World Games / Billiards

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The World Games are an important event for the non-Olympic sport of billiards every four years . The games are hosted by the International World Games Association - IWGA. Billiards has been represented at the World Games since 2001 in the disciplines snooker (men, mixed 2017), three-cushion (men) and 9-ball (men and women).

9-ball ladies

year gold silver bronze
2001 Akita United StatesUnited States Jeanette Lee United KingdomUnited Kingdom Karen Corr Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chen Chun-chen
2005 Duisburg AustriaAustria Jasmin Ouschan Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chen Chun-chen NorwayNorway Line Kjørsvik
2009 Kaohsiung United KingdomUnited Kingdom Allison Fisher AustriaAustria Jasmin Ouschan Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lin Yuan-chun
2013 Cali Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chou Chieh-yu Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Ga-young United KingdomUnited Kingdom Kelly Fisher
2017 Wroclaw China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chen Siming Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Ga-young China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yu Han

9-ball men

year gold silver bronze
2001 Akita Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet GermanyGermany Thomas Engert
2005 Duisburg Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Pei-Wei GermanyGermany Thorsten Hohmann United StatesUnited States Rodney Morris
2009 Kaohsiung GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun FranceFrance Stephan Cohen
2013 Cali United KingdomUnited Kingdom Darren Appleton Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Jung-Lin PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo
2017 Wroclaw PhilippinesPhilippines Carlo Biado United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jayson Shaw JapanJapan Naoyuki Ōi

Three-cushion men

year gold silver bronze
2001 Akita SpainSpain Daniel Sánchez NetherlandsNetherlands Dick Jaspers United StatesUnited States Sang Chun Lee
2005 Duisburg SpainSpain Daniel Sánchez NetherlandsNetherlands Dick Jaspers TurkeyTurkey Semih Saygıner
2009 Kaohsiung NetherlandsNetherlands Dick Jaspers SwedenSweden Torbjörn Blomdahl ItalyItaly Marco Zanetti
2013 Cali ItalyItaly Marco Zanetti BelgiumBelgium Eddy Merckx NetherlandsNetherlands Glenn Hofman
2017 Wroclaw SpainSpain Daniel Sánchez ItalyItaly Marco Zanetti EgyptEgypt Sameh Sidhom

Snooker gentlemen

year gold silver bronze
2001 Akita BelgiumBelgium Bjorn Haneveer PhilippinesPhilippines Marlon Manalo PakistanPakistan Shokat Ali
2005 Duisburg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gerard Greene China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Ding Junhui BelgiumBelgium Bjorn Haneveer
2009 Kaohsiung United KingdomUnited Kingdom Nigel Bond United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Grace United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Mohammed Shehab
2013 Cali IndiaIndia Aditya Mehta China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liang Wenbo ThailandThailand Dechawat Poomjaeng
2017 Wroclaw United KingdomUnited Kingdom Kyren Wilson United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ali Carter IranIran Soheil Vahedi

Medal table

rank nation gold silver bronze
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 5 4th 1 10
02 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 3 3 2 8th
03 SpainSpain Spain 3 0 0 3
04th GermanyGermany Germany 1 2 1 4th
04th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1 2 1 4th
04th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1 2 1 4th
07th BelgiumBelgium Belgium 1 1 1 3
07th ItalyItaly Italy 1 1 1 3
07th PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines 1 1 1 3
10 AustriaAustria Austria 1 1 0 2
11 United StatesUnited States United States 1 0 2 3
12 IndiaIndia India 1 0 0 1
13 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0 2 0 2
14th SwedenSweden Sweden 0 1 0 1
15th EgyptEgypt Egypt 0 0 1 1
15th FranceFrance France 0 0 1 1
15th IranIran Iran 0 0 1 1
15th JapanJapan Japan 0 0 1 1
15th NorwayNorway Norway 0 0 1 1
15th PakistanPakistan Pakistan 0 0 1 1
15th ThailandThailand Thailand 0 0 1 1
15th TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 0 1 1
15th United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0 0 1 1
Total 20th 20th 20th 60

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