International Championship

International Championship

Tournament information
Venue	Tianjin People's Stadium  [ zh ]
Location	Tianjin
Country	China
Established	2012
Organisation(s)	World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
Format	Ranking event
Total prize fund	£825,000 [1]
Recent edition	2024
Current champion	Ding Junhui  (CHN)

The International Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament. The reigning champion is Ding Junhui.

History

The event was introduced in the 2012/2013 season. It was named as the "first overseas 'major'", because the tournament had the same level of ranking points as the UK Championship. ^[2] With the change in the rankings system from points to prize money, the International Championship had the third highest prize fund and winner's cheque of any ranking event on the snooker calendar, behind the World and UK Championships, and the highest outside of the United Kingdom, until 2018 when the China Open had its winner's cheque raised to £225,000. ^{[3] [4] [5]} The 2012 edition ran from 28 October to 4 November in Chengdu, China, and it was won by Judd Trump, who defeated Neil Robertson 10–8 in the final. ^[6]

Winners

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Final score [7]	Venue	City	Season
2012 [6]	Judd Trump  (ENG)	Neil Robertson  (AUS)	10–8	Sichuan International Tennis Center  [ zh ]	Chengdu, China	2012/13
2013 [8]	Ding Junhui  (CHN)	Marco Fu  (HKG)	10–9	Chengdu Eastern Music Park		2013/14
2014 [9]	Ricky Walden  (ENG)	Mark Allen  (NIR)	10–7	Sichuan International Tennis Center  [ zh ]		2014/15
2015 [10]	John Higgins  (SCO)	David Gilbert  (ENG)	10–5	Baihu Media Broadcasting Centre	Daqing, China	2015/16
2016 [11]	Mark Selby  (ENG)	Ding Junhui  (CHN)	10–1			2016/17
2017 [12]	Mark Selby  (ENG)	Mark Allen  (NIR)	10–7			2017/18
2018 [13]	Mark Allen  (NIR)	Neil Robertson  (AUS)	10–5			2018/19
2019 [14]	Judd Trump  (ENG)	Shaun Murphy  (ENG)	10–3			2019/20
2020–2022	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2023 [15]	Zhang Anda  (CHN)	Tom Ford  (ENG)	10–6	Tianjin People's Stadium  [ zh ]	Tianjin, China	2023/24
2024 [16]	Ding Junhui  (CHN)	Chris Wakelin  (ENG)	10–7	SNCNFC	Nanjing, China	2024/25

References

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2. "China to host first overseas 'major'". Eurosport UK . Retrieved 14 August 2012.
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4. "New Ranking Event In China". World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association . Retrieved 30 May 2013.
5. "Snooker's China Open Hits £1 Million Prize Money". 21 January 2018. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020.
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14. "International Championship (2019)". Snooker.org. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
15. "International Championship (2023)". snooker.org. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
16. "International Championship (2024)". snooker.org. Retrieved 10 November 2024.