Pedro Leopoldo Carrera (19 June 1914 – 2 September 1963) was an Argentine carom billiards player and the first player to set a general average of 1,000 or more.[1][2] Carrera was a five time carom billiards world champion. He won the straight rail world championship in 1950 and 1953, the 47.2 balkline world championship in 1951, and the Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard (UIFAB) World Three-cushion Championship in 1952 and UIFAB pentathlon world cup in 1954.[3][4] In 1980, more than 17 years after his death, Carrera was awarded the Premios Konex in platinum posthumously as the best billiard player in Argentine history and also with the "Diploma al Mérito".[2]
Championships edit
Carrera won five world championships across various balkline and straight rail disciplines, and won 20 national championships:[3][4]
- UMB World Three-cushion Championship: 1952[5]
- Pentathlon World Cup : 1954
- Free game world championship : 1950, 1953
- Cadre 47/2 World Championship : 1951
- Three-Band Pan American Championships : 1950
- Pan-American championships (5 championships)
- Argentine championships (20 championships)
References edit
- ^ Rosa, Santo La (29 November 2019). History of Billiards through its Champions Fifth part. ISBN 9780244835873. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Pedro Leopoldo Carrera : Premio Konex de Platino 1980: Billar" (in Spanish). Fundación Konex.Consultado. 2010. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
- ^ a b "Spielerprofil Pedro Leopoldo Carrera" (in Spanish). Kozoom. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
- ^ a b Araujo, Carlos (4 May 2018). "The great Pedro Leopoldo Carrera – Ser Argentino". Ser Argentino – Todo sobre la Argentina!. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ Billiards, Revised and Updated. May 2005. p. 187. ISBN 9781461749929. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
External links edit
- Telephone interview with Marilé Carrera, daughter of Carrera on YouTube (in Spanish)
- Venosa, Luis Alberto Mario (2 February 2015). El Hombre Del Clavel Blanco. ISBN 978-987-33-6716-8. - a biography about Carrera