Enrique Navarra

Enrique Navarra


Personal details
birthday	October 7, 1905
place of birth	Buenos Aires ArgentinaArgentina
date of death	September 30, 1994
Place of death	Buenos Aires ArgentinaArgentina
nationality	Argentina Argentina
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
2 ×
Continental Championships:
4 ×
Other tournaments:
s. successes

Enrique Navarra (born October 7, 1905 in Buenos Aires Argentina , † September 30, 1994 ibid) was an Argentine carom player in the three- cushion discipline .

biography

Enrique Navarra (I) comes from a billiards family whose patriarch was his uncle "Don" Ezequiel Navarra (I) (* 1883). All of them were “billarista”. He had three sons, Juan Navarra (1914-2000), Ezequiel Navarra II (1917-1993) and Enrique Navarra II (1924-2009) who were also successful players, but in professional billiards, at the time still different from amateur billiards. Enrique (I) learned the game of billiards from his uncle Don Ezequiel and the other "Navarrita". In Argentina it is said: "To speak of billiards is to speak of Navarre."

Don Ezequiel was a native of Santa Lucía , a suburb of Montevideo , Uruguay . At the end of the 19th century he moved to Buenos Aires , Argentina , and opened the “Club del Progreso” billiards salon on Avenida de Mayo, where he also gave lessons. In the cafés of Rivera (now Cordoba and Canning (now Scalabrini Ortiz) he passed his passion for billiards on to his children and nephew. In the "Club Los 36 Billares" on Avenida de Mayo, there were shows by billiards talents: Juan, the eldest, took care of Enrique (I) and the others. In his club with all his comfort, Don Ezequiel had the time and opportunities to teach his children billiards and make them champions. But first he taught his nephew Enrique (I) in billiards. Born in 1905, who, when he was ten years old, was sent by his parents for a few days to his uncle Ezequiel to play billiards. The uncle saw the boy's talent and the few days of the visit developed in 8 -Hour training days: Little Enrique learned to play well within six months.

Career

At the age of 19 Enrique (I) became Argentine champion in Cadre 45/2. In 1937 he won the national free game championship and in 1948 the three-cushion championship. In 1949, Enrique won the South American Championship twice, again in three cushion. Enrique's greatest successes at international level were the three-cushion world championships in 1953 and 1958 and second place in the 1954 Pentathlon in Buenos Aires behind the great Pedro Leopoldo Carrera .

Others

In 1922 Navarre began to give billiards courses in the "20 Billares" salon, which he held until 1936, the year in which the "Club Callao" opened its doors and which he chaired for many years. As president of this hall, he and other clubs founded the “Federación Argentina de Billar” (FAB), the predecessor of today's pool umbrella organization “Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar” (FAAB).

Honors

In 1980 Navarra was awarded the Premios Konex "Diploma al Mérito" from the Fundacion Konex .

successes

Three-cushion world championship :

1953, 1958

1966

1963

Three- Cushion Pan American Championships : 1949/1, 1949/2, 1952, 1953 ? ?

Pentathlon World Championship :

1954

Argentine three-cushion championship:

1949, 1953, 1955 (twice), 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1964

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Enrique Navarra - collection of images, videos and audio files

Los 36 Billares - Iconic Billiards Café in Buenos Aires ( Memento from October 29, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) (Filip Steurs, September 2014; English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Enrique Navarra. Premio Konex 1980: Billar. Konex Fundacion, archived from the original on October 28, 2019 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (Spanish).
↑ ^a ^b player profile. Kozoom , accessed October 28, 2019 (Spanish).
↑ Dimoskostakos: Η οικογένεια Navarre. Carombil, January 20, 2015, archived from the original on October 29, 2019 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (gr).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Navarra Family Bio. The Navarre family. carom.gr, archived from the original on October 29, 2019 ; accessed on October 29, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Deporte Y Memoria: Murio El Ultimo De Tres Hermanos Talentosos. Adiós a un símbolo del billar ingenious: Enrique Navarra. Clarin , June 10, 2009; archived from the original on October 28, 2019 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (Spanish).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Silvia Martínez: La Historia Del Billar En La Argentina. Los Grandes de la Literatura Rioplatense, February 23, 2010, archived from the original on March 6, 2019 ; Retrieved October 29, 2019 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Navarre, Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentinian carom player and world champion
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires, Argentina
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1994
Place of death	Buenos Aires, Argentina

[Konex-1] Enrique Navarra. Premio Konex 1980: Billar. Konex Fundacion, archived from the original on October 28, 2019 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (Spanish).

[Spielerprofil-2] player profile. Kozoom , accessed October 28, 2019 (Spanish).

[Carombil-3] Dimoskostakos: Η οικογένεια Navarre. Carombil, January 20, 2015, archived from the original on October 29, 2019 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (gr).

[carom.gr-4] Navarra Family Bio. The Navarre family. carom.gr, archived from the original on October 29, 2019 ; accessed on October 29, 2019 .

[Clarin_Deportes-5] Deporte Y Memoria: Murio El Ultimo De Tres Hermanos Talentosos. Adiós a un símbolo del billar ingenious: Enrique Navarra. Clarin , June 10, 2009; archived from the original on October 28, 2019 ; accessed on October 28, 2019 (Spanish).

[Silvia_Martínez-6] Silvia Martínez: La Historia Del Billar En La Argentina. Los Grandes de la Literatura Rioplatense, February 23, 2010, archived from the original on March 6, 2019 ; Retrieved October 29, 2019 (Spanish).