Born | Zhaodong, Heilongjiang, China | 5 March 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport country | China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | The Firecracker[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Professional | 2005–2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 11 (October, December 2016, May 2017)[2][3][4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum breaks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Century breaks | 292 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ranking | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minor-ranking | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese | 梁文博 | ||||||||||
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Liang Wenbo (Chinese: 梁文博; born 5 March 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. During his playing career, he won one ranking title at the 2016 English Open, twice won the World Cup for China in 2011 and 2017 with teammate Ding Junhui, and was runner-up at the 2009 Shanghai Masters and the 2015 UK Championship. He made 292 century breaks in professional competition, including three maximum breaks, and reached a career high of 11th in the snooker world rankings.[5]
Liang was convicted on a domestic assault charge in April 2022, after which the sport's governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), suspended him for four months for engaging in behaviour unbecoming of a sportsperson and for bringing the sport into disrepute.
The WPBSA suspended Liang again in October 2022 while it carried out a match-fixing investigation that implicated him and nine other Chinese players. An independent disciplinary tribunal found Liang guilty of multiple match-fixing offences, as well as destroying evidence and not cooperating with the investigation. The WPBSA announced in June 2023 that it had permanently banned Liang and compatriot Li Hang from the sport, the only two lifetime bans ever handed down in professional snooker. The Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA) upheld the WPBSA's decision.