Which snooker player won five consecutive World Championship titles from 1990 to 1994?

Stephen Hendry won five consecutive World Championship titles from 1990 to 1994.

Hendry first became world champion in 1990, defeating Jimmy White in the final. He successfully defended the title in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994, creating the longest uninterrupted winning sequence of the modern Crucible era.

His run made Hendry the leading player of the 1990s. He won seven World Championships overall, with his final world title arriving in 1999. Hendry also became known for attacking break-building and helped define snooker’s modern professional style.

The record is sometimes confused with Steve Davis’s six world titles or Joe Davis’s 15 championships. Those players achieved larger totals in different eras, but neither won five successive modern titles from 1990 through 1994. Ronnie O’Sullivan has also won seven world championships, but not in a five-year consecutive sequence.