Marco Zanetti

Medal record
Competitor for  Italy
Men's Three-cushion billiards
World Games
Bronze	2009 Kaohsiung	Individual

Marco Zanetti (born April 10, 1962) is an Italian professional three-cushion billiards player and a two-time world champion from Bolzano, Italy. He was ranked 7th in the world as of 2007 by the Confédération Européenne de Billard.^[1]

Zanetti started playing billiards at 7. He needed a chair to play. His father, Erwin Zanetti, was the president of the Carabole Circle of Bolzano.^[2]

He reached the finals of the UMB World Three-cushion Championship in 2001, but was bested by Raymond Ceulemans. He made it into the finals again a year later and won the title, defeating Dion Nelin of Denmark. He has been the only Italian to win a world championship in the sport as of 2007.

Zanetti also has 14 Italian national titles. His highest run in a match is 19 and his best game average is 5.555 (50 points in 9 innings).^[3]

On the 19th of October 2008, he again won the world three-cushion championship in the German city of St. Wendel. He defeated Jeremy Bury of France in the semi-finals and then went on to beat Torbjorn Blomdahl of Sweden in the finals, averaging 1.871 in the five-set match.

References

1. ^ Confédération Européenne de Billard (2007). Ranking 3-cushion 2007 (PDF format). Retrieved on February 16, 2007.
2. ^ Interview to Marco Zanetti (Italian)
3. ^ 2006 Edition of the Sang Lee International Open Site.

Preceded by Raymond Ceulemans	UMB World Three-cushion Champion 2002	Succeeded by Semih Saygıner
Preceded by Ryuuji Umeda	UMB World Three-cushion Champion 2008	Succeeded by Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Zanetti, Marco
Alternative names
Short description	Italian billiards player
Date of birth	April 10, 1962
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