Emile Wafflard

Emile Wafflard
Personal details
birthday	November 16, 1927
place of birth	Brussels
date of death	September 19, 1994
nationality	Belgium
Active time	1958-1970
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
1 × cadre
Continental Championships:
9 × cadre 1 × cover
Other tournaments:
18 × Belgian champion

Emile Wafflard (born November 16, 1927 in Brussels , † September 19, 1994 ) was a Belgian carom player and world champion. His disciplines were playing cadres and binding .

Career

Wafflard was a student of the Belgian professional Marcel van Leemput and a fan of the aesthetic game of billiards. This is also the reason that he didn't like the free game and the three- cushion game. For him, the cadre was the premier class of billiards. When he did play a free game, he purposely didn't play an American series even though he mastered it. According to his philosophy, a repetition of the position could not be expected of the spectator.

In 1959 he became world champion for the first time in the cadre 71/2 discipline in Berlin. After the regular games, three players were tied on points (13: 3), Wafflard, Walter Lütgehetmann and Joseph Vervest, also from Belgium. Verwest was eliminated due to the poor general average (GD) and the game was played between Wafflard and Lütgehetmann from Frankfurt. This should turn out to be extremely competitive and exciting. The Belgian was offended. At first it looked as if the kick-off would pass, but a lucky counterattack led to the necessary collision. Wafflard let this fox follow another 154 points. Lütgehetmann only got 26 points on his first admission. Wafflard countered with another 105 points. The Frankfurter finally found his game (224 points) and caught up with 250: 260. The Brussels player seemed to have lost his luck, because he could only score three points in the third shot, but his opponent only managed four points. Wafflard put all his energy together and made the last 37 points. Since Lütgehetmann's follow-up was irrelevant, Wafflard was declared the winner.

In 1977 Wafflard finished third in the World Cup in the cover. He was also ten times European champion (nine times in the cadre, once in the cover). In the same year he was together with Tony Schrauwen , Raymond Ceulemans , Ludo Dielis and Laurent Boulanger Vice European Champion in the pentathlon . As a professional player, he appeared several times in the Paris Conti Academy. In 1970 he was reamateurised and won the Belgian championship in Cadre 47/2 two years in a row. In 1972 Wafflard was a guest at the Vienna Billiards Association and started there in the pentathlon. He deliberately won the tournament.

Since the cadre game was in a trough in the 1960s and accordingly few tournaments were organized, he could not collect as many titles as his compatriots Ceulemans and Dielis.

Among other things, Wafflard was the trainer of the Belgian world champion Frédéric Caudron and is considered a billiard legend in his country alongside Ceulemans and Dielis.

In 1994 he died of cardiac arrest.

title

• Cadre 71/2 World Championship - 1959
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship - 1960
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship - 1958, 1959, 1960, 1971
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship - 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960,
• European Binding Championship - 1956

successes

Cadre 47/1

• 1960: EM - GD 023.07

Cadre 47/2

• 1956: EM - GD 029.66
• 1958: EM - GD 052.18
• 1959: EM - GD 045.16
• 1960: EM - GD 055.14
• 1971: EM - GD 101.24

Cadre 71/2

• 1956: EM - GD 023.2
• 1957: EM - GD 024.54
• 1958: EM - GD 025.3
• 1959: EM - GD 028.86
• 1959: WM - GD 026.61
• 1960: EM - GD 027.27

cover

• 1956: EM - GD 4.5200
• 1958: EM - GD 5.9400
• 1972: EM - GD 013.56
• 1977: WM - GD 8.5800

Pentathlon

• 1971: EM for national teams
• 1973: EM for national teams
• 1977: EM for national teams

Honors

In 2006 the Belgian Post honored him with a commemorative stamp worth € 0.52.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} player profile on Kozoom.com
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Heinrich Weingartner : Old master Emile Wafflard died . In: billiards . No. 69 . Weingartner Verlag, November 1994, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 29 .
3. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 208 .
4. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner: Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , title statistics, p. 1844-1846 .
5. ^ Karlheinz Krienen: The stitch game . In: Deutsche Billard Zeitung . 36th year, no. May 11 , 1959, p. 9 .
6. ↑ European Pentathlon Championships for national teams. Accessed May 14, 2014.
7. ↑ Short biography of Frédéric Caudron ( Memento from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on May 14, 2014.
8. ↑ Wafflard commemorative stamp . Retrieved May 14, 2014.