Sue Thompson

Susan Thompson, usually known as Sue Thompson and born on 10 October 1969, is a Scottish former professional pool player who won the WEPF World Eightball Championship eleven times. She started playing pool at 14 after a friend invited her into a pub for a game, and she won the British Ladies Pool championship three times in four attempts. She became a professional in 1992 after winning a five-year battle against the Professional Pool Players Organisation's refusal to grant her professional status, when an industrial tribunal in Leeds found that she had been the victim of sex discrimination. She won the 1993 European Eight-ball championship on her 24th birthday and her first world title in 1996, beating Rosalia Diliberto 7-1 in the final.