Steve Mifsud is a Maltese Australian

Maltese Australian

Maltese Australians are residents or citizens of Australia who are of Maltese ancestry or Maltese citizens. While most of them emigrated to Australia from Malta, a number emigrated from the United Kingdom where they had settled after having been expelled from Egypt, as holders of British passports,...

 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 :...

 player. He was a winner of the IBSF World Amateur Championship in Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

, Egypt

Egypt

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 in 2002, beating Tim English 11–6 in the final which enabled him to get on the main tour for the 2002/2003 season

Snooker season 2002/2003

The snooker season 2002/2003 was a series of snooker tournaments played during the years 2002 and 2003. This was the final season to have tobacco sponsored events to a legal ban apart from Embassy which would continue to sponsor the World Championship for another two years...

, although he later dropped off. He was runner-up to Mark Allen

Mark Allen (snooker player)

Mark Allen is a Northern Irish professional snooker player. He won the World Amateur Championship in 2004. The following year he turned professional and took only three seasons to reach the elite top 16...

 in the same event two years later.

He got back onto the main tour for the 2007/2008 season

Snooker season 2007/2008

The Snooker Season 2007/2008 was a series of snooker tournaments played during 2007 and 2008. The following table outlines the results and dates for all the ranking and major invitational events...

 by finishing top of the Australian rankings. Again he dropped off immediately, winning just one match in the six knockout tournaments.

He was Neil Robertson

Neil Robertson (snooker player)

Neil Robertson is an Australian professional snooker player and the 2010 World Champion and World #4...

's partner in the 2011 World Cup

2011 World Cup (snooker)

The 2011 World Cup professional non-ranking snooker tournament took place from 11 to 17 July 2011 at the World Trade Center in Bangkok, Thailand...

 where he helped Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

reach the quarter-finals.