André Gagnaux

Who was André Gagnaux?

André Gagnaux, who was a Swiss, was the first President of the World Confederation of Billiard Sports and the former President of the Union Mondiale de Billard.

He was credited for the foundation of WCBS in 1992, when he first tried to contact various governing body of billiards sports since 1985 in order to fulfill the recognition criteria of the International Olympic Committee, that a recognized sport must be governed by only one international sport federation. After various discussion with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. At last, he called for a meeting on August 30, 1990, in Bristol, UK, with the presence of all the three major cue sports representatives, namely, carom, pool and snooker. As a result it was decided to form the World Confederation of Billiard Sports, an umbrella organization encompassing all billiards sports, and a three-man committee consisting of Gagnaux himself for Carom, Jorgen Sandman for Pool and Mark Wildman for Snooker was appointed in order to work out the first constitution, to serve as a guideline for this new body.