Chao Fong-pang
| Born | 15 September 1967 Kaohsiung, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||
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| Sport country |  Chinese Taipei | ||||||||||||||||
| Pool games | 9-Ball | ||||||||||||||||
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| World Champion | 9-Ball (1993, 2000) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chao Fong-pang (Chinese: 趙豐邦; pinyin: Zhào Fēngbāng; born 15 September 1967 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese professional pool player.
Career
He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1993 against Thomas Hasch of Germany. Thus, he became the first Asian to win a world title in pocket billiards. In 1995, he won the International Challenge of Champions against Japan's Takeshi Okumura, a player who won the world nine-ball the year after he did.
Three year later, he won the gold medal in the eight-ball event of the Asian Games.[1]
Chao regained the world nine-ball championship in 2000 by defeating Mexico's Ismael Paez, 17–6. The lead of that score was the largest deficit ever made in a world championship final.
By 2001, Chao won the International Challenge of Champions for the second time, defeating Francisco Bustamante who won the event back in 1999. He won it again for the third time in 2005 with a victory over Thomas Engert, the 2004 winner.[2]
Tournament wins
- 1993 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
- 1995 International Challenge of Champions
- 1998 Asian Games Eight-ball Singles
- 2000 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
- 2001 International Challenge of Champions
- 2005 International Challenge of Champions
References
- ^ "Sports 123: Pool: Asian Games: Men: 8-Ball". Sports 123. Archived from the original on September 12, 2008. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
- ^ "Chao is Champion of Champions". AZ Billiards.com. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2007.
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- Living people
- 1967 births
- Taiwanese pool players
- World champions in pool
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- Sportspeople from Kaohsiung
- Asian Games medalists in cue sports
- Cue sports players at the 1998 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- WPA World Nine-ball Champions