Robert "Bob" Chaperon is a retired Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 professional snooker

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...

 and billiards player.

Career

Chaperon's greatest achievement was winning the 1990 British Open

British Open (snooker)

The British Open was a professional snooker tournament. It was a ranking tournament from 1985. The tournament has not been held since the 2004/2005 season....

, beating Alex Higgins

Alex Higgins

Alexander Gordon "Alex" Higgins , also known by his nickname of Hurricane Higgins, was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who was twice World Champion and twice runner-up. Higgins earned the nickname The Hurricane because of his speed of play...

 10–8 in the final. He reached at least one other ranking quarter-final, the 1987 Grand Prix

Grand Prix (snooker)

The World Open is a professional ranking snooker tournament. It has previously been known as the Professional Players Tournament, the LG Cup and the Grand Prix. During 2006 and 2007, it was played in a unique round-robin format, more similar to association football and rugby tournaments than the...

. He also won the World Cup with Canada in 1990 and the Canadian Snooker Championship twice, in 1981 and 2000. He started slipping down the rankings in the 1990s and he retired in 2001. He still plays in tournaments in North America.

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