Julie Kelly
Irish pool and snooker player
Born | (1968-01-28) 28 January 1968 (age 56) Dublin, Ireland |
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Sport country | Ireland |
Nickname | Motor Molly[1] |
Tournament wins | |
World Champion | Nine-ball (2000) |
Julie Kelly (born 28 January 1968) is an Irish professional pool and former snooker player. She won the WPA nine-ball world championship in 2000.[2]
Biography
Kelly was a sheepherder in Ireland and won the Irish women's snooker championship a record seven times[3] before travelling to the United States with her friend Karen Corr to take up pool.[4] Kelly sold her sheep to help finance the move.[5]
She beat Corr in the final to win the WPA nine-ball world championship in 2000, and had some other successes on the tournament circuit, including a victory over Allison Fisher to win the 2000 WPBA Canadian Classic.
Titles and achievements
Snooker
- 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Republic of Ireland Ladies' Snooker Association Champion[3]
Pool
- 2000 WPA Nine-ball World Championship
- 2000 New York State Championship
- 2000 PP Tour 2000 #12 Women's Division
- 2004 WPBA Canadian Classic[6]
References
- ^ "Julie on cue for Stateside glory". Irish Independent. 6 January 2005. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ World Champions Archived 16 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine World Pool-Billiard Association. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ a b New RILSA Championship Cup Sponsored by Dan Carroll & Annette Newman Archived 15 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Republic of Ireland Ladies' Snooker Association, 6 May 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2019
- ^ Yant Kinney, Monica (1 August 2001). "Meet the unassuming ace of women's pool – She's pocketed the top rank. Marketers now want to mold her". Philadelphia Inquirer. A01 – via NewsBank Retrieved 15 August 2019.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Staff Reporter (16 February 2011). "Antrim's Corr atop world women's pool rankings". Irish Echo. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ Julie Kelly triumphs in Windsor Archived 15 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine poolroom.com, 12 October 2004. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
External links
- Julie Kelly at azbilliards.com
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World pool champions
(men's)
- 1990: Earl Strickland
- 1991: Earl Strickland
- 1992: Johnny Archer
- 1993: Chao Fong-pang
- 1994: Takeshi Okumura
- 1995: Oliver Ortmann
- 1996: Ralf Souquet
- 1997: Johnny Archer
- 1998: Kunihiko Takahashi
- 1999: Efren Reyes & Nick Varner
- 2000: Chao Fong-pang
- 2001: Mika Immonen
- 2002: Earl Strickland
- 2003: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2004: Alex Pagulayan
- 2005: Wu Chia-ching
- 2006: Ronato Alcano
- 2007: Daryl Peach
- 2010: Francisco Bustamante
- 2011: Yukio Akakariyama
- 2012: Darren Appleton
- 2013: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2014: Niels Feijen
- 2015: Ko Pin-yi
- 2016: Albin Ouschan
- 2017: Carlo Biado
- 2018: Joshua Filler
- 2019: Fedor Gorst
- 2021: Albin Ouschan
- 2022: Shane Van Boening
- 2023: Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
- 2024: Fedor Gorst
(women's)
- 1990: Robin Bell
- 1991: Robin Bell
- 1992: Franziska Stark
- 1993: Loree Jon Jones
- 1994: Ewa Laurance
- 1995: Gerda Hofstätter
- 1996: Allison Fisher
- 1997: Allison Fisher
- 1998: Allison Fisher
- 1999: Liu Hsin-mei
- 2000: Julie Kelly
- 2001: Allison Fisher
- 2002: Liu Hsin-mei
- 2004: Kim Ga-young
- 2006: Kim Ga-young
- 2007: Pan Xiaoting
- 2008: Lin Yuan-chun
- 2009: Liu Shasha
- 2010: Fu Xiaofang
- 2011: Bi Zhu Qing
- 2012: Kelly Fisher
- 2013: Han Yu
- 2014: Liu Shasha
- 2015: Liu Shasha
- 2016: Han Yu
- 2017: Chen Siming
- 2018: Han Yu
- 2019: Kelly Fisher
(champions)
- 2004: Efren Reyes
- 2005: Wu Chia-ching
- 2007: Ronato Alcano
- 2008: Ralf Souquet
- 2010: Karl Boyes
- 2011: Dennis Orcollo
- 2012: Chang Jung-Lin
- 2022: Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
- 2008: Darren Appleton
- 2009: Mika Immonen
- 2011: Huidji See
- 2015: Ko Pin-yi
- 2019: Ko Ping-chung
- 2021: Eklent Kaçi
- 2022: Wojciech Szewczyk
- 2023: Eklent Kaçi
- 2024: Carlo Biado
- 2006: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2007: Oliver Ortmann
- 2008: Niels Feijen
- 2009: Stephan Cohen
- 2010: Oliver Ortmann
- 2011: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2012: John Schmidt
- 2013: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2014: Darren Appleton
- 2015: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2016: Mika Immonen
- 2017: Lee Vann Corteza
- 2018: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2019: Shane Van Boening
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