Jean Albert

Jean Albert
Personal details
birthday	January 1, 1904
date of death	October 31, 1976
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
8 × different disciplines
Continental Championships:
1 × cadre

Vincent Jean Albert (born January 1, 1904 , † October 31, 1976 ) was a French carom player , world and European champion in cadre and other disciplines.

Career

Albert was one of the all-round talents in carom. While other players committed themselves to one or a maximum of two disciplines, he not only played free game and cadre, but was also world champion in art thrusts from 1933–1935 and binding . In three-cushion he won a bronze medal at the World Cup in Barcelona in 1934 . He won his first medal (bronze) at world championships in 1933 in the free game after winning the gold medal in Cadre 45/1 at the European championship the year before. 15 years later, in 1947, he won his last international tournament in this discipline in his native Montpellier with a silver medal.

Among his strongest competitors in the battle for gold were the Egyptian Edmond Soussa and the Belgian Théo Moons .

Others

As was customary at the time, players often still held positions with associations. At the beginning of the 1930s, Albert was treasurer of the international amateur association “Union Internationale des Fédération d'Amateurs de Billard” (UIFAB).

successes

• Free game world championship : 1934, 1935, 1938 • 1933
• Cadre 45/1 World Championship : 1934, 1937
• Cadre 45/2 World Championship : 1934, 1935 •
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1937
• Binding World Championship : 1934 • 1935
• Three-cushion world championship : 1934
• Pentathlon World Championship : 1938 • 1934, 1935
• Billiard Artistique World Championship : 1933, 1934, 1935
• Cadre 45/1 European Championship : 1932 • 1947
• Cadre 45/1 European Championship : 1935
• French three-cushion championship : 1934

Swell:

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Player biography. Kozoom , accessed March 21, 2017 (French).  
2. ↑ Union Internationale des Fédérations d'Amateurs de Billard (ed.): Annuaire 1931 . Annual report UIFAB. 1st edition. Own print, Paris 1931.