Molrudee Kasemchaiyanan

Molrudee Kasemchaiyanan was a New Zealand cue sports player and official, born in Thailand on 22 February 1979 and died on 6 September 2022. She grew up partly in Germany, where she discovered pool at fifteen, played for clubs in Walldorf and Fulda and won the German women's eight-ball title in 2006. She emigrated to New Zealand in 2005 and competed there, for a time under the name Vujanic, and in the 2010s won around twenty national titles across eight-ball, nine-ball and ten-ball, as well as the 2014 New Zealand women's snooker championship. In 2019 she won the BCA World Women's 8-Ball Championship in Las Vegas, and she played for New Zealand at the World Games in 2017 and 2022. From 2019 until her death she sat on the board of the World Pool-Billiard Association.