Albin Alois Ouschan (born August 14, 1990, in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian pool and billiards player. Ouschan was the

2016 WPA World Nine-ball Championship The 2016 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 25th edition of the 9-Ball pool World Championships. It took place from July 30 to August 4, 2016 in the al-Attiya Sports Arena of the Al-Arabi Sports Club in Doha. The Qatari capital was the s ...

winner, as well as the runner-up in

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. He also won the

14.1 Continuous Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool (cue sport), pool play ...

European championship the same year. Ouschan is a multiple time Austrian champion in

8-ball Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...

, ten-ball and

straight pool Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...

. Ouschan alongside partner

Mario He Mario He (Born 3 August 1993, Rankweil, Austria) is an Austrian professional pool player. He is a former winner of the European Pool Championships, and winner of both the 2017 and 2019 World Cup of Pool events alongside Albin Ouschan. Career ...

won both the 2017 World Cup of Pool, 2019 World Cup of Pool and reached the final of the 2018 World Cup of Pool. They would lose 10–3 to the Chinese team of Wu Jia-qing & Liu Haitao. He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship for the second time in 2021, beating Omar Al-Shaheen 13–9 in the final. He won the International Open in 2021, defeating Dennis Orcollo 13-6 in the final.

Titles and Achievements

* World Championships ** WPA World Nine-ball Championship (

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) * World Cup of Pool (

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) - with (

) * European Open 9-ball Championship (2022) * International 9-Ball Open (2021) * China Open 9-Ball Championship (2015) * Mosconi Cup (

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) ** Most Valuable Player (MVP) (2016) * Matchroom League Pool ** Premier League Pool (2022) ** Championship League Pool (2021) * Euro Tour ** Dutch Open (2015) ** Bosnia Open (2012) *

European Pool Championship European Pool Championship (also called Dynamic European Championships) is a pool competition organized by the European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF). The tournament is held annually since 1980. It should not be confused with the series of sma ...

Straight Pool Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...

(2016) * Austrian Pool Championship **

Nine-Ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...

(2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) **

(2005, 2006, 2010, 2011) **

Eight-Ball Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a ...

(2005, 2006) * Kings Cup 10-Ball Team East vs. West (2015) * Accolades & Awards ** ''AZBilliards'' Player of the Year (2021) ** '' EPBF'' Player of the Year (2016)

References

External links

Albin Ouschan
at AZBilliards.com 1990 births Living people Austrian pool players Austrian sportspeople Sportspeople from Klagenfurt WPA World Nine-ball Champions World champions in pool {{Austria-sport-bio-stub