Jasmin Ouschan

Jasmin Ouschan

Born	(1986-01-10) 10 January 1986 (age 38) Klagenfurt
Sport country	Austria
Medal record Women's nine-ball Representing  Austria World Games 2005 Duisburg Individual 2009 Kaohsiung Individual

Jasmin Ouschan (German pronunciation: [ˈjasmɪn ˈɔʊʃan]; born 10 January 1986^{[citation needed]}) is an Austrian professional pool player from Klagenfurt, Carinthia. Her first professional competition occurred in 2002, but she did not officially become a professional member of the Women's Professional Billiards Association (WPBA) until 2007.^[1] She is currently one of the top-ranked women in the world according to the 2010 prize money list and by the WPBA rankings.^[2][3] At times, she has been ranked as the number one female player in the world. Since 2006, she has been listed among the top-ten women in the annual prize money rankings. Ouschan competes regularly with men on the Euro Tour and in 2008 became the first woman to earn a medal in an open world pool championship.

In international competition she has earned the World Games 2005 gold medal and World Games 2009 silver medal in nine-ball. As of 2013^[update], she has earned a total of twenty-nine individual European Pool Championships gold medals (ten in eight-ball, ten in nine-ball, six in straight pool and three in ten-ball) since 1999, including eighteen (four in eight-ball, five in nine-ball, six in straight pool and three in ten-ball) since joining the open Women's division in 2005. She was the Youth European Champion in eight-ball six consecutive years from 1999–2004.

In the 2010 Pool & Billiard European Championship, held in Zagreb, Croatia, she became the first woman to sweep gold medals in all four disciplines contested (eight-ball, nine-ball, ten-ball and straight pool).^[4] In 2010, she also won the Women's WPA World Ten-ball Championship.