Lin Yuan-chun
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
Nickname(s) | Woman Killer[1] Female Assassin[2] |
| Born | 5 October 1984 |
| Pool career | |
| Country |  Chinese Taipei |
| Pool games | Eight-ball, Nine-Ball |
| Tournament wins | |
| World Champion | Nine-Ball (2008) |
Lin Yuan-chun (born 5 October 1984) is a professional pool player from Chinese Taipei.
She started playing at the age of 17.[2] At the 15th Asian Games in 2006, she won the 8 Ball Pool gold medal, narrowly winning 7–6 over Kim Ga-young.[3]
Lin went on to win the WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship in 2008, again by defeating Kim Ga-young in the final,[4] and was runner-up to Han Yu in the final in 2013.
She has also won medals at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games, 2009 East Asian Games, 2009 World Games and 2010 Asian Games. She won the Amway World Open in 2008 and 2015.[5]
Titles
[edit | edit source]- 2006 Asian Games Eight-ball Singles[3]
- 2006 All Japan Championship 9-Ball
- 2008 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship
- 2008 WPA Amway Cup 9-Ball World Open[5][6]
References
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- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 – 8 Ball Pool Getty Images, 9 December 2006. Retrieved 15 August 2019
- ^ World Champions Archived 16 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine World Pool-Billiard Association. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Gold medalist Pan Xiaoting of China Getty Images, 19 November 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2019
Categories:
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Taiwanese pool players
- Female pool players
- World champions in pool
- Asian Games gold medalists in cue sports
- Asian Games bronze medalists in cue sports
- Cue sports players at the 2010 Asian Games
- Cue sports players at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- 21st-century Taiwanese sportswomen
- World Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- World Games medalists in cue sports
- Medalists at the 2009 World Games
- Competitors at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games