Thorsten Hohmann

Thorsten Hohmann, nicknamed the Hitman, is a German professional pool player born on 14 July 1979 and raised in Fulda. A three-time world champion, he won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 2003 and 2013 and the WPA World Straight Pool Championship in 2006. In 2003 he beat the defending champion Earl Strickland in the semi-final and Alex Pagulayan in the final, becoming the third German world champion after Oliver Ortmann and Ralf Souquet. He took up the game at nine when his father brought him to a local pool hall, and by sixteen he had won his first open adult tournament. From 2004 he was based in Jacksonville, Florida, while remaining a German citizen.