Mã Minh Cẩm

Mã Minh Cẩm
Personal details
birthday	3rd September 1975
nationality	Vietnam
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 2.123
2017, three-cushion world championship Santa Cruz
Maximum series (HS): 18
2018, Blankenberge
World Championships:
s. successes

Mã Minh Cẩm (born September 3, 1975 in Vietnam ) is a Vietnamese carom player .

Career

He secured his first podium in international tournaments to 2013 in Inchon in the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in the cover with a bronze medal. In May 2016, Ma reached the quarter-finals for the first time in front of a home crowd in Ho Chi Minh City at the World Cup . In the game against the multiple world champion Dick Jaspers from the Netherlands it was a draw, in the subsequent penalty shootout he could only score 1: 3 points. His greatest success so far was, also bronze, at the three- cushion world championship 2017 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia and a new world record in the general average (GD) of 2.123. From there he flew to Houston, Texas, USA, played at the USBA Open Tournament and won it. In the final, he beat the American Pedro Piedrabuena . Third was his compatriots Dương Anh Vũ and Trần Quyết Chiến , who had traveled with him from the World Cup. At the 3rd World Cup in June 2018 in Blankenberge, Belgium, he finished 6th after failing in the quarter-finals against the Greek Nikos Polychronopoulos . With a maximum series (HS) of 18, he sets the tournament record and his own.

successes

• Three-cushion world championship : 2017
• Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games : 2013 (cover)
• USBA Open Tournament: 2017
• Binh Duong International: 2017

Swell:

Web links

• Match results on Kozoom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Super User: Vietnam's Minh Cam Ma Wins USBA Open Tournament. USBA.net, November 16, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2018 .  
2. ↑ Minh Tan: Ma Champion of the Binh Duong International. The Thao, July 16, 2017, accessed September 25, 2018 (Vietnamese).  
3. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom , accessed September 25, 2018 .  

Note: The surname of this Vietnamese name is Mã , in Western texts the spelling is often simplified Ma . According to Vietnamese custom, the person should be referred to by their first name Minh Cẩm - even in formal situations .