Oliver Ortmann

Quick Facts

Full Name	Oliver Ortmann
Occupation	Pool Player
Date Of Birth	Jun 11, 1967(1967-06-11)
Age	57
Birthplace	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Gemini

Oliver Ortmann Biography

Oliver Ortmann is one of the most popular and richest Pool Player who was born on June 11, 1967 in Hamburg, Germany. Oliver Ortmann (born 11 June 1967) is a German professional pool player from Gelsenkirchen. Ortmann is three times world champion, winning the WPA World Nine-ball championship and two of the 2010 and 2007 Straight Pool World championships. Ortmann is only the second athlete (after Earl Strickland) to win three world championships. With 14 wins, he’s one of the top athletes at the European Pool Championships. Ortmann is second in line in line to Ralf Souquet of the Euro Tour, winning fourteen events. Ortmann was the very first player from Europe to take home the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship in 1989.

Ortmann made his debut in Europe in his first appearance at the Mosconi Cup during the initial tournament in 1994, with the United States winning 16-12. The next season, Ortmann played in European continent’s first ever win. Ortmann was part of the winning team in 2002. The win in 2002 along with Ortmann was the subject of a six-time snooker World Champion Steve Davis as “one of the best moments of my career”. Ortmann was a member of the team for eight times (1994 1995, 1994 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004,) and was also the captain who was not playing in 2003. The eight appearances of Ortmann is the fifth-highest number among any European player.

In 1996, Ortmann was the first cue-sports player to receive the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt; fellow pool player Ralf Souquet won the award the following year. Ortmann won the winner-take-all International Challenge of Champions event in 1997. He was runner-up two years later, losing the final to Francisco Bustamante. In 2000, however, Ortmann defeated Bustamante in the final for his second championship.

Ortmann formed Ortmann Billiards, a pool-product manufacturer and retailer, in

2004. Although the company specializes in cue sports such as pool, snooker and carrom, it also supports air hockey, darts and poker. Ortmann reached the final of the 2004 World Pool Masters, but was defeated 6–8 by Thomas Engert. Two years later, he joined the International Pool Tour and continued competing in events sanctioned by other organizations. Ortmann won the 2007 WPA World Straight Pool Championship, defeating Danny Barouty 200–56, Dennis Orcollo 200–7, and Danny Harriman 200–123 to reach the final. There, he defeated Huidji See 200–171 for his second world championship. Ortmann made the tournament’s third-highest run , a 131. He also played in the 2007 World Pool Masters, defeating Naoyuki Ōi 8–3 in the first round before losing 3–8 in the quarter-finals to David Alcaide.

He took part in the first Euro Tour event in 1993 He finished second in the German Open and winning the subsequent competitions held that were held in Austria as well as Hungary. Ortmann was the winner of the second US championship later in the year, this time by winning straight pool. He took home 5 Euro Tour events the following year (four consecutively) and was second two times. In the course of nine events, Ortmann reached the finals seven times. He was the first player to win a World Championship (the 1995 World Nine-ball Championship of the WPA) in the final against in the final of American Dallas West in the final.

Oliver Ortmann Net Worth

Oliver Ortmann is one of the richest Pool Player from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oliver Ortmann 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ortmann was was raised at Gelsenkirchen, Germany. At the age of six, he began playing pool located in the basement the restaurant his parents owned. Ortmann took home his very first major championship in 1985 , aged 17 (the eight-ball Junior European championships), beating the Swedish Per Anda in the final. The following year , he took home the first German nation’s championship (the straight-pool championship) after he met Thomas Engert in the final. Ortmann went to Munich in order to be an electronic technician. At the age of twenty he became the director of a billiard center that had 80 tables for billiards and pool.

He was the first person from Europe to be the winner of the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship in 1989. He took the title despite the fact that it was his first visit outside of the Continent. A relative unknown, Ortmann beat Steve Mizerak in the final. Ortmann also won his very first of the many adults European Pool Championship events that year by beating Waldemar Markert to win the straight pool final.

He has represented Europe eight times in the annual Mosconi Cup competition between 1994 and 2004, and was on the winning side in 1995 and 2002. With 44 German national medals, Ortmann is one of the most successful German pool players of all time. In 1996, he was the first cue sports player to receive the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt, the highest sporting award given in Germany. Ortmann was inducted into the Straight Pool Hall of Fame in an August 2013 ceremony in New York City. The following year, he was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America’s Hall of Fame.

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Ortmann was inducted into the Straight Pool Hall of Fame during a ceremony in New York City in August 2013. Two years earlier, he said: “It would be a great honor for me to be one day inducted into the Straight Pool Hall of Fame with the greatest players in straight pool.” In 2014, Ortmann was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America’s Hall of Fame with promoter and historian Charles Ursitti. He is a three-time European player of the year, receiving the award in 1990, 1993, and 1996.

Facts & Trivia

Oliver Ranked on the list of most popular Pool Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Oliver Ortmann celebrates birthday on June 11 of every year.