Jos Vervest

Jozef Vervest
Vervest at the Cadre 47/2 European Championship in Heerlen in 1965 , Tini Wijnen watching him.
Personal details
birthday	March 29, 1925
place of birth	Ekeren Belgium
date of death	October 2, 1999
Place of death	Ghent Belgium
nationality	Belgium
Nickname (s)	Jos
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
2 ×
Continental Championships:
5 ×
Other tournaments:
s. successes
Societies)
BC Perlak, Antwerp

Jozef "Jos" Vervest (born March 29, 1925 in Ekeren , Belgium , † October 2, 1999 in Gent ) was a Belgian carom player in the classic disciplines of free game and cadre . His main job was to run a billiard café with an attached billiard academy.

biography

Jos Vervest was born in Ekeren, now part of Antwerp , his mother Anna Maria Catharina Vervest was unmarried at the time of his birth. In 1931 he married Jake Jan Lambrechts, owner of a bakery and the “Perlak” café in Blisters Straat. Even as a young boy, Jos was selling bread with his tricycle at the market in Ekeren and the Luchtbal district.

In September 1934 the billiards club "BC Perlak" was founded in the café-bakery of his mother and stepfather and Jos was immediately attacked by the billiards virus. In every spare moment, Vervest practiced at the pool table in his parents' café. He seemed to have more talent in billiards than in bread business. Practice makes perfect and the first successes came in 1940 when Jos won the Antwerp Junior Championship. In 1944 he became Belgian champion in the free game.

After the Second World War Jos worked in the "Billiard Palace" on Queen Astrid Square in Antwerp, where the young Vervest taught billiards, including Ludo Dielis from Deurne , now also part of Antwerp.

In 1954 Vervest won his first European title in the free game in Lisbon , which made him a hero in Ekeren and the city under the leadership of Mayor Aertssens organized a celebration for him, in the presence of his fiancée and his stepfather. After his wedding in 1954, Jos lived in the Ferdinand-Pauwelsstraat.

Vervest was Belgian champion 15 times, four times European champion and two times world champion. After his active career, Vervest devoted his life to training talented young players. For more than 25 years he ran the “Brasserie Metropole” billiard café in the Hotel Metropole in Ghent, where he died on September 27, 1999.

Honors

• In 1964 he was awarded the gold medal for sporting merit.
• In the special series “Belgian International Sport Champions - Billiards” published in 2006 by the Belgian Post Office, they dedicated an honorary stamp to him with a face value of € 0.52.

Trivia

The 1958 Cadre 47/2 European Championship resulted in two memorable moments. On the one hand, the oldest participant Piet van de Pol set a new world record with a 400 series, on the other hand, in the final between Emile Wafflard from Brussels and Vervest from Antwerp, the referee made a wrong decision in favor of Wafflards, which cost Vervest the title. It has been speculated that the referee at the top of the then French-speaking leadership of the Koninklijke Belgische Biljartbond (KBBB) was not entirely impartial.

List of Belgian champions

successes

International

• Free game world championship : 1964
• Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1962, 1964
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1962 1959
• European Free Match Championships : 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1966
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1960
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1958, 1959
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1959 1952, 1958, 1962
• European Pentathlon Championship : 1954

• European pentathlon championships for national teams : 1969 1967

National

• Belgian Free Game Championship: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963, 1965 1960, 1966, 1970 1964, 1967
• Belgian Cadre 47/1 Championship: 1960
• Belgian Cadre 47/2 Championship: 1954, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966 1958, 1960, 1967, 1968 1952, 1957, 1962, 1970
• Belgian Cadre 71/2 championship: 1956, 1959, 1958, 1962 1960, 1961, 1966, 1970

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Jos Vervest  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jos Vervest. Biljartvereniging Geertruidenberg 1977, archived from the original on October 6, 2019 ; Retrieved November 4, 2019 (Dutch).  
2. ↑ ^{a b} player profile. Kozoom , accessed November 4, 2019 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Julien Vangansbeke: Gentse Biljartspelers, Lokalen en Clubs. Ed .: Ghent University. University Press, Ghent 26 August 2017, p. 362 (Dutch, 371 pp.).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dimoskostakos: Jos Vervest, a billiard phenomenon. Carombil, November 7, 2013, archived from the original on May 24, 2017 ; accessed on November 4, 2019 .  
5. ^ La Poste De Belgique: Belgian International Sport Champions - Billiards - 1962 Jos Vervest. Universal Postal Union, April 24, 2006; archived from the original on November 4, 2019 ; accessed on November 4, 2019 .