47 Facts About Quinten Hann

Quinten Hann was born on 4 June 1977 and is an Australian former professional pool and snooker player.

Quinten Hann was the 1999 WEPF World Eight-ball Champion and the 1994 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Champion.

Quinten Hann's highest snooker was a 141 which he made at the 1997 Grand Prix tournament.

Quinten Hann's father was absent from his life after his parents separated while the family was in Melbourne.

Quinten Hann later took up pool at the age of ten after being introduced to it through a friend in Brisbane.

Quinten Hann played pool during the weekends, until his mother swayed him away from playing in public houses.

Quinten Hann telephoned a snooker coach to teach her son the game.

In June 1989, at age 12, Quinten Hann became the youngest qualifier for the Australian men's open snooker championship, only losing in the last 16 stage to the Under-21 national champion Steve Mifsud.

Three months later, Quinten Hann finished runner-up in his group at the 1990 IBSF World Under-21 Snooker Championship.

Quinten Hann's mother sold the family's home, car, and some other possessions to finance her son's career, and the family moved from Wagga Wagga to England in late 1989.

Quinten Hann wrote to Matchroom Sport founder Barry Hearn, who offered his services to Hann.

At the age of 13, Quinten Hann compiled his first century break in a match against Melbourne Senior Champion Garry Cullen.

Quinten Hann later produced a break of 100 at the 1991 World Masters under-16 tournament, making him the youngest player to compile a televised century break.

Quinten Hann reached the final of the Australian Amateur Championship at age 14 and he then took part in the IBSF World Snooker Championship.

On 13 October 1991, Quinten Hann was given a suspended ban by the Australian Billiards and Snooker Council from all domestic and overseas competitions for spitting on a competitor's mother.

Quinten Hann's family appealed the ban to the High Court of Australia, and it was reduced to one year.

One month earlier, Quinten Hann became the first Australian player since Eddie Charlton in 1992 to qualify for the World Snooker Championship.

Quinten Hann won the Lindrum Masters multi-format tournament in Newcastle, New South Wales in September 1998.

Quinten Hann concluded the season ranked No 26 in the world.

Quinten Hann prepared for the upcoming campaign by increasing his practise at his home in Melbourne.

Quinten Hann was eliminated from the second round at the Grand Prix tournament, and was booed by spectators for smashing the cue ball into the pack of in the final three frames of his match against O'Sullivan.

Quinten Hann broke a bone in his foot in a parachute jump before the 2000 UK Championship, and was required to play shoeless in a tournament, in which he lasted until the quarter-finals.

Quinten Hann reached the quarter-finals of the Thailand Masters before losing to John Parrott.

Quinten Hann reached the second round of the season's first three ranking tournaments, before improving his performance to last until the third round of the China Open and the Thailand Masters.

Quinten Hann ended the tournament in the quarter-final stage and critiqued the World Snooker Association's running of snooker.

Quinten Hann concluded the season in the second round of the World Snooker Championship with a victory over Paul Hunter in the first round and a loss to Stephen Lee in the next stage.

Players and pundits criticised Quinten Hann for breaking up the red balls in a pool-style method during both of his matches and for unprofessional-ism in the second game.

Quinten Hann was unable to win a match in the season's first four ranking tournaments.

Quinten Hann moved to Ealing after the 2003 World Championship and began practising regularly at Ealing Snooker Club in a bid to establish himself as one of the world's top 16 players.

Quinten Hann got through to the quarter-finals of the UK Championship for the first time, where he played Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Quinten Hann progressed into the first ranking semi-final of his professional career at the Irish Masters.

Quinten Hann challenged Hicks to a fight; In the event fellow snooker player Mark King stood in for Hicks at a charity boxing match with Hann which the latter won.

Quinten Hann fought Dublin GAA player, Johnny Magee, in a charity boxing match in Dublin in September 2004 after he suggested that Gaelic footballers were not as robust as Australia rules footballers.

Quinten Hann had his nose broken, with Magee winning in three rounds.

Quinten Hann withdrew from the 2005 Malta Cup due to a fractured finger.

The 2005 World Championship saw Quinten Hann forced to play with a new cue after his original cue was lost after the China Open earlier that year.

Quinten Hann borrowed a friend's cue and decided against practising, and instead went out drinking.

Quinten Hann later failed to attend the first round of the UK Championship for undisclosed reasons.

Quinten Hann did not attend the hearing and was found guilty in absentia.

In October 2001, Quinten Hann invited an unidentified South African born woman to a hotel in London after midnight.

Quinten Hann's accuser alleged that he then forced himself upon her.

Quinten Hann was instructed to surrender his travel documents and a Magistrates' Court judge allowed him to keep playing professional snooker as long as he told the police where he was residing.

Quinten Hann appeared in Southwark Crown Court on 3 January 2002 and entered a plea of not guilty.

Quinten Hann was acquitted of the charges by a jury in July 2002.

The women accused Quinten Hann of behaving like a "crazed animal" and said that they thought they were going to die.

One of them claimed that he repeatedly struck her, an accusation that Quinten Hann strongly denied explaining that his mother had taught him to never raise a hand to a woman.

In 2016, Quinten Hann was banned from the financial services industry for four years.