René Vingerhoedt

René Vingerhoedt
Personal details
birthday	October 29, 1921
place of birth	Antwerp, Belgium
date of death	February 14, 2005
Place of death	Antwerp, Belgium
nationality	Belgium
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Best ED: 1.724
1958 Cannes
Best GD: 1.190
1954 Mannheim
Maximum series (HS): 11
1952 Lausanne
World Championships:
03 × (1939 (Artistique) , 1949, 1960)
Continental Championships:
22 × European titles (various disciplines)
Other tournaments:
30 × Belgian champion (various disciplines)

René Vingerhoedt (born October 29, 1921 in Antwerp , Belgium ; † February 14, 2005 there ) was a Belgian carom player , author and multiple world and European champion.

Career

René Vingerhoedt was the dominant player in three cushion and artistique in the 1940s and 1950s . He established a tradition of Belgian dominance in carom billiards, which was later continued by Raymond Ceulemans and Frédéric Caudron . To this day, he is the youngest world champion. At the age of 17, he won the Billiard Artistique World Championship in Marseille in 1939 , having already become Belgian three-cushion and art push champion . Twice, in 1948 and 1960, he was three-cushion world champion in Buenos Aires . Shortly thereafter, he announced that he would be converting to professional billiards, which at the time was still a strict separation from amateur sports. He was not allowed to participate in any WM or EM of the UMB / CEB . In the following years he was on the road as a trainer in many European countries and was thus significantly involved in raising the European level of performance.

As with his successors, the number of titles can hardly be counted. In 1952 he was the first player who broke the "magic" limit of 1.0 GD at an EM or World Cup at the European three-cushion championship with 1.023 GD . With 30 titles in Belgium, after Raymond Ceulemans {61} and Frédéric Caudron {85}, he is the most successful billiards player of all time.

René Vingerhoedt also worked as a trainer for the German Billiards Association for several years .

He once said of himself: “Ik ben voor de biljart made” (I'm made for billiards) .

successes

• World champion in billiards artistique 1939
• World champion three cushion 1949 and 1960
• Billard-Artistique-EM 1947–1951, 1953
• European three- cushion champion 1951–1957, 1959, 1960
• European champion cover 1951, 1952, 1957–1960
• European champion Cadre 47/2 1956
• European champion in art push 1947–1951, 1953
• Belgian three-cushion championship : 1939, 1947–1949, 1951–1957, 1959, 1960 1958
• 30-time Belgian champion (9 × artistique, 13 × three-volume, 2 × binding, 6 × cadre 71/2)
• 22 European titles (6 × artistique, 9 × three-volume, 6 × binding and 1 × cadre 47/2)

Swell:

Honors

On November 10, 2007, the Belgian Post issued a stamp in his honor.

Publications

• Simfatieke en verboden Zones, Familiestoten, 46 ll., Undated, approx. 1956
• Opbygning af series game i trebande. Ed. Den Danske Billard Union, Danemark, 197 ?, 33 pp.

Web links

• Photo by René Vingerhoedt EM, 1957
• Player profile at ciba-online
• Player statistics on Kozoom.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Weingartner : Back then ... 70 years ago. Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape  38 , no. 10 . Self-published, 1991, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 43 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} List of Belgian Champions 1925–2015
3. ↑ Harald Wieser: "I can feel on the ball whether it will rain". Interview with Raymond Ceulemans. Der Spiegel -online, November 23, 1987, archived from the original on January 18, 2017 ; Retrieved June 27, 2012 .  
4. ↑ Achievements. Kozoom , archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; Retrieved July 9, 2012 .  
5. ^ Karlheinz Heckert: Artistic pushing world championships. Sport-komplett.de, 2002, archived from the original on February 24, 2004 ; Retrieved July 9, 2012 .  
6. ↑ Special stamp of the Belgian Post with unknown postage . Retrieved June 27, 2012.
7. ↑ René Vingerhoedt: Book list 1. Dreiband-Billard, archived from the original on August 14, 2015 ; Retrieved July 27, 2012 .  
8. ↑ René Vingerhoedt: Book List 2. List of billiard books sorted by author's name. Guy Huybrechts' collection, archived from the original on January 13, 2017 ; accessed on July 27, 2012 (English).