Colm Gilcreest

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Colm Gilcreest
birthday May 7th 1974
nationality IrelandIreland Ireland
professional 1994-1997, 1998/99, 2000/01, 2002-2004
Prize money £ 48,932
Highest break 126
Century Breaks 12
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories -
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 84 (2004)

Colm Gilcreest (born May 7, 1974 ) is an Irish snooker player . Between 1994 and 2004 he was a professional on the Main Tour for a total of 7 years .

Career

Colm Gilcreest was Irish amateur champion in 1993 and then took part in professional tournaments from 1994/95 . At the UK Championship he reached the last 128 for the first time, as well as at the European Open . At the World Cup he made it into the best-of-19 rounds. In the two-year ranking of the world rankings , he came in 267th. However, his second year did not go well, he did not get past the second round in any of the 10 tournaments and could hardly improve. The 1996/97 season didn't go much better and reaching the third round twice were the best results. In 1997 he was not among the top 200. After the Main Tour was introduced with a restriction on the number of participants for the next season , he lost his professional status and had to play the UK Tour . In the 5 tournaments he did quite well and reached the quarter-finals once and the round of the last 32 two more times.

In 1998/99 he was allowed to participate in the big tournaments again and already at the Grand Prix he reached the round of 64 for the first time at the beginning. In the tournament he defeated Mark Davis , at that time number 56 in the world rankings, 5-0. At the Welsh Open and the Scottish Open he came under the last 96 and was otherwise quite successful, so that he made it into the top 128 in the world. That was not enough for the professional tournaments of the 1999/2000 season, but he took part very successfully in the two tournaments open to amateurs. At the Benson & Hedges Championship he defeated Marcus Campbell and Dominic Dale , who were 48th and 19th respectively in the world rankings, the latter even 5-0. He was only eliminated in the quarterfinals. And at the World Cup he defeated Karl Burrows 10: 0, Jimmy Michie 10: 5 and after a hard-fought 10: 9 against Stefan Mazrocis he reached the last 48. With a 6:10 defeat against Billy Snaddon he only missed as an amateur for a game to move into the Crucible Theater , where the top 32 players played the World Cup finals. In 2000/2001, however, he could not use his next chance at the professional tournaments. In 6 of the 8 tournaments he lost his opening game, in the other two the second game. He fell back to 148th place and lost his professional status again.

As of 2001, he did not play the Challenge Tour very successfully to qualify again. Nevertheless, he was again eligible to participate in the Main Tour for the 2002/03 season . At the beginning of the LG Cup he once again reached the bottom 64. At the British Open he was at least in the bottom 80. This put him in 101st place in the world rankings. In the following year he reached the last 32 in the Masters Qualifying Event , the former Benson & Hedges Championship, which did not count for the ranking. The same thing he did a little later for the first time in a ranking tournament, his home tournament the Irish Masters . With Joe Swail he also defeated another top 32 player. At the European Open he was in the bottom 64 and three more times in the bottom 96. With 84th place he reached his best world ranking, but only the top 64 qualified directly for the next season. He lost his professional status again and this time for good.

In 2004/05 he tried to return via the Challenge Tour, but three times the round of 32 in four tournaments was not enough. In 2005/06 the PIOS tour with 8 tournaments was introduced as a qualification tour. There he won the fourth tournament against Mark Joyce 6: 3. At the next tournament he reached the quarter-finals. In the last 3 tournaments he lost his first game and so he only came in 9th place with 8 qualifying places in the overall ranking. The following year there were only a quarter-finals and two round of 16 and 22nd place overall. Then he gave up the qualifying tour. In 2008 he almost managed to return to the Main Tour at the age of 34: He reached the final of the Amateur World Championship , but lost to Thepchaiya Un-Nooh with 7:11 and the Thai got a place on the professional tour. From 2010, Gilcreest took part in individual tournaments of the Players Tour Championship , but without reaching the main tournament.

successes

Ranking tournaments:

Other professional tournaments:

Qualifying tournaments:

Amateur tournaments:

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Profile of Colm Gilcreest on CueTracker (as of 2018)
  2. ↑ PIOS 2005/06 Top 20 (forum contribution). havenforum.co.uk, May 13, 2006, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Pontin's International Open Series 2006/2007 ( Memento from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Gilcreest, Colm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH May 7th 1974