Tournament information | |
---|---|
Dates | 15–30 November 1996 |
City | New Plymouth |
Country | New Zealand |
Organisation | IBSF |
Highest break | Anan Teranannon (147) Steve Lemmens (147) |
Final | |
Champion | Stuart Bingham |
Runner-up | Stan Gorski |
Score | 11–5 |
← 1995 1997 → |
The 1996 IBSF World Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker tournament that took place from 15 November to 30 November 1996 in New Plymouth, New Zealand It was the 23rd edition of the IBSF World Snooker Championship and also doubled as a qualification event for the World Snooker Tour.
Englishman Stuart Bingham won the event by defeating Australian Stan Gorski 11–5 in the final. This was Bingham's first major championship and as a result Bingham won a spot on the professional World Snooker Tour. Bingham however struggled to advance his career further and spent many seasons as a journeyman professional before eventually improving his form towards the end of the 2000s to become a top-ranked player and winning his first professional ranking event 16 years later, before finally winning the World Snooker Championship in 2015, becoming only the second player, after Ken Doherty, to win both the world amateur and professional championships. [1]
Last 16 Best of 9 frames | Quarter-Finals Best of 9 frames | Semi-Finals Best of 15 frames | Final Best of 21 frames | ||||||||||||||||
Steve Lemmens | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Elfed Evans | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Steve Lemmens | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Paul Mifsud | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
Paul Mifsud | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Kristján Helgason | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Steve Lemmens | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stuart Bingham | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stephen Maguire | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Chris Shade | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Chris Shade | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stuart Bingham | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stuart Bingham | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Joe Canny | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stuart Bingham | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stan Gorski | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Chan Wai Tat | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Mohammed Yousuf | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Chan Wai Tat | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Johl Younger | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sam Chong | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Johl Younger | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Johl Younger | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stan Gorski | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Chan Kwok Ming | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Kimmo Lang | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Chan Kwok Ming | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stan Gorski | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sakchai Sim Ngam | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stan Gorski | 5 |
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian billiards and professional snooker player. He is a 27-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) world champion. He has won 18 billiards world titles, the IBSF World Billiards Championship on 17 occasions and the World Team Billiards Championship once. In snooker, he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship three times, IBSF World six-red championship twice and the IBSF World Team Cup and IBSF World Team Championship one time each. He has the record number of IBSF world championships. He became a snooker professional in 2012/2013.
Peter David Ebdon is an English retired professional snooker player who is a former world champion and current coach. Ebdon won nine ranking titles during his career, placing him in joint 12th position on the all-time list of ranking tournament winners. He won two Triple Crown titles, the 2002 World Snooker Championship and the 2006 UK Championship.
Reanne Evans is an English professional snooker player and a regular pundit for televised snooker coverage. She also competes on the World Women's Snooker Tour, where she is the current women's world number one. She received an MBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for her services to women's snooker.
Stuart Bingham is an English professional snooker player who is a former World Champion and Masters winner.
Ryan Day is a Welsh professional snooker player. He is a prolific break-builder, having compiled over 450 century breaks during his career, including four maximum breaks. He is a three-time World Championship quarter-finalist, has been ranked at no. 6 in the world and has won four ranking tournaments.
Craig Steadman is an English former professional snooker player.
Michael White is a Welsh professional snooker player from Neath, Glamorgan. Nicknamed ‘Lightning’ due to his fast playing style, White is a former top 16 player and two-time ranking event winner.
The IBSF World Snooker Championship is the premier non-professional snooker tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation. A number of IBSF champions have gone on to successful careers in the professional ranks, notably Jimmy White (1980), James Wattana (1988), Ken Doherty (1989), Stuart Bingham (1996), Marco Fu (1997), Stephen Maguire (2000) and Mark Allen (2004). Both Doherty and Bingham have gone on to win the professional World Snooker Championship.
Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon is a Thai retired professional snooker player. He turned professional in 2010 as the Asian nomination following his run to the semi-finals of the 2010 Asian Championship. At the age of 17, he was the youngest player competing on the 2010/2011 main tour.
Lu Ning is a former professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China who, in 2023, was banned from professional competition for five years and four months after committing match-fixing offences.
Robbie Williams is an English professional snooker player.
Zhou Yuelong is a Chinese professional snooker player. He has been runner-up at three ranking events, the January 2020 European Masters, the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out, and the 2022 Northern Ireland Open.
Zak Surety is an English professional snooker player. He practises frequently with Stuart Bingham and Allan Taylor.
Zhao Xintong is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a 20-month ban from professional competition after committing offences relating to betting on snooker.
Yan Bingtao is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is currently serving a five-year ban from professional competition after committing a range of match-fixing offences. He rose to prominence by winning the ISBF World Snooker Championship, the sport's world amateur title, in 2014 at age 14, which made him the tournament's youngest ever winner. He turned professional in 2016.
Soheil Vahedi is an Iranian former professional snooker player.
The 2018–19 snooker season was a series of professional snooker tournaments played between 10 May 2018 and 23 June 2019. The season was made up of ranking tournaments, non-ranking tournaments and variant tournaments. In total, 54 events were competed in the 2018–19 season, beginning with the pro–am 2018 Vienna Open, and ending with the 2019 World Snooker Championship.
Joe O'Connor is an English professional snooker player from Leicester. He was the 2018 English Amateur Champion and a ranking event finalist at the 2022 Scottish Open.
Zhang Jiankang is a Chinese former professional snooker player. He was suspended from the professional tour in January 2023 as part of a match-fixing investigation involving ten Chinese players. He was subsequently charged with fixing a match, failing to report approaches for him to fix matches, and betting on snooker. In June 2023 he was given a four year and five months suspension, which following early admissions and a guilty plea, was reduced to 2 years and 11 months until 1 December 2025.
Sakchai Sim Ngam is a Thai former professional snooker player. He won the IBSF World Snooker Championship in 1995.