Sruong Pheavy
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-1.jpg) Pheavy in 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | ស្រួង ភាវី | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Sruong Pheavy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Cambodian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 September 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Suwon, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Cambodia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Three-cushion billiards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sruong Pheavy (Khmer: ស្រួង ភាវី, Korean: 스롱 피아비) is a Cambodian carom billiards player specialized in thiree-cushion event. She is widely well known in Cambodia and South Korea. She finished third twice in the UMB Women's World Three-cushion Championship.
She began her journey by taking second place in an amateur competition in 2013. She introduced herself internationally at the Jennifer Shim trophy 2015 in New York where she impressed everyone, even the world's best, Therese Klompenhouwer by finished second place.[1] After turning professional in January 2016, she won three national tournaments.
In June 2018, the Cambodian government set up the Cambodian Billiard and Snooker Federation for Pheavy.[2] She participated in the 2018 UMB Women's World Three-cushion Championship, which took place at İzmir, Turkey, and she won the bronze medal. Pheavy received a cash reward of $15,000 from the Cambodian government for her win and was ranked World No. 14.[3]
She won the ZANCA 1st Asian Championship Ladies 3-Cushion 2018 held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, in which she jumped to third place behind Therese Klompenhouwer of the Netherlands and Gulsen Degener from Turkey in the global rankings.[4][5]
A year later, she won another bronze medal at the 2019 UMB Women's World Three-cushion Championship held in Valencia, Spain.[6] In 2021, she won the Blue One Resort LPBA Championship in the Republic of Korea, adding the trophy to her collections.[7]
She made her SEA Games debut in 2023 SEA Games and won a gold medal for the Women's 3-cushion carom and a bronze medal for the Women's 1-cushion carom.[8][9] She also won PBA-LPBA Championship at Ansan, South Korea.[10]
