Javier Palazón

Javier Palazón
Personal details
birthday	18th February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Valencia, Spain
nationality	Spain
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
3 × Junior World Championships
Continental Championships:
1 ×
Other tournaments:
see achievements
Societies)
• Club Billar Paiporta de Valencia

Javier Palazón (born February 18, 1988 in Valencia , Spain ) is a Spanish carambola player who won several titles at world, European and Spanish championships.

Career

As an 8-year-old, he first took part in a tournament at his father's club in Valencia-Paiporta. At the age of 15, Palazón was able to win his first medal in national competitions in 2003, it was bronze in the Spanish Junior Championship. 2005 the first international medal success at the Junior European Championship, again bronze, at the Junior World Championship in the same year the first of three gold medals (2008,2009) and one silver medal (2007). 2010 and 2011 bronze in the three-cushion world championship , also in the three-cushion world championship for national teams in 2012 in Viersen, together with Daniel Sánchez .

At the third World Cup in 2019 in Blankenberge , Belgium , his first gold medal in this tournament series was added. In the final he was able to defeat the German Martin Horn with 40:26. After Daniel Sánchez (12 ×), he is only the second Spanish player to win the World Cup.

It is, behind Rubén Legazpi , with a total of 23 Spanish medal titles (5 gold, 8 silver and 10 bronze) in fifth place in the list of the most successful three-cushion players in his country.

The native Valencian lives in the district of Paiporta and plays for the local "Club Billar Paiporta de Valencia" with which he won several national titles in the team.

successes

• Three Cushion World Championship : 2010, 2011
• Junior three-cushion world championship : 2005, 2008, 2009 2007
• Three-cushion world championship for national teams : 2012
• Three Cushion World Cup : 2019/3 2014/7

• European three-cushion championship for national teams : 2008 2009
• Three Cushion European Junior Championship : 2006 2008, 2009 2005
• Spanish three-cushion championship : 2010 2009, 2017
• Spanish three-cushion junior championship: 2003

Swell:

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} successes. Kozoom , accessed September 26, 2019 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Javier Palazón: "El nivel del billar en España es increíble". Uno de los mejores jugadores de billar a tres bandas en nuestro país atiende a LaLiga4Sports tras participar en la Copa del Mundo de Luxor. La Liga Sports April 5, 2016 archived from the original on September 26, 2019 ; Retrieved September 26, 2019 (Spanish).  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Javier Palazón, el paiportí campió mundial de billar a la Banda. El paiportí de CB Paiporta, aconsegueix l'or superant el bronze de l'any passat. Valencia Extra, March 1, 2018, archived from the original on September 26, 2019 ; Retrieved September 26, 2019 (Spanish).  
4. ^ ^{A b} La revolución del deporte anónimo Valenciano. Yo soy noticia.es, June 24, 2019, archived from the original on September 26, 2019 ; Retrieved September 26, 2019 (Spanish).  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Spanish three- cushion championships. (PDF) Real Federación Española de Billar (RFEB), September 2019, archived from the original on September 26, 2019 ; Retrieved September 26, 2019 (Spanish).