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Place of Birth: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Oliver Ortmann
- Oliver Ortmann (born 11 June 1967) is a German professional pool player from Gelsenkirchen.
- Ortmann is a three-time world champion, winning the 1995 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and both the 2007 and 2010 Straight pool world championships.
- Ortmann is the second player (after Earl Strickland) to win three world championships.
- With fourteen wins, he is one of the most successful players at the European Pool Championships.
- Ortmann is the second to Ralf Souquet on the Euro Tour, winning fourteen events.
- Ortmann was the first player from Europe to win the U.S.
- Open Straight Pool Championship, in 1989. He has represented Europe eight times in the annual Mosconi Cup competition between 1994 and 2004, and was on the winning side in 1995 and 2002.
- With 44 German national medals, Ortmann is one of the most successful German pool players of all time.
- In 1996, he was the first cue sports player to receive the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt, the highest sporting award given in Germany.
- Ortmann was inducted into the Straight Pool Hall of Fame in an August 2013 ceremony in New York City.
- The following year, he was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame.
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