Dave Christiani

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Dave Christiani
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Personal details
birthday July 18, 1979
place of birth Heerlen
nationality NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Continental Championships:
5 × (classic disciplines)
Other tournaments:
15 × national champions (classic disciplines)

Dave Christiani (born July 18, 1979 in Heerlen ) is a Dutch carom player and European champion. Although he also tri-band plays and the Three-Cushion World Cup participates. he comes from the classic disciplines free game , cadre and binding , where he achieved his greatest successes.

Career

At the age of 8 he started playing billiards in Kerkrade , where he lived for the first 30 years of his life, the first 20 with his father Leo and mother Sibilla Christiani. Golf billiards was the first contact with billiards . Two of his uncles practiced this in a cafe near his grandmother. When he was around 6 years old, he sometimes went to bingo with his grandmother and was allowed to play golf during recess. At around the age of 11 he was asked if he wanted to take part in the competition but his father thought it wasn't a good idea, so young and then in the pub ?! When he was 13, he and a friend went to the De Eendracht billiards club in Kerkrade. While he was doing a series of 7, someone from the club asked his name. After introducing himself, the man told him that his grandfather had played at this club in the past. He immediately asked him to join the club. After consulting his father, who still didn't like the idea, he was allowed to go to the club twice a week to train and play. The basics of the free game were first taught to him by Joshi Grosic, who, after Christiani had finally received a sound education, became a loyal supporter and traveled with him through town and country to support him in his tournaments. In 1995, at the age of 15, Christiani won his first national title in the free game (juniors) at the small table with a general average (GD) of exactly 100.

Both grandfathers were good cadre players , he did not get to know them because he was only one year old when both died, but apparently had inherited the grandfather's billiard genes, so he switched to playing cadres and won a Dutch and a junior title with the team. After about a year Christiani had made so much progress that he was eligible for the national training that was offered by national coach Paul Hendriks. At the age of 16, he was selected from among several teenagers to receive 10 minutes of lessons during a show by Belgian billiards legend Raymond Ceulemans . Because of his good performance, he became a student of national coach Tony Schrauwen. He trained and accompanied him until he was 23 years old . Schrauwen was not only his coach, but also became a personal friend of Christiani.

He first played the classic game types and then switched to three cushion in 2003, but still took part in national championships in all disciplines.

In 2011 he played a set in one recording at the three-cushion World Cup in Vienna, which remained the record mark until 2012 before switching to distance play.

successes

International

National

  • Dutch three-cushion championship : silver2013 bronze2008, 2015
  • Dutch Binding Championship: gold1999, 2012silver bronze
  • Dutch Free Game Championship: gold2000, 2012
  • Dutch Cadre 71/2 Championship: gold1999, 2009, 2010
  • Dutch Pentathlon Championship: gold2012, 2014

Juniors

Swell:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dave Christiani: Biography. Dave Christiani, archived from the original on October 9, 2019 ; Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ a b player profile. Kozoom , archived from the original on October 9, 2019 ; accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dave Christiani: Successes. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019 ; Retrieved October 9, 2019 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Christiani, Dave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch carom player
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Heerlen , Netherlands