Francis Forton

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Francis Forton
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Personal details
birthday March 20, 1962
place of birth Belgium
nationality BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Achievements
Unless otherwise stated,
the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Other tournaments:
s. successes
Societies)
  • BC Witte Molen BelgiumBelgium
  • BC Couronne BelgiumBelgium
  • ABC Boussu BelgiumBelgium

Francis Forton (born March 20, 1962 in Belgium ) is a Belgian carom player in the three- cushion disipline .

Career

In 1976, his father was president of the Union Royal Saint-Michel billiards club. In his youth, Forton played football for “Standard Anderlecht”, then began playing billiards in 1980 after completing his military service. Forton had been working full-time as an insurance employee since 1979, until he decided in 1986 to devote himself entirely to the sport of billiards. In 1981 he was a student of the Belgian national coach Emile Wafflard , multiple world and European champion, especially in the classic disciplines free game , cadre and binding . So it happened that Forton's career also began in these games, only later did he switch to three cushion. In Athens he then won the fourth World Cup in the final in 1996 , beating Christian Rudolph in 3-2 sets. In Corfu he was able to advance to the quarter-finals at the three-cushion World Cup 1998/5 , where he lost 3-0 to Ben Velthuis from the Netherlands.

With the club "BC Couronne" he becomes champion of the 3rd division (cast: Detrenoye, M. Winckelmans, L. Winckelmans, Bernical), 2nd division (cast: M. Winckelmans, Stitchinsky, De Wambersie) and 1. Division (cast: Frederic Mottet, Ramaeckers, Van De Gught). With Uytdewilghen, Van Peer, De Zwart and Vandersteen (Courbevoie, France) and Leppens , Boudin, Barbeillon he takes part in the 2008 Dutch championships.

successes

  • Threegold Cushion World Cup : 1996/4 1998/5silver bronze
  • Belgian three-cushion championship : silver1997, 1998, 2005 bronze1999, 2007
  • Belgian Binding Championship: silver2008
  • 2nd division (team, France): gold2014, 2019 bronze2012
  • 1st league (team, Netherlands): silver2019
  • 2nd league (team, Netherlands): silver2017

Swell:

Web links

Francis Forton, official website ( Memento of March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b player profile. Kozoom , accessed October 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Calendar nationale voorwedstrijden / Calendrier éliminatoires nationales. (PDF) VES-AJH, archived from the original on November 13, 2008 ; Retrieved October 15, 2019 (Dutch).
  3. ^ Billiards - Champions d'Europe pour la 4e fois. (PDF) Ville-Courbevoie, September 2008, archived from the original on September 11, 2008 ; accessed on October 15, 2019 (French).
  4. ^ Billiards - Championships de Belgique. La libre, January 14, 2008, accessed October 16, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Forton, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian carom player
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgium