1956 World Snooker Championship

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1956 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format: knockout
Playing time: 1955/56
Association: PMC
Tournament details
Attendees: 4th
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Fred Davis
Winner: EnglandEngland Fred Davis
2nd finalist: EnglandEngland John Pulman
Final venue: Tower Circus , Blackpool , England
Prize money:
Frames in the final: Best of 73
Records
Highest Break: 141 ( Rex Williams )EnglandEngland
← 1955 1957 →

The 1956 World Snooker Championship (officially: Professional Matchplay Championship 1956) was the fifth edition of the Professional Matchplay Championship . It took place at Blackpool Tower Circus in Blackpool . Englishman Fred Davis became world champion for the fifth time in a row , beating his compatriot John Pulman 38:35 in the final. It was Davis' eighth and final world title.

Tournament schedule

  Semifinals final
             
 EnglandEngland Fred Davis 35      
 EnglandEngland Rex Williams 26th  
   EnglandEngland Fred Davis 38
   EnglandEngland John Pulman 35
 EnglandEngland John Pulman 36  
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea 25th  

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chris Turner: World Professional Championship. In: cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive, archived from the original on April 16, 2013 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 2004 Embassy World Championship. In: globalsnookercentre.co.uk. Global Snooker Center, archived from the original on December 8, 2004 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  3. ^ Embassy World Championship. In: snookerscene.co.uk. Snooker Scene, archived from the original on January 24, 2013 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .