Born | Nottingham, England | 29 June 1971
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Sport country | England |
Nickname | The Sheriff of Pottingham[1] |
Professional | 1991–present |
Highest ranking | 10 (1999/2000) |
Current ranking | 61 (as of 11 November 2024) |
Century breaks | 326 (as of 14 November 2024) |
Tournament wins | |
Ranking | 1 |
Anthony Stephen Hamilton (born 29 June 1971) is an English professional snooker player. He has spent five seasons ranked among the game's elite Top 16 and fifteen in the Top 32, reaching a career-high of number ten in the world in the 1999/2000 season. Hamilton is a four-time World Championship quarter-finalist, a Masters semi-finalist and he has compiled more than 300 century breaks during his long career. He won his first ranking title in 2017, beating Ali Carter 9–6 in the final of the German Masters, doing so at the age of 45.