IBSF U18 World Snooker Championship

The IBSF U18 World Snooker Championship is a snooker tournament that has been held annually since 2015 and is organized by the International Billiards & Snooker Federation . The first event was won by Ka Wai Cheung from Hong Kong , in 2016 the Welshman Jackson Page and in 2017 the Pakistani Muhammad Naseem Akhtar won . In each of the following two years, a Chinese world champion was won, with He Guoqiang in 2018 and Jiang Jun in 2019 .

The tournaments at a glance

year	venue	World Champion	Result	finalist	Semi-finalists 1
2015	St. Petersburg	Ka Wai Cheung	5: 2	Ming Tung Chan	Dylan Emery
					Abdul Raheem
2016	Mole	Jackson Page	5: 4	Yun Fung Tam	Mihai Vladu
					Chris Totten
2017	Beijing	Muhammad Naseem Akhtar	5: 3	Lei Peifan	Amir Nardeia
					Junjie Bo
2018	Jinan	Hey Guoqiang	5: 4	Lei Peifan	Chang Bingyu
					Zhao Jianbo
2019	Qingdao	Jiang Jun	5: 2	Gao Yang	Zhao Jianbo
					Peng Yisong

¹ The first-named semi-finalist lost against the eventual world champion, the second-named against the other finalist.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2015 World Under-18 Championship - Men. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed May 20, 2017 . 
2. ↑ 2016 World Under-18 Championship - Men. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed May 20, 2017 .