Ryūji Umeda

Ryūji Umeda
Personal details
birthday	October 22, 1968
place of birth	Tokyo
nationality	Japan
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
World Championships:
1 × (2007, Cuenca , )
Continental Championships:
1 × (2006, Asian Games, Doha , )
World rankings
Highest WRL place:	?
Current WRL location:	25th
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Ryūji Umeda ( Japanese 梅田 竜 二 , Umeda Ryūji ; born October 22, 1968 in Tokyo Prefecture ), often also Ryuuji Umeda , is a professional Japanese carom player and world champion.

Career

After Nobuaki Kobayashi Umeda is one of the most successful Japanese billiards players in three cushion . At the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998 he won silver and then gold in Doha in 2006 . A year later he became world champion in the individual competition in Cuenca , Ecuador . In the final Umeda defeated Daniel Sánchez from Spain with 3: 2 (6:15, 15 : 9, 4:15, 15 : 7, 15 : 12). He was the second Japanese individual world champion after Kobayashi (1974 & 1984) after 23 years.

Umeda owns one of the largest billiards centers in Tokyo and was the organizer of the 2012 Women's Three Cushion World Championship .

In March 2013 he won the 8th Yamani Cup in Tokyo with 14  match points , ahead of Daniel Sánchez (2nd place, 13 points) and Torbjörn Blomdahl (3rd place, 12 points). At the 4th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in July he won the gold medal in the final against the Vietnamese Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện with a 40:39 victory. Also made the highest streak in three cushion of 9 in the Games.

successes

• Three Cushion World Championship : Winner 2007
• Asian Games : Winner 2006 • Second 1998
• Yamani Cup: Winner 2013
• Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games: Winner 2013

Web links

Commons : Ryuji Umeda  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Interview - AGIPI Masters 2012 on YouTube
• Match video on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japan wants to organize the 2012 Women's Three Cushion . November 4, 2011. Archived from the original on March 12, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
2. ↑ World Championship for Ladies in Tokyo on Kozoom.com.Retrieved March 12, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ryuji Umeda winner, Sanchez and Blomdahl in top three on Kozoom.com.Retrieved on March 12, 2013.
4. ↑ Final ranking list Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013 on Kozoom.com. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
5. ↑ Achievements on Kozoom.com. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
6. ↑ Ryuuji Umeda wins World Three Cushion Championship ( English ) Billiard Pulse. November 17, 2007. Archived from the original on March 12, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
7. ↑ Japan's Umeda wins billiards World Championship in Ecuador on Mathabe.net. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
8. ↑ Results Billiards - Asian Games 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on March 12, 2013.