Rafał Górecki

Rafał Górecki
birthday	August 8, 1982
place of birth	Warsaw
nationality	Poland
Highest break	127
Main tour successes
World championships	-
Ranking tournament victories	-
Minor tournament victories	-

Rafał Górecki (born August 8, 1982 in Warsaw ) is a Polish snooker player .

Career

After Rafał Górecki became Polish U-16 champion in 1996 and was able to successfully defend the title a year later in the tournament, which is now held as an U-15 competition, he made it to the finals of the Polish championship for the first time in 1998 . In a balanced final he was defeated by last year's finalist Marek Derek 4-5. In May 1998, Górecki was eliminated from the preliminary round at his first European Championship participation. A year later he reached the round of 16 of the U-19 European Championship and was defeated there by the Irishman Ian Smith . In 2001 he was eliminated in his only participation in the U-21 World Cup in the preliminary round.

In 2002 Górecki became Polish U-21 Junior Champion. In October 2002, he was eliminated from the group stage in his first amateur World Cup participation. Also in his second World Cup participation in 2004 , he was eliminated in the preliminary round. In 2006 he made it to the final of the Polish Championship for the second time, losing to Rafał Jewtuch 5: 7. In June 2008 he reached the finals of the European Championship for the first time , in which he lost in the round of 32 against Lee Page . In October 2008 he took part as a wildcard player in the third tournament of the World Series of Snooker 2008/09 and lost 4-0 to the Irish Ken Doherty in the quarterfinals .

In 2011 Górecki made it into the final of the Polish Championship for the third time. There he met Michał Zieliński , who had previously won the title twice in a row, and was able to prevail 7: 4. In September 2011 he took the first time in a PTC tournament, the Warsaw Classic in part, in which he carried a 4: 1 victory over the Englishman Kamil Zubrzycki reached the Round of 128, in which he with 0: 4 against Judd Trump lost . At the Gdynia Open 2014 , his second PTC tournament, he was eliminated in the preliminary round against his compatriot Karol Lelek .

successes

Final participation

output	year	competition	Final opponent	Result
Amateur tournaments
Second	1998	Polish championship	Marek Derek	4: 5
Second	2006	Polish championship	Rafał Jewtuch	5: 7
winner	2011	Polish championship	Michał Zieliński	7: 4

More Achievements

Polish U-16 champions :	1996
Polish U-15 champions :	1997
Polish U-21 champions :	2002

Web links

• Rafał Górecki at snooker.org
• Rafał Gorecki in the snooker Database (English)

swell

1. ↑ Profile of Rafał Górecki ( memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at snooker.pl (as of December 29, 2015) 
2. ↑ Profile of Rafal Gorecki on CueTracker (as of December 29, 2015)
3. ↑ 1998 European Championships - Men. Cuetracker.net, accessed on December 29, 2015 . 
4. ↑ 2000 European Under-19 Championships. cuetracker.net, accessed December 29, 2015 . 
5. ↑ 2001 World Under-21 Championship - Men. Cuetracker.net, accessed December 29, 2015 . 
6. ↑ 2002 World Amateur Championship - Men. Cuetracker.net, accessed December 29, 2015 . 
7. ↑ 2004 World Amateur Championship - Men. Cuetracker.net, accessed December 29, 2015 .