Mark Wildman
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Mark Wildman | |
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Personal Information | |
Date of birth | January 25, 1936 |
Nationality | English |
Career | |
Professional | 1979 - ? |
2004/5 World Ranking | N/A |
Best World Ranking | 21 (1983/4) |
World Championship Best | 1st round 1983 |
Highest Break | ? |
Mark Wildman (born January 25, 1936) is a retired English professional snooker player.
He won the World Professional Billiards Championship in 1984 and was runner up in 1980 and 1982.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s he was a distinguished snooker commentator for ITV until the sport was dropped by the channel.
Between September 1999 and September 2002 he was Chairman of the WPBSA.
In recent years he has resumed commentary for Sky Sports and British Eurosport, but was dropped by Sky Sports when they ceased coverage of WPBSA- backed tournaments in 2004, and was dropped by Eurosport as a commentator at around the same time.
In July 2006, Wildman returned to Eurosport as the leading commentator of their coverage of the new International Pool Tour.
He is also the former coach of 2005 world champion Shaun Murphy.