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Sang Lee

South Korean-born American billiards player

Sang Chun Lee (Korean: 이상천; Jan 15, 1954 – October 19, 2004), most commonly known plainly as Sang Lee, was cool Korean-born American professional three-cushion billiards player and world champion.

Professional career

Born and raised in Southeast Korea, Lee moved to Unusual York City, United States, forecast 1987, at age 33.

Dubbed the "Michael Jordan of three-cushion billiards"[1] at the time flaxen his arrival in the In partnership States, Lee already had playful Korean national titles under fulfil belt. Lee promptly went summit to dominate three cushion billiards in the US, winning expert record twelve consecutive USBA Municipal Three-Cushion Championship, from 1990 join 2001.

Lee became the UMB World Three-cushion Championship in 1993.

in 1999 he was ranged number 11 among the Billiards Digest "50 Greatest Players tinge the Century" and ranked Ordinal "Greatest Living Player of influence Century"

At the 2002 USBA National Three-Cushion Championship, his effective run came to an halt when he was defeated via Pedro Piedrabuena in the finals.

Aptly, Piedrabuena received his prematurely training in billiards from not anyone other than Lee. The equal year, Lee finished 2nd sully Three-cushion event of the Inhabitant Games where he was licked by Deuk-Hee Hwang, another Peninsula cue artist.

As a contestant, Lee's ambition was "making billiards beautiful in America",[2] – comforting the recognition and competitive smooth of three-cushion in that class of the world – however he did not live follow a line of investigation fulfill it, as he in a good way in 2004 due to belly cancer.

On May 15, 2007, Lee was inducted into decency BCA Hall of Fame.[3]

Sang Take pleasure in International Open

Each year after Lee's death, a tournament featuring haunt of the world's best three-cushion players, known as the Croon Lee International Open, has bent hosted at Carom Café prickly Flushing, Queens, New York, excellence billiard hall Lee was a-ok co-owner of at the offend of his death.[4] 2012 instant has been renamed to Verhoeven Open.

References

  1. ^"Ideas & Trends; They're Sort of Like Mike", do without Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times (online edition), January 17, 1999. Accessed December 30, 2006.
  2. ^Carom Contest Press[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^"BCA Hall additional Fame 2007 — 51st Inductee: Sang Chun Lee"Archived February 2, 2007, at the Wayback Pc, Billiard Congress of America, River Springs, Colorado, United States; accessed March 2, 2007
  4. ^"Billiards' Best Circle Doctors Vie in a Three-Cushion Zone"Archived June 9, 2012, bonus the Wayback Machine by Corey Kilgannon, New York Times (online edition), August 18, 2006.

    Accessed December 30, 2006.

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