Francis Connesson
Francis Connesson |
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| Personal details | |
| birthday | September 13, 1948 |
| place of birth | Nancy , France |
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 France
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| Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline. |
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| Best ED: 300.00 (world record Cadre 47/1) | |
1976 Mollerusa 
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| Best GD: 51.81 (world record Cadre 47/1) | |
1982 Duisburg 
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| Highest series (HS): 199 (world record cover) | |
1978 Bruges 
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| World Championships: | |
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4 × (1975, 1978, 1980, 1982) |
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| Continental Championships: | |
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8 × (1974, 2 × 1975, 1977, 2 × 1978, 1979, 1980) |
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| Other tournaments: | |
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42x French master in various disciplines |
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Billiards Club Andernos |
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Francis Connesson (born September 13, 1948 in Nancy ) is a French carom player in various disciplines of billiards, four-time world and eight-time European champion.
Career
Francis Connesson first came into contact with billiards when he was seven. In his parents' café in Méru an der Oise, he was already playing a series of 36 points at this age. In 1963 at the age of 15½ he was able to win his first youth championship on small billiards in Argenteuil . A week later he played the junior championship in the free game on the match pool in Amboise and finished a game with up to 200 points in one shot. At the age of 18, Connesson trained eight hours a day and had great support from the publisher of the so-called Billiard Bible Billiards for Everyone by Roger Conti . Connesson also trained regularly with the great French and world champion Jean Marty .
In 1970 he won his first French senior championship. In Perpignan he was champion in the free game with an overall average of 166.66 (GD). In the 1973/74 season he was the youngest European champion in cadre 71/2 in Heeswijk, the Netherlands . In the 1974/75 season he won the European Championship in Troyes in Cadre 47/2 with the new European record in the GD of 120.69. In 1975 in Buenos Aires he celebrated his first world champion title. He won ahead of the Argentine ex-world champion Oswaldo Berardi and the Berliner Dieter Müller . Between 1977 and 1980 he celebrated two world championships, four European championships and seven French championship titles. At the World Cup in 1978 in Bruges , Belgium , Connesson ended a game with the world record series of 199 points.
In 1979 he was awarded the rank of Knight of the French Service Order. In 1980 he was awarded the Gold Medal Sport by the French Billiards Federation and the Ministry of Youth and Sport.
In 1981 and 1982 the sporting highlights continued in Connesson's career. At the world championship in Cadre 47/1 in Duisburg set a new world record in the general average (GD) with 51.82. In 1982 he published his second billiards textbook, Harmony of Billiards , in which he described his ingenious serial technique in the cadre disciplines. To the surprise of many experts, from now on he mainly turned to the gang disciplines (cover and three-cushion) and billiard artistique. Here, too, celebrated several three-volume and artistique titles in France.
At the end of the 1980s, Connesson concentrated mainly on the three-cushion discipline. In 1989 he was able to qualify for the BWA professional tournaments at the Grand Prix in Spa . At the end of the World Cup series, he finished tenth in the overall ranking.
Francis Connesson is the only French billiards player to have become French champions in all of the carom billiards.
successes
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Cadre 47/1 World Championship :
1980, 1982 
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Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1978
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Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1975 1977, 1978;
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Binding World Championship :
1978, 1995, 1997 -
Pentathlon World Championship : 1975
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Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1978 1976, 1980, 1982 1975
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Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980 1981
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Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1974, 1975, 1980 1976, 1978, 1979
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Single-cover European Championship : 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1985 1978
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European three-cushion championship : 1992
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European Billiard Artistique Championship : 1984
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French three-cushion championship : 1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004
Swell:
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Player profile on: Kozoom.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
- ↑ Successes on: francis-connesson.net. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
- ↑ Otto Perée: Billiards Sports . 52nd year. Düren June 1974, p. 73-74 .
- ↑ Achievements on: Kozoom.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
Other sources
- Biography (French) on: francis-connesson.net. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
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Pre-war tournaments (Cadre-45/1) |
1927 Charles Faroux •
1928 Edmond Soussa •
1929 Edmond Soussa •
1930 Gustave van Belle •
1931 Edmond Soussa •
1932 Albert Corty •
1933 Edgar Appleby •
1934 Walter Joachim •
1935 René Gabriëls •
1936 René Gabriëls •
1937 Constant Côte •
1938 René Gabriëls |
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| War tournaments |
No world championships were held during World War II. |
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Post-war tournaments (from 1967: Cadre-47/1) |
1967 Jean Marty •
1975 Hans Vultink •
1976 Raymond Ceulemans •
1977 Ludo Dielis •
1980 Francis Connesson •
1982 Francis Connesson •
1987 Fonsy Grethen |
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| Pre-war tournaments |
1930 Edmond Soussa •
1931 Edmond Soussa •
1932 Gustave van Belle •
1933 Gaston de Doncker •
1934 Gustave van Belle •
1935 Gustave van Belle •
1936 Gustave van Belle •
1937 Gustave van Belle •
1938 Constant Côte •
1939 Gustave van Belle •
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| War tournaments |
No world championships were held during World War II. |
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| Post-war tournaments |
1959 Emile Wafflard •
1962 Laurent Boulanger •
1965 Johann Scherz •
1966 Jean Marty •
1967 Osvaldo Berardi •
1968 Jean Marty •
1975 Francis Connesson •
1977 Dieter Müller •
1978 Dieter Müller •
1991 Frédéric Caudron •
1993 Fonsy Grethen •
2000 Frédéric Caudron
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Connesson, Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French carom player and multiple world and European champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nancy |