Christian Rudolph (billiards player)



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