Cliff Thorburn
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title:
Cliff Thorburn
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Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final. He is generally recognised as the sport's first world champion from outside the United Kingdom—since Australian Horace Lindrum's 1952 title is usually disregarded—and he remains the only world champion from the Americas. He was runner-up in two other worl
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Canadian snooker player (born 1948)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Thorburn
date created:
2004-04-30T09:41:37Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T07:15:17Z
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