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The World Snooker Championship trophy. The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament founded in 1927, and played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England since 1977. The tournament is now played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season.
The World Snooker Championship is the longest-running and most prestigious tournament in professional snooker.It is also the richest, with total prize money of £2,395,000 in 2023, including £500,000 for the winner. [1]
The World Snooker Championship (WSC) is a series of video games based on snooker featuring licensing from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.The first game in the series was released in 2001 and the last in 2011; a new licensed World Snooker game, Snooker 19, was released in 2019.
The snooker major tournaments, often referred to simply as "the majors", are the most prestigious tournaments in snooker.. Traditionally, the majors consisted of the three Triple Crown tournaments: the World Snooker Championship (first held in 1927 and staged as a knockout tournament continuously since 1969), the invitational Masters (held annually since 1975), and the UK Championship (held ...
World Snooker Championship final: Selby 5-7 Brecel. 20:25, Mike Jones. The yellow drops, as does a tricky green which leaves Selby perfectly on the brown. The only other difficult shot is a medium ...
Played in 1926 and 1927, the first World Snooker Championship—then known as the Professional Championship of Snooker—was won by Joe Davis. [3] [25] [26] The Women's Professional Snooker Championship (now the World Women's Snooker Championship) was created in 1934 for top female players.
Luca Brecel completed the biggest comeback in Crucible history as he broke Si Jiahui’s heart to claim the most remarkable victory and book his spot in a first World Snooker Championship final ...
The World Snooker Championship 2023 resumes on Thursday with Robert Milkins and Joe Perry poised to conclude their unforgettable contest at the Crucible.. The tournament has bounced back following ...