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The World Snooker Championship Trophy
The World Snooker Championship is an annual ranking snooker tournament founded in 1927 and since 1977 played at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The tournament is played over seventeen days in late April and early May, and is chronologically the third of the three Triple Crown events of the season since 1977/1978, when the UK Championship was first held. The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 because of World War II or between 1958 and 1963 due to declining interest.
The governing body that currently organises this event is the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Prior to the WPBSA assuming control of the professional game in 1968, the world championship was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC), except for a few years when the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) staged their own event, the World Professional Match-play Championship, following a dispute with the BACC.[1]
The most successful player at the World Snooker Championship was 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 held by Stephen Hendry, who won the title seven times between 1990 and 1999.
Contents
1 Champions
2 Statistics
2.1 Multiple champions
2.2 Champions by country
3 Notes
4 References
Champions
| Format | Organiser |
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| Knockout tournament | BACC |
| Challenge event with defending champion receiving a bye to the final † | BACC |
| World Professional Match-play Championship ◊ | PBPA |
| Challenge matches ‡ | BACC |
| Knockout tournament (modern era) | WPBSA |
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Statistics
Multiple champions
| Player | Total | Years | Status |
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 Joe Davis | 15 | 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946 | † 10/7/1978 |
| Fred Davis | 8 | 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952*, 1953*, 1954*, 1955*, 1956* | † 16/4/1998 |
| John Pulman | 8 | 1957*, 1964 , 1964, 1965, 1965, 1965, 1966, 1968 | † 25/12/1998 |
 Stephen Hendry | 7 | 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 | retired |
| Steve Davis | 6 | 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989 | retired |
 Ray Reardon | 6 | 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 | retired |
| Ronnie O'Sullivan ¤ | 5 | 2001, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013 | active |
| John Higgins ¤ | 4 | 1998, 2007, 2009, 2011 | active |
| Mark Williams ¤ | 3 | 2000, 2003, 2018 | active |
| John Spencer | 3 | 1969, 1971, 1977 | † 11/7/2006 |
| Mark Selby ¤ | 3 | 2014, 2016, 2017 | active |
| Walter Donaldson | 2 | 1947, 1950 | † 24/5/1973 |
 Alex Higgins | 2 | 1972, 1982 | † 24/7/2010 |
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| * | World Professional Match-play Championship |
| ¤ | Player competed in 2018 |
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Notes
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a Due to a disagreement with the Billiards Association and Control Club and the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA), Lindrum and McConachy were the only players to compete, with most professional players playing in the World Professional Match-play Championship instead. As a result, Lindrum's title win is sometimes ignored, with Cliff Thorburn (Canada), Ken Doherty (Republic of Ireland) and Neil Robertson (Australia) usually regarded as the only non-United Kingdom World Champions.[5]
b1 b2 The title was decided over a series of matches rather than frames.[7]
References
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^ Turner, Chris. "World Professional Championship". cajt.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on 16 April 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
^ "World Championship – Roll of Honour". Global Snooker. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
^ "Hall of Fame". Snooker.org. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
^ ab "History of the World Snooker Championship". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
^ "Embassy World Championship". Snooker Scene. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
^ Everton, Clive (1981). Guinness Book of Snooker. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. p. 65. ISBN 0-85112-230-2.
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