World Confederation of Billiard Sports
| World Confederation of Billiard Sports (WCBS) |
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|---|---|
| founding | January 25, 1992 in Yverdon-les-Bains , Switzerland |
| founder | André Gagnaux, Wolfgang Rittmann , Mark Wildman |
| Seat | Sint-Martens-Latem , Belgium |
| main emphasis | World Billiards Federation |
| Chair |
President : Ian Anderson Vice President : Farouk el-Barki Secretary General : Diane Wild  
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| Members | 148 |
| Website | wcbs-billiards.org |
The World Confederation of Billiard Sports ( WCBS ) is the world association for all areas of billiards .
The WCBS does not organize any world championships or issue regulations, this is the sole responsibility of its sub-organizations. Instead, it endeavors to include billiards in the program of major international sporting events. The stated long-term goal of the WCBS is to establish billiards as an Olympic sport .
history
Before the WCBS was founded in 1992, there was no common organization for the three main disciplines of billiards ( carom , pool and snooker ). Although the first attempts were made in the 1950s to establish billiards as an Olympic sport , billiards did not meet the IOC guidelines of the time .
In 1985, the Swiss André Gagnaux became the new president of UMB , the Association for Carambolage . Together with those in charge of the then professional snooker association WPBSA, he tried to found a new umbrella organization for billiards (an association for pool did not exist at that time). However, this project initially failed due to resistance from the WPBSA.
However, after a world association for pool billiards had been founded with the WPA in 1988 , the representatives of the three associations met for the first time in August 1990 in Bristol , England , with the aim of founding a world billiards association. As a result, the World Confederation of Billiard Sports (WCBS) was founded in Yverdon-les-Baines (Switzerland) in January 1992. A board of nine members was formed, of which each of the three associations provided three members, whereby the professional WPBSA decided to form the World Snooker Federation (WSF) together with the also existing snooker amateur association International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) . The first president was André Gagnaux .
In July 1996, the IOC finally accepted billiards into the Olympic family for the first time and finally in 1998. Billiards has been part of the World Games since 2001 . In September 2002 the WPBSA declared that it was no longer interested in working with the IBSF, which led to a scandal at a board meeting in March 2003, to which the IBSF representatives did not appear and at which the WPBSA took over the snooker division WCBS now declared vacant. On the other hand, the IBSF successfully proceeded before the International Sports Court , which in January 2004 determined that the WCBS was also responsible for the sport of snooker, so that the WPBSA returned as an independent member alongside the IBSF and the loose World Snooker Federation was dissolved again. Since then the WCBS has consisted of four member associations.
In July 2015, at its general assembly in Wroclaw, Poland, the association decided to host a joint world championship for all three types of pool, carom and snooker from 2016. This World Cup is to be held in China.
President
| Term of office | president | country | Association |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-1996 | André Gagnaux |
Switzerland
|
UMB |
| 1996-1998 | Jorgen Sandman |
 Sweden
|
WPA |
| 1998-2000 | Sindhu Pulsirivong |
 Thailand
|
IBSF |
| 2000-2002 | Jean Graus |
 Netherlands
|
UMB |
| 2002-2008 | Jorgen Sandman |
Sweden
|
WPA |
| 2008-2010 | Pascal Guillaume |
 France
|
IBSF |
| 2010-2015 | Jean-Claude Dupont |
 Belgium
|
UMB |
| 2015-2017 | Jason Ferguson |
 United Kingdom
|
WPBSA |
| 2017– | Ian Anderson |
Australia
|
WPA |
Committee
The current committee consists of the following members:
- President: Ian Anderson
- Vice-President: Farouk el-Barki
- Secretary General and Treasurer: Diane Wild
- Anti-doping officer: Marcin Krzeminski
- Media director: Fernando Requena
- Board members: Saths Reddy, Mubarak Al-Khayarin, Michael Al-Khoury, James Leacy
Sub-organizations
The following associations, which are responsible for the individual areas of billiards, are currently directly subordinate to the WCBS:
1st instance (direct)
- Collision:
- UMB ( Union Mondiale de Billard )
- Pool:
- WPA ( World Pool-Billiard Association )
- Snooker and English Billiards:
- WSF ( World Snooker Federation )
2nd instance
The following associations are subordinate to the WCBS or directly to the UMB in the 2nd instance.
- CEB ( Confédération Européenne de Billard )
- ACBC ( Asian Carom Billiard Confederation )
- CPB ( Confederación Panamericana de Billar )
- ACC ( African Carom Confederation )
In the diagram below, the WSF stands for the two snooker associations International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) and World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA).
structure
Collision
Pool and Russian billiards
snooker
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Schönhoff: WCBS Championship: $ 50,000 for the first four. In: kozoom.com. Kozoom, July 15, 2015, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ^ History. In: wcbs-billiards.org. World Confederation of Billiard Sports, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ^ Committee. In: wcbs-billiards.org. World Confederation of Billiard Sports, accessed January 4, 2020 .
