Gerda Hofstätter

Gerda Hofstätter, whose full name is Gerda Hofstätter Gergerson and whose nickname is G-Force, is an Austrian professional pool player, born on 9 February 1971 in Friesach. She won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1995, has won the European Pool Championship on nine occasions and won the Austrian national championship seventeen times. She is a two-time Hall of Fame inductee, voted into both the Women's Professional Billiard Association and Billiard Congress of America halls in the Greatest Players category, and she was Austrian Sportswoman of the Year for Carinthia in 1993. Before pool she played tennis, skiing and fencing and won the Austrian fencing championship, and she played the WPBA tour from 1993 until her retirement.