Jos Bongers

Jos Bongers
Bongers at the Dutch Pentathlon Championships 2018
Personal details
birthday	June 29, 1956
place of birth	Nijmegen
nationality	Netherlands
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
1 × (cover)
Continental Championships:
2 × (Free game; Cadre 47/2 Juniors)
Other tournaments:
s. successes

Jos Bongers (born June 29, 1956 in Nijmegen , the Netherlands ) is a Dutch carom player in the classic disciplines of free game , cadre and binding .

Career

Bongers was discovered by Willy Steures in the Old Weeshuis in Nijmegen, who was a friend of Tony Schrauwen , from whom Bongers took lessons. Bongers achieved his first international success in 1977 as Vice-European Junior Champion in Cadre 47/2, since then he has been a player in the "Ereklass" (1st division). A year later he won the European championship in this discipline. In the 1980s he won five medals at world and European championships until he became European champion in the free game in 1991. In 1992 Bongers set a new world record with a maximum series (HS) of 69 in the cover over a distance of 2 × 75 points. In 1995 he set several new world records in one cover. In the French Carvin , with a game distance of 150 points, he set René Vingerhoedt's almost 50-year-old record from 1954 in the general average (GD) from 5.65 to 12.36 and the record also set in 1954 in the HS by Pedro Leopoldo Carrera from 61 to 88 points. These achievements brought him the world title in the end. At the national level Bongers was particularly the cover successfully with nine titles.

successes

International

• Binding World Championship : 1995 2007
• Cadre 47/1 World Championship : 1987
• Pentathlon World Championship : 1981
• European Free Game Championship : 1991
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1982 1980
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1987
• Single binding European championship : 1996, 1998, 1999
• Cadre 47/2 European Junior Championship: 1978 1977

National

• Dutch Cadre 47/1 Championship: 1985, 1986 1984 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983
• Dutch Cadre 47/2 Championship: 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987 2017, 2019 1983
• Dutch Cadre 471/2 championship: 1986 1980, 1981. 1982
• Dutch Binding Championship: 1980, 1985, 1992, 1994, 1996-2000 1979, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2006, 2013 1981, 1982, 1991, 2005, 2014, 2018
• Dutch pentathlon championship: 1982, 1985 1981, 1983 1978, 1984, 1986, 2014

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Jos Bongers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jos Bongers - multi-part video course

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Colani: Jos Bongers. Biography. Biljartvereniging Geertruidenberg 1977, August 21, 2016, archived from the original on December 2, 2019 ; Retrieved December 2, 2019 (Dutch).  
2. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 2 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 639 .
3. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed December 2, 2019 .