Turkish billiards player (born 1956)
Serdar GümüşBorn | 1956 (age 68–69) Turkey |
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Sport country | Turkey |
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Serdar Gümğş (born 1956) is a Turkish carom and artistic billiards player. He has champion titles at European and world level in artistic billiards.
Personal life
Serdar Gümüş was born in 1956.[1]
Gümüş started billiard playing already at his age of one and half. He remembers that "he and his associates played in billiard halls skipping class", adding that "billiard playing is taught today in the physical education in the schools".[1]
Sport career
Gümüş became European champion in Malat ya, Turkey in 2007 defeating Frenchman Kevin Tran.[2] In 2013, he took the silver medal in the European Championship Artistic in Brandenburg, Germant.[3] He took the bronze medal at the 2008 Artistic Billiards World Championship held in Schelle, Belgium. In 2012, he became champion at the same competition in Samsun, Turkey defeating Dutch Erik Vijverberg in the final.[1][4] He became Turkish champion defeating Barış Çin,[5] before he captured the gold medal at the 2015 European Championship Artistic in Brandenburg, Germany.[6][7] The same year, he won another gold medal at the CEB Grand Prix Artistic in Marseille, France.[8] In 2017, he defended his champion title in the final defeating Belgian Walter Bax in three sets at the European Championship in Brandenburg, Germany.[9] the 2023 European Championship Artistic in Antalya, Turkey, he placed fifth among 38 competitors.[10][11] Gümüş repeated his world third place title of the artistic billiards in Ankara, Turkey.[12]
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