 Appleton at the World 9-Ball Pool Championship in Doha, 2012 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 February 1976 (age 48) Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport country |  England | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Dynamite" | ||||||||||||||
| Pool games | 9-Ball, Ten-ball, 8-ball | ||||||||||||||
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| World Champion | Ten-Ball (2008), Nine-Ball (2012), Heyball (2015) | ||||||||||||||
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Darren Appleton (born 8 February 1976) is an English professional pool player, best known for playing Eight-ball, Nine-ball and Ten-ball pool.[1]
Appleton won the 2008 WPA World Ten-ball Championship (the inaugural 10-ball world championship) against Wu Jia-qing, of China, a former world champion in both nine-ball and eight-ball.[2] Appleton is also a world champion in nine-ball, having won the 2012 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, defeating Li He-wen in the final.
- ^ "Dynamite Blasts World 10-Ball Championship" Archived 10 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine. insidepoolmag.com (October 2008)
- ^ "Appleton Wins World Ten Ball Championship". AzBilliards.com. 5 October 2008. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2008.