1957 World Snooker Championship

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1957 World Snooker Championship
Tournament dates
Tournament format: knockout
Playing time: 1956/57
Association: PMC
Tournament details
Attendees: 4th
Defending champion: EnglandEngland Fred Davis
Winner: EnglandEngland John Pulman
2nd finalist: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea
Final venue: , Jersey , England
Prize money:
Frames in the final: Best of 73
Records
Highest Break:
← 1955 1964 →

The 1957 World Snooker Championship (officially: Professional Matchplay Championship 1957 ) was the sixth edition of the Professional Matchplay Championship . It took place in Jersey . The first world champion was the Englishman John Pulman , who defeated the Northern Irishman Jackie Rea with 39:34 in the final. Defending champion Fred Davis , who Pulman lost in the final in 1955 and 1956 , did not take part.

Tournament schedule

  Semifinals final
             
 EnglandEngland John Pulman 21st      
 EnglandEngland Rex Williams 16  
   EnglandEngland John Pulman 39
   Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea 34
 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Jackie Rea 25th  
 EnglandEngland Kingsley Kennerley 12  

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 .
  4. ^ World Championship 1957. In: global-snooker.com. Global Snooker, archived from the original on December 28, 2010 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .