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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.
Player Country Debut Last appearance Total appearances Best John Pulman England 1969: 1980: 11 Runner-up (×1 – 1970) John Spencer England 1969: 1986: 18 Winner (×3 – 1969, 1971, 1977)
The 1980 event, organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), was the fourth edition of the World Championship to be staged at the Crucible. [8] [9] The 1980 championship featured 24 professional players competing in one-on-one snooker matches in a single-elimination format, each match played over several frames ...
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 ...
From 1977 to 1979, the first three years at the Crucible, there were only 16 players in the final stages, eight seeds playing eight qualifiers in the first round. For information on the players involved, see list of players to appear in the World Snooker Championship.
Most recently, the 2023 champion Luca Brecel lost in the first round of the 2024 World Snooker Championship. Kyren Wilson, winner of the 2024 event, is yet to attempt to break the Crucible curse. Several world champions successfully defended their first title in the pre-Crucible era; the last to do so was John Pulman in 1964. [6]
The 10–0 win by defending champion John Parrott over Eddie Charlton in the first round was the first-ever whitewash in Crucible history. [1] [12] There would not be another whitewash until Shaun Murphy's 10–0 defeat of Luo Honghao in 2019. [13] Eight of the sixteen seeded players exited the tournament in the first round.
The championship was held from 18 April to 4 May 1987 at the Crucible, the 11th time that the tournament was held at the venue. [14] It was the last ranking event of the 1986–87 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour. [15] There were a total of 120 entrants from the tour, and the competition's main draw had 32 participants. [14]