Warren Simpson
{{short description|Australian snooker player (1922–1980)}}
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{{Infobox snooker player
| name = Warren Simpson
| image = Warren Simpson.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|3|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|1980|6|28|1922|3|28|df=y}}
| death_place = Toowoon Bay, Australia
| Sport country = {{AUS}}
| Professional = 1970–1980
| High ranking = 20 (1976/1977)
| Official maximums =
| Best finish = Last 16 (x1)
| World champ =
| Ranking wins =
}}
Warren Alwyn Simpson (28 March 1922 – 28 June 1980){{cite news|title=Death of Warren Simpson|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Bv5jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3eYDAAAAIBAJ&hl=de&pg=3229%2C9840922|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=29 June 1980|page=75}} was an Australian snooker player. He was world amateur champion before turning professional in the early 1960s.
Career
Simpson won amateur championships at state and national level before becoming world amateur champion in 1954.
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134098062 'Snooker Title to Warren Simpson']. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, 8 October 1954, retrieved 25 July 2023 He played an exhibition against world professional champion Fred Davis in 1960 and later turned professional. Simpson reached the final of the 1971 World Snooker Championship, losing 37–29 to John Spencer in a match played in Sydney, Australia in November 1970.
Simpson competed in three further World Championships between 1973 and 1975. In 1974, despite suffering from influenza, he discharged himself from hospital to play in his match against Bernard Bennett, but lost 8–2.{{cite news|title=Valiant Try|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aclUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wpADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5168%2C3907970|newspaper=The Age|date=18 April 1974|agency=AAP-Reuter}}
He suffered from diabetes for many years and died in 1980, aged 58.{{cite news|last=Wheeler|first=Les|title=A famous five|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oAxiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3610%2C3088052|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=11 July 1980}} He was married and had a son.
Career titles (11)
- New South Wales Snooker Championship: 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957{{cite web|title=NSW Snooker Championship|url=http://www.bsansw.com/Tournaments/PastWinners/NSWSnookerChampionship.aspx|publisher=Billiards & Snooker Association of New South Wales|accessdate=6 May 2014|archive-date=7 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507004321/http://www.bsansw.com/Tournaments/PastWinners/NSWSnookerChampionship.aspx|url-status=dead}}
- Australia National Snooker Championship: 1953, 1954, 1957{{cite web | url=http://absc.com.au/champions.aspx | title=Past Champions | publisher=Australian Billiards & Snooker Council | accessdate=6 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413203547/http://absc.com.au/champions.aspx | archive-date=13 April 2014 | url-status=dead }}
- Australian Professional Championship: 1963, 1968,{{cite web|title=Other National Professional Championships|url=http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/natpro.html|publisher=Chris Turner|accessdate=6 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107161810/http://www.cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/natpro.html|archive-date=7 January 2012|url-status=dead}} 1969
References
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Category:Australian snooker players
Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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