Nobuaki Kobayashi

Nobuaki Kobayashi
Personal details
birthday	March 26, 1942
place of birth	Wakayama
date of death	November 25, 2019
Place of death	Tokyo
nationality	Japan
Active time	approx. 1968-1994
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 3.571
(1980, Japanese Championship)
Best GD: 1.568
(1980, Japanese Championship)
Maximum series (HS): 15
(1986 - World Cup, Valkenburg)
World Championships:
5 × (individual: 1974,1984; team: 1981,1985,1992) 00
Continental Championships:
?
Other tournaments:
s. successes
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	2 (1986)
Societies)
• BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959 (1992–1994)

Nobuaki Kobayashi ( Japanese 小林 伸 明 , Kobayashi Nobuaki ; born March 26, 1942 in Wakayama , † November 25, 2019 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese carom player .

Career

Kobayashi was best known as a world class three cushion player. The fact that he also mastered other pile-up variants was shown in several pentathlon World Cup participations between 1969 and 1981. At the 1977 World Cup in Santiago de Chile , he even achieved an excellent 3rd place.

His greatest sporting success, however, was winning the three-cushion World Cup in 1974. Against the Belgian Raymond Ceulemans , who was almost unbeatable at the time , he won his first World Championship title in Antwerp , the Belgian hometown, after losing to him in the final in 1970, 1972 and 1973 . In 1984 he had a second follow in Krefeld . He also took second place ten times and third place three times at a three-cushion World Cup.

At the three-cushion world cup , which started in 1986, he won three world cup tournaments. He was the first three-cushion player to finish a set played up to 15 points in one admission at a World Cup tournament.

His son Hideaki Kobayashi is also a good three-cushion player. In 2003 he took part in the three-cushion world championships in Las Vegas .

successes

• Three-cushion World Cup : 1974, 1984, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1995
• Three-cushion team World Cup 1981, 1985, 1992
• Pentathlon World Cup 1977
• Three Cushion World Cup : 1986/2, 1986/4, 1988/2 1986/1, 1988/5, 1989/2, 1993/4 1987/1
• Binding World Championship : 1983
• Japanese Three Cushion Championship : 1971–1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1993–1995, 1999
• Japan Cup: 1991, 1998
• Asia Games: 2002
• Coupe d'Europe (team): 1994 (BF Horster-Eck Essen 1959)

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Nobuaki Kobayashi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: three-cushion world champion Nobuaki Kobayashi passes away  - news

• Official Homepage (Japanese)
• Player statistics on Kozoom.com
• Two-time world champion Nobuaki Kobayashi (77) died in Tokyo ( Memento from November 29, 2019 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Blue Square / The Blue Square - Fascination Billiards, editor: Dr. Werner Bayer Foundation, Berlin (2004). ISBN 4520934605
2. ↑ ^{a b} The winners of the three- cushion World Cup 1928–2011 ( memento from July 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) on HickokSports.com. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
3. ^ Frits Bakker: Japanese two times world champion Kobayashi (77) passed away. UMB News - Tokyo (JPN). Kozoom , November 25, 2019, archived from the original on November 26, 2019 ; accessed on November 26, 2019 (English).  
4. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom , 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 .  
5. ^ Heinrich Weingartner : Three Volume in Japan . 1938-1993. Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape  60 , no. 12 . Self-published, 1993, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 31 .