup (overall victories): 1995, 1996, 2004, 2006, 2015
• Three- cushion World Cup (individual victories): 1995/2, 1995/4, 1998/8, 2004/4, 2004/5, 2006/2, 2006/4, 2007/7, 2008/5, 2011/2, 2015/4 , 2017/2 1994/1, 1994/6, 1996/3 ( UMB / CEB ), 1997/3 (UMB / CEB), 2001/3, 2004/3, 2007/2, 2008/2, 2008/3, 2013/2 • 2016/6 1996/1 (UMB / CEB), 1996/2 (UMB / CEB), 1997/1 (UMB / CEB), 2000/2, 2003, 2005/1, 2006/1, 2007 / 3, 2008/6, 2012/1, 2015/1, 2015/2, 2015/6, 2016/4, 2018/1
• European three- cushion team : 2008/2020 2019
• Coupe d'Europe : 2017 (FC Porto) • 2016 (FC Porto) •
• Billiard Master Tour: 2003
• World Games : 2001, 2005
• Crystal Kelly Tournament : 2004, 2007
• Lausanne Billard Masters : 2016, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Verhoeven Open : 2007 2017, 2019
• Three Cushion Challenge Masters : 2018/2
• Spanish three-cushion championship : 1995, 1998–2009, 2012–2016, 2020, 2017, 1993, 1996
• Spanish championship (other disciplines): 17 ×
• Total number of Spanish three-cushion titles: 67 6 8 = 81

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Daniel Sánchez (billiard player)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage ( Memento from June 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World rankings from June 26, 2006. (PDF) Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB), June 26, 2006, accessed on October 1, 2012 (English).  
2. ↑ Current UMB world rankings. UMB, accessed September 26, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Results of the World Games 2001 on sports123.com ( Memento from February 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Final statistics on the official website of the World Games 2005 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ national successes - listed on the official homepage of Sánchez ( Memento from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Heinrich Weingartner: National successes . Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape 8/9 , no. 247 . Self-published, 2012, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 29 ({{{Comment}}}).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Spanish three- cushion championships. (PDF) Real Federación Española de Billar (RFEB), January 2020, accessed on January 29, 2020 (Spanish).  
8. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: 19th title for Dani Sanchez with a new cue and 2,409 GD. Three Cushion - Spanish Championship - Los Narejos (Murcia) (ESP). Kozoom, January 27, 2020; archived from the original on January 29, 2020 ; accessed on January 29, 2020 .  
9. ↑ Game achievements. Kozoom, accessed August 24, 2012 .