Fedor Gorst
Born | (2000-05-31) 31 May 2000 (age 24) Moscow, Russia |
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Nickname | “The Ghost” |
Pool games | Nine-ball, ten-ball, eight-ball, one pocket, banks |
Tournament wins | |
World Champion | Nine-ball (2019) |
WEBSITE [1] |
Fedor Alekseyevich Gorst (Russian: Фёдор Алексеевич Горст; born May 31, 2000, in Moscow) is a Russian born professional pool player. He has become a US citizen and now represents the United States in international events like the Mosconi Cup.
Career
In December 2018, Gorst reached 8th in the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) world rankings. Gorst won the U19 8-Ball European Pool Championship in 2017,[1] before winning the 2018 Treviso Open on the Euro Tour.[2] Gorst is also a Junior 9-ball world champion, winning the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship in the boys (Under 19) event.[3]
Gorst won the 2019 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, defeating Chang Jung-lin in the final 13–11.[4]
In 2023, Gorst made it to the final of the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, but he was defeated 13–6 by Chinese Taipei's Ko Ping Chung.[5]
In 2024, Gorst won his first major Matchroom title, defeating Joshua Filler in a nail-biting 13–12 hill-hill final at the World Pool Masters in Hildesheim, Germany.[6]
Gorst said: "It feels unbelievable! Both of us had crazy rolls in this match. I thought it was over for me but somehow it turned around for me," "Hats off to Matchroom, this is an unbelievable tournament to win."
Titles and achievements
- 2024 Rally in Shenandoah Valley Nine-ball Open
- 2024 World Pool Masters
- 2024 Bayou State Classic One ball One Pocket
- 2024 Derby City Classic One Pocket
- 2024 Mini Derb Open One Pocket
- 2024 Turning Stone Classic Nine-ball
- 2023 Peri Nine-ball Open
- 2023 Turning Stone Classic Nine-ball
- 2023 CSI U.S. Open 8-Ball Championship
- 2023 CSI U.S. Open 10-Ball Championship
- 2023 Skinny Bob's One Pocket Classic
- 2023 Skinny Bob's Nine-ball Classic
- 2023 Derby City Classic Master of the Table
- 2023 Derby City Classic Nine-ball
- 2023 Derby City Classic Bank Pool
- 2023 Mini Derb Open Ten-ball
- 2023 Mini Derb Open Nine-ball
- 2023 Mini Derb Open One Pocket
- 2022 Pro Billiard Series Ohio Open
- 2022 River City Open Ten-ball Championship
- 2022 Brendan Crockett Memorial
- 2022 Racks on the Rocks One Pocket
- 2022 Racks on the Rocks Ten-ball
- 2022 International Open Bigfoot Ten-ball Challenge
- 2022 Pro Billiard Series Arizona Open[7]
- 2022 CSI U.S. Open 10-Ball Championship
- 2022 Hannah Choi Memorial Ten-ball
- 2022 Midwest Bar Table Classic
- 2022 Midwest Open Ten-ball Championship
- 2022 Midwest Ten-ball Invitational
- 2022 Derby City Classic Master of the Table
- 2022 Derby City Classic Bank Pool
- 2022 Derby City Classic One Pocket
- 2021 Pro Billiard Series Arizona Open
- 2021 Rack N Grill Nine-ball Shootout
- 2021 Midwest Ten-ball Invitational
- 2021 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2021 Russian Pool Championship Eight-ball
- 2021 European Pool Championship 14.1
- 2020 Mosconi Cup
- 2020 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2020 Russian Pool Championship Nine-ball
- 2020 Russian Pool Championship Eight-ball
- 2020 Athens Nine-ball Open
- 2019 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
- 2019 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2019 Russian Pool Championship Nine-ball
- 2019 Mezz Bucharest Open
- 2019 European Pool Championship Nine-ball
- 2018 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2018 Euro Tour Treviso Open
- 2017 Russian Pool Championship 14.1
- 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Junior championship
References
- ^ "New European 8-Ball Champions are Tkach, Gorst and Pehlivanovic". azbilliards.com. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ "Fedor Gorst goes all the way". azbilliards.com. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
Dynamic Billard Treviso Open 2018
- ^ "Triple gold for team Europe". azbilliards.com. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Knockout". esnooker.pl. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ Pool, Matchroom (2023-10-01). "KO PING CHUNG WINS THE 46TH US OPEN POOL CHAMPIONSHIP". Matchroom Pool. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ Pool, Matchroom (2024-04-28). "FEDOR GORST WINS 2024 WORLD POOL MASTERS". Matchroom Pool. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- ^ "9741 - Arizona Open 2022".
External links
- Fedor Gorst at azbilliards.com
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(men's)
- 1990: Earl Strickland
- 1991: Earl Strickland
- 1992: Johnny Archer
- 1993: Chao Fong-pang
- 1994: Takeshi Okumura
- 1995: Oliver Ortmann
- 1996: Ralf Souquet
- 1997: Johnny Archer
- 1998: Kunihiko Takahashi
- 1999: Efren Reyes & Nick Varner
- 2000: Chao Fong-pang
- 2001: Mika Immonen
- 2002: Earl Strickland
- 2003: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2004: Alex Pagulayan
- 2005: Wu Chia-ching
- 2006: Ronato Alcano
- 2007: Daryl Peach
- 2010: Francisco Bustamante
- 2011: Yukio Akakariyama
- 2012: Darren Appleton
- 2013: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2014: Niels Feijen
- 2015: Ko Pin-yi
- 2016: Albin Ouschan
- 2017: Carlo Biado
- 2018: Joshua Filler
- 2019: Fedor Gorst
- 2021: Albin Ouschan
- 2022: Shane Van Boening
- 2023: Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
(women's)
- 1990: Robin Bell
- 1991: Robin Bell
- 1992: Franziska Stark
- 1993: Loree Jon Jones
- 1994: Ewa Laurance
- 1995: Gerda Hofstätter
- 1996: Allison Fisher
- 1997: Allison Fisher
- 1998: Allison Fisher
- 1999: Liu Hsin-mei
- 2000: Julie Kelly
- 2001: Allison Fisher
- 2002: Liu Hsin-mei
- 2004: Kim Ga-young
- 2006: Kim Ga-young
- 2007: Pan Xiaoting
- 2008: Lin Yuan-chun
- 2009: Liu Shasha
- 2010: Fu Xiaofang
- 2011: Bi Zhu Qing
- 2012: Kelly Fisher
- 2013: Han Yu
- 2014: Liu Shasha
- 2015: Liu Shasha
- 2016: Han Yu
- 2017: Chen Siming
- 2018: Han Yu
- 2019: Kelly Fisher
(champions)
- 2004: Efren Reyes
- 2005: Wu Chia-ching
- 2007: Ronato Alcano
- 2008: Ralf Souquet
- 2010: Karl Boyes
- 2011: Dennis Orcollo
- 2012: Chang Jung-Lin
- 2022: Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
- 2008: Darren Appleton
- 2009: Mika Immonen
- 2011: Huidji See
- 2015: Ko Pin-yi
- 2019: Ko Ping-chung
- 2021: Eklent Kaçi
- 2022: Wojciech Szewczyk
- 2023: Eklent Kaçi
- 2024: Carlo Biado
- 2006: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2007: Oliver Ortmann
- 2008: Niels Feijen
- 2009: Stephan Cohen
- 2010: Oliver Ortmann
- 2011: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2012: John Schmidt
- 2013: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2014: Darren Appleton
- 2015: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2016: Mika Immonen
- 2017: Lee Vann Corteza
- 2018: Thorsten Hohmann
- 2019: Shane Van Boening
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