Billiards at the 2009 World Games - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The cue sports competition at the World Games 2009
World Games 2009
The World Games of 2009 took place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from July 16, 2009 to July 26, 2009. The games featured sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games....

took place from July 22 to July 26, at the Jhongjheng Martial Arts Stadium in Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

Medal table

1	2	1	0	3
2	1	0	0	1
2	1	0	0	1
4	0	1	1	2
5	0	1	0	1
5	0	1	0	1
7	0	0	1	1
7	0	0	1	1
7	0	0	1	1
Total	4	4	4	12

Medals summary

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Nine-ball - women's singles	Allison Fisher Allison Fisher Allison Fisher is an English professional pool player.-Biography:Fisher grew up in Hadlow, Kent. She won her first world title at the age of 17. To date, she has won over 80 national titles and 11 world titles in total. She even entered the men's snooker rankings, but never progressed into the...	Jasmin Ouschan Jasmin Ouschan Jasmin Ouschan is an Austrian professional pool player from Klagenfurt, Carinthia. Her first professional competition occurred in 2002, but she did not officially become a professional member of the Women's Professional Billiards Association until 2007. She is currently one of the top-ranked...	Lin Yuan-Chun
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