IBSF World Billiards Championship

The IBSF World Billiards Championship (formerly World Amateur Billiards Championship ) was the most important non-professional tournament, the English Billiards discipline , in the world. The series of events (not to be confused with the World Professional Billiards Championship ) was organized by the International Billiards & Snooker Federation . The first tournament took place in London in 1926 . In 2012 they merged with the World Professional Billiards Championship to form the World Billiards Championship . However, this partnership was ended again in 2015 by the IBSF. Since then, separate world championships have been held again, each in the two formats “points” and “time” (timed).

The tournament takes place in both formats, "timed" and "points". With a few exceptions, a 2-year cycle was played until 1990, then annually.

history

Before 1951 the event was called the "(British) Empire Billiards Championship". The first "Amateur" championship took place under the auspices of the Billiards Association & Control Council (BACC, based in London),

In 1971, after many years of discussion, the World Billiards & Snooker Council (WBSC) was formed. In 1973 it changed its name to the International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF). The name change came about because many foreign national associations complained that the same body supervised both the English domestic games and the international games. As a result, the IBSF took control of the organization of the non-professional championships, both in snooker and in English billiards.

The first non- British Commonwealth winner was Praput Chaithanasakun from Thailand at the 1999 tournament in Ireland.

Tournament statistics

year	place	format	winner	Result	finalist
1926	London	-	Joe Earlam	Round robin	George Shailer
1927	London	-	Allan Prior	Round robin	Horace Coles
1929	Johannesburg	-	Les Hayes	Round robin	Allan Prior
1931	Sydney	-	Laurie Steeples	Round robin	Sydney Lee
1933	London	-	Sydney Lee	Round robin	Tom Jones
1935	London	-	Horace Coles	Round robin	J McGhie
1936	Johannesburg	-	Bob Marshall	Round robin	Allan Prior
1938	Melbourne	-	Bob Marshall	Round robin	Kingsley Kennerley
No world championships were held between 1939 and 1950
1951	London	-	Bob Marshall	Round robin	Frank Edwards
1952	Calcutta	-	Leslie Driffield	Round robin	Bob Marshall
1954	Sydney	-	Tom Cleary	Round robin	Bob Marshall
1958	Calcutta	-	Wilson Jones	Round robin	Leslie Driffield
1960	Edinburgh	-	Herbert Beetham	Round robin	Jim Long
1962	Perth	-	Bob Marshall	3,623 : 2,891	Wilson Jones
1964	Pukekohe	-	Wilson Jones	Round robin	Jack Karnehm
1967	Colombo	-	Leslie Driffield	Round robin	Mohammed JM Lafir
1969	London	-	Jack Karnehm	Round robin	Michael Ferreira
1971	Malta	-	Norman Dagley	Round robin	Mannie Francisco
1973	Bombay	-	Mohammed JM Lafir	Round robin	Satish Mohan
1975	Auckland	time	Norman Dagley	3,385 : 2,268	Michael Ferreira
1977	Melbourne	time	Michael Ferreira	2,683 : 2,564	Bob Close
1979	Sri Lanka	time	Paul Mifsud	2,943 : 2,152	Norman Dagley
1981	Delhi	time	Michael Ferreira	2.725 : 2.631	Norman Dagley
1983	Malta	time	Michael Ferreira	3,933 : 2,744	Subhash Agrawal
1985	Dublin	time	Geet Sethi	3,809 : 2,453	Bob Marshall
1987	Belfast	time	Geet Sethi	4,846 : 3,256	Joe Grech
1990	Bangalore	time	Manoj Kothari	2,890 : 2,422	Ashok Shandilya
1996	India	time	Mike Russell	1.741 : 885	Roxton Chapman
1997	Malta	time	Joe Grech	2,895 : 2,836	Ashok Shandilya
1998	Australia	time	Robby Foldvari	1,869 : 1,439	Praput Chaithanasakun
1999	Ireland	time	Praput Chaithanasakun	3,201 : 1,657	Paul Bennett
2000	England	Points	Chris Shutt	11 : 9 (up to 50)	Roxton Chapman
2001	New Zealand	time	Geet Sethi	3,484 : 1,289	Ashok Shandilya
2002	Australia	time	Mike Russell	2.438 : 1499	Geet Sethi
		Points	Ashok Shandilya	11 : 9 (up to 50)	Praput Chaithanasakun
2003	India	Points	Lee Lagan	6 : 5 (up to 150)	Geet Sethi
2005	Malta	time	Pankaj Advani	2.242 : 1.717	Geet Sethi
		Points	Pankaj Advani	6 : 2 (up to 150)	Devendra Joshi
2007	Singapore	time	Pankaj Advani	1,946 : 1,488	Dhruv Sitwala
		Points	Rupesh Shah	6 : 4 (up to 150)	Ashok Shandilya
2008	Bangalore	time	Pankaj Advani	2,368 : 2,020	Devendra Joshi
		Points	Pankaj Advani	6 : 1 (up to 150)	Geet Sethi
2010	Maharashtra	time	Mike Russell	4.120 : 784	Peter Gilchrist
		Points	Mike Russell	6 : 0 (up to 150)	Pankaj Advani
2011	Carlow	time	Mike Russell	3,001 : 519	Matthew Bolton
		Points	Mike Russell	6 : 3 (up to 150)	Pankaj Advani
World Championships from 2012 to 2014 are Championship World Billiards find
2015	Adelaide	time	Pankaj Advani	2.408 : 1.240	Peter Gilchrist
		Points	Peter Gilchrist	6 : 4 (up to 150)	Pankaj Advani
2016	Bengaluru	time	Peter Gilchrist	1,500 : 617	Sourav Kothari
		Points	Pankaj Advani	6 : 3 (up to 150)	Peter Gilchrist
2017	Doha	time	Mike Russell	1,500 : 1,284	Robert Hall
		Points	Pankaj Advani	6 : 2 (up to 150)	Mike Russell
2018	Rangoon	time	Pankaj Advani	1,500 : 299	Bhaskar Balachandra
		Points	Pankaj Advani	6 : 2 (up to 150)	Nay Thway Oo
2019	Mandalay	time	Peter Gilchrist	1000 : 732	Praprut Chaithanasakun
		Points	Pankaj Advani	6 : 2 (up to 150)	Nay Thway Oo
2020		time		:
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Web links

• IBSF website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter from the Chairman on World-Billiards.com . Retrieved September 24, 2015.
2. ^ Northern Ireland Billiards Association Minutes , 1926-50
3. ^ Northern Ireland Billiards Association Minutes , p. 133, 5 July 1951
4. ↑ NIBA Minutes , p. 198, 1959 (Billiards Association of India and BACC discussions on formation of a world body)
5. ↑ Past Champions. IBSF, accessed April 16, 2013 . 
6. ↑ IBSF World Billiards Championship 2015 on ibsf.info . Retrieved October 5, 2015.
7. ↑ IBSF Billiards Championships Long up - Bengaluru / India 2016. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
8. ↑ IBSF Billiards Championships 150 up - Bengaluru / India 2016. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
9. ↑ IBSF World Billiards Championships Long up - Doha / Qatar 2017. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
10. ↑ IBSF World Billiards Championships 150 up - Doha / Qatar 2017. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
11. ↑ IBSF Billiards Championships Long up - Yangon / Myanmar 2018. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
12. ↑ IBSF Billiards Championships 150 up - Yangon / Myanmar 2018. In: ibsf.info. International Billiards & Snooker Federation, accessed November 30, 2018 .