Gustave van Belle

Gustave van Belle
Personal details
birthday	April 12, 1889
place of birth	Ghent
date of death	3rd February 1969
nationality	Belgium
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
9 × (cadre / pentathlon)
Continental Championships:
3 × (cadre)
Other tournaments:
13 × Belgian champion (1 × three cushion, 12 × cadre)

Gustave van Belle (born April 12, 1889 in Gent , † February 3, 1969 ) was a Belgian carom player and multiple world and European champion in cadre .

Career

Van Belle was a commissioner for roads and bridges in Flanders . His specialty was the series game Cadre . As an amateur player, he won his first international medal in 1925 in The Hague at the Cadre 45/2 European Championship . The Egyptian Edmond Soussa was one of his strongest competitors in the battle for the gold medal .

As was customary at the time, players often still held positions with associations. Van Belle was a delegate member of the Belgian amateur association “Fédération Belge des Amateurs de Billard” (FBAB) in Brussels in the early 1930s. The FBAB was directly subordinate to the Paris-based world amateur association Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard (UIFAB), the predecessor of today's Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB).

successes

• Cadre 45/1 World Championship : 1930 • 1931
• Cadre 45/2 World Championship : 1934 • 1928, 1929 • 1926
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939 • 1933, 1938
• Pentathlon World Championship : 1935 • 1933
• Cadre 45/2 European Championship : 1927, 1931, 1933 • 1928, 1929 • 1925, 1926
• Belgian three-cushion championship : 1931 1939

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Gustave van Belle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} short biography. Biljardvereiniging Geertruidenberg, archived from the original on March 23, 2016 ; Retrieved March 22, 2017 (Dutch).  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Oude Meesters. Bommeltje.nl, archived from the original on March 22, 2017 ; Retrieved March 22, 2017 (Dutch).  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Belgian Champions. (PDF) Koninklijke Belgische Biljartbond (KBBB), January 22nd, 2017, archived from the original on March 22nd, 2017 ; Retrieved March 22, 2017 (Dutch).  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography and successes. Kozoom , accessed March 22, 2017 .  
5. ↑ Sport.Billiards. Time Magazine, April 11, 1932, accessed March 22, 2017 .  
6. ↑ Union Internationale des Fédérations d'Amateurs de Billard (ed.): Annuaire 1931 . Annual report UIFAB. 1st edition. Own print, Paris 1931.