Liang Wenbo
Liang at the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic | |
| Born | 5 March 1987 Zhaodong, Heilongjiang, China |
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| Sport country | China |
| Nickname | The Firecracker |
| Professional | 2005–2023 |
| Highest ranking | 11 (October, December 2016, May 2017) |
| Maximum breaks | 3 |
| Century breaks | 292 |
| Tournament wins | |
| Ranking | 1 |
| Minor-ranking | 1 |
Medal record | |
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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.
In April 2022, Liang was convicted of domestic assault, after which the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) suspended him for four months. It suspended him again in October 2022 while investigating match-fixing allegations that later widened to implicate nine other Chinese players. A disciplinary tribunal found Liang guilty of multiple match-fixing offences as well as destroying evidence and not cooperating with the investigation. In June 2023, the WPBSA 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.