Günter Siebert (carom player)

Günter Siebert
Siebert at the German Pentathlon Championship 1979 in Dülmen
Personal details
birthday	21st June 1942 (age 78)
place of birth	Came
nationality	Germany
Nickname (s)	"Jumbo"
Active time	approx. 1970-2005
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 2,500 (Bundesliga against Markus Galla)
Best GD: 1.190
TEP 1982 in Amersfoort
Maximum series (HS): 15
TEP 1980 in Amersfoort and Bundesliga
Continental Championships:
1 × 1974, Elda
Other tournaments:
13 × German champions (individual) 7 × German champions (team)
Societies)
BC came BG Unna 1945 BC Hattingen SG Duisburg Bfr. Elderly food BG Bottrop BSV Duisburg-Hochfeld BC "zur Heide" Goch BSV Marl BSC Hasselt Bottroper BA

Günter Siebert (left) with the former national trainer Werner Nahrun († April 10, 2012; on the accordion ).

Günter Siebert during training

Günter Siebert (born June 21, 1942 in Kamen ) is a German carom player in the disciplines of free game , cadre , binding and three-cushion . In 1974 he was European champion in Cadre 47/2 and multiple German champion.

Career

Beginnings

Günter Siebert first came into contact with billiards at the age of 17. He joined his hometown billiards club, the BC Kamen . In the next two years he rose to the club's best player. He became youth district champion and youth Westphalia champion in 1960 and thus qualified for the national youth championship. In May 1961 in Pirmasens he was second with the best tournament performance at the Federal Youth Championship. A month later he won the Youth Westphalian Championship in Münster, in which 19-year-old Klaus Hose , who later became European champion several times, also took part and finished fifth. Günter Siebert played a general average (GD) of 136.35 at this championship , which was a German youth record. After he left the youth sector for reasons of age, he became national champion in small pool for the first time in March 1963. In Weiden he won ahead of the eventual world champion Dieter Müller from Berlin. In 1964 he won his last national championship in cadre 52/2 on small billiards.

Successes in the series game

Since the BC Kamen did not have a large pool (match pool), Günter Siebert moved to the neighboring club BG Unna in 1964 . This step was necessary to take part in national and international competitions. As a great talent, he was also further promoted and made very rapid progress in match billiards. At that time there was still the federal championship on match billiards as a foundation for the German championship. Siebert showed his class at the Federal Championship Free Game First Class in November 1965 in Hamborn . He won with by far the best GD of 181.81 and a maximum series of 1197. The later internationals Dieter Wirtz from Düsseldorf and Klaus Hose from Bochum took fourth and sixth place. At the German championship in December 1965, he won his first medal with third place behind the Berliners Hartmut Burwig and Dieter Müller. He also improved steadily in the cadre disciplines. It was not until March 1969 that he won the first medal, when he won the bronze medal in Cadre 47/1 in Duisburg . In 1970 Günter Siebert moved to Duisburg and took over the "Billard Studio Duisburg". It was home to the Bundesliga team of KSG Duisburg , for which he played in the free game. In his billiard studio he had ideal training conditions. The successes weren't long in coming. Siebert won the first German championship title in May 1972 in cadre 71/2 in Rheinhausen , of all things , in the parade discipline of the later two-time world champion Dieter Müller, whom he defeated in the final game with 300: 175 in 10 shots. Siebert won a second German championship title in 1981 in Cadre 47/1. In the free game and in the cadre disciplines, he won a total of two gold, five silver and eleven bronze medals in his billiards career at German championships.

1974 was to be his most successful year. In Elda , Spain , he sensationally won the Cadre 47/2 European Championship. Started as an outsider, the tournament developed optimally for him. World-class players Ludo Dielis , Hans Vultink and Francis Connesson were clear favorites for the title. But before the last round of the game, the three leaders - Vultink, Dielis and Siebert - were able to become champions with eight match points. Siebert beat defending champion Hans Vultink from the Netherlands in his last game in his best tournament game with 400: 189 in six shots. The game Dielis against the Spaniard Galvez was still on. Galvez, who had only won two games so far, was a clear underdog. But he managed the surprise and won with 400: 317 in six shots and gave the German the title. The favorites had the significantly better GDs, but Siebert had the most match points.

Success in gang play

Günter Siebert's performances in the series games were very good. But even at a young age, his preference was the gang game . In the three-volume and binding he also celebrated the most national successes. At the age of 23 he took part in the German binding championship. He made his debut here in February 1966 in Berlin together with Dieter Müller. The then outstanding German gang specialist August Tiedtke won the tournament. Siebert was fifth and Müller sixth. Four years later in January 1970, back in Berlin, he won his first of five covers from his biggest rival in the next few years, Dieter Müller.

His specialty was the three-cushion game. In 1971 he qualified for a German three-cushion championship for the first time. In December he won the title when he participated for the first time in Essen. In his last game of the tournament he had to win against defending champion Hans-Dietrich Runkehl . With a streak of 14 points never played before, he decided the game in his favor. Another five three-cushion championships followed by 1988. In total, Günter Siebert won eleven gold, ten silver and seven bronze medals at German championships in one and three cushions.

Internationally, Siebert celebrated his greatest success at the three-cushion European championship by winning the bronze medal in Leuven, Belgium, in March 1984 . Ironically , he won the game for third place against his worst German opponent Dieter Müller, who sensationally eliminated the Belgian record winner Raymond Ceulemans in the preliminary round . It was the first three-volume medal for a German participant after 14 years after the legendary August Tiedtke. Since 1966, the European pentathlon championships for national teams (TEP) have been held every two years in Amersfoort , the Netherlands . This tournament, which is very popular with all participants, has not been held since 1991. Siebert was almost always there from the start and achieved two of his best performances in three cushion here in 1980 and 1981. In 1980 he scored 15 points, which is still his best highest series (HS) and in 1982 he finished second behind Ceulemans with 1,190 GD.

Günter Siebert has been in the Bundesliga almost from the start. Since the 1969/70 season he played in various teams and was twice Bundesliga champion. At the DPMM he was five times cup winner.

successes

• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1974
• Three Cushion European Championship : 1984

• European pentathlon championships for national teams : 1971, 1975, 1979, 1981, 1967, 1983
• German three-cushion championships : 1971, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988
• German championships Cadre 47/1: 1982/1 1973, 1974 1969, 1975, 1982/2, 1987
• German Championships Cadre 71/2: 1972 1973 1974 (2 ×), 1975
• German championships cover: 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975 1969, 1972, 1976 1977, 1978, 1984, 1989
• German Cup Winner Team ( DPMM ): 1982, 1990, 1993, 2003, 2004
• German champions team ( Bundesliga ): 1991, 2003

Web links

Commons : Günter Siebert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• "Jumbo" Günter Siebert and the old days on WAZ-online.de. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
• Siebert wins club derby against Wörmer on MünsterlandZeitung.de. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
• Günter Siebert is 75 years old; 21 DM titles and well over 100 medals ( Memento from January 16, 2020 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 233 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 921 .
3. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 437-455 .
4. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 561-599 .
5. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 711-745 .