Ludo Dielis
• B.C. Deurne Belgium
Ludo Dielis ( born February 23, 1945 in Deurne (Antwerpen) ) is a Belgian Carambolagespieler.
Life
Together with Jos Vervest (2 x World Champion in the Cadre 47/2 ), he started at the age of 11 years Billard Palace in Antwerp with the billiard game. His parents opened five years later, he was 16, a pool hall where he trained with his father and Vervest.
1977 Dielis was 22 years when he married Diane loving with whom he has been dating today. Together they have a son.
Ludo Dielis, the Flame of Deurne, a suburb of Antwerp has, indeed almost reached in the course of his career as an athlete everything is to reach yet free from tragedy his career was not. Because he always stood in the shadow of his legendary compatriot Raymond Ceulemans. That he is not broken at this difficult situation is certainly the fact that he firmly stands with both feet on the ground and rightly focuses on the conditions for themselves over and over again: " Billiards is not anything in the world. " This finding, to which he has struggled through until the end he eighties, will not it have been easy, nevertheless his whole life revolves as a professional and as an owner of a billiard cafes in his birth and place of residence Deurne to the game with cue and balls.
Professionally led Dielis first the billiard room of his parents on, then his own ( with his wife ), and later he was responsible for public relations at Minolta.
During his professional time he trained about six hours a day, plus he played in the binding 600-1000 points in the three-band 3 games of 60 points.
Among his pupils was including the double world champion in three-band, Eddy Merckx.
Career
When Billiards Club Altijd Raak, where also played his father, then he started his career. Because he was his father decided to send him to the former world champion Jos Vervest to training better quickly. At age 17, he qualified for the first time for an international tournament. It was the European Junior Championships in Berlin. And on December 16, 1962 his first international success was perfect. He was European Junior champion in single combat ( Free game & Balk-Line 47 /2). Third in this tournament the Berlin Dieter Müller. At age 21, he reached the honors class in Belgium in all disciplines. This has not yet managed Belgian billiard players in front of him. In the same year he became Belgian champion for the first time. It was in the cover. Three years later it was back in Berlin where he won his first international title at senior level. In the Pentathlon World Championships he won ahead of his compatriot Raymond Ceulemans and Dieter Müller. In May 1971, the first European titles followed in his specialist discipline cover. His außgergewöhnlichste performance achieved Ludo Dielis but in Balk-Line 47 / second He set a record for the ages. In the Pentathlon Championships in his hometown of Deurne in April 1973 he set a world record series ( prolonged ) of 2010 points, the record is, as well as the average of 217.00, valid until today (Jan 2013). In the first 5 games he needed only one recording to 400 and started the sixth game with 10 caroms. Together with his Belgian compatriot Raymond Ceulemans, both adopted by the classic billiards disciplines at the binding Championship in Dülmen in 1986. Both played after only three band. At the age of 55 years Ludo Dielis finished his pool career in 2000.
Dielis is the organizer of the three-band World Cup in October 2013 in his hometown of Antwerp. He also sat several times in the jury of the Artistic Snooker World Cup (Trick Shot), which was organized by Barry Hearn and Frans van Dijck in Antwerp.
Achievements
- World Champion in the pentathlon: Pentathlon World Championships in 1969, 1981
- World champion Binding: Hard Cover World Cup 1974, 1981 and 1983
- World Champion in Balk-Line 47 /1: Cadre-47/1-WM 1977
- World champion in three-band: three-band World Cup 1981 and 1989
- European Championship in Binding: Hard Cover EM 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1983
- European champion in the pentathlon: Pentathlon Championships 1971 1977
- European champion in the Cadre 71/2: Cadre-71/2-EM 1973
- European champion in the outdoor game: Free game Championship 1975
- European champion in the Cadre 47/1: Cadre-47/1-EM 1977, 1979, 1980
- Belgian Champion: 37 times