Jean Bessems

Jean Bessems

Jean Bessems (1968)
Personal details
birthday	January 4, 1945
place of birth	Cadier en Keer NetherlandsNetherlands
nationality	Netherlands Netherlands
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
2 × (art push)
Continental Championships:
4 × (art push)
Other tournaments:
s. successes

Jean Bessems (born January 4, 1945 in Cadier en Keer , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch carom player in the disciplines of cadre and billiard artistique (art kick).

biography

Jean Bessems was born in Cadier en Keer, a district of Margraten , now Eijsden-Margraten . His father was a farmer, pigeon fancier and later a café owner. He started playing billiards at the age of 14. He played soccer until he was 19 and then had to choose between billiards and soccer. Bessems initially played a free game , but later switched to the art kick and cadre.

Bessems made his international breakthrough in 1965 at the European Youth Billiards Championship. At the Cadre 47/2 European Championship in Nice in 1971 , he won his first men's silver medal. He played against well-known billiards players like Raymond Ceulemans , Henk Scholte , Hans Vultink , Francis Connesson and Emile Wafflard . He traveled all over the world and even gave exhibition fights in Russia, which was special at the time of the Soviet Empire. According to his trainer René Vingerhoedt , his strength lay mainly in perfect defense (defensive play), which is important in order to become a top player.

He was world champion in Sluis in Zeeland in 1985 and in Stockerau in Austria in 1988 and European champion in Bruay Sur Escaut in France, in Dongen and Gorsel in the Netherlands and in Wilrijk near Antwerp. In 1991 he ended his sporting career and in 2005 he took early retirement (Dutch: VUT).

Others

His main occupation was a mechanical engineer. Like his father, he was a passionate pigeon fancier for twenty years.

successes

International

Billiard Artistique World Championship : 1985, 1988 1984 1987
Cadre 47/1 World Championship : 1975
European Billiards Championships : 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1985, 1981, 1982, 1983
Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1975
Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1971
Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1974

Swell:

National

Dutch art push championships 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989
Dutch Cadre Championships: 1 × 47/2, 1 × 47/1, 3 × 71/2
Dutch Pentathlon Championships: 1973 1975

Web links

Commons : Jean Bessems - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Jean Bessems wereldkampioen in 1985 ( Memento of November 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
Biljarter Jean Bessems; 7 januari 1977 ( Memento from November 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b player profile. Kozoom , accessed November 2, 2019 .
^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1134 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Oude meesters - Jean Bessems. Bommeltje.nl, archived from the original on October 11, 2019 ; Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Dutch).
↑ Jean Bessems: biljarte born. Leiden Courant, January 8, 1968, archived from the original on November 2, 2019 ; Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Dutch).
↑ Karlheinz Heckert: Billiard World Championships (art pushing). Sport-komplett.de, 2002, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 2, 2019 .
^ Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European championships (art pushing). Sport-komplett.de, 2002, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 2, 2019 .
^ Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards World Championships (Cadre 45/1 or from the 1967/68 season Cadre 47/1). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .
^ Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European Championships (Cadre 45/1 or from 1952/53 47/1). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .
^ Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European Championships (Cadre 45/2, from 1948/49 47/2). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .
^ Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European Championships (Cadre 71/2). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bessems, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch carom player
DATE OF BIRTH	January 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cadier en Keer , Netherlands

[Spielerprofil-1] player profile. Kozoom , accessed November 2, 2019 .

[EdB-DOB-2] Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1134 .

[Bommeltje-3] Oude meesters - Jean Bessems. Bommeltje.nl, archived from the original on October 11, 2019 ; Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Dutch).

[Leiden_Courant-4] Jean Bessems: biljarte born. Leiden Courant, January 8, 1968, archived from the original on November 2, 2019 ; Retrieved November 2, 2019 (Dutch).

[„SK-BAWM“-5] Karlheinz Heckert: Billiard World Championships (art pushing). Sport-komplett.de, 2002, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 2, 2019 .

[„SK-BAEM“-6] Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European championships (art pushing). Sport-komplett.de, 2002, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 2, 2019 .

[SK-471_WM-7] Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards World Championships (Cadre 45/1 or from the 1967/68 season Cadre 47/1). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .

[SK-451_EM-8] Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European Championships (Cadre 45/1 or from 1952/53 47/1). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .

[SK-452_EM-9] Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European Championships (Cadre 45/2, from 1948/49 47/2). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .

[SK-712_EM-10] Karlheinz Heckert: Billiards - European Championships (Cadre 71/2). Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on August 4, 2004 ; accessed on November 1, 2019 .