Waldemar Markert

Waldemar Markert
birthday	1959?
Nickname	Waldi
society	BC Aschaffenburg TV Schweinheim PBC Karlsruhe BSV Miltenberg

Waldemar Markert (* 1959 ? † April 26, 2011 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German pool player . He was three times German individual champion in the 14/1 endless discipline and became vice European champion in 1990 .

Career

Markert achieved his first major success at the German championship in 1978 when he became German champion in the 14/1 endlessly . Already a year before he won the bronze medal in this discipline. In 1979 he again won bronze in the 14/1 endlessly, in 1980 he became German champion. He then did not win a medal at a German championship for five years before he finished second in 8-ball in 1985 after losing the final to his future teammate Norbert Lang . In 1988 Markert became German champion for the third and last time. In the final he won against Rolf Alex , with whom he later became German team champion. In 1989 he was with the PBC Karlsruhe , among others with Lang and Alex Deutscher 8-ball team champion . At the European Championships in 1990 , Markert finished second after losing the final to Oliver Ortmann . In the same year he also won his last medal at the German championship ; Silver in 14/1 endless. With the PBC Karlsruhe he was also German champion of the newly introduced pool billiards league in 1991 and 1993 .

Waldemar Markert died on April 26, 2011 of complications from a heart attack . Until shortly before his death he played in the regional league for BSV Miltenberg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Billardwelt mourns Waldemar Markert April 27, 2011 on sixpockets.de
2. ↑ Billard Germany mourns Waldemar Markert on Billard-Aktuell.de. Retrieved April 8, 2014.