Top 10 moments of 2022/23 snooker season: No. 7 – Mark Allen sheds stones to pile on pounds with UK Championship glory

After the conclusion of another extraordinary snooker season, we pick 10 memorable moments from the 2022/23 campaign as captured by the Eurosport cameras. You can vote for your personal favourite when we reveal our final list of contenders later this month. No.

7 – Rejuvenated Allen discovers appetite for title success Ad Mark Allen is the snooker player who shed stones to pile on the pounds. Hong Kong MastersTop 10 moments of 2022/23: No. 8 – Unforgettable Hong Kong Masters shatters world recordYESTERDAY AT 11:09 The most productive campaign of his undulating 18-year professional career ended with the Northern Irishman earning three major trophies, a whopping £683,250 in prize money and reaching a career-high of world No.

3. Yet none of his success would have been possible if he had not had something of an epiphany after his 13-4 defeat to Ronnie O'Sullivan in the second round of last year's World Championship in Sheffield. Battling morbid obesity, mental health problems and the trauma of bankruptcy, Allen decided the only way to salvage a once burgeoning career was to work hard to improve his lot on and off the table.

Six-and-a-half stones disappeared during a memorable 2022/23 campaign that saw the rejuvenated lightweight from Antrim weigh in with some heavyweight performances having reached a debilitating, shot-restricting 19 stones without a waistcoat. None more so than at the UK Championship in November when he recovered from trailing three-time champion Ding Junhui 6-1 to emerge a 10-7 winner with breaks of 79, 60, 93, 132, 56, 59 and 109 of justifying the sense of a rebirth at the Barbican in York. A bit like his compatriot Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins had famously managed with a 16-15 win over Steve Davis in the