Oliver Ortmann

Oliver Ortmann is a German professional pool player from Gelsenkirchen, born on 11 June 1967, and a three-time world champion, winning the 1995 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the 2007 and 2010 World Straight Pool Championship. He became the second player after Earl Strickland to win three WPA world championships. With fourteen wins he is the second most successful player after Ralf Souquet at the European Pool Championships and on the Euro Tour. In 1989 he was the first non-American to win the BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship. He represented Europe eight times in the Mosconi Cup between 1994 and 2004, in 1996 was the first cue sports player to receive Germany highest sporting award, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt, and in 2014 was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.