Terry Griffiths, the first qualifier to win the World Snooker Championship in 1979, passed away on December 1, 2024, at the age of 77 after a long battle with dementia. He is remembered as a significant figure in snooker, both as a player and a coach.
Griffiths rose to prominence in snooker during the late 1970s, winning the World Championship in 1979 shortly after turning professional. His career spanned decades, during which he became a respected coach and commentator.
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Terence Martin Griffiths, OBE is a retired Welsh professional snooker player and current snooker coach and pundit. In his second professional tournament, he became world champion when he won the 1979 World Snooker Championship.
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Stephen Gordon Hendry MBE is a Scottish former professional snooker player and current commentator for the BBC and ITV. One of the most successful players in the history of snooker, he has won snooker's most prestigious tournament, the World Snooker Champ
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Dennis Taylor is a Northern Irish retired professional snooker player and current commentator. He is best known for winning the 1985 World Snooker Championship, where he defeated the defending champion Steve Davis in a final widely recognised as one of th
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Mark Williams may refer to:
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Judd Trump is an English professional snooker player from Bristol. Currently ranked world number one, he has won a career total of 17 ranking titles, putting him in joint seventh place on the all-time list.
Trump turned professional in 2005, aged 16.
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Ding Junhui is a Chinese professional snooker player who has been considered the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport.
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Shaun Peter Murphy is an English professional snooker player, who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting.
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Mark Allen is a Northern Irish professional snooker player. He won the World Amateur Championship in 2004. The following year he entered the Main Tour and took only three seasons to reach the elite top 16.
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Mark James Williams, MBE is a Welsh professional snooker player who is a three-time World Champion, winning in 2000, 2003, and 2018. Aged 43 when he triumphed in May 2018, he became the second oldest winner of the World Championship at the Crucible. Often
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Mark Allen may refer to:
Mark Allen (businessman) (born 1950), former British spy turned businessman and lecturer
Mark Allen (triathlete) (born 1958), American world champion triathlete
Bull Allen (rugby union) (Mark Richard Allen, born 1967), New Zealan
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The UK Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament. It is one of snooker's prestigious Triple Crown events, along with the World Championship and the Masters. It is usually held at the Barbican Centre, York.
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James Warren White, MBE is an English senior snooker player who has won three seniors World titles. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, attacking style of play, White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 Six-red World champion, 3 time Worl
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Steve Davis, OBE is a retired English professional snooker player from Plumstead in southeast London. He dominated the sport during the 1980s, winning six World Snooker Championships held the world number one ranking for seven consecutive seasons, and is
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Stephen Maguire is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won six major ranking tournaments, including the 2004 UK Championship, reaching the final of that event twice more.
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The Masters is a professional invitational snooker tournament. Held every year since 1975, it is the second-longest running tournament behind the World Championship.