Christian Rudolph (billiards player) explained

Christian Rudolph (born 14 January 1965 in Cologne) is a German carom billiards player and multiple world champion in three-cushion billiards. He is the son of carom billiards champion Ernst Rudolph.

Personal life

His father Ernst, a 17-time German champion and two-time European Vice Champion, was an important German billiard players of the 1950s and 1960s. At the age of nine years Christian was practicing in the two father-operated billiard-halls in Cologne.

Rudolph practices three hours a day at the table and one hour at the gym. He ignored the typical entry into the game of carom billiards, starting with straight rail, and played three-cushion from the beginning on. Rudolph still lives (as of 2017) in his birthplace Cologne.

Achievements

• UMB World Three-cushion Championship: 1996 • 1998
• Three-Cushion World Cup: Overall winner 1997 (UMB / CEB) • Single 1997/1, 1997/5
• World Championships for national teams: 1993, 1994, 1997, 2002 • 2001 2006 2013 • 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
• CEB European Three-cushion Championship: Second 2013
• Coupe d'Europe: 1994, 1996, 1997
• German Champion (3-cushion, single): 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011 2013, 2014, 2015 • 1992, 2008, 2016 • 1989, 1990
• German Cup champions (3-cushion, team): 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996
• German Grand Prix :
  • Overall winner 1990, 1992
  • Single Winner 1990/3, 1990/5, 1991/2, 1991/6, 1992/2, 1992/6, 1993/4, 1994/1, 1994/5, 2008/1, 2008/4, 2012/3, 2010/5
• German Three-cushion Masters : 2013

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian Rudolph: I am a lucky man. Frits Bakker . 2011-12-08 . Kozoom . 2016-07-19 .
2. Web site: Christian Rudolph - Biography. Munzinger Archiv. 2012-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161129065928/http://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=01000003590. 2016-11-29. de.
3. Web site: Palmares. Kozoom. 2016-11-29.