Profiles of the greatest three-cushion carom billiards players in history and the active stars defining the sport today.
Players
- Sang Lee (1954-2004) — Korean-American legend; bridge between Korean and American carom; reverse english master.
- Frédéric Caudron (1968-) — Caudron won the 2026 Ho Chi Minh City World Cup, taking his official career World Cup total to 22.
- Semih Saygıner (1964-) — Official UMB records show Saygıner was Turkey’s first individual world champion (2003), while Tayfun Taşdemir won in 2022; Sharm El Sheikh 2021 was Saygıner’s seventh World Cup.
- Torbjörn Blomdahl (1962-) — Official UMB reports record six individual world titles and 46 career World Cup wins for Blomdahl.
- Cho Jae-Ho (1990-) — The official PBA history records Cho Jae-Ho as its 2023 and 2024 World Championship winner and 2023 and 2024 Grand Prize recipient.
- Raymond Ceulemans (1937-) — Belgian "Mr 100"; 21 world titles — the all-time three-cushion record.
- Dick Jaspers (1965-) — Jaspers finished runner-up at the 2026 Ankara World Cup, losing 49–50 to Myung Woo Cho; the UMB records 32 career World Cup wins.
- Eddy Merckx (1968-) — Merckx was the 2025 individual world runner-up, then beat Jung Han Heo 50–23 in Porto in 2026 for his 15th World Cup win.
- Dani Sánchez (1974-) — The PBA named Sánchez its 2025–26 Golden Cue Grand Prize recipient; the UMB records 15 career World Cup wins.
- Marco Zanetti (1962-) — Italian two-time world champion from Bolzano; creative, spectacular shot-maker.
- Kim Haeng-jik (1992-) — Korean prodigy; 2016 world finalist and 2017 World Cup overall winner.
- Tayfun Taşdemir (1975-) — Turkish 2022 world champion; multiple World Cup winner with a complete all-round game.
- Therese Klompenhouwer (1983-) — 6× women's world champion, 13× European — the Dutch queen of three-cushion who beats the top men.
- Martin Horn (1971-) — German #1; European champion and multiple World Cup stage winner from the classic disciplines.
- Choi Sung-won (1977-) — Korea's 2014 UMB world champion; World Cup and AGIPI Masters winner.
- Bao Phuong Vinh (1995-) — Vietnam's first world champion (2023); fearless, fast-rising attacker.
- Tran Quyet Chien (1984-) — Tran and Tran Thanh Tu Nguyen won the 2026 World Championship for National Teams for Vietnam, defeating Germany in the final.
- Jérémy Bury — France's long-time No. 1; 2016 World Cup winner (Guri) and 9× French champion.
- Rubén Legazpi — Spain's 2022 world-championship finalist and 2003 European champion.
Active tournaments
- UMB World Cup — annual international series
- World Three-Cushion Championship — annual UMB individual title
- Korean PBA Pro Tour — professional set-based tour in South Korea (since 2019)