Martin Horn (carom player)

Martin Horn
Horn at the World Cup in Istanbul 2009
Personal details
birthday	January 28, 1971
place of birth	Essen, Germany
nationality	Germany
Nickname (s)	Max
Active time	since 2009
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best GD: 2.157
AGIPI Billard Masters 2012, Schiltigheim
Maximum series (HS): 24
2011 in Kasteeldreef in the Belgian three- cushion league
World Championships:
4 ×, of which 1 × individual and 3 × team
Continental Championships:
11 European champions, including 8 singles and 3 teams
Other tournaments:
43 × German champions singles & teams, including 10 × three-cushion
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	5
Current WRL location:	13 (Aug 2019)
Societies)
BC International Berlin BC. Herentals Eureka billiards AS Laxou

Martin Horn (* 28. January 1971 in Essen ) is a German cannon -Billardspieler.

Life

Martin Horn on the podium at the German Championship 2011 in Bad Wildungen (winner)

Martin Horn at the three-cushion European Championship 2012 in Istanbul

Martin Horn grew up in Essen-Horst and attended elementary school and high school there. After graduating from high school, he asked himself what was best for him. As he already played billiards intensively during his school days, the opportunity arose for him to commit himself to the Bundeswehr for a long time during basic military service. So he became a contract soldier in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr for 16 years. This gave me the opportunity to continue to deal intensively with his sport. After these 16 years he decided to start a career as a full professional in billiards. His big goal as a billiard professional is to win the individual world championship in three cushion.

Career

Beginning

As a young player, Martin Horn came into contact with good pool players in the club at an early age through his father, who also played for the BF Horster-Eck Essen in 1959 . His talent was quickly recognized. So his success was inevitable. He owes a substantial part of his ability to the then still active multiple European champion Klaus Hose , the Luxembourg world champion Fonsy Grethen and the Velberter Volker Simanowski . They brought him into the European and world elite in the classical disciplines. With his first international appearance at the juniors in Paris, he finished fourth in the free game in 1990. In 1991 he won the Juniors in Athens in Cadre 47/2 and the Free Game in Krefeld and became double European champion. In 1992, another junior title was added in the Cadre 47/2 in Sierre / CH.

First international successes

Then there were many successes in the seniors at world and European championships, whereby the world championship title in the cover in Vienna is certainly the greatest single success so far. At the European Championships he collected a total of five individual titles, and it would have surely been a few more if he had not focused exclusively on the three-cushion game from 1998 onwards. He received excellent support from his two teachers, Hans-Jürgen Kühl and his teammate Torbjörn Blomdahl . In addition to a World Cup victory and two Vice European Championships, third place at the AGIPI Masters 2012 is particularly noteworthy because he achieved the best tournament average among many world-class players.

After Christian Rudolph in 1997, he was the second German to win a World Cup in three cushions ( Antalya 2009 ). In the billiards world ranking list of the UMB Union Mondiale de Billard , he has been among the top 16 for years.

Martin Horn is also a child of the Bundesliga. He started his Bundesliga career at the age of 15 with assignments at BF Horster Eck. Until the 1988/89 season he was only a substitute player in Essen, as the first team with a star cast became series champions. He decided to change clubs and played for BSV Velbert in the 1988/89 and 1989/90 seasons . Despite excellent performances by Martin Horn Velbert rose in 1989/90 in the 2nd Bundesliga. Horn went back to his hometown club Horster Eck and became champions for the first time with his club in the 1990/91 season. In the following three years he became champion, second and third with Horster Eck. After Horster Eck withdrew from the Bundesliga in the 1994/95 season, he concentrated on individual tournaments with great success. After the conversion of the Bundesliga to a pure three-cushion league, Horster Eck was there again and immediately became champion again. In the individual rankings of the Bundesliga, Horn took 1st place ahead of world-class player Frédéric Caudron . Overall, Martin Horn was champion six times with the BF Horster Eck.

Horn also had great success with his team-mates from Horster Eck in the European Cup . In the mid-1990s, they won the title three times.

Since it is possible to play in different European leagues at the same time in billiards, top European clubs were of course also interested in Martin Horn. Thus he plays or played for clubs in the Dutch honor division, in the Belgian first three-cushion league and in France's elite league. He was also champion in the Netherlands, where he achieved his best team season GD of 1.888 here in 2010/11. In the Belgian league, he also achieved his previous highest series of 24 points.

2012/13 season

After his victory at the 4th German Grand Prix 2012 in Gelsenkirchen at the end of the 2011/12 season, things didn't go so well for Horn at the beginning of the new season. At the World Championships in Porto he was only 14th, a week later, at the World Cup he was defeated by the Dutchman Dick Jaspers in the round of 16, so that for the first time in years he lost his place in the top 12 of the Main Tour and came in 14th. Rank slipped. Therefore, in the following tournaments, he has to fight his way through the qualifying round for a place in the finals of the upcoming tournaments.

2013/14 season

Before the start of the season, Horn decided, for private and financial reasons, not to take part in all of the tournaments on offer. The main driving force here was the financial and temporal aspect. Since most of the top European players also play in local leagues, the schedule is very tight. Due to his placement among the 16 best players, he was placed in the finals of international tournaments such as the World Cup. If a tournament takes place e.g. B. in Korea and you catch a strong opponent in the first round, it is possible that you only play one game. The effort seemed to him to be too high for such a long journey and so he decided not to take part in tournaments so far away. The result was a slide in the three-cushion world rankings . At the end of the season, however, he is considering participating in such tournaments more often.

In May he secured his second success at the German three-cushion masters with a win over Johann Schirmbrand .

2019

At the end of August, Horn broke his collarbone in a bicycle accident at home in Essen. It was thus predicted that number 12 in the world rankings would be canceled by the World Cup in November. After the operation on September 4, 2019, the doctors came to a more favorable prognosis, which predicted a faster healing than initially assumed. With the help of his physiotherapist, he is already trying to take part in the 5th World Cup in Veghel , the Netherlands , at the end of October . But before that he would like to try to play against Dick Jaspers (BC Magdeburg) at the Bundesliga match of his Berlin club “BC International” on October 5th . At the German three-cushion championship in 2019 , Horn, who has since recovered, was able to recapture his 2017 title. In the final, he beat his World Cup team mate Ronny Lindemann with 40:23 in 23 shots. At the final World Cup tournament in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, he won the bronze medal together with Jérémy Bury .

successes

Three-cushion

• Three-cushion world championship for national teams 2002, 2001, 2006, 2012, 2013, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
• Three Cushion World Cup : 2009/2, 2018/5 1997/2, 1997/4, 1999/3, 2007/5, 2010/3, 2019/3 2004/5, 2006/5, 2007/1, 2008/6, 2010/1, 2016/7, 2019/7
• European three-cushion championship : 1998, 2004, 2003, 2012
• AGIPI Billard Masters : 2012
• Lausanne Billiards Masters : 2014, 2015
• German three-cushion championships : 1995, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2019 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2011, 2013, 1993, 2014,
• German three-cushion masters : 2013, 2014 2015
• German Grand Prix (overall winner): 1999, 2004, 2006, 2010

cover

• Binding World Championship : 1997
• Single binding European championship 1997, 1998 1992, 1999, 2000
• German binding championship: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 1995, 1999, 2001

Other disciplines

• Pentathlon World Championship : 2001
• Team World Championship (three-way fight) 1991, 1993
• European Free Match Championship: (Juniors) 1990
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship (Juniors): 1991, 1992
• European Free Match Championships : 1994, 1995 1999 1997
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship 1996 1993 1994
• German Cadre 47/2 Championship: 1991, 1992, 1993
• German Cadre 47/1 Championship: 1990, 1992 1991

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Martin Horn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martin Horn - Homepage
• Kozoom statistics Martin Horn
• Martin Horn did it! World Cup victory in La Baule

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Successes of Martin Horn . Retrieved June 26, 2012
2. ↑ Markus Schönhoff: Martin Horn: broken collarbone after a bicycle fall. Kozoom , August 30, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Frits Bakker: Martin Horn wants to be back at the billiard very soon. Kozoom Interview - Essen (GER). Kozoom, September 12, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019 .  
4. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom, accessed September 12, 2019 .  
5. ^ Dieter Haase, Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1-3 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 215-1319 .