New Zealand Snooker Championship

The New Zealand Snooker Championship is a competition to determine the national champion of snooker billiards in New Zealand .

history

As in many of the British Commonwealth of Nations , New Zealand has a long tradition of billiards and snooker. An annual national amateur championship has been recorded since the end of World War II. A women's championship was held for the first time in 1990, while youth and senior competitions have only existed since the 2000s.

Title holder

The record holder of the title is L. Stout, who was champion seven times between 1948 and 1956. Like many players, especially in the early years, he was also successful in English Billiards and won the title there too. In 1952, he became the first player to win both titles in one year. Apart from him, only Tom Yesberg (1964) and Lance Napper (1965) made it. Dave Meredith was a snooker champion in the late 1970s and then became a record holder of 15 billiards in the 80s and 90s. He is one of 5 players with 4 snooker titles. Besides himself, Bill Harcourt, Harry Haenga, his son Daniel Haenga and Chris McBreen managed to do it . McBreen played one season as a professional on the Snooker Main Tour . Besides him, only one master also turned pro: Dene O'Kane . At 17, he was also the youngest title holder for a long time until he was replaced in 2016 by Louis Chand, who was also 17 years old when he won, but was 17 days younger. In addition to father and son Haenga with 8 “family titles”, there were two related masters: The brothers Glen and Dale Kwok alternated between the titles from 1981 to 1984 and together won 5 championships.

The endgame pairings are not fully recorded in the main sources, which is why the following list is incomplete. In the case of multiple winners, the superscript number indicates the total number of titles for the first win.

year	Men			Women	Seniors	U21
	winner	Result	finalist
1945	S. Moses	unknown		not carried out	not carried out	not carried out
1946	L. Munro
1947	W. Thompson
1948	L. Stout 7
1949	L. Stout
1950	L. Stout
1951	N. Lewis
1952	L. Stout
1953	L. Stout
1954	R. Franks 2
1955	L. Stout
1956	L. Stout
1957	William Harcourt 4
1958	William Harcourt
1959	William Harcourt
1960	Tom Yesberg 2
1961	R. Franks
1962	K. Murphy
1963	William Harcourt
1964	Tom Yesberg
1965	Lance Napper 3
1966	Lance Napper
1967	Robert Flutey
1968	Lance Napper
1969	Laurie Glozier
1970	Kelvin Tristram 3
1971	Brien J. Bennett	4: 2	Winston Hill
1972	Norman Stockman	unknown	Selwyn Rota
1973	Winston Hill	unknown
1974	Kelvin Tristram
1975	Kelvin Tristram
1976	Dale Kwok 3	4: 3	Peter Mischefski
1977	Dave Meredith 4	unknown
1978	Dave Meredith	4: 1	Lou Adams
1979	Dave Meredith	unknown
1980	Dene O'Kane	4: 1	Peter Mischefski
1981	Glen Kwok 2	4: 3	Clint Polomalu
1982	Dale Kwok	unknown
1983	Dale Kwok	unknown	Harry Haenga
1984	Glen Kwok	unknown
1985	Peter de Groot
1986	Dave Meredith
1987	Steve Robertson 3
1988	Steve Robertson
1989	Steve Robertson	unknown	Harry Haenga
1990	Bruce Anderson	unknown		Lorraine Field
1991	Roy Young 2	8: 2	Steve Robertson	Lorraine Field
1992	Harry Haenga 4	unknown		Lorraine Field
1993	Roy Young			unknown
1994	Wyn Belmont			Lorraine Field
1995	Harry Haenga			Lorraine Field
1996	Chris McBreen 4	8: 4	Steve Robertson	Lorraine Field
1997	Richard Muehlauer	8: 6	Mark Canovan	Lorraine Field
1998	Daniel Haenga 4	unknown		Lorraine Field
1999	Daniel Haenga	8: 4	Chris McBreen	Lorraine Field
2000	Daniel Haenga	8: 7	Harry Haenga	Lorraine Field		Ben Farnworth
2001	Daniel Haenga	8: 5	Alastair Davidson	unknown		Chris Fabish
2002	Chris McBreen	8: 6	Henry Killian	Temple Geayley		Scott Farnworth
2003	Mark Canovan 3	8: 7	Harry Haenga	Temple Geayley		Eiran Bailey
2004	Mark Canovan	8: 6	Daniel Haenga	Ramona Belmont	Dene O'Kane	Jason Todd
2005	Harry Haenga	8: 2	Wyn Belmont	Ramona Belmont	Wyn Belmont	David Meier-Bailey
2006	Chris McBreen	unknown		unknown	Henry Killian	David Meier-Bailey
2007	Chris McBreen	8: 5	Mark Canovan	Ramona Belmont	Henry Killian	David Meier-Bailey
2008	Harry Haenga	8: 6	Wyn Belmont	unknown	Dene O'Kane	David Meier-Bailey
2009	Chris Maltby 2	8: 7	Chris McBreen		Henry Killian	David Meier-Bailey
2010	Chris Maltby	8: 7	Gary Gillard		Harry Haenga	Ryan Knott
2011	Bayden Jackson 2	8: 7	Chris Maltby	Ramona Belmont	Dene O'Kane	Lee Paul
2012	Henry Killian 3	unknown	Steve Robertson	unknown	unknown	Rogan Beedle
2013	Henry Killian	8: 4	Chris Maltby	Nita Clarkson	Dene O'Kane	Sam Bond
2014	Mark Canovan	6: 3	Paul Bason	Molrudee Kasemchaiyanan	Henry Killian	Louis Chand
2015	Henry Killian	8: 4	Bayden Jackson	Kimberley Cullen	unknown	Louis Chand
2016	Louis Chand	8: 5	Matthew Scarborough	Agnes Kimura	Paul Bason	Mikey Stewart
2017	Baydon Jackson	7: 4	Matthew Scarborough	Tara Jackson	unknown	Healey White
2018	Deepak Bala	6: 5	Shannon Swain	Tara Jackson	Mark Hannah	Mario Hildred
2019	Shannon Swain	8: 4	Matthew Scarborough	Tara Jackson	Cody Turner	Bayden Jackson

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23. ↑ 2013 Results. In: nzbsa.org.nz. New Zealand Billiards & Snooker Assn., Accessed July 29, 2019 . 
24. ^ New Zealand Womens Snooker Championship. In: nzbsa.org.nz. New Zealand Billiards & Snooker Assn., July 8, 2014, accessed July 29, 2019 . 
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27. ↑ 2016 NZ Seniors Snooker. (PDF; 36.6 KB) In: nzbsa.org.nz. New Zealand Billiards & Snooker Assn., Accessed July 29, 2019 . 
28. ↑ 2016 NZ Under 21 Snooker. (PDF; 38.3 KB) In: nzbsa.org.nz. New Zealand Billiards & Snooker Assn., Accessed July 29, 2019 . 
29. ↑ NZBSA NZ Women's Snooker Championship. (PDF; 349 KB) In: nzbsa.org.nz. New Zealand Billiards & Snooker Assn., Accessed July 29, 2019 . 
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36. ↑ 2019 New Zealand Under 21s and Seniors Championships Final Results. In: nzbsa.org.nz. New Zealand Billiards & Snooker Assn., October 21, 2018, accessed November 2, 2019 . 

Web links

• NZ Billiards & Snooker Assn. - Roll of Honor ( Memento from October 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• New Zealand Amateur Championship at CueTracker
• NZBSA player database