Eddy Merckx (carom player)

This article applies to the billiard player. For the cyclist see Eddy Merckx .

Eddy Merckx
Personal details
birthday	4th September 1968 (age 51)
place of birth	Rumst
nationality	Belgium
Active time	?
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 8.333
2011 Bundesliga
Best GD: 2.418
2015 EM Brandenburg
Maximum series (HS): 26
2011 Bundesliga
World Championships:
2 × (2006, 2012)
Continental Championships:
1 × (2007)
Other tournaments:
7 × World Cup 1 × Super Prestige 9 × Belgian three-cushion champion
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	2
Current WRL location:	8th
Societies)
Clichy-Montmartre BC De Maan BSV Velbert (from 2013/14 season)

Eddy Frans Jozefina Merckx (born September 4, 1968 in Rumst ) is a professional Belgian carom (billiards) player and multiple world and European three-cushion champion .

Career

Early years

In 2006 he won the three-cushion world championship in St. Wendel with a 3-1 final victory over the Greek Nikos Polychronopoulos . In 2007 the European Championship title in the same discipline against defending champion Frédéric Caudron followed in the French Salon de Provence . At the three-cushion world championship for national teams in 2009 he reached the final together with partner Roland Forthomme , in which, however, Sweden was defeated. In 2012, he won the title alongside Caudron for the first time in Belgium, with hosts Germany defeated 2-0 in the final.

2011/12 season

On October 8, 2011, Merckx set an unofficial world record when he scored his Bundesliga game for BSG Duisburg against Won Kang to 50 points in just 6 shots (4-9-26-7-0-4), ie with a GD of 8.33 ( highest series 26).

2012/13 season

From August 27 to September 1, 2012, the fifth invitation tournament Cuvino Superprestige took place in Lommel, Belgium , in which the 16 best Belgian players are looking for their three- cushion champion. Merckx was able to fight for this title in an exciting final, he was already 4:17 behind after five shots, after another eleven shots it was 40:33 against the world number one Caudron. His GD was 2,500, his best HS was 8. Exactly one week later, at the World Cup in Porto , the two met again, but this time in the semi-finals. This time is Merckx won out and then won the final against the Koreans Choi Sung-won his second individual world title after 2006. A week later, the Three-Cushion World Cup in South Korea Suwon he came together with Dick Jaspers from the Netherlands to third Space.

Together with his teammate Frédéric Caudron , he was able to defend the team title of the three-cushion world championship in Viersen against Germany in February 2013 . He was on the podium for the third time in a row, after the runner-up in 2011.

At the Verhoeven Open in July he was in the final against his compatriot Caudron and had to admit defeat to him just 35:40. A week later he is again in the final of the World Games , this time against the reigning European champion Marco Zanetti from Bolzano.

Others

The Belgian was named after his compatriot and professional racing cyclist Eddy Merckx , who won his first Giro d'Italia in the year Merckx was born .

successes

• Three-cushion world championship : 2006, 2012, 2009
• Three-cushion world championship for national teams : 2012, 2013, 2009, 2011 2005
• Three Cushion World Cup : 2005, 2009, 2011 2008
• Three-cushion European Championship (individual): 2007, 2010, 2011
• European three-cushion championship for national teams : 2010, 2019, 2008, 2011, 2013
• Verhoeven Open : 2018, 2019
• Crystal Kelly Tournament : 2009
• Lausanne Billard Masters : 2018 2019
• Three Cushion Challenge Masters : 2018/1, 2019/3 2019/1, 2019/4
• McCreery three-cushion Champion of Champions : 2018
• Three-cushion invitation tournament in Zundert / Netherlands : 2003 2004, 2005
• Super prestige in Belgium: 2012 2011
• Belgian three-cushion championship : 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018 1999, 2015, 2019 2013

Source:

Web links

Commons : Eddy Merckx  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World ranking from March 30, 2011 on UMB.com. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
2. ↑ Current UMB world rankings (PDF; 171 kB). Retrieved January 2017.
3. ↑ Breaking news - Merckx 2013 on BSV Velbert on Kozoom.com. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
4. ↑ Player profile on World Games 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
5. ↑ Player profile on Kozoom.com. Retrieved June 7, 2012
6. ↑ Message on AZ-Billiards.com. Retrieved June 7, 2012
7. ↑ Eddy Merckx sets billiards world record. News in the WAZ on October 9, 2011. Retrieved on June 23, 2012
8. ↑ Results of Superprestige 2012 on Kozoom.com. Retrieved September 1, 2012.
9. ↑ Achievements on Kozoom.com. Retrieved September 9, 2012.