Dick Jaspers

Dick Jaspers
Personal details
birthday	23rd July 1965 (age 55)
place of birth	St. Willebrord
nationality	Netherlands
Active time	since 1984
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 10,000
(German Bundesliga 2018, Magdeburg , )
Best GD: 2.942
( Three Cushion World Cup 2015, Guri )
Maximum series (HS): 26
(Dutch League 2001, Haarlem )
World Championships:
4 × (2000, 2004, 2011, 2018)
Continental Championships:
4 × (2003, 2008, 2010, 2011)
Other tournaments:
see achievements
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	1
Societies)
HCR Prinsen 1. BC Magdeburg (since 2012/13 season)

World record in the BED

Lot slip

Scoreboard

Dick Jaspers, actually Dingeman Jacobus Johannes Jaspers, (born July 23, 1965 in St. Willebrord , Netherlands ) is a Dutch carom billiards player and multiple world and European champion.

Private

Dick Jaspers was married to Andrea Brücken and has a son (René) and a daughter (Annet) with her. Divorced since 2012. At a young age he came into contact with billiards in the café of his parents and grandparents. His hobbies are listening to music, reading and sports (regular hiking and swimming). Its characteristics include calm and athletic play. Since 1990 he has belonged to the world elite of the carambola sport. He himself says that, in addition to the birth of his children, his most important moments include his first international title in 1990 and his first World Cup win in 2000. His biggest disappointments include being eliminated in the first round and his 5-year sentence ( see below ) . One of his favorite films is The Silence of the Lambs .

Career

Early years

From 1974 to 1980 he played in the free game as a teenager . The coaches were the late André Gulickx from Tilburg and the Belgian Tony Schrauwen , who was his head coach for many years.

In the 1983/84 season he started in three cushion with a GD of 0.700. In 1987 Dick began to play three cushion seriously and soon you could see progress in him, as reflected in his above average GD. In January 1988 he made his debut in the NK-Ehrendivision with a third place and a GD of 1.278. After the promising debut of the Willebrorder, he then completely committed to three cushion, as he saw a bleak future for the other varieties. In 1990 and 1991 he won second place at the three-cushion European championships .

Jasper's career began with the first national titles in the cover 1989 and tri-band 1990 to 1991 already the first victory in a Three-Cushion World Cup in Tokyo followed. In addition to numerous national titles in three-cushion and single-binding as well as with the team in the Dutch honor division (three-cushion league with the greatest number of players in the world), he is currently one of the most successful players at European and world level. In 1986 he had to decide whether to pursue a professional career as a three-cushion player and compete with the best in the world, which he then did.

The time during the BWA

Shortly before that, the BWA (Billiards World Cup Association) was founded by the German businessman Werner Bayer, who laid the foundation for professional billiards. Jaspers on this:

“With the BWA heb ik toch een bijzondere relatie omdat deze bond daadwerkelijk opkwam voor de belangen van de spelers. The BWA toernooien blonken meestal uit in professionalism. Deze toernooien hebben het best uit me held en here heb ik mijn greatest successen dahald. "

“I have a special relationship with the BWA because this association actually defends the interests of the players. The BWA tournaments were generally characterized by their professionalism. These tournaments made the best of me and this is where I had my greatest successes. "

In 1993 Jaspers was banned from the CEB (European Billiards Association) for a period of five years. The reason for this was his participation in a BWA tournament without obtaining permission from the CEB. The UMB (World Association of Carom Billiards) supported this decision and so Jaspers was not allowed to participate in any World Championships or World Cup tournaments during this time. This penalty also affected other world-class players such as Ceulemans , Blomdahl and Saygıner .

"Wij hebben ons gewoon geconcentreerd op de BWA Wereldbeker en hoopten natuurlijk dat he zoveel mogelijk toernooien were. Het was zeker een moeilijke tijd, altijd maar weer tegenwerking. "

“We all concentrated on the BWA World Cup and of course we hoped that there would be as many tournaments as possible. It was certainly a difficult time, again and again against cooperation. "

In 1998 the dispute between the BWA and the UMB / CEB was largely resolved and Jaspers was allowed to participate in World Cups and World Championships again. In 2000 he was able to win a World Cup for the first time.

"Niet gek, as je nagaat dat ik pas voor de 3e keer aan een WK deelnam."

"Not bad when you consider that it was only the third time I took part in a World Cup."

The years from 2000 to 2010

In 2000 and 2004 Jaspers became world champion in three cushion and took silver at the 2005 World Games . In addition, he is four-time European three -cushion champion (2003, 2008, 2010 and 2011) and was able to win the AGIPI Billiard Masters in the final against Torbjörn Blomdahl for the first time in 2009 , after having lost to Blomdahl in the final in the first edition of the tournament in 2008. He was able to complete the World Cup four times as the overall winner. In total, he was an individual winner 22 times and a finalist 15 times. After winning the Chrystal Kelly tournament in 1994 and 1997, he made it six more times in that decade.

In 2009 he also won the three-cushion tournament at the 8th World Games in Kaohsiung .

2011/12 season

16 July 2011 Jaspers was in Peruvian Lima his third World Cup after 2000 and 2004 with 3: 2 against the Italians Marco Zanetti win and dethroned Daniel Sánchez from Spain . In the Korean Suwon , Jaspers had to admit defeat 0: 3 to the significantly better playing German Martin Horn in the second round of the World Cup . At the following World Cup in Vienna on October 2, he was defeated in the semifinals by Torbjörn Blomdahl from Sweden just 2: 3. On November 11th, he beat his compatriot Raimond Burgman in the final of the Elite Grand Prix in front of a home crowd in Zwaag with a score of 50:48.

2012/13 season

The finalists of the Lausanne Billiard Masters 2015 Jaspers and Martin Horn

An extraordinary individual duel took place from June 27th to 30th, 2012 in Marxuquera, Spain, in the invitation match "The 2 titans of three cushion billiards" between him as the reigning world champion (2011/12) and the Belgian Frédéric Caudron (world number one at the time). Only these two players were invited. The game was set at a distance of 600 (!!) points, these were played in ten sessions of 60 points each. The shot clock was set to 40 seconds, with an extension of 1 × 40 seconds per session. Caudron dominated the game from the start and was able to expand his lead over the course of the match. The best session was the seventh, in which Jaspers had to accept 51 Caudrons points during 7 recordings in just 41 minutes and was thus more than 100 points behind. In the end he lost to the Belgian 501: 600. The GD of the players at Caudron was 2,190 and at Jaspers 1,828, however Jaspers had the highest streak at 21. He received prize money of € 5,000, and Caudron received € 10,000 for the win.

The greatest successes from the 2012/13 season onwards were winning the 2015 European crash championships as a team (together with Raimond Burgman ) in Brandenburg / Havel, winning the Coupe d'Europe with AEJ / Dallinga from the Netherlands, and winning the Verhoeven Open 2015 in New York (USA) and victory at the Lausanne Billard Masters in Lausanne (SUI).

Season 2017/18

On January 21, 2018 Dick Jaspers set a new world record in the best individual average (BED) in a game in the German Bundesliga with 10,000 (40 points in 4 shots; 5-11-2-22) (see game sheet and scoreboard further up).

Season 2018/19

He won the World Cup in Blankenberge, Belgium. At the World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, he won the final against Frenchman Jérémy Bury 3: 2 in the penalty shoot-out and thus secured his fourth gold medal. He also broke the tournament record in the general average (GD) set by the Vietnamese Mã Minh Cẩm in Bolivia last year with 2.352. with these two victories he rose to second place in the world rankings.

Season 2019/20

On November 17, 2019, Jaspers won the Swiss invitation tournament Lausanne Billiards Masters for the third time after 2015 and 2017 . After losing to Martin Horn in the group stage and only finished 2nd, he won against Tayfun Taşdemir (40:36 in 24; quarter-finals), Cho Myung-woo (40:22 in 17, semi-finals) and finally in Final against Eddy Merckx with 40:30 in 21 the triple. At the final season tournament of the World Cup in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Jaspers was defeated by Italian Marco Zanetti 40:29 in 19 shots in the final, but the 54 points were enough for him to be the overall winner of the year ahead of Tayfun Taşdemir from Turkey and Zanetti.

At the Dutch three-cushion championship at the end of January, Jaspers won his fourth title in a row and his 20th overall. Opponent was Barry van Beers, who lost there with 26:40 in his first final.

successes

Cup for Jasper's overall victory at the 2016 World Cup in el-Guna, Egypt

• Three-cushion world championship : 2000, 2004, 2011, 2018 • 1991, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2013
• Three-cushion team World Cup : 1998, 1999, 2016 • 1993, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2014 • 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2015
• Three-cushion World Cup (individual victories): 25 × • 18 × • 17 ×
• Three-cushion World Cup (overall victories): 1997, 1999, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2019
• World Games : 2009 • 2001, 2005
• Three-Cushion European Championship : 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2019 • 1990 (cover, three-cushion), 1991, 2005 • 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015, 2017
• AGIPI Billard Masters : 2008, 2010 • 2007
• Coupe d'Europe : 1991, 1992 (Teletronika Zundert), 2015 (AEJ / Dallinga) • 2016 (FC Porto) •
• Crystal Kelly Tournament : 1994, 1999, 2001-2005, 2007 • 1997, 1998, 2006 • 1996, 2008, 2010, 2011
• Verhoeven Open 2015 : 2015
• LG U + Cup 3-Cushion Masters : 2015
• Lausanne Billard Masters : 2015, 2017, 2019
• McCreery three-cushion Champion of Champions : 2018
• Three Cushion Challenge Masters : 2018/3, 2019/2
• Masters Holland (three-cushion): 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• European Championships Juniors: 1984, 1985 (Free game), 1986 (Cadre 47/2)
• Dutch Championship: 2003, 2004 (cover); 2002, 2003, 2005 (three volume) • 2006 (cover)
• Elite Grand Prix: 2005, 2011 • 2011 (2 ×)
• Supercup: 2011
• Invitation tournament in Scheveningen : 2003

His personal bests in three cushion include:

• Best three-cushion game in sets (45 points in 8 recordings = 5.625 GD in the final of the EM 2008 in Florange (F))
• Best tournament average (GD) 2,942 (4 games over 40 points) at the three-cushion World Cup in September 2015 in Guri
• Best game 10,000 (40 points in 4 shots) (world record) against Andreas Efler in the German Bundesliga (season 2017/18)
• Personal highest series:
  • 34 (set game, prolonged: 13, 15, 6) three-cushion EM 2008, Florange
  • 26 (single game) Dutch three-cushion league Safety Holland against Crystal Kelly in Haarlem December 2001

Awards

• On February 4, 2001, Jaspers was made an honorary member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Biljartbond (KNBB).
• On April 26, 2002, he received the royal honor of Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau from the State Secretary Margo Vliegenthart .

Web links

Commons : Dick Jaspers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dick Jaspers website (Dutch)
• Jasper's golden final sprint to the world title (2018)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile - World Games 2013. World Games, July 2013, archived from the original on July 28, 2013 ; accessed on July 28, 2013 (English).  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Own biography on his official homepage. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
3. ↑ Announcement: “The 2 titans of three cushion billiards” on Kozoom.com. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
4. ↑ Rules: “The 2 titans of three cushion billiards” (PDF; 102 kB) on Kozoom.com. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
5. ↑ Tournament commentary : "The 2 titans of three cushion billiards" on Kozoom.com. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
6. ↑ Final table on Kozoom.com. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
7. ↑ World ranking list No. 26/2018. (PDF) UMB , December 8, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 (English).  
8. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: Masters for the 20th time to Jaspers; EM in July in Holland. Three Cushion - Jumbo Masters - Berlicum (NED). Kozoom, January 21, 2020; archived from the original on January 29, 2020 ; accessed on January 29, 2020 .  
9. ↑ Success statistics on Kozoom.com. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
10. ↑ Bert van Manen: And then there were three… BC De Deken, January 2013, archived from the original on November 19, 2016 ; accessed on November 19, 2016 (English).