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Japanese 3-cushion billiards player and world champion
Junichi Komori (小森 純一 , Komori Jun-ichi ) (11 July 1941 – 26 July 2015)
[1] was a Japanese
three-cushion billiards player.
Komori has won 4 Japanese titles. However, he never won an individual world title, finishing in third position at the
UMB World Three-cushion Championship on three occasions, in 1976, 1978 and 1985. Along with
Nobuaki Kobayashi he won the
UMB World Three-cushion Championship for National Teams three times, in 1981, 1985 and 1992.
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In 1993, he set a world record by achieving a high run of 28, breaking the previous record of 25 set by
Willie Hoppe . This was eventually surpassed by
Semih Sayginer and
Hugo Patiño who both achieved 31.
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He also achieved a 3.333 game average.
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In 2015 he died of cancer just two weeks after his 74th birthday.
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1981: Japan (
Kobayashi ,
Komori )
1982–84: not held
1985: Japan (
Kobayashi ,
Komori )
1986: not held
1987: Sweden (
L. Blomdahl ,
T. Blomdahl )
1988–89: not held
1990: Japan (
Kai ,
Yoshihara )
1991: Sweden (
L. Blomdahl ,
T. Blomdahl )
1992: Japan (
Kobayashi ,
Komori )
1993: Germany (
Aguirre ,
Rudolph )
1994: Germany (
Aguirre ,
Rudolph )
1995: Denmark (
Haack-Sørensen ,
Nelin )
1996: Denmark (
Laursen ,
Nelin )
1997: Germany (
Rudolph ,
Schirmbrand )
1998: Netherlands (
Burgman ,
Jaspers )
1999: Netherlands (
Burgman ,
Jaspers )
2000: Sweden (
T. Blomdahl ,
Nilsson )
2001: Sweden (
T. Blomdahl ,
Nilsson )
2002: Germany (
Horn ,
Rudolph )
2003: Turkey (
Saygıner ,
Taşdemir )
2004: Turkey (
Saygıner ,
Taşdemir )
2005: Sweden (
T. Blomdahl ,
Nilsson )
2006: Sweden (
T. Blomdahl ,
Nilsson )
2007: Sweden (
T. Blomdahl ,
Nilsson )
2008: Sweden (
T. Blomdahl ,
Nilsson )
2009: Sweden (
T. Blomdahl ,
Nilsson )
2010: Turkey (
Çoklu ,
Yüksel )
2011: Turkey (
Çenet ,
Taşdemir )
2012: Belgium (
Caudron ,
Merckx )
2013: Belgium (
Caudron ,
Merckx )
2014: Belgium (
Caudron ,
Merckx )
2015: Belgium (
Caudron ,
Merckx )
2016: Netherlands (
Jaspers ,
Erp )
2017: South Korea (
Choi ,
Kim )
2018: South Korea (
Choi ,
Kang )
2019: Turkey (
Çenet ,
Çoklu )