IBSF World Billiards Championship

This article is about the amateur competition and is not to be confused with the professional competition, WPBSA World Billiards Championship.

The IBSF World Billiards Championship (previously known as the World Amateur Billiards Championship) is the premier, international, non-professional tournament for the game of English billiards. Dating to some form to 1951, the event has been sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation since 1973.

History

Prior to 1951, when the first "world amateur" championship was held under the auspices of the Billiards Association and Control Council (based in London), ^[1] this event was called the [British] Empire Billiards Championship. ^[2]

In 1971, after many years' discussion, ^[3] the World Billiards & Snooker Council was formed, changing its name in 1973 to the International Billiards & Snooker Federation. The name change came about because of the disquiet of many overseas national associations that the same body should oversee both the English domestic game and the game at international level. Consequently, the IBSF took control of the organisation of the non-professional championships of both snooker and billiards. The first winner from outside the British Commonwealth did not occur until 1999.

From 2012 to 2015, the IBSF World Billiards Championship was merged with the World Professional Billiards Championship. Under the name World Billiards Championship, tournaments were held in both points and timed format.

Champions

Finals are listed below. ^[4]

Men

#	Year	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	Score
Billiards Association and Control Council
1	1926	London	Joe Earlam	George Shailer	Round Robin
2	1927	London	Allan Prior	Horace Coles	Round Robin
3	1929	Johannesburg	Les Hayes	Allan Prior	Round Robin
4	1931	Sydney	Laurie Steeples	Sydney Lee	Round Robin
5	1933	London	Sydney Lee	Tom Jones	Round Robin
6	1935	London	Horace Coles	J McGhie	Round Robin
7	1936	Johannesburg	Bob Marshall	Allan Prior	Round Robin
8	1938	Melbourne	Bob Marshall	Kingsley Kennerley	Round Robin
Billiards and Snooker Control Council
9	1951	London	Bob Marshall	Frank Edwards	Round Robin
10	1952	Calcutta	Leslie Driffield	Bob Marshall	Round Robin
11	1954	Sydney	Tom Cleary	Bob Marshall	Round Robin
12	1958	Calcutta	Wilson Jones	Leslie Driffield	Round Robin
13	1960	Edinburgh	Herbert Beetham	Jim Long	Round Robin
14	1962	Perth	Bob Marshall	Wilson Jones	3623–2891
15	1964	Pukekohe	Wilson Jones	Jack Karnehm	Round Robin
16	1967	Colombo	Leslie Driffield	Muhammad Lafir	Round Robin
17	1969	London	Jack Karnehm	Michael Ferreira	Round Robin
18	1971	Malta	Norman Dagley	Mannie Francisco	Round Robin
International Billiards and Snooker Federation
19	1973	Bombay	Muhammad Lafir	Satish Mohan	Round Robin
20	1975	Auckland	Norman Dagley	Michael Ferreira	3385–2268
21	1977	Melbourne	Michael Ferreira	Bob Close	2683–2564
22	1979	Sri Lanka	Paul Mifsud	Norman Dagley	2943–2152
23	1981	Delhi	Michael Ferreira	Norman Dagley	2725–2631
24	1983	Malta	Michael Ferreira	Subhash Agarwal	3933–2744
25	1985	Dublin	Geet Sethi	Bob Marshall	3809–2453
26	1987	Belfast	Geet Sethi	Joe Grech	4846–3256
27	1990	Bangalore	Manoj Kothari	Ashok Shandilya	2890–2422
28	1997	Malta	Joe Grech	Ashok Shandilya	2895–2836
29	1998	Australia	Robby Foldvari	Praput Chaithanasakun	1869–1439
30	1999	Ireland	Praput Chaithanasakun	Paul Bennett	3201–1657
31	2000	England	Chris Shutt	Roxton Chapman	11–9 (50up)
32	2001	New Zealand	Geet Sethi	Ashok Shandilya	3484–1289
New Era (Timed + Points)
33	2002	Australia (timed)	Mike Russell	Geet Sethi	2438–1499
33	2002	Australia (points)	Ashok Shandilya	Praput Chaithanasakun	11–9 (50up)
34	2003	India	Lee Lagan	Geet Sethi	6–5 (150up)
35	2005	Malta (timed)	Pankaj Advani	Geet Sethi	2242–1717
35	2005	Malta (points)	Pankaj Advani	Devendra Joshi	6–2 (150up)
36	2007	Singapore (timed)	Pankaj Advani	Dhruv Sitwala	1946–1488
36	2007	Singapore (points)	Rupesh Shah	Ashok Shandilya	6–4 (150up)
37	2008	Bangalore (timed)	Pankaj Advani	Devendra Joshi	2368–2020
37	2008	Bangalore (points)	Pankaj Advani	Geet Sethi	6–1 (150up)
38	2010	Maharashtra (timed)	Mike Russell	Peter Gilchrist	4120–784
38	2010	Maharashtra (points)	Mike Russell	Pankaj Advani	6–0 (150up)
39	2011	Carlow (timed)	Mike Russell	Matthew Bolton	3001–519
39	2011	Carlow (points)	Mike Russell	Pankaj Advani	6–3 (150up)
2012-2015 with World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA)
40	2012	England (timed)	Pankaj Advani	Mike Russell	1895–1216
40	2012	England (points)	Rupesh Shah	Matthew Bolton	6–2
41	2013	England (Long-Up)	Peter Gilchrist	David Causier	1500–1085
41	2013	England (150-Up)	David Causier	Alok Kumar	6–1
42	2014	England (timed)	Pankaj Advani	Rob Hall	1928–893
42	2014	England (150-up)	Pankaj Advani	Peter Gilchrist	6–2
43	2015	Adelaide (timed)	Pankaj Advani	Peter Gilchrist	2408–1240
43	2015	Adelaide (150-Up)	Peter Gilchrist	Pankaj Advani	6–4
2012-2015 with World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA)
44	2016	India (150-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Peter Gilchrist	6–3
44	2016	India (Long-Up)	Peter Gilchrist	Sourav Kothari	1500–617
45	2017	Doha (150-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Mike Russell	6–2
45	2017	Doha (Long-Up)	Mike Russell	Robert Hall	1500–1284
46	2018	Yangon (150-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Nay Thway Oo	6–2
46	2018	Yangon (Long-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Bhaskar Balachandra	1500–299
47	2019	Mandalay (150-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Nay Thway Oo	6–2
47	2019	Mandalay (Long-Up)	Peter Gilchrist	Praprut Chaithanasakun	1000–732
48	2022	Kuala Lumpur (150-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Sourav Kothari	4–0
49	2023	Doha (150-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Sourav Kothari	5–0
49	2023	Doha (Long-Up)	Pankaj Advani	Sourav Kothari	1000–416
50	2025	Carlow (Long-Up)	Sourav Kothari	Pankaj Advani	725–480

Women

1. 2015   Australia:

Arantxa Sanchis   India - R. Umadevi   India 414-255

In 2015, the International Billiards and Snooker Federation held its own version of a World Women's Billiards Championship. ^[5] Arantxa Sanchis defeated Revanna Umadevi to take the title. ^[5]

IBSF World Women's Billiards Championship final

Year	Organiser	Winner	Runner-up	Final score	Venue	Ref.
2015	IBSF	Arantxa Sanchis  (IND)	Revanna Umadevi  (IND)	414–255	Oceania Snooker Academy, Adelaide	[5] [6]

Juniors Men

1. 2015   Australia:

S. Shrikrishna   India - Ishpreet Chadha   India 731-525

Juniors Women

Not held.

Summary

Men

Country	Titles
India	27
England	18
Australia	7
Singapore	4
Malta	2
South Africa	1
Sri Lanka	1
Thailand	1
Wales	1

Women

Country	Titles
India	1

See also

• World Billiards Championship (English billiards)
• World Women's Billiards Championship
• Women's Professional Billiards Championship

References

1. Northern Ireland Billiards Association Minutes, p. 133, 5 July 1951
2. Northern Ireland Billiards Association Minutes, 1926-50
3. NIBA Minutes, p. 198, 1959 (Billiards Association of India and BACC discussions on formation of a world body)
4. "Past champions". IBSF. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
5. "Past Champions". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 28 February 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
6. Pathak, Vivek (18 September 2015). "World Billiards to Commence on Sunday". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2025.

• IBSF past champions