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Ding Junhui (Chinese: 丁俊晖) is a male Chinese snooker player born in Yixing on April 1, 1987. He is a citizen of China and speaks Chinese. Ding attended Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His nickname is "The Dragon."
In his professional career, Ding has won the 2005 China Open, 2005 UK Championship, 2006 Northern Ireland Trophy, and 2008 Jiangsu Classic. He participated in the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Asian Games, as well as the 2011 Masters. His career statistics include 725 century breaks, a highest break of 147, and total prize money of 5,490,244.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- South Korea
- Active from
- 1996-06-10
Discography
- 能不能坐在我身旁2018
- Dream (电视剧《永远的主君》原声音乐)2020
- 乌鸦2021
- LIMBO2022
- PSYCHO2023
- 赤脚的人 (仲夏毕业歌会主题曲)2024
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- A New Two-Constant Equation of State
· 1976 · cited 11,317x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,264x
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2014 · cited 9,236x
- Feature selection based on mutual information criteria of max-dependency, max-relevance, and min-redundancy
· 2005 · cited 8,763x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1987-04-01 ) 1 April 1987 (age 39) , Yixing , Jiangsu, China
- Sport country
- China
- Nickname
- The Dragon
- Professional
- 2003–present
- Highest ranking
- 1 (December 2014, January–February 2015)
- Current ranking
- 15 (as of 5 May 2026 )
- Century breaks
- 725 (as of 4 May 2026)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ding Junhui (Chinese: 丁俊晖; born 1 April 1987) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport. Throughout his career, he has won 15 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005, 2009, 2019), and in 2014, became the first Asian world number one. He has twice reached the final of the Masters, winning once in 2011. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach the final of the World Championship.
Ding began playing snooker at age nine and rose to international prominence in 2002 after winning the Asian Under-21 Championship and the Asian Championship. At age 15, he became the youngest winner of the IBSF World Under-21 Championship. In 2003, Ding turned professional at the age of 16. His first major professional successes came in 2005 when he won the China Open and the UK Championship, becoming the first player from outside Great Britain and Ireland to win the title.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ding Junhui” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.