Jasmin Ouschan

Jasmin Ouschan (born 10 January 1986) is an Austrian professional pool player from Klagenfurt, Carinthia.

In 1996, she entered at a tournament in Austria in which players like Allison Fisher, Gerda Hofstaetter and Franziska Stark participated and placed 4th place behind these three well established players.

In 1998, she earned a silver medal in eight-ball and a bronze medal in nine-ball at the Youth European Championship.

, she has earned a total of twenty-nine individual European Pool Championships gold medals (ten in eight-ball, ten in nine-ball, six in straight pool and three in ten-ball) since 1999, including eighteen (four in eight-ball, five in nine-ball, six in straight pool and three in ten-ball) since joining the open Women's division in 2005.

She was the Youth European Champion in eight-ball six consecutive years from 1999–2004.

She also won eleven Youth European Championship titles in eight-ball (1999–2004) and nine-ball (1999–2001, 2003, 2004).

Starting in 1999, she won gold medals in both events every year as a Youth until 2004 except in 2002 when she earned a silver in nine-ball.

Her first professional competition occurred in 2002, but she did not officially become a professional member of the Women's Professional Billiards Association (WPBA) until 2007.

Her first professional competition was the Florida Classic 2002.

In 2002, she had professional earnings of US$1,750 in prize money for taking first place in the 2002 WPBA Amateur Nationals.

She graduated from high school in 2004 and has since taken coursework to become an accredited pool trainer in Europe.

In international competition she has earned the World Games 2005 gold medal and World Games 2009 silver medal in nine-ball.

In 2005, she had earnings of $1,700.

That year she became the World Games women's nine-ball champion.

She also moved up to the Women's division in the annual European Championships in 2005 and has earned at least one gold medal each year since.

Since 2006, she has been listed among the top-ten women in the annual prize money rankings.

She has earned eight open European Championship titles in eight-ball (2006, 2008, 2009), nine-ball (2005, 2009), and straight pool (2005–2007) in the women's division.

In 2006, she was ranked sixth among women in the prize money year-end rankings with a total of $36,251 in earnings.

That year, she won the May 14—20, 2006 BCA Open Nine-ball Championship women's division, defeating the UK's Allison Fisher and earning $20,000.

She has competed in what have traditionally been regarded as men's tournaments, especially while participating in the EuroTour.

She placed 5th in the men's World Straight Pool Championship in 2006, which was won by Thorsten Hohmann.

In 2007, she joined the WPBA.

That year, she was ranked ninth among women in the prize money year-end rankings with a total of $23,000 in earnings.

Her best payday for the year was a second-place finish at the WPBA San Diego Classic for which she earned $8,300.

She competed again at the Men's World Straight Pool Championship in 2007 but lost to Warren Kiamco in the last 16 to finish in 9th place.

Ouschan competes regularly with men on the Euro Tour and in 2008 became the first woman to earn a medal in an open world pool championship.

In 2008, she was ranked fourth among women in the prize money year-end rankings with a total of $44,059 in earnings.

During the season, she reached the top of the world rankings.

Her largest victory that year was the September 14 WPBA Carolina Classic 7–1 win over Jeanette Lee, which earned her $13,500.

In 2008, she reached the Men's World Straight Pool Championship semifinal by beating Mika Immonen and defending champion Oliver Ortmann, but then lost against Francisco Bustamante.

However, her third-place finish resulted in the first medal won by any woman in an open world pool championship.

She is currently one of the top-ranked women in the world according to the 2010 prize money list and by the WPBA rankings.

At times, she has been ranked as the number one female player in the world.

In the 2010 Pool & Billiard European Championship, held in Zagreb, Croatia, she became the first woman to sweep gold medals in all four disciplines contested (eight-ball, nine-ball, ten-ball and straight pool).

In 2010, she also won the Women's WPA World Ten-ball Championship.

Born and raised in Klagenfurt, Ouschan began playing pool at a very early age because her parents owned a pool hall.

Although she had a miniature table of her own, she aspired to play on the regulation size table and started playing by standing on a box.

She has trained with Michael Neumann since the age of six and continues to train with him to this day.

She is the older sister of Albin Ouschan.

She also finished 3rd in the women's World Pool 10-ball Championship in Manila, Philippines.