Laurent Boulanger (carom player)

Laurent Boulanger
Boulanger at the Cadre 47/1 European Championship in Appeldoorn in 1965
Personal details
birthday	August 11, 1931
place of birth	Liege ,
date of death	2008 (77 years)
nationality	Belgium
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
1 × (Cadre)
Continental Championships:
4 × (Cadre) 3 × (Pentathlon Team)
Societies)
BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959

Laurent Boulanger (born August 11, 1931 in Liège , Belgium ; † 2008 ) was a Belgian carom player and world champion.

Career

Born in Liège, he was an all-rounder who was successful both in the classic varieties of cadre , as well as in gang games such as three cushion . Boulanger was able to win his first title at the Belgian Three Cushion Championships (BDM) in the 1959/60 season with a silver medal. While René Vingerhoedt and Raymond Ceulemans continued to dominate the BDM, 1962 was his most successful player year. In April he was able to win the Cadre 47/1 European Championship in Nijmegen , in June in Ostend the Cadre 71/2 EM, which he won in 1961, and in October the Cadre 71/2 World Championship in Oberhausen. He had to wait until 1969 for his first title win at the BDM, when he was finally able to beat Ceulemans in the final. In Germany at the end of the 1980s he played together with Fonsy Grethen for the BF Horster-Eck Essen club in 1959 , with whom he won the Bundesliga championship in 1988. In December of the same year he wins the three-cushion World Cup 1988/5 in Valkenburg, the Netherlands .

Honors

The Belgian Post honored Boulanger in 2006 with a special postage stamp.

successes

• Three Cushion World Cup : 1988/5
• Cadre 71/2 World Championship : 1962
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1962, 1965 1963, 1966 1973
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1961, 1962
• Three-cushion European Championship : 1969 1960, 1968, 1971, 1974

• European pentathlon championships for national teams : 1971, 1973, 1975 1977
• Belgian three-cushion championship : 1996, 1960, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1965, 1976, 1977, 1979
• 1. Bundesliga three cushion : 1988

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Laurent Boulanger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Laurent Boulanger

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Thierry Denoël & Collectif: Le nouveau dictionnaire des Belges . Ed .: Le Cri / Legrain / RTBF. 1st edition. Brussels 1992, ISBN 978-2-87106-063-5 , pp. 33 (French).
2. ↑ ^{a b} player profile. Kozoom , accessed October 6, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Horster Eck invites you to the anniversary. Won the championship 20 years ago. WAZ, June 27, 2008, archived from the original on October 6, 2019 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Champions internationaux belges - Billiards - 1962 Laurent Boulanger. Belgian Post, April 24, 2006, archived from the original on October 6, 2019 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 (French).  
5. ↑ World, European and Belgian championships up to 1973. (PDF) page 6. BD De Deken, 1974, archived from the original on August 31, 2016 ; Retrieved on October 5, 2019 (Dutch, brochure on the three-cushion World Cup 1974 published in Antwerp).