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.

His father Ernst, a 17-time German champion and two-time European Vice Champion, was an important German billiard players of the fifties and sixties. 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 classic entry into the game of carom billiards, starting with Straight rail and Balkline and played three-cushion from the beginning on. Rudolph still lives (as of 2014) in his birthplace Cologne. His hobbies are dancing, motorcycling, cars and music. He studied plant and process engineering, but he pays his bills with billiards. Rudolph is managed by the agency of the former high jumper Dietmar Mögenburg.

• UMB World Three-cushion Championship: 01 ! 1996 • 03 ! 1998
• World Championships for national teams: 01 ! 1993, 1994, 1997, 2002 • 02 ! 2001 2006 2013 • 03 ! 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
• CEB European Three-cushion Championship: Second 2013
• Three-Cushion World Cup: Overall winner 01 ! 1997 (UMB / CEB) • Single 01 ! 1997/1, 1997/5
• Coupe d'Europe: 01 ! 1994, 1996, 1997
• German Champion (3-cushion, single): 01 ! 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2011 2013, 2014, 2015 • 02 ! 1992, 2008, 2016 • 03 ! 1989, 1990
• German Cup champions (3-cushion, team): 01 ! 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996
• German Grand Prix :
  • Overall winner 01 ! 1990, 1992
  • Single Winner 01 ! 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 : 03 ! 2013