Patrick Delsemme (13 September 1974 – 8 December 2022) was a Belgian snooker player from Liège.
[1] When he was 17 years old, he finished second at the under-21 world championships in Bangalore, losing in the final to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
[1][2] He also lost his ranking points and also had to pay back the prize money he won at those tournaments (£11,000).
[3] Afterwards, he made a splendid 147 in an amateur event in Belgium playing with.... a borrowed cue, and won the Belgian 40+ Championship in 2018.
In 2022, Delsemme had taken part by invitation in a major snooker tournament in Casablanca, Morocco, where he died on 8 December 2022, at the age of 48.