Cliff Thorburn

Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn ( born January 16, 1948 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian former snooker world champion.

Career

Former snooker professional Cliff Thorburn from Canada in 1980 was the first so-called Overseas World Champion, so the first world champion, who was not from the United Kingdom. Three years earlier, known for his slow play snooker professional standing at the first World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre already in the final. This, however, he lost with 12:25 against the now deceased John Spencer.

The Crucible Theatre Cliff Thorburn seems to lie, because he was not only the vice-champion in 1977 and world champion in 1980, he shot in 1983 and the first maximum break in this arena and then dropped to his knees. His second and last victory in a ranking tournament he won in 1985 with the Goya Matchroom Trophy. Since 1996, Thorburn is no longer active on the snooker main tour, but still plays occasionally with trick shot tournaments.

Trivia

The Canadian was keen to make the most popular snooker sports and traveled with this order primarily through Asia. On one of his journeys through China then came the term Chinese snooker still jokingly used. Thus, a variety is meant, in which an object ball is not the path of the cue ball blocked like on a real snooker, but is dense on the other side of the cue ball and complicates the management of the queues.