Pedro_Leopoldo_Carrera
Pedro Leopoldo Carrera
Argentinian carom billiards player
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]