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Union Mondiale de Billard
Formation1 June 1959 (1959-06-01) (1923)
Membership
71 Nations
President
Farouk EL Barki
First Vice-President, PR-director and Finance
Fernando Requena
Secretary General
Nico van Hanegem
Parent organization
World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS)
Websitewww.umb-carom.org

The Union Mondiale de Billard (French for World Union of Billiards) is the world governing body for carom (carambole) billiard games.

History

Old logo until 2016

The organization was founded in Madrid, Spain on 1 June 1959, and is dedicated to promoting the modern carom billiards games. However, the actual founding of the World Federation took place in 1923 under the name "Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard" (UIFAB). The UMB monitors and controls international carom competitions and tournaments, and organizes annual team and individual championships in three-cushion billiards and five-pin billiards.

Subordinate groups

Disciplines

French Billiards (Carom Billiards):

Current disciplines

  1. Three-cushion billiards
  2. Five-pin billiards

Past disciplines

  1. Straight Rail (Freie Partie, Libre Partie, Free Partie)
  2. One-cushion billiards
  3. Balkline: Cadre 47/1 balkline / Cadre 47/2 balkline / Cadre 71/2 balkline
  4. Artistic billiards

Competition disciplines

  • Triathlon: Straight rail, balkline and one-cushion; or balkline, one-cushion, and three-cushion; the latter format is used in the ANAG Billiard Cup[1]
  • Pentathlon: Straight rail, balkline (47.2 and 71.2), one-cushion, and three-cushion.

Events

Current Events

  1. UMB Three-Cushion World Cup (Since 1986)
  2. UMB World Three-cushion Championship (Since 1928)
  3. UMB Women's World Three-cushion Championship (Since 1999)
  4. UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams (Since 1981)
  5. UMB World Junior Three Cushion Championship (Since 2001)
  6. UMB Five-pins Individual World Championship (Since 1965) de
  7. UMB Five-pins National Team World Championship (Since 2019) de

Past Events

  1. UMB World Straight Rail Championship (1928-1969)
  2. UMB World Cadre 45/1 and 47/1 Championship (1927-1987)
  3. UMB World Cadre 45/2 Championship (1903-2003)
  4. UMB World Cadre 71/2 Championship (1930-2000)
  5. UMB World One Cushion Championship (1934-2014)
  6. UMB World Dreikampf Championship for National Teams (1989-1995)
  7. UMB World Fünfkampf Championship (1933-2001)
  8. FSFAB World Cadre 35/2 and 45/2 Championship (1904-1913)
  9. UMB Lausanne Billard Masters U25

Alongside Events

  1. Artistic Billiards World Championship (Since 1937) by Confédération International de Billard Artistique.

Games

  1. Cue sports at the World Games
  2. Cue sports at the Asian Games

Work

The goals of the UMB include favoring the development of billiard games as sports at the international level, and representing the interests of billiards in general. The UMB provides a permanent and stable liaison with its affiliated regional confederations, and constitutes the largest governing body in carom billiards.

The UMB is a co-founding member, and the sole representative of carom billiards, in the World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS), the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type games), including carom billiards, pool games of several varieties, and snooker.

Four large confederations are recognized by UMB, namely:[2][3]

  1. Confédération Européenne de Billard (31) (CEB - European Billiard Confederation),
  2. Confederación Panamericana de Billar (21) (CPB - Pan-American Billiard Confederation),
  3. Asian Carom Billiard Confederation (11) (ACBC  - Asia and the Pacific)
  4. African Carom Confederation (8) (ACC).

The national federations subsumed within these broad, regional confederations, along with independent federations in the US, is recognized UMB affiliates. (Note: Some US-based organizations are CPB affiliates, such as the United States Snooker Association.)

Organisation Board

Timeline

See also

References

  1. ^ "News and Events". www.anagbilliardcup.cz.
  2. ^ 2013 has been an important year for our organization on UMB.com. Retrieved 27 May 2014
  3. ^ African Federations join UMB from April 30 on Kozoom.com. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
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