Mark Williams (snooker player)
Welsh snooker player (born 1975)
Mark James Williams is a Welsh professional snooker player who is a three-time World Champion, winning the title in 2000, 2003 and 2018. He has been ranked the world number one player three times, with his most successful season coming in 2002–03, when he won snooker's Triple Crown, making him only the third player, after Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry, to have won all three events in the same season. He is the first, and to date, the only player to win all three versions of the professional world championship: the World Snooker Championship, the Six-red World Championship and the World Seniors Championship.
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