郭軍城

简介

Kwok Kwun Shing was a professional snooker player from Hong Kong, considered the first Hong Kong player to win the Asian Snooker Championship, earning the nickname "Tiger of Asia". He began playing snooker at the age of thirteen and won the Asian Snooker Championship in 1985. He also won the Chinese National Snooker Championship multiple times. He worked as a television presenter on Hong Kong's Asia Television, co-hosting the programme "Race Results" alongside Dong Piao and Hung Leung Shek in the 1980s. He also made cameo appearances in films, including "Modern Cinderella" directed by Wong Jing in 1985 and "Son of Dragon" directed by Lee Sau Sin in 1991. In 2000, he played a friendly match against Chinese prodigy Ding Junhui in Guangzhou and lost. He spent his later years coaching snooker in mainland China and placed third in the Hong Kong Bailey Open in 2009. He passed away in March 2011 from a suspected heart attack while travelling by train from Shaanxi to Guangzhou with his wife, at the age of 59.