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| Nickname | The Wizard of Oz[1] |
|---|---|
| Professional | 1995 – 2006 |
| Highest ranking | 14 (2002 – 2004) |
| Tournament wins | |
| World Champion | 2 |
Quinten Hann (born 4 June 1977) is an Australian former professional pool and snooker player who is now retired. He was the 1999 WEPF World Eight-ball Champion 1994 world under 21 snooker champion and also won a world title on the video game daytona in 1999. He retired days before a hearing though still recieved an eight year ban from snooker in February 2006. [2]
Snooker career
Hann was ranked in the top 16 for two seasons (2002-2003 and 2003-2004), ranked at #14 for both seasons. He has reached the quarter-finals of 8 ranking tournaments and 1 semi final.
He missed several ranking events after breaking his wrist and collar bone whilst motorcycle racing in 1999. He also broke his foot in another race in 2000, and was forced to play shoeless in the UK Championship he reach the quarter finals and also had a break of 141. part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6-zGnznzw. Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBT32MEPY3Q&feature=related Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byFgLpSNv4M&feature=related
More recently, in the 2004 World Championships, he was rebuked for making threatening comments to Andy Hicks[3] when he lost 10 – 4 to the unseeded outsider. After Hann had made offensive gestures and remarks throughout the match, Hicks commented at the end that the result would put Hann outside the top 16 (which it did). Following the acrimony over this defeat Hann challenged Hicks to a fight.[4] In the event fellow snooker player Mark King stood in for Hicks at a charity boxing match with Hann at bethnal green in front of a soldout crowd of 1300 which hann won on points.[5] Hann also fought Dublin GAA player, Johnny Magee, in a charity boxing match in Dublin in September 2004 after Hann suggested that Gaelic footballers were not as robust as Australia rules footballers; Magee was well beaten and ended up with a broken nose and although hann clearly won the fight the judges still awarded magee the win. round 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShjdnrhhxnU round 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShjdnrhhxnU 3rd final round http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShjdnrhhxnU
In the 2005 World Championship Hann was forced to play with a new cue after his original cue was lost after the China Open earlier that year.[6] The original cue was eventually retrieved just before the World Championship but was found to be damaged and was therefore not usable. Having borrowed a friend's cue, he decided against practising, and instead went out drinking.[6] He played his first round match against Peter Ebdon hungover, and rather predictably lost the match by 10 frames to 2. When asked about the defeat to Ebdon, Hann said: "I played poorly, but to be honest, that wasn't because of the cue. I was planning to go out the night before the match, drink a couple of beers. When I found out my cue was missing, a couple of beers became a lot of beers." The fact that the first session was a morning session made it worse.
The Sun newspaper alleged that Hann had agreed to lose his opening match against Ken Doherty at the China Open in return for large amounts of money. A hearing at the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association was convened after the WPBSA panel was shown transcripts of video and audio footage of the meetings which took place between Hann and the undercover Sun journalists in March and April 2005. in the tapes hann stated he was retiring at the end of the season anyway.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 he resigned from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, just a couple of days before he was due to attend the hearing. Hann not living in the uk did not attend and was found guilty in his absence. The newspaper did not go through with any agreement, but by agreeing to lose the game Hann was in breach of rule 2.8, which states "a member shall not directly or indirectly solicit, attempt to solicit or accept any payment or any form of remuneration of benefit in exchange for influencing the outcome of any game of snooker or billiards."
Hann was banned from snooker for 8 years and also fined £10,000 which he never paid.
References
- ^ Weale, Sally (4 July 2002). "The name game". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 May 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ BBC: "Guilty Hann given eight-year ban", article on Hann's match-fixing and subsequent eight-year ban.
- ^ BBC: "Bad-tempered Hann exits", Hann's loss in the 2004 World Championships.
- ^ BBC: "Hannbags at dawn", Hann challenging Andy Hicks to a boxing match during the 2004 World Championships.
- ^ BBC: "Hann triumphs in Pot Whack", Hann winning the boxing match with Mark King.
- ^ a b "Crucible Diary - Day Five", day five of the 2005 World Championship including Hann's borrowed cue and hangover.