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A ranking title is a tournament that counts towards the snooker world rankings. World rankings were introduced in the 1976–77 season, initially based on the results from the previous three World Championships. This meant that the 1974 World Championship retrospectively became the first ranking event, won by Ray Reardon.
The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship is Joe Davis, who won fifteen consecutive titles between 1927 and 1946. The record in the modern era, usually dated from the reintroduction in 1969 of a knock-out tournament format, rather than a challenge format, is shared by Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan, both having won the ...
O'Sullivan defeated Trump 18–13 in the 2022 World Championship final to win his seventh world title, equalling Hendry for the most world titles in the modern era. [38] [39] Aged 46 years and 148 days, he became the oldest World Champion in snooker history, surpassing Reardon, who won his last title in 1978 aged 45 years and 203 days. [40]
At the age of 38, Bingham became the oldest player to win the title since Ray Reardon in 1978 [131] (although this achievement would subsequently be surpassed by 43-year-old Mark Williams in 2018, 44-year-old O'Sullivan in 2020, and 46-year-old O'Sullivan in 2022). The tournament set a new record for the most century breaks made at the Crucible ...
World Snooker Championship: Manchester: Ray Reardon (1) 41 years, 199 days: Graham Miles (1) 32 years, 349 days: 22–12 [8] 2: 1 May 1975: World Snooker Championship: Melbourne: Ray Reardon (2) 42 years, 205 days: Eddie Charlton (1) 45 years, 182 days: 31–30 [9] 3: 23 Apr 1976: World Snooker Championship: Manchester: Ray Reardon ...
The four-time world champion Selby has won £7.2m in career prize money so far while Brecel has won £1.3m, according to cuetracker. What is the World Snooker Championship prize money? Winner: £ ...
In 1978, Reardon became the oldest world snooker champion, aged 45 years and 203 days, a record that he held until the 2022 event, when Ronnie O'Sullivan won his seventh world title at the age of 46 years and 148 days. Reardon remains the oldest player to win a ranking event, which he accomplished in 1982, aged 50 years and 14 days.
The only snooker player from outside the UK ever to have completed the sport’s Triple Crown – the World Championship, the Masters and the UK Championship – Robertson also spent a number of ...