Jacques Davin

Jacques Davin
Davin 1933
Personal details
birthday	1903
date of death	unknown
nationality	France
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
3 ×
Continental Championships:
2 × vice
Societies)
Marseille Billiard Academy

Jacques Davin (* 1903 ; † unknown) was a French carambola player and world champion.

Career

Davin was an all-rounder as a player. He played all disciplines, starting with the free game , cadre , cover , three-cushion up to the art kick (Billard Artistique), all at world level. He won medals at world championships in each of the disciplines.

For the first time he found international attention not at European championships, but at a world championship. That was the Cadre 45/1 World Championship in Vichy in 1927 , he was just 24 years old and won the bronze medal, a success that Davin was able to repeat in 1928. Until 1937 he took part in the various world championships every year, winning a total of 14 medals. He was three times world champion, in 1933 in the pentathlon (Pentathlon), consisting of the disciplines free game, binding, three-cushion and two different cadre variants and in 1935 double world champion (cadre 45/2 and binding). In the same year he won a silver medal at the European three-cushion championships , his second European silver medal after the European championship in Cadre 45/1 in 1932.

Others

Davin was a member of the billiards academy of Marseille, founded in 1914, which produced the vice world champion Barthelemy Maure (1905, 1908) and world champion Albert Corty (1924, 1932).

successes

• World Free Game Championship : 1932
• Cadre 45/1 World Championship : 1927, 1928, 1935
• Cadre 45/2 World Championship : 1935
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1934 1935
• World Binding Championship : 1935 1937
• Three-cushion world championship : 1934
• Pentathlon World Championship : 1933 1936
• Billiard Artistique World Championship : 1935 1936
• European three-cushion championship : 1935
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1932
• French three-cushion championship : 1927, 1928, 1932, 1933

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Jacques Davin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 159 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} successes. Kozoom , accessed September 1, 2019 .  
3. ^ Bienvenue sur le site de l'académie de billard de Marseille. Marseille Billiards Academy, archived from the original on June 29, 2018 ; accessed on August 29, 2019 (French).