Blackball billiards
FFB national ranking #1 for three consecutive seasons, European Team Champion in 1999, French national team from 1994 — and a career I chose to end at the top, in June 2001.
Record
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French national team — selected for the WEPF World Championships in Manchester (England): individual first round, team semi-final.
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National ranking #1 — Fédération Française de Billard, blackball discipline (English pool).
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European Team Champion with the French national team, in Arras (France).
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National #1 — second consecutive season at the top of the FFB ranking.
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Team speed-pool World Record — plus the individual 30-minute record: 362 balls potted.
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National #1 — third consecutive season.
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End of my playing career, as reigning French #1. My daughter was due at the end of September — time to build a second professional life. It would be systems engineering, then the Microsoft cloud. The next chapter reads here →
French national team — 1994 WEPF Worlds
Press archive
In the 1990s, sports results lived in newspapers. Here are the period clippings — primary sources for a discipline barely documented online.
Trophies, opponents and friendships
