Torbjörn Blomdahl

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Torbjörn Blomdahl ( born October 26, 1962 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish carom billiards player. As a multiple world and European champion and multiple World Cup winner, he is one next to the American Willie Hoppe and Belgian Raymond Ceulemans of the best and most important three-band players in history.

Private

Torbjörn Blomdahl was born as the son of Carambolagespielers and world champion Lennart Blomdahl in Gothenburg. By the age of eleven years, this was his home town, then the family moved to Helsingborg. His father held a billiard room, first in Torbjörns birthplace, then in Helsingborg. He tried his son not to drive to excel, on the contrary: He recommended Torbjörn " but first to do his homework " when he found the boy again in a pub at the table. The high school he then managed without great efforts. In addition to his mother tongue, he speaks German, English, French and Spanish.

As a person easy to get along is the gaunt Swede with the slightly scarred face, which can already be viewed almost as a trademark, body and soul athletes and lives quite ascetic. Thus, the use of tobacco is taboo and also to alcohol, he has a rather distant relationship, only on special occasions, he indulges in the occasional glass of beer or wine. Then also his hobby chess fits very well to his profession, as both sports require a tactical and forward thinking being. Also squash and badminton are among his balance sports.

Typical of his game are particularly creative or daring solutions. He describes himself as neither excellent nor theorists as an esthete. When asked about his game plan, he replied: " My nose ." The Belgian serial winner Raymond Ceulemans was fascinated by Blomdahl and said of him: " Blomdahl is a talent, as happens once every 50 years. He will dominate the scene over a large period of time " Germany's most successful Carambolagespieler Dieter Müller even tried Paranormal to describe the Swedes: " Of course. Torbjörn is first and foremost an excellent pool player. But there is also something more, something not rationally graspable, not writable. "

Torbjörn Blomdahl is also an excellent snooker player. An exhibition match against Efren Reyes in Japan, he won with 9:5 (9 -Ball ), and 30:20 ( tri-band, 20 shots, DG 1.500 ). In July 2007 he won in Korea a televised live show transmitted tournament ( three-band ( 20:12 ) 8-Ball ( 2-0), 9 -Ball ( 5:3 ) ) against the Korean top player in the pool table Young Hwae - jeong.

Torbjörn Blomdahl has lived since 1994 with his wife Beate and the sons Yannick (* 1996) and Henrik (* 2001) in Baden-Württemberg Backnang. There, he not only ideal training conditions found it easier for him to start the journey to the international tournaments.

His sister Eva 's teacher.

Career

Blohm Dahl heard since the mid- 80s, a world leader in the discipline of three-band. He was able to win many victories in international tournaments - only, Raymond Ceulemans may have a long list of international titles.

Blomdahl won in 1981 19 -year-old his first of a total of 23 Swedish Championships.

1983 offset, the then 21- year-old Swede of the Belgian "superpower" a first blow when he was in Dunkirk just barely against the "Mr. 100 " Ceulemans said the final of the European Championship was defeated. But he made ​​so clear that in the future will be to reckon with him. Two years later (1985 in Amersfoort ) he finished Ceulemans winning streak - since 1962 he had won almost all European and World Championships - and won the first of his eight European titles. Until 1991, he won another four times. In 1989, Father Lennart an intermezzo and won, Torbjörn was third. Torbjörn but could easily get, because his father is also a very good friend. This was proven by the two when they were together European champion in 1987 and 1991 as a Swedish national champion and 1985, 1987 and 1991. With Michael Nilsson he was seven -time world champion.

At the German Open 1988 in Backnang he won against Ceulemans and stood for the first time at number one in the world rankings, he could defend for the next ten years. In the audience his future wife Beate, who he did not know at that time was sitting, and pressed the thumb ... for Ceulemans.

In Cairo, he was in 1987 for the first time world champion in three-band and then later in the biathlon at the World Cup in Epinal, France. In the following years Blomdahl was the dominant player in the three-band World Cup, which was considered up to and including 1991 as a World Cup. In 1988, he won four of the five World Cup tournaments, and was the overall winner with it for the second time world champion. In 1991 and 1997 he won these UMB title two more times.

1994, 1995 and 1996, he scored three overall World Cup victories in a row, a feat no other player ever succeeded. In the years 1998, 2001, 2007 and 2010, he unscrewed the record to a total of ten wins in the standings of the World Cup (where he again won the 2007 four of the five World Cup tournaments, and thus the first World Ranking recaptured ). He leads so high house before the South Tyrolean Marco Zanetti with four overall victories.

After the birth of his second son, it was a little quiet around Blomdahl, but he could still hold among the four best players in the world. 2005, exactly 20 years after his first European victory Blomdahl could win in Porto this title for the eighth time.

2012/13 season

The Verhoefen Open in August 2012 in New York, he finished second. After his poor showing at the World Championships in Porto, where he did not come as a group last in the final round, Blomdahl was a week later in Suwon, South Korea during the second three-band World Cup of the year, a much better performance and defeated in the final Zanetti 3-1 sets. He got so again took first place in the world rankings back. He also celebrated his 40th so that individual World Cup victory, in this respect follow the Dutchman Dick Jaspers with 19 and the Belgian Frédéric Caudron with 11 wins in marked respectful distance.

2013/14 season

After Blomdahl surprisingly been eliminated in the second round to eventual winners Gang Dong - koong from Korea at the first World Cup of the season, he was found two weeks later in the Greek Corinth again in top form. First he won against Roland Forthomme ( 40:24 / 17 shots), followed by Heo Jung -han ( 40:9 / 10 - ED = 4.000! ), Tran Chien Quyet ( 40:40 / 18 - 3-2 after penalty), former world champion Filipos Kasidokostas ( 40:10 / 13) and finally Ruben Legazpi with 40:19 in 15 shots. All in all, he has played with 200 points in 83 shots a GD of 2.739, thus setting a new world record.

With two individual victories (2013 /1 Antalya and 2013/3 in Corinth ) and a second place at the World Cup 2013/4 Medellin Blomdahl became the second consecutive overall World Cup winner after 2011.

Achievements

• Three Band World Championship (UMB ): winner in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997
• Three Band World Championship for national teams: Winners 1987, 1990 ( with father Lennart ) and 2000, 2001, 2005-2009 ( with Michael Nilsson )
• Three-band World Cup: Winner (Single) 42 × • Winner (total ) 11 ×
• Three-band European Championship: winner 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998, 2001, 2005
• Coupe d'Europe: Winners 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
• AGIPI Billiard Masters: Winners 2008, 2012 • Second in 2009
• World Games ( three-band ): Second 2009
• Supercup winner 2002, 2003
• Crystal Kelly Tournament: Winner 1995-1997, 2000, 2006 • Second in 1999, 2005, 2008-2010 • Third 1998, 2003
• Biathlon World Cup ( 5 Pins billiards and three cushion ): Winner 1987
• Swedish Champion: 24 ×
• Player of the Year: 2001, 2007
• Best game: 50 points in 9 shots ( 5,555 GD)
• Highest Streak: 24
• Best GD: 2,739 (World record - three-band World Cup 2013/3 ) in Corinth.

Wisdoms

• " The bands are a little nervous "
• " This counter was yesterday in the newspaper ... "