Jean Marty

Jean Marty
Marty at the three-cushion European championship in 1969 in The Hague
Personal details
birthday	December 11, 1925
place of birth	Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales
date of death	3rd December 2015
Place of death	Paris
nationality	France
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.

Jean Marty (born December 11, 1925 in Perpignan , Pyrénées-Orientales , France , † December 3, 2015 in Paris ) was a French carom player who won several world, European and French championships. He was the author of various books on billiards.

Career

It's not the amount of titles that made Marty famous, but the brief period of four years starting in 1966. He was already playing as a professional then, unlike most of his fellow players. He was also known as a quick actor. When he made his debut in the international scene in 1966 at the Cadre -EM in Bern, the audience was already waiting for the new star from France. Then he played the first few games and 400 1, 400 1, 400 2 and 400 again in one  recording , and for each lot he needed less than an hour. Since at that time there was still no money to be made with the world and European championships (amateur tournaments), Marty romped through the Parisian cafés and showed his skills at show events, including at the small pool, for a fee. His manager put the balls down and waited for the kick-off, if it was halfway passable, he shouted: "First and last shot!". This is how Marty learned to deal with pressure. Marty had been a billiards teacher since the early 1960s and trained his students himself, sometimes 15 students at the same time.

A brilliant achievement of his career was the final against Raymond Ceulemans at the Cadre 71/2 World Championship in Bruges in 1968 , where he knocked out the game of 300 in just 34 minutes in one recording.

In the free game , he will remain vice world champion forever, as the 1969 World Cup will most likely have been the last. Due to the diminished interest of the audience and because the players have become too good due to the good material to get even more meaningful playing times without one of the opponents rejecting one shot.

At the Cadre 47/2 European Championship in 1966 in Bern, he set a still valid record in the top series (HS) with 1023 points (extended). In Duisburg, at the Cadre 71/2 World Championship in 1966 , he was the first to finish the full game distance of 300 points in 1 shot, a year later he was able to set this record in Heerlen at the Cadre 71/2 European Championship in 1967 to repeat. Other players like Raymond Ceulemans , Hans Vultink and Dieter Müller followed. It was his most successful years. In 1966 he became world champion in cadre, three-time European champion in the free game and in the cadre. 1967 double world and European champion in cadre. In 1969 he became the French three-cushion champion for the first time, a success that he repeated 20 years later in 1988 and 1989 at an advanced age. Then Marty ended his active playing career and devoted himself as an author to other specialist books.

Marty died in Paris just a week before his 90th birthday, having been hospitalized twice in the last 10 days. He is buried on the Cimetière des Batignolles .

obituary

In his obituary, the President of the French Billiards Federation, Fédération Française de Billard (FFB), Jean-Paul Sinanian wrote:

“The restera dans ma mémoire non seulement comme un immense joueur, a variety de génie du billiard mais surtout comme un passionné. Jean Marty pensait billard, vivait billard, dormait billard. »

“I will remember him not only as a great player, a kind of billiards genius, but above all as a passionate player. Jean Marty thought of billiards, lived billiards, slept billiards. "

- Jean-Paul Sinanian, President of the FFB (December 2015) : FFB

Others

Marty taught at the billiards academy in Marseille and was the author of several specialist textbooks on the game of billiards.

Publications

• Jean Marty: Billiards . l'épopée du billard, de l'origine à nos jours: billiards français, snooker, pool billiards américain, 8 pools anglais. Ed .: du Garde-Temps. Paris 2002, ISBN 2-913545-15-7 , pp. 127 (French).
• Jean Marty: Le secret du billard . Paris 1959, ISBN 2-9502413-1-X , pp. 190 (French).
• Jean Marty: Le billard et ses vérités . Ed .: Jean Marty. 1st edition. Paris 1996, ISBN 2-9502413-2-8 , pp. 220 (French).
• Jean Marty: Le billard par l'image . Editions De L'auteur, Colombes. 1967, p. 197 (French).
• Jean Marty: Le Billard et ses réflexions . Paris 1987, ISBN 2-9502413-0-1 , pp. 214 (French).

successes

• Free game world championship : 1969
• Cadre 47/1 World Championship : 1967
• Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1967
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1966, 1968 1967
• Binding World Championship : 1968
• European Free Match Championships : 1966, 1968, 1969
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1966, 1967
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1966 1967
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1967, 1969 1966, 1968
• European Binding Championship : 1966
• French three-cushion championship : 1969, 1985, 1988

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Jean Marty  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Weingartner: Obituary . Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape 12 , no. 280 . Self-published, 2015, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 3 ({{{Comment}}}).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Laurent Guenet: Jean Marty. Laurent Guenet, December 8, 2015, archived from the original on September 27, 2019 ; accessed on September 27, 2019 (French).  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Décès de Jean Marty. Fédération Française de Billard (FFB), December 2015, archived from the original ; accessed on September 27, 2019 (French).  
4. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed September 27, 2019 .