ABSC Snooker Africa Championship
The Men's ABSC Snooker Africa Championship is a snooker tournament held by the African Billiards & Snooker Confederation (ABSC).
history
The tournament was held for the first time in 1993 and is usually held annually. The first title holder was Ismael Teeluck from Mauritius. All of the following titleholders came from either Egypt or South Africa.
In 2012 a place was awarded for the first time for the winner of the tournament for the Snooker Main Tour . Since the already over 50-year-old Peter Francisco renounced, Mohamed Khairy got the place on the professional tour. After that, the Africa winner was irregularly considered for the professional tour. In 2018 Mohamed Ibrahim was not nominated by the Continental Association, but received a wildcard from the World Association .
After the African Championship 2019 had to be canceled due to scheduling difficulties, the association awarded the Main Tour place to the winner of the 2019 African Games snooker competition , Amine Amiri .
winner
year | venue | winner | Result | finalist |
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1993 | Mauritius | Ismael Teeluck | unknown | |
1994 | Port Louis | Bernie Jones | 11:10 | Schalk Mouton |
1995 | Durban | Warren Horsley | 11: 8 | Bernie Jones |
1996 | South Africa | Hitesh Narran | 11: 8 | Warren Horsley |
1999 | Egypt | Warren Horsley | 6: 5 | Munier Cassim |
2000 | Morocco | Mohamed El Hamy | 5: 4 | Sherif A. Senna |
2002 | Cairo | Hesham Abbas | 5: 2 | Wael Talaat |
2007 | Casablanca | Wael Talaat | 5: 4 | Mohamed Samy Elkhayat |
2008 | Tripoli | Mohamed El Hamy | 6: 2 | Mohamed Samy Elkhayat |
2009 | Johannesburg | Wael Talaat | 6-0 | Mohamed Samy Elkhayat |
2010 | Cairo | Mohamed Samy Elkhayat | 6: 1 | Wael Talaat |
2011 | Cairo | Wael Talaat | 6: 4 | Mohamed El Hamy |
2012 | Johannesburg | Peter Francisco | 6: 2 | Mohamed Khairy 1 |
2013 | Marrakech | Peter Francisco | 6: 2 | Khalid Belaied Abumdas 1 |
2015 | Tunis | Hatem Yassin 1 | 6: 5 | Mohamed Khairy |
2016 | Sharm el-Sheikh | Peter Francisco | 6: 1 | Wael Talaat |
2017 | Hammamet | Basem Eltahhan 1 | 6: 5 | Wael Talaat |
2018 | Cairo | Mohamed Ibrahim 1 | 6: 1 | Mostafa Dorgham |
2019 | not carried out |
swell
- ↑ Ibrahim Awarded World Snooker Tour Card , World Snooker, May 17, 2018
- ↑ Morocco's Amine Handed Tour Card. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , August 28, 2019, accessed August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ All Africa Snooker Championship 1995 ( Memento from February 26, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) (Riley.net)
- ↑ 1999 All Africa Snooker Championship (PDF; 37 kB)
- ↑ 2000 African Snooker Championship (PDF; 16 kB)
- ↑ The African Snooker Championship 2002 (PDF; 32 kB)
- ↑ 2007 All Africa Snooker Championship on African Billiards & Snooker Confederation ( MS Excel ; 201 kB)
- ↑ The African Snooker Championship: Libya 2008 on African Billiards & Snooker Confederation ( MS Excel ; 114 kB)
- ↑ The 2009 All Africa Snooker Championship on African Billiards & Snooker Confederation ( MS Excel ; 533 kB)
- ↑ 2010 African Snooker Championship ( Memento from November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Global Snooker)
- ↑ 2011 All Africa Snooker Championship on African Billiards & Snooker Confederation ( MS Excel ; 417 kB)
- ↑ 2012 All Africa Snooker Championship on African Billiards & Snooker Confederation ( MS Excel ; 601 kB)
- ↑ The African Snooker Championship (Marrakech 2013): Knock out stage ( Memento from June 30, 2013 on WebCite ) (African Billiards & Snooker Confederation; PDF ; 658.8 kB)
- ↑ The African Snooker Championship (Tunisia 2015): Knockout Stage at African Billiards & Snooker Confederation ( PDF ; 1.15 MB)
- ↑ The African Men Snooker Championship - Sharm El Sheik 2016 ( XLS format; 459 kB)
- ↑ 2017 African Championship - Men (Cuetracker)
- ↑ 2018 African Championship - Men (Cuetracker)
Web links
- ABSC archive (African Billiards & Snooker Confederation)
- Roll of Honor ( Memento of November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Global Snooker)
- Tournaments In African Championship - Men at CueTracker.net