Joaquín Domingo

Joaquín Domingo
Personal details
birthday	August 16, 1917
date of death	February 27, 1981
nationality	Spain
Nickname (s)	Nano de Sants
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
3 × art push
Continental Championships:
7 × in different disciplines
Other tournaments:
67 × national medals
Medal table
Art push world championship 3 × 0 × 1 × Art push EM 7 × 5 × 2 × Free game world championship 0 × 5 × 0 × Cadre 47/2 World Championship 0 × 2 × 0 ×

Joaquín Domingo Sánchez (born August 16, 1917 ; † February 27, 1981 ) was a Spanish carambola player and multiple world and European champion. His main discipline was art pushing .

Career

Domingo is one of the most successful Spanish players, but also internationally. With 10 international gold medals, he is unbeaten to date, a gold medal collection that his compatriot Daniel Sánchez has not yet been able to achieve. He was an all-round player who mastered all classic disciplines from the free game to cadre and binding to three- cushion. His love, however, was art kick or billiard artistique. He began his international career with his participation in the binding world championship in 1934, at the age of only 17 years. He immediately played his way to fifth place. His playing strength quickly increased and he won his first title in 1948 at the three-cushion European Championship in front of a home crowd in Madrid. It was to remain his only three-volume title. In 1949 the EM title followed in Cadre 71/2. Between 1957 and 1966 he won gold medals at the World Championships in art pushing three times, only the Belgian Raymond Steylaerts was more successful with six gold medals. He ended his career at the age of 58 with a bronze medal at the 1975 World Cup in Mol, Belgium . In total, Domingo was able to win 32 medals at world and European championships, plus 67 Spanish titles.

Honors

• Oro al Mérito Deportivo del ayuntamiento de Barcelona: 1955, 1963, 1966
• Plata de la Delegación Nacional de Educación Física: 1958, 1968
• Cruz al Mérito Civil (Knight of the Spanish Order of Civil Merit ): 1973
• Oro del Consejo Superior de Deportes: 1980

successes

• Billiard Artistique World Championship : 1957, 1963, 1966 1975
• European Billiards Championship : 1952, 1968, 1969 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1961 1959, 1973
• European three-cushion championship : 1948
• European Pentathlon Championship : 1954
• Free game world championship : 1935, 1936, 1949, 1950, 1953
• Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1947
• Single binding European championship : 1951, 1960
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1949
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1955 1957

Web links

Commons : Joaquin Domingo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Heinrich Weingartner, Dieter Haase: Enzyklopädie des Billardsport . 1st edition. tape 2 . Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 1132 ff .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Biographia, Palmarés. CB Barcelona, ​​archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; Retrieved December 8, 2016 (Spanish).  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} A brief history of the game of Billard Artistique. Confédération International de Billard Artistique (CIBA), archived from the original on November 29, 2016 ; accessed on November 29, 2016 (English).  
4. ↑ ^{a b} medal ranks. Kozoom, accessed November 29, 2016 .