Burak Haşhaş (born 8 April 2006) is a Turkish international

carom billiards Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score ...

player specialized in

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events. He is European U-17 and world U-22 champion.

Private life

Burak Haşhaş was born in

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, Turkey on 8 April 2006. His father is an amateur billiard player. He is a high school student in Istanbul.

Early years

Burak Haşhaş started billiard playing at the age of 9–10. In the beginning, he did not intend to pursue a billiard player career, since was playing football. In 202, he switched over to billiards, quiting playing football. In February 2020 and April 2021, he placed third at the Turkish Juniors Championships. Later, in October and November that year, he was Turkish juniors champion. In 2022, he achieved his first Turkish campion title, and became European champion in U-17 small table championship. At club tournaments in Turkey, he played also against Turkish world champions Tayfun Taşdemir and

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International career

Haaşhaş became European champion at the Euro Youth 2022 organized by the Confédération Européenne de Billard and held in

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, Italy on 7–10 April. During his stay in Italy, he met

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, a female Turkish multiple European champion carom billiard player, who introduced him to Dutch players. For preparations to the world juniors championship, he went to

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, Netherlands and played in the Dutch league for the local club Cues&Darts. He participated at the 2022 World Championship 3-Cushion Juniors U22 organized by the Royal Dutch Billiards Federation and held in

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, Netherlands on 23–35 September, and won the gold medal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hashas, Burak 2006 births Living people Sportspeople from Istanbul Turkish carom billiards players 21st-century Turkish sportsmen