biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1957– )
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| biography:
| Snooker player, born in London, UK. He dominated snooker in the 1980s, winning the world championship six times: 1981, 1983–4, and 1987–9. His first major honour was the Coral UK Championship in Preston (1980), thereafter winning every major honour the game had to offer. In Oldham, during the Lada Classic (1982), he became the first man to compile a televised maximum 147 break. In the late 1980s, he topped the rankings every year. In 1997 he won the Benson & Hedges Masters, the most important non-ranking tournament. |
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