Anita Rizzuti (born 12 January 1971, also known as Anita Maflin) is a Norwegian

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and

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player. She is married to professional snooker player

Kurt Maflin Kurt Graham Maflin (born 8 August 1983) is an English-Norwegian former professional snooker player. A strong break-builder, Maflin has compiled more than 200 century breaks during his career and has made two 147 breaks in professional competitio ...

Career

Rizzuti was a semi-finalist at the inaugural EBSA European Women's Championship in 1996, losing 0–5 to

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. She reached the semi-finals again in 2001, losing 1–4 to

Kelly Fisher Kelly Fisher (born 25 August 1978) is an English professional pool, snooker and English billiards player. Career Fisher grew up in South Elmsall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. She learned to play pool in her parents' pub and took up snooke ...

and was a quarter-finalist in 1999, 2004 and 2006. Rizzuti,

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and

Wendy Jans Wendy Jans (born 14 June 1983, in Bree, Belgium) is a Belgian professional snooker and pool player. She has won the IBSF World Snooker Championship for women seven times. She reached her first women's world final at the 2022 World Women's Snooke ...

all took part in the 2010 World Open. Jans lost 0–3 to

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in the first round. In the European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 4, Maflin lost 2–4 to Andreas Hartung. At

European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 8 The European Tour 2013/2014 – Event 8 (also known as the 2014 Gdynia Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 6–9 February 2014 at the Gdynia Sports Arena in Gdynia, Poland. Neil Robertson was the de ...

, she lost 0–4 to Joe Steele, and at

European Tour 2014/2015 – Event 1 The European Tour 2014/2015 – Event 1 (also known as the 2014 Kaspersky Lab Riga Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 7–10 August 2014 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. This was the first profes ...

she lost 0–4 to Anthony Jeffers. At

European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 1 The European Tour 2015/2016 – Event 1 (also known as the 2015 Kaspersky Lab Riga Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament which took place between 29 July and 2 August 2015 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. Mark Selby was t ...

she lost 0–4 to Simon Dent. Rizzuti and

lost 1–3 to

Ng On-yee Ng On-yee (; born 17 November 1990) is a Hong Kong professional snooker player who has won three IBSF World Snooker Championships and three World Women's Snooker world championships. She held the number one position in the World Women's Sno ...

and So Man Yan in the final of the 2014 WLBS World Ladies Pairs Championship. She is married to professional snooker player

. They represented Norway at the 2015 World Cup.

Career Highlights

Source:European Billiards & Snooker Association (results to 2002) *1996

EBSA European Snooker Championship The EBSA European Snooker Championship is the premier amateur snooker tournament in Europe. The event series is sanctioned by the European Billiards & Snooker Association. It first took place in 1988 and has been held annually since 1993. In most y ...

Ladies' semi-finalist *1997 Norwegian Cup 2nd place *1999

Ladies' quarter-finalist *2000 Nordic Ladies Champion *2000 Norway Ladies Champion *2001

Ladies' semi-finalist *2002 Nordic Cup Ladies Champion *2002 Norway Ladies Champion *2004

Ladies' quarter-finalist *2006

Ladies' quarter-finalist * 2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship quarter-finalist *2014 WLBS World Ladies Pairs Championship runner-up, with

References

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