IBSF U21 World Snooker Championship

The IBSF U21 World Snooker Championship ( IBSF World Under-21 Championship or IBSF World Junior Championship ) is a snooker tournament that has been held since 1987.

The host association is the International Billiards & Snooker Federation . In contrast to the IBSF World Snooker Championship , only players under the age of 21 are eligible to participate .

Men's tournament

history

The victory at the U21 World Championship was, like one at the IBSF Snooker World Championship, one of several ways to qualify for the Snooker Main Tour until 2017 .

The U21 world champions Ken Doherty , Peter Ebdon , Ronnie O'Sullivan and Neil Robertson later also became world champions in snooker among professionals.

World Champion

year	venue	winner	Result	finalist	Semi-finalists 1
1987	Hastings	Jonathan Birch	4: 1	Stefan Mazrocis	Paul Cavney
					Darren Morgan
1988	Bangkok	Brian Morgan	6: 1	Jason Peplow	Paul Cavney
					Noppadon Noppachorn
1989	Reykjavík	Ken Doherty	11: 5	Jason Ferguson	Troy Shaw
					Peter Ebdon
1990	Brisbane	Peter Ebdon	11: 9	Oliver King	Amrik Cheema
					Lee Grant
1991	Bangalore	Ronnie O'Sullivan	11: 4	Patrick Delsemme	Ray van den Nouwland
					Sonic Multani
1992	Brunei	Robin Hull	11: 7	Patrick Delsemme	Indica Dodangoda
					Stuart Lawler
1993	Reykjavík	Kristjan Helgason	11: 7	Indica Dodangoda	Jóhannes B. Jóhannesson
					Johan van Goetham
1994	Helsinki	Quinten Hann	11:10	David Gray	Jonathan Nelson
					Jóhannes B. Jóhannesson
1995	Singapore	Alan Burnett	11: 6	Kwan Poonjang	Marlon Manalo
					Johl Younger
1996	Johannesburg	Chan Kwok Ming	11: 6	Risto Vayrynen	Atthasit Mahitthi
					Stephen Maguire
1997	Carlow	Marco Fu	11: 7	Bjorn Haneveer	Andrew Norman
					Robert Murphy
1998	Rabat	Luke Simmonds	11: 2	Robert Murphy	Johl Younger
					Roy Stolk
1999	Cairo	Rodney Goggins	11: 4	Rolf de Jong	Manan Chandra
					Thomas Dowling
2000	Bangalore	Luke Fisher	11: 5	Steven Bennie	Ben Farnworth
					Rory McCarroll
2001	Stirling	Ricky Walden	11: 5	Sean O'Neill	Steven Bennie
					Luke Fisher
2002	Riga	Ding Junhui	11: 9	David John	Steven Bennie
					Pankaj Advani
2003	Taupo	Neil Robertson	11: 5	Liu Song	Ding Junhui
					Mark Allen
2004	Carlow	Gary Wilson	11: 5	Kobkit Palajin	Liang Wenbo
					Judd Trump
2005	Manama	Liang Wenbo	11: 9	Tian Pengfei	Li Hang
					Robert Stephen
2006	not carried out
2007	Goa	Michael Georgiou	11: 6	Zhang Anda	Vincent Muldoon
					Daniel Wells
2008	not carried out
2009	Kish	Noppon Saengkham	9: 8	Soheil Vahedi	Liu Chuang
					Li Yan
2010	Letterkenny	Sam Craigie	9: 8	Li Hang	Stephen Craigie
					Vincent Muldoon
2011	Montreal	Thanawat Tirapong Paiboon	9: 3	Noppon Saengkham	Nick Jennings
					Li Hang
2012	Wuxi	Lü Haotian	9: 6	Zhu Yinghui	Zhou Yuelong
					Hammad Miah
2013	Beijing	Lu Ning	9: 4	Zhou Yuelong	Yuan Sijun
					Oliver Lines
2014	Fujairah	Hossein Vafaei	8: 3	Josh Boileau	Mateusz Baranowski
					Zhao Xintong
2015	Bucharest	Boonyarit Keattikun	8: 7	Jamie Rhys Clarke	Wang Yuchen
					Josh Boileau
2016	Mole	Xu Si	6: 5	Alexander Ursenbacher	Lukas Kleckers
					Ka Wai Cheung
2017	Beijing	Fan Zhengyi	7: 6	Luo Honghao	Zhang Jiankang
					Tyler Rees
2018	Jinan	Wu Yize	6: 4	Pongsakorn Chongjairak	Zhao Jianbo
					Chang Bingyu
2019	Qingdao	Zhao Jianbo	6: 1	Pang Junxu	Liu Hongyu
					Jiang Jun

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

Ladies tournament

history

In 2007, the U21 World Cup was held for women for the first time. After the tournament was not played until 2013, it has now been held annually since 2014 parallel to the men's tournament. The record winner is the Thai Nutcharat Wongharuthai , who was always in the finals from 2015 to 2019 and was world champion three times.

World champions

year	venue	Winner	Result	Finalist	Semi-finalists 2
2007	Goa	Bi Zhuqing	4: 2	Ng On Yee	Arantxa Sanchis
					Ramona Belmont 3
2008-2013	not carried out
2014	Fujairah	Jessica Woods	4: 3	Waratthanun Sukritthanes	Daria Sirotina
					Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan
2015	Bucharest	Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan	5: 2	Nutcharat Wongharuthai	Varsha Sanjeev
					Nikoleta Nikolova
2016	Mole	Nutcharat Wongharuthai	5: 4	Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan	Kamila Khodjaeva
					Varsha Sanjeev
2017	Beijing	Nutcharat Wongharuthai	5: 3	Yuying Xia	Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan
					Yulu Bai
2018	Jinan	Nutcharat Wongharuthai	4: 2	Yulu Bai	Yuying Xia
					Thitaphon Nakkaew
2019	Qingdao	Yulu Bai	4-0	Nutcharat Wongharuthai	Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan
					Ploychompoo Laokiatphong

² The first-named semi-finalist lost against the future world champion, the second-named against the other finalist.

³ Player won the game for third place.

Web links

• Past Champions at the International Billiards & Snooker Federation
• Chris Turner's Snooker Archive - Overview of all finals since 1987 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Tournaments In World Under-21 Championship - Men at CueTracker.net
• Tournaments In World Under-21 Championship - Women at CueTracker.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBSF World Under 21 SnookerChampionship 2007 - Draw Knock-Out (Ladies). Cue Sports India, accessed November 11, 2019 .  
2. ↑ World U21 Women Snooker Championship → Qingdao - China 2019. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation , accessed July 13, 2019 .