Eddy Merckx (billiards player)
| Medal record | ||
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Competitor for  Belgium |
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| UMB World Three-cushion Championship | ||
| Gold | Sankt Wendel 2006 | Three-cushion |
| Silver | Lausanne 2009 | Three-cushion |
| Gold | World Cup 2010 | Three-cushion |
| CEB European Three-cushion Championship | ||
| Gold | Salon-de-Provence 2007 | Three-cushion |
| Silver | Sankt Wendel 2009 | Three-cushion |
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Eddy Merckx (born Reet, Belgium, 4 September 1968) is a Belgian professional three-cushion billiards player.[1][2]
In the year 2006, he beat Nikos Polychronopoulos 3–1 to win the world title in three cushions billiards. In 2007, he added the European title, by beating the reigning champion Frédéric Caudron.
Merckx was born in 1968, the year cyclist Eddy Merckx won his first Giro d'Italia, and he was named after the cyclist. In daily life, he often adopts the family name of his wife,[clarification needed] to avoid confusion with his much more famous namesake.
On October 8, 2011, while playing in the German Bundesliga in Duisberg, Merckx defeated Won Kang 50-6 in six innings. The inning breakdown was 4-9-26-7-0-4. The previous record for a 50 point game was nine innings, shared by Torbjorn Blomdahl, Frederic Caudron and Marco Zanetti.http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=248511
| Preceded by Daniel Sánchez |
UMB World Three-cushion Champion 2006 |
Succeeded by Ryuuji Umeda |
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[edit] References
- ^ "GIPI Billiard Masters 2009 Aired Live". Inside Pool. 11 March 2009. http://www.insidepoolmag.com/200903/billiard-news/gipi-billiard-masters-2009-aired-live.html. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ America, Billiard Congress of (2004). Billiards : the official rules and records book (2004 ed. ed.). Colorado Springs: Billiard Congress of America. p. 185. ISBN 9781878493149. http://books.google.com/books?ei=D9k5TceOMYPmsQOJ4r3UAw&ct=result&id=38FSDKAO4qEC&dq=%22Eddy+Merckx%22+%22three+cushion%22&q=%22Eddy+Merckx%22#search_anchor. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
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