Darren Appleton
Appleton at the World 9-Ball Pool Championship in Doha, 2012 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 February 1976 (age 49) 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.
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. 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.