Jasmin Ouschan
The Austrian Sports Media has once again
voted Jasmin Ouschan near the top of the Austrian sports notables of
the year. This year Ms. Ouschan garnered an eighth-place finish and
managed to receive ten first-place votes in the balloting that saw
slightly more than 300 votes cast for sportsmen and women from all
areas of sport. Ms. Ouschan had a dynamic 2008 that saw her reach the
semi-finals of the World 14.1 Championship in an event where she
defeated former World Champion Mika Immonen and defending champion
Oliver Ortmann before bowing to Francisco Bustamante. She
also finished third at the Women's World Championship and the
GenerationPool.com championship (an event she won in 2006). She
won the 2008 WPBA Carolina's Classic event. During the World 8-Ball
Championship in Fujairah, UAE, she defeated Darren Appleton, the
gentleman who later went on the win the World Ten Ball Championship in
Manila.
Ms.
Ouschan is quoted as saying that her goals are: "To be one of the best
players in the world and also to try to challenge the best male players
in the world." From her performance in 2008 it may be time to begin
considering new goals since the current ones are now behind her at age
22.
The
Austrian Sports Media this year chose Bronze Medal swimmer Mirna Jukic
as their number one choice for females and ski jumper Thomas Morning
Star as the number one male. The Springer National Ski-Jump Team took
the honors amongst all teams across a wide spectrum of sports.
