Thomas Wildforster

Thomas Wildforster
Wildforster at the German Pentathlon Championship 1979
Personal details
birthday	22nd May 1954 (age 66)
place of birth	Dusseldorf
nationality	Germany
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Continental Championships:
2 × cadre, pentathlon
Other tournaments:
s. successes
Societies)
BC Hilden BSV Velbert Horster Eck

Thomas Wildförster (born May 22, 1954 in Düsseldorf , Germany ) is a German carom player in the classic disciplines of free game and cadre . He is European champion and multiple German champion.

Career

Through his father, a member of a long-established Düsseldorf market family with a tradition going back over 100 years, Thomas got into billiards at an early age. He was also one of its greatest patrons. His sporting career ran parallel to that of Wolfgang Zenkner , who was of the same age and with whom he had a sporting rivalry even as a junior. This was later also taken over into the senior division. But that is where all the parallels end. In contrast to the impulsive and extroverted Zenkner, Wildförster is a rational player. During the game he doesn’t move a face, nothing that betrays his state of mind and tears him out of his methodical concentration. Difficult to assess for his opponents. His game is also calm, deliberate and methodical, carefully analyzing the situation in the game before he hits the ball. Wildförster achieved first major successes in the 1973/74 season with silver at the Junior European Championship in Cadre 47/2 and in the free game. In 1977 he was then Cadre 47/2 Junior European Champion. In 1978 the big breakthrough came with the first German title win in Cadre 47/1, at the same time he was third in this discipline at the European Championships, before finally winning gold in 1982. In October 1984 Wildförster was in the national team that won the Pentathlon European Championship for the first time , and he won five other medals in this competition. At the beginning of the 1980s he won the championship five times with BSV Velbert, and after moving to Horster Eck in 1987 he won another four titles.

As an amateur player, Wildförster worked full-time as a civil engineer until he retired. He has been married since 1991.

In 1977 he set a new record in the individual average (ED) at the German Cadre 47/1 Championship with 60.00 . In Cadre 47/2 he set a new German record with 200.00 in 1979, which he repeated in 1980 and broke it in 1990 with 300.00.

successes

• Cadre 47/1 European Championship : 1982 1990, 1991 1978, 1980, 1984
• European Pentathlon Championship (individual): 1980
• European pentathlon championships for national teams : 1984 1979, 1981, 1990, 1992 1983
• German Free Game Championship : 1988 1986 1976, 1989
• German Cadre 47/1 Championship : 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983 1979, 1984, 1988 1977, 1982, 1989
• German Cadre 47/2 Championship : 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1980, 1981, 1984, 2010, 1982, 1988, 2012
• German Cadre 71/2 Championship : 1982, 1987, 1988, 2010 1979, 1983
• German binding championships : 1989, 1990, 2003, 2014, 2015 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1997, 2011, 2019 1983
• Junior European Free Match Championship: 1974
• Cadre 47/2 European Junior Championship: 1977 1974

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Thomas Wildförster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wildförster and Gries are the binding champions ( memento from November 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Thomas Wildförster , German billiard player; Internationales Sportarchiv 36/1991 from August 26, 1991, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on November 25, 2019 ([ https://www.munzinger.de/document/01000003541 article start] freely available)
2. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed November 25, 2019 .  
3. ^ Karlheinz Heckert: Pentathlon for national teams. Sport-komplett.de, archived from the original on January 2, 2019 ; accessed on November 25, 2019 .