Edmond Soussa

Edmond Soussa
Personal details
birthday	October 11, 1898
place of birth	Cairo , Egypt
date of death	May 29, 1989
Place of death	Paris , France
nationality	Egypt
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
11 ×
Continental Championships:
2 ×

Edmond Soussa (born October 11, 1898 in Cairo , † May 29, 1989 in Paris ) was an Egyptian carom player in various disciplines of billiards, eleven times world champion and painter.

Career

Soussa (right) at the three-cushion World Cup in Amsterdam in 1930 together with Enrique Miro (ESP), Arnoud Sengers (NDL), Otto Unshelm (DEU), Armando Martinez Sagi (ESP) (from left to right).

Edmond Soussa was the first great amateur billiards star in the late 20s to mid 30s after the professional world championships in the United States ended. Born in Egypt, he immigrated to France in the mid-1920s. There he met Roger Conti , one of the best billiard coaches of the time. His great talent quickly proved to be an all-rounder. At the Cadre 47/2 World Championship in Paris in 1927, he was third. In the following year he was three times world champion in the disciplines of three cushion , free game and in cadre 47/1. In the next few years he dominated the billiards scene and was eleven times world champion and twice European champion. In the mid-30s he retired from active billiards and worked as a freelance artist in Paris.

It was only with the start of the Three Cushion World Cup in 1986 that he returned to the big billiards stage. Werner Bayer, founder of the World Cup , convinced him to design a trophy for this tournament series. Even in his old age he attended various three-cushion world cups.

In 1987 Soussa was awarded the Diplômes D'honneur by the Académie des Sports .

Association work

As was customary at the time, the players often held a post in one or more associations at the same time. After his active time (1931), Soussa remained as general secretary of his home national association “Fédération Egyptienne des Amateurs de Billard”, although he lived in Paris and worked as an artist.

successes

• Three-cushion world championship : 1928, 1929 1930, 1931, 1933 1936
• Free game world championship : 1928, 1929, 1930 1931, 1932
• Cadre 47/1 World Championship : 1928, 1929, 1931 1930, 1932, 1933
• Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1933 1930 1927, 1928, 1929, 1932
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1930, 1931
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1932, 1933 1928, 1929

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Edmond Soussa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Weingartner: Billiards . No. 15 (June / July). Vienna 1989, p. 8 .
2. ↑ Dr. Werner Bayer, Heinrich Weingartner , Klaus Basel, Marco Zanetti : Das Blaue Karree - The Blue Square - Fascination Billiards . 1st edition. Dr. Werner Bayer Foundation, 2004, p. 40, 268 .
3. ↑ Diplômes D'honneur ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on: academie-sports.com. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
4. ↑ Union Internationale des Fédérations d'Amateurs de Billard (ed.): Annuaire 1931 . Annual report UIFAB. 1st edition. Own print, Paris 1931.
5. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom , accessed November 7, 2015 .