World Billiards

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World Billiards Ltd
World Billiards logo.svg
Sport English billiards
CategorySport governing body
JurisdictionInternational
AbbreviationWBL
Founded2011
AffiliationWPBSA
PresidentRoxton Chapman
Board membersJason Colebrook (Managing Director), Jim Burke, Darren Clark, Chris Coumbe, Paul Collier, Aonghus McAnally.
Official website
www.world-billiards.com

World Billiards (Limited) was founded in November 2011 as a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA). It includes former members of EBOS (English-Billiards Open Series) and WPBSA, and is the governing body for English billiards.

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As of 2012, the distinction between professional and amateur players was removed and the WPBSA World Professional Billiards Championship became simply the World Billiards Championship. Tournaments are now held in modern short multiple game format, long single game format and the more traditional timed format.

Promotional activities

Since 2012 World Billiards has organised the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) plus up to 20 other world ranking tournaments per year. Apart from the World Championship, other major ranking tournaments include the American Cup in Canada, the European Open, the Pacific International in Australia and the Asian Grand Prix in Singapore.

World Billiards Championships

DateFormatWinnerScoreRunner-upScore
2012Short [1] Flag of India.svg Rupesh Shah 6 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matthew Bolton 2
Timed [2] Flag of India.svg Pankaj Advani 1,895 Flag of England.svg Mike Russell 1,216
2013Short [3] Flag of England.svg David Causier 6 Flag of India.svg Alok Kumar 1
Long [4] Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 1,500 Flag of England.svg David Causier 1,085
2014Short [5] Flag of India.svg Pankaj Advani 6 Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 2
Timed [6] Flag of India.svg Pankaj Advani 1,928 Flag of England.svg Robert Hall 893
2015Short Flag of England.svg David Causier 6 Flag of England.svg Robert Hall 1
Long Flag of England.svg David Causier 1,500 Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 1,277
2016Short Flag of England.svg David Causier 8 Flag of India.svg Dhruv Sitwala 6
Timed Flag of England.svg Mike Russell 2224 Flag of England.svg David Causier 1115
2017Short Flag of England.svg David Causier 8 Flag of England.svg Sourav Kothari 4
Long Flag of England.svg David Causier 1,500 Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 779
2018Timed Flag of India.svg Sourav Kothari 1,134 Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 944
2019Timed Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 1,307 Flag of India.svg Sourav Kothari 967
2020Not played
2021Not played
2022Timed Flag of England.svg David Causier 1,776 Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 1,092
2023Timed Flag of Singapore.svg Peter Gilchrist 1,824 Flag of England.svg David Causier 783

See also

References

  1. ↑ Subbaiah, Sunil. "Rupesh Shah wins second world title". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Pankaj Advani wins World Billiards title". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 13 September 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Pathak, Vivek (25 October 2013). "David Causier, the new champion for World Billiards (Short format)". International Billiards and Snooker Federation . Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "IBSF Long up Billiards Championships Long up – Leeds / England 2013". International Billiards and Snooker Federation . Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Advani stuns Gilchrist to clinch World Billiards title". The Times of India . 24 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Advani: first ever player to bag billiards triple double". The Hindu. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
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