Mario Hey

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Mario Hey
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nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 3rd August 1993 (age 27)
Nickname Chinese shooter
societies

0000-2009 PPC Rankweil
2009-2010 Pool X-Press Innsbruck
2010–2012 BSV Break Feldkirch
2012-2015 Pool X-Press Innsbruck
2014– BSV Dachau
2015– CAP Hörbranz
Medal table
Austrian championship 11 × gold 3 × silver 4 × bronze
Euro tour 2 × gold 2 × silver 4 × bronze
European Championship 1 × gold 1 × silver 3 × bronze
Pool world rankings

Highest WRL place 23 (2014)
Current WRL location 78 (as of July 2, 2020)

Mario He (also Yi Tong He ; born August 3, 1993 ) is an Austrian pool player from Rankweil . He was European champion in the 8-ball discipline in 2012 .

Career

singles

Mario He won his first national youth title in 2006 in 9-Ball in the Knirpse age group , in which he won two more titles in 2007. In 2007 he also won his first of six Austrian championship titles among the students.

In February 2009 he made it into the finals of a Euro Tour tournament for the first time at the French Open . After victories against Christian Reimering , Jonni Fulcher and Ralf Souquet , he finally made it to the final, in which he lost 4: 9 to the Dutchman Niels Feijen . Two months later he reached the semi-finals in 9-ball at the men's European championship , to which he was nominated for the first time that year, but lost it 6: 9 against eventual European champion Nick van den Berg . After placing 33rd at the China Open and seventeenth at the Qatar World Open, he won his first medals in an individual competition for youth in August 2009 with bronze in 14/1 endless and in 9-ball students. European Championship . In November 2009 he reached the round of 64 at the 10-Ball World Championship , where he was eliminated by Daryl Peach .

At the EM 2010 Mario He reached the quarter-finals in 14/1 endlessly and lost it 70: 125 against the Dutchman Huidji See . At the Finland Open 2010 he won his second Euro Tour medal after being eliminated in the semifinals against Karl Boyes . In October 2010 he became Austrian men's champion for the first time with a final win against Maximilian Lechner in 8-ball . In the juniors he won the championship title in the disciplines 8-ball and 14/1 endless. In March 2011 he made it to the final of the European Championship for the first time ; after victories against Serge Das and Francisco Sánchez, however , he had to admit defeat to Nick van den Berg 3:11 in the 9-ball final. At the 9-ball World Cup 2011 he reached the round of 64. In July 2011 he became the Austrian men's champion in the 8-ball and 10-ball disciplines . A month later he won the bronze medal in 8-ball at the European Junior Championships .

In February 2012 Mario He reached the round of 64 at the 8-ball world championship . A month later, he achieved his greatest success to date at the European championship . After he was eliminated in the semifinals of the 14/1 endless competition against Nick van den Berg, he made it into the final in 8-Ball after victories against Petri Makkonen and Francisco Díaz-Pizarro , in which he won 8-0 against the Ukrainian Artem Koshovyi became European champion. In the 9-ball World Cup 2012 , he again reached the Round of 64. A year later he defeated in this round the Englishman Mark Gray , the first time reached the Round of 32, where he with 6:11 to Nikos Ekonomopoulos lost . At the Austrian championship in 2013 he won the titles in the disciplines 8-ball, 10-ball and 14/1 endless.

At the 9-Ball World Championship in 2014 , Mario He reached the round of 16, in which he was defeated by the eventual world champion Niels Feijen 6:11. At the Dutch Open 2014 he made it to the semi-finals and lost 9-1 to Nikos Ekonomopoulos. A few weeks later, at the Austrian championship , he successfully defended his 8-ball title and won the 9-ball title for the first time. In February 2015, Mario He retired without a win at the 10-Ball World Cup in the preliminary round. At the first two Euro Tour tournaments in 2015, the Italian Open 2015 and the Portugal Open 2015 , he won the bronze medal. At the 9-Ball World Cup in 2015 he reached the round of 64 and was eliminated from Ko Ping-chung . In October 2015 he became Austrian champion in the disciplines 14/1 endless, 10-ball and 9-ball. The title in 9-ball, which he won in the final against Jürgen Jenisy , was his eleventh championship title in the men’s championship, which he drew level with the record champion Albin Ouschan .

At the 2016 European Championship , Mario He reached the quarter-finals in 10-ball and 8-ball. In June 2016, he won a Euro Tour tournament for the first time with the North Cyprus Open . After defeating the former world champions Niels Feijen and Ralf Souquet, among others, he moved into the final with a 9: 4 semi-final victory over Jayson Shaw , in which he won 9: 5 against Nikos Ekonomopoulos. In August 2016 he reached the second round of the 9-ball world championship for the second time . Like two years before, he was defeated there by the eventual world champion, his compatriot Albin Ouschan. A little later he was eliminated from the China Open in the round of 32. In October 2016 he reached the 25th place at the US Open and a few days later at the Kuwait Open the round of 64.

In February 2017, He reached the quarter-finals at the Italian Open . At the 2017 European Championships , he won his fifth European Championship medal. After he was knocked out endlessly in 14/1 and in the 10-ball in the round of 32, he moved into the semi-finals in the 8-ball competition, in which he lost 7:10 to the Dutchman Marc Bijsterbosch . In the subsequent 9-ball competition, however, he was eliminated in the round of the last 64. In May 2017, he reached the final of the Austrian Open for the third time on the Euro Tour with a 9: 8 semi-final win over Albin Ouschan. In the final, he defeated the Spaniard Francisco Sánchez 9-2 and won his second Euro Tour title. At the Ryo Rack Classic 2017 , his first participation in the World Pool Series , he reached the quarter-finals, in which he was defeated by the Albanian Eklent Kaçi . In October 2017 he reached the round of 16 at the American Straight Pool Championship and 25th place again at the US Open . A little later he lost his fourth Euro Tour final at the Treviso Open 2017 with 1: 9 against the 16-year-old Poland Wiktor Zieliński .

After a positive doping control in October of that year, the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) issued a four-month ban on the 25-year-old in December 2018 .

team

With the Pool Players Club Rankweil , Mario He came second in the 2007/08 Bundesliga season . After the relegation of the Pool Players in the 2008/09 season , he moved to Pool X-Press Innsbruck , with whom he became Austrian champion in the 2009/10 season . He then played two seasons with the second division club BSV Break Feldkirch , before returning to Pool X-Press Innsbruck in 2012, where he was runner-up in 2013 and Austrian champion in 2014 and 2015 . After the Bundesliga team of Pool X-Press was canceled, He switched to CAP Hörbranz , with whom he was promoted to the Bundesliga as a regional league champion in the 2015/16 season . In the following season he was with the team of Austrian champions.

Since 2014 he has also played for the German Bundesliga club BSV Dachau , with whom he became runner- up in 2015 and German champions in 2016 and 2017 .

Mario He has participated in the World Cup of Pool six times so far . After being eliminated in the first round with Jasmin Ouschan in 2010 and 2011 , he formed the Austrian team with Albin Ouschan in 2012 and reached the round of 16. In 2014 he and Albin Ouschan were the first Austrian doubles to reach the semi-finals, in which they were defeated by the Dutch Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg with 1: 9. In 2015 they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against eventual tournament winners Ko Pin-yi and Chang Yu-Lung . In 2017 , He and Ouschan became the first Austrians to win the World Cup of Pool by beating the Americans Shane van Boening and Skyler Woodward in the final 10: 6 .

With the Austrian national He was in 2014 and 2017 European champion and 2012 and 2015 European Championships bronze medalist. At the 2017 European Championship, he won the decisive individual match 8: 7 against Jani Uski in the final .

At the team world championship he was twice part of the Austrian team, with which he was eliminated in the preliminary round in 2010 and reached the second round in 2014 .

successes

singles
Austrian 8-ball champion : 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2014
Austrian 10-ball champion : 2011 , 2013 , 2015
8-ball European champions : 2012
Austrian 14/1 endless champion : 2013 , 2015
Austrian 9-ball champion : 2014 , 2015
North Cyprus Open : 2016
Austrian Open : 2017
team
Austrian champion : 2010 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017
European Champion : 2014 , 2017
German champion : 2016 , 2017
World Cup of Pool : 2017

Others

Mario He also plays chess and was, among other things, state youth champion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Men Rankings. In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association , archived from the original on November 16, 2014 ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Men Rankings. In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, archived from the original on November 25, 2014 ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Frédéric Schwendinger: Mario He - a master of the balls. In: vorarlberg.orf.at. ORF , March 17, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Austrian Masters Knirpse. In: oepbv.at. Austrian Pool Billiards Association , accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Austrian master student. In: oepbv.at. Austrian Pool Billiards Association, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  6. ↑ China Open 2009 Men's Division. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
  7. ^ Qatar World Open 9-Ball Tournament 2009. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Austrian Champions Juniors. In: oepbv.at. Austrian Pool Billiards Association, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  9. ^ Thomas Overbeck: Mario He takes the title on home Turf. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, May 20, 2017, accessed May 20, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Overbeck: 16-year-old Zielinski snatches the title in Treviso. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, November 18, 2017, accessed November 18, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Positive doping test! Billiard ace Mario He faces a long suspension (December 5, 2018)
  12. ↑ After doping: Mario He has to watch for four months (December 6, 2018)
  13. ^ Austrian champions - team (Bundesliga). In: oepbv.at. Austrian Pool Billiards Association, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  14. ^ Regionalliga West 2015/16. In: pool.oepbv.at. Austrian Pool Billiards Association, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  15. ↑ 1st Bundesliga pool 2014/15. In: portal.billardarea.de. German Billard Union, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  16. ↑ 1st Bundesliga pool 2015/16. In: portal.billardarea.de. German Billard Union, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Cornelius O. Boensmann: BSV Dachau secured the championship early. In: portal.billardarea.de. Deutsche Billard-Union, March 22, 2016, accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  18. ↑ 1st Bundesliga pool 2016/17. In: portal.billardarea.de. German Billard Union, accessed on May 7, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Austria are the 12Bet World Cup of Pool Champions! In: matchroompool.com. Matchroom Sport, June 18, 2017, accessed June 18, 2017 .
  20. ↑ "Tension at the very highest level". In: sport.orf.at. ORF , March 28, 2017, accessed on May 7, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Mario He. In: chess-db.com. Retrieved May 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hey, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hey, Yi Tong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pool player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1993