Cliff Thorburn Snooker player
Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn, CM known as Cliff Thorburn (born January 16, 1948 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a retired professional Canadian snooker player. A former world number one (one of only ten players to hold that spot), he was world snooker champion in 1980, one of only three players from outside the United Kingdom to win the world title in the modern era (along with Ken Doherty and Neil Robertson). In 1983, Thorburn became the first player to compile a maximum break at the world championships. His slow, determined style of play earned him the nickname "The Grinder".
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Snooker champion
| Career start | 1972 |
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| Career end | 1996 |
| highest break | 147 1989 |
| highest rank | 1 |
| other wins | 16 |
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| world champion year | 1980 |