Piet van de Pol

Pieter Jacobus van de Pol
Van de Pol 1962 at the Dutch championships in the Cadre in Tilburg
Personal details
birthday	September 21, 1907
place of birth	Charlois
date of death	September 22, 1996
Place of death	Rockanje
nationality	Netherlands
Nickname (s)	Piet, the tall one
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
2 ×
Continental Championships:
7 ×

Van de Pol (with cue) with other players at the Dutch Cadre 47/2 championship in 1959

Pieter "Piet" Jacobus van de Pol (born September 21, 1907 in Charlois ( Rotterdam ), † September 22, 1996 in Rockanje ), also known as The Tall One because of his stature , was a Dutch carom player and multiple world and European champion.

Career

The son of a coffee maker started playing billiards at the age of 7. Van de Pol, who is almost 2 meters tall, taught billiards in his father's bar in Charlois / Rotterdam. He was a natural and at thirteen he was a member of the De Spiel billiards association . He later moved to De Maasstad and soon found his love for the cadre game.

When he participated in the Dutch championship in 1932 and 1933, he won the title in both years, which was the beginning of his successful career. He won his first world title at the age of 34 in 1947, followed by two European titles and several titles at the Dutch championships. In 1951 he became world champion in Buenos Aires , where he had a meeting with Evita Perón .

1958 set a new series record of 400 points in a row at the 47/2 European Championship in Ghent against the Spaniard José Gálvez. This record is particularly significant due to the fact that ivory balls were still played at the tournament.

In addition to billiards, van de Pol was a staunch Feyenoord fan and catering entrepreneur. He owned billiards shops on Tidemanstraat ( ⊙ ), Ammanstraat ( ⊙ ) and Goudsesingel ( ⊙ ).

In 1961 van de Pol moved to Rockanje ( ⊙ ), southwest of Rotterdam. In 1967 he stopped playing billiards professionally. He died one day after his 89th birthday in 1996.

Honors

He was an honorary member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Biljartbond (KNBB) and was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau .

Trivia

• On the Boulevard des Deiches in Schiedam , Piet left his handprints in a tile of the “Hall of Fame”.
• A billiards club in Zeddam bears his name.

successes

• Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1947, 1949 1962
• Free game world championship : 1949
• Cadre 71/2 European Championship : 1947, 1948, 1951, 1956 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953
• Cadre 47/2 European Championship : 1947, 1951 1948, 1950, 1952 949, 1958
• Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1953 1948
• Dutch championship (various disciplines): 38 ×

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Piet van de Pol  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

• De Oud Rotterdammer , Volume 3, No. 19

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heinrich Weingartner : billiards . No. 89 . Weingartner Verlag, 1996, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 10 .
2. ^ Dieter Haase / Heinrich Weingartner : Encyclopedia of Billiards . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Heinrich Weingartner, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3 , p. 226 .
3. ↑ Jubileumboek over 100 years georganiseerd biljarten. (PDF) Biljartsport as mirror van de maatschappij. KNBB, 2013, archived from the original on September 23, 2019 ; Retrieved September 23, 2019 (Dutch).  
4. ↑ Player profile and achievements on Kozoom.com. Retrieved February 9, 2014.